Silas, what you are looking at is an old Renault van being used as a receiver for sawdust coming out of a cyclonic air cleaner which some French farmer has at the back of his wee sawmill, There you go.
I notice the van is full. I guess he's not going to drive it away to dump the sawdust!....
Very cool - Looks like an early '70s Renault Estafette van with the optional extra sawdust extraction kit. Versatile vehicles these Renaults.
I notice the doors have been propped shut. Wouln't be surprised if the van is emptied every now and again - you could probably reverse a trailer up then open the drivers door.
Actually that's the shed behind Malcolm's garage...and we all thought he was heating with oil...bwaaaaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaa! That's gotta be one of the strangest uses for a crappy ol Renault I've ever seen.
I bought a house once in sussex with a really sloped garden, one day we found that a previous resident had buried a 60's ford van (we *think* it was a prefect ) nose down in the top of the slope, and had left it so he could swing open the rear doors and use it as a dog kennel. Over the years the "entrance" had got buried beneath a thin layer, and it wasnt exactly in salvageable shape so we just buried it again...
Ive got a couple of t35d's with dead motors in them, they make ideal storage spaces and one of them is still full of about 2 tonne of rubble out the garden that it expired lugging away and one of the others the guy who keeps sheep in my field (beats the crap out of having to mow the field) lets his sheep sleep in it when the weathers really bad and they have lambs, round here it used to be the done thing to leave your dead car in your field/hedge and use it as a storage bunker for various things until the goverment started to pay a bounty for scrap cars disposed of..
I think that old renault being a sawmill is more green and efficient use of its carcase than squashing it flat and treating it to all sorts of nasty industrial processes to recycle it. Then they'd have to make a big eco friendly plastic container to do the job its doing instead...