Pete and Potatoes

 A Peterbilt with full fenders (I wonder how they work in heavy snow and ice) made a brief call in Halifax to pick up an unusual piece of farm machinery at the PSA Fairview Cove terminal January 26.

The load is a Downs Vision sorter for unwashed potatoes. A field trailer dumps the potatoes onto the wide conveyor which sends them through a number of stages for cleaning, grading, optical sorting and inspecting and can connect to loading and storage systems by more conveyor connections. The unit was likely built in France where the Downs company is based.

The truck is from Quebec and was preparing to leave with its pilot car. Nova Scotia has a number of regulations for escort vehicles, which vary depending on the number of lanes of the road being traveled and whether in daylight or at night, and the dimensions of the unit.

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Rosenbauer arrival

 Recently arrived by sea this Rosenbauer is parked inside the fence at the PSA Fairview Cove terminal in Halifax. 

 I posted the photo on Facebook and thanks to alert readers I learned that it is an electric and is headed for Victoria, BC eventually, but is going to Minnesota first for certification and compliance work.

It may be going out by rail or by truck (the latter seems more likely.)

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Boom truck or crane truck

 What looks like a boom truck becomes a crane truck when the boom is fully extended. Two of these cranes, operated by A.W.Leil, worked together to lift a couple of cruise ship gangways onto a flat bed.

One crane was mounted on a twin steer Western Star, the other on a Kenworth. I could not identify the red crane manufacturer - I think it had been painted over, and I could not get near the white one. 

The flat bed trailer (with one axle lifted) was hauled by a Navistar International.

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