At last week's Barrett-Jackson collector car auction, some lucky person - we assume the winning bidder really wanted this thing - was able to drive away for a Ford F-150 that had been turned into a nut harvesting machine.
Featured on the TV series "Monster Garage," this Ford pick-up was modified to act as a nut shaker, a machine used to collect tree nuts. The truck bed was removed. In its place, Jesse James and technicians at West Coast Choppers put in a device that grasps the trunk of a tree and shakes it vigorously.
Ripe nuts then fall from the tree and are collected in a large canopy that extends from the truck. The nuts then move to a conveyor belt where they're passed along to a collection hopper.
The truck can harvest nuts from up to three trees per minute.
