The pickers have ladders and picking bags. The bag is adjustable with a false bottom. As the picker fills their bag with apples, it is adjusted periodically to hold more apples until it is full. The picker then takes the bag to the bins, releases the false bottom and carefully puts the apples into the bin. Pickers first fill the corners of the bin with apples, working their way around the bin until it is full.
Checkers are the quality control of harvest.
This person will come around and inspect each bin to make sure that no bruising is taking place, or that a certain color or size is being picked. Bruising can occur from the fingers picking the apple, hitting the ladder, branches or other apples, or when they are loaded into the bin. Apples that fall to the ground stay there. Each bin is lined with plastic to minimized damage to the apple from rubbing against the side of the bin. And depending on the variety of apple, bubble sheets are placed in the bottom of each bin.