A core recovery vehicle for recovering cores from turf which includes an elongated chassis having elongated sides and a front and a back. 1st and 2nd V-shaped wipers are carried on the chassis in a substantially horizontal orientation proximate to the front of the core recovery vehicle whereby the 1st and 2nd V-shaped wipers funnel cores from an open front to an apex opening of each V-shaped wiper； and 1st and 2nd elevators substantially aligned respectively with the apex opening of the 1st and 2nd V-shaped wipers, the 1st and 2nd elevators are substantially aligned with and have substantially all major parts thereof coincident respectively with 1st and 2nd substantially vertical virtual parallel spaced apart planes substantially aligned with the major axis of the chassis.
