Stacks of drying flats for dried fruit 3D model preview
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In the Santa Clara Valley, prunes, apricots, peaches, and pears used to be dried in the open sun on large "flats" - wood sheets with bracing along the edges. The fruit would be cut or prepared in a drying shed, and carried out to open fields for the multi-day drying. Stacks of flats were a common sight, both to treat the fruit with sulfur fumes, or to carry multiple sheets into the dry yard. These models are HO scale stacks of drying flats, intended for some of the fruit-related businesses along my model railroad. These print well on a Form One printer, and were drawn in SketchUp.