Manual harvesting is the most limitative operational handicap for the expansion of hazelnut cropping in Portugal, yet the importing equipments is not a realistic alternative option because it is very expensive and are not adapted to Portuguese hazelnut orchards. In an attempt to overcome this shortcoming, a small-size and low-cost equipment is being developed for mechanical harvesting and two others were prepared for calibration and shelling, all within the scope of an AGRO 162 project called “Yield increase on hazelnut crops in Portugal”. The hazelnut harvesting equipment is composed of a hopper, a four-stroke engine, a ventilator, two flexible tubes for conveying the draw in material and a wheelbarrow required to drive the assemblage. The calibrator is built with three iron sieves mounted in a slope position to allow the hazelnuts rolling. The shelling equipment is made essentially by a metallic roll driven by an electrical engine, with two rulers, positioned in accordance with the generating roll, that compress the hazelnuts against a wooden ruler. The distance between the roll and the wooden ruler can be adjusted. The trials on hazelnut harvesting allowed to obtain works rate from 23 to 40 h/ha, depending on the conditions of the test. The calibrator was designed to obtain lots four different lots sizes. The shelling equipment performances depend greatly on the size of the lot, being the best results obtained with the biggest hazelnuts. As a summary can be stated that this harvesting equipment is a reasonable solution for short acreage orchards, where a low work rate is allowed, since it has a low price. The shelling equipment provides a good percentage of shelling hazelnuts in the upper lots, but in the lower ones it is necessary to do more than one shelling operation; this limitation can be reduced if the we have more sieves to get more lots of small hazelnuts. INTRODUCTION Hazelnut orchards represents a important culture of North Portugal, but the low prices of foreign hazelnuts and the high labour costs, special due to the lack of mechanization of some cultural operations, namely harvest, has contributed to the diminishing area. Analysing some foreign harvesters equipments, we did not find the right solution for most Portuguese hazelnut orchards as the small ones are hard to operate and has a low work rate, what makes the work labour increase to much, and the biggest ones are to expensive and will have problems to go through the trees.