Picking strawberries on a commercial farm is a mundane job, but two North Queensland farmers have introduced some creature comforts to their homemade bicycle harvester.

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Don and Pauline Brown farm strawberries on their 22-hectare property near Ilbilbie, 70 kilometres south of Mackay.

Mr Brown has transformed the three-wheeled bicycle harvester into a leisure contraption complete with a kitchen chair, tropical umbrella and storage for the strawberry buckets.

There's also storage for country music CDs in a plastic tool box that doubles as a stereo.

The stereo and wireless are run on a car battery, but the Browns have also recently installed solar panels.

He says there is definitely a preference for what makes for good strawberry-picking music.

"[The favourite] is Willie Nelson, the Highway Men and that sort of stuff.

"This is our own idea and it works out well for us; we've seen other inventions and there's different ways people [pick].

"We find this very comfortable and being just a two-people farm I guess we can put on things like a CD player and it makes it a lot easier.