After attending the PRI show a short while back, my wife and I escaped to the east coast of Florida and more specifically Vero Beach for a few days of R&R. The rules laid down by Kerri were pretty simple, don’t talk about cars, think about cars outwardly, or do car stuff. She failed to say that I couldn’t inflict lots of harm on the rental car, so I did do that. Other than the violence laid into our sad little Chevy Captiva, I followed her instructions and we had a nice few days. I even took photos of stuff that didn’t have wheels for a change….until I saw the rolling monstrosity of win below.
We were driving along innocently, looking into the orange groves when I came upon an intersection with the coolest freaking truck I had laid eyes on in some time. Without warning, I performed a pretty gnarly e-brake slide into an adjacent parking lot, whipped the Captiva around and grabbed my camera out of the back seat just in time to snap a couple photos of the truck driving away. With no license plates, windshield, seat belts, or pretension of safety in any manner, I think this is a truck used in the orange groves. That big arm on the back either lifts of shakes stuff. Not sure which. I think this is an older truck with the old school military NDTs on it and what looked (and sounded) to be an inline six gas motor for power. The guy drove this out of the groves and to a store that sits on a road with a 55-mph speed limit. We dig this guy and we dig his groovy Frankenstein truck!
Scroll down to see a few hastily shot photos of this 100% BS approved creation!
We have a lot of trucks like that here in eastern W.Va. They are used in the apple orchards, though without the lift. It’s sad to see the early Chevy’s, Fords, Dodges(etc) with the cabs crudely hacked off & the fenders removed. Most of them looked to be in good shape beforehand. I’d adopt them all if I had the space………
Looks like someone took a doodlebug pulling truck and put a tree shaker on the back of it…
Looks like a ” Goat ” used in citrus harvesting.
They’l have a hopper on the back , and the arm will pick
up the pickers containers when full , dump them in the hopper,
and then take them to the big trailer to go to the juice plant when that
as full.
I picked citrus for a couple of weeks long ago , and you are paid by the box.
Each worker has a 10 box container to fill and its tallied at the end of the day.
The Goat sets a new empty container out for the pickers as well when needed .
It’s used in Orange groves. We call it a Goat truck . Picks up the crates of citrus. I’ve driven a couple , back in the day .