Friday, August 16, 2013

You Gotta Be Somebody to Use Such BIG Equipment

You can see strange things on the road.  A horse-team-drawn, two-story covered wagon greeted us around a curve as it headed East on Oregon Highway 26 one day. We gaped. We were stunned. But we knew what it was.
Oversized, indeed!  On its way into the big city.

But this fancy monster's identity eluded me.  We were both on the freeway. I passed it, question marks popping out of all surfaces of my head.  By the time I thought of a photo, it was long gone.

The Bourgoin BH7100 is a green bean picker!  Did you guess that?
Several hours later as my trip brought me into Portland and rush-hour traffic, I spied Big Red again ahead on the left. A rest stop had given me another chance to include "photo this" in the Things I get to do today.  Once home Google filled me in, complete with video's of the BH7100 in action.
Leave me a comment. Can you tell me what this mammoth metal contraption does?

4 comments:

  1. Not a clue, but it sure is a beauty.

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    1. Well, I gave it away in the caption of the second picture. This big red beauty is a green bean picker. My garden is very small peanuts/beans!

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  2. ha! I'll never look at green beans the same :)

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    1. No doubt the fresh ones you buy in the store were picked by something like this.

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