People walked back and forth, picking tables, finding friends.

Much of the work on the picking table was done by hand, often by older miners, injured men or young boys.

The work on the picking tables (Klaustischen) was carried out mainly by women, the elderly and youths.

The coarse stuff runs on to inclined picking tables. with circular perforations 1 inch in diameter.

Spring in the Coachella Valley picking table grapes.

At the picking table twigs or the odd rotten fruit is discarded and then a pulping machine chops them into small pieces.

Candelario Velasquez, who spent several weeks picking table grapes near Bakersfield this summer, offered his description of what it's like to work picking inside those tunnels.

For example a shearing shed has more meaning in a paddock surrounded by pens with piece picking table and wool press in place than it would if removed to the main street of town between two shops.

From the dumper, the coal was moved on conveyors to screens where it was sorted according to size and quality and waste rock was removed from the coal on a "picking table."

The potatoes are moved towards the back of the harvester on to a separation unit and then (on manned machines) to a picking table where a people pick out by hand the stones, clod, haulm and reject clod.

Another key feature for larger warehouses is the picking table which allows stock to be reserved on selection, not simply on the production of the invoice, so several people invoicing at the same time are not going to be able to sell the same goods twice.