Harvesting fruit on stilts

A way to grow larger trees in less need of pruning and with more robust root stock, without having to worry about going up and down a ladder.

More info about contemporary farmers using them (for pruning, mostly) here. Search drywall stilts for 15" - 40" tall. How to make them taller? 

You can take two pair of stiltis, cut the foot off one set and the top off the other. put them together and you can make a pair of 80" stiltls out of the two pair. There a two crews here that use em just that way, I just don't want to fall from that high up. In other words, where you are used to unsrewing the bolt to let them out is actully the top part of the second section which has the same tubes under them. Hard to explain with a keyboard, but if you think about it, you'll figure it out.

Or, here is a link to a 48"-64" pair of drywall stilts, "Aluminum Dura".