The portable harvesting equipment device STIHL SP-81, commercially produced for semi-mechanized coffee harvesting in other countries, was evaluated in the Colombian coffee growing conditions. With this equipment the branches and fruits receive vibroimpacts by a striker with two five-finger sets made of reinforced polyamide, supported in the extreme of a handle rod and driven by a 0.95 kW IC internal combustion engine. The first phase was carried out in a farm located in the municipality of El Libano (Tolima), in the peak crop of 2006, in a plot sown with 2,000 trees of the Caturra variety, planted at 2.0 x 0.5m, with ripe fruits load and concentration rates of 320 g/tree and 33%, respectively. The second phase was conducted in an experimental station in El Tambo (Cauca) in the peak crop of 2007 in a plot of Colombia variety trees planted at 2.0 x 1.0m, with load average of 917 g/tree and 60% of ripe fruits concentration. The results obtained in the first phase were not favorable for the technology due mainly to the increase of the unitary harvesting cost. In the second phase, without additional manual harvesting, the unitary harvesting cost was reduced in 41.4% and the picker’s efficiency increased in 102.5%, compared to manual harvesting. Coffee with 11.5% and 15.8% of unripe fruits was picked using the STIHL equipment, which makes it necessary to separate them in the wet process in order to obtain good-quality coffee.