Gourmets of Wine > Harvest Scramble: Finding Rental Equipment

[Avenue Vine] "Harvest basically inhales all of the forklifts in the local rental fleets," said Sam McHenry, an owner of Accurate Forklift of Santa Rosa, which owns and rents about 300 forklifts of various sizes. The mad rush to find and deliver rental equipment is an annual ritual during the North Coast's grape crush, which energizes the local economy every fall as the wine industry scrambles to harvest the region's $800 million grape crop.

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