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Equipment, continued

Flat bed single axle straight trucks are needed to get the cherries from the orchard to the processing plant. Each truck load of cherries weighs 14 tons. The state now requires our drivers to have a cdl license.


our newest truck
 
Standard industrial forklifts are used for moving cherry tanks around the cooling pad and onto the trucks.

Here empties are being lined up to be filled with cold water and taken back into the orchard to be refilled with cherries.


Clark forklift
In this photo we can see one of our custom built forklifts. They are built from Chevy trucks. We strip them down to the chassis and weld new superstructures, then add the hydraulic system and forks.

Behind the forklift is our Coe double incline shaker.


shaker and forklift
 
Jim King test drives a newly built custom forklift a few weeks before harvest.

These custom forklifts outperform tractors in the orchard. In addition to giving us more speed, they ride better, which results in less spillage as the cherries are brought out over rough ground.


Jim and forklift


after a hard day's work
   
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