05_Cutting-from-above_DJI_0593
While the hop truck and topcutter pair crawl along the hop row, the topcutter blades cut the hop bines from the top of the trellis. The bine, along with the twine that supported its growth all the way to the top, then falls into the open back of the hop truck, and the bines pile up until the hop truck is full and heads back to the picking and sorting machinery where the next part of the process begins.