Oh, that is awful! I am so paranoid about my trees (we are zone 6, so my outdoor trees are apple, pear and pawpaw) I would mow around them myself before the lawn guy came.
But when I re-covered my greenhouse, I had a lot of leftover flexible, single wall corrugated poly, and made these. Now I sleep well the night before lawn mowing days
Of course, it wouldn't help with low-hanging fruit, but maybe you could use the same stuff to make "fruit cozies"...
Carolyn