In this one we head underground again beneath a building in Kent St near the town hall. With this job there are four 660L cardboard bins to service, but you can't exactly use the lifter. You'll see the bins are situated in a room off an elevated dock and there's no ramp available to take the bins down to the truck. So the only option is to hand unload, otherwise drop them on the side and push them into the hopper like shown in the video.
We also get a different angle showing the packer in action, a quick look at the truck and then a shot at the end of some city nightlife. Hope you enjoy some more action from below the CBD.
2 x Cardboard 3m @ Fusion Cruises
This was one of the larger jobs we visited on that Thursday night, taken from a small marina housing a number of cruise ships. There are three to service here, but only two 3m containers were full that night. I was told they throw a mix of materials inside these cardboard bins, including bottles like you'll hear and plastic like you'll see. I hope you enjoy the action... it's cool to see a small truck handling big bins.
World Tower Underground (Bales + 660L)
I took a Friday off work and went out with one of the mates during his Thursday night run. We left the yard at 9pm and did a little loop through Ku-Ring-Gai and Ryde before heading into the Sydney CBD, then tipped off at Visy and finished up at 7am. I was tagging along on a Watts Waste cardboard recycling run which involved a white single axle Heil / Isuzu, previously belonging to PK Management before the company went bust.
I'd wanted to do a full night shift for a while and finally got the opportunity, which turned out to be an awesome experience, especially being able to cruise through central Sydney. I love the darkness, flashing lights, quiet streets and roaring trucks when it comes to the night shift, but being in the city is just as awesome with all the high rise residential and commercial buildings. When you go through the CBD at ground level on the main streets you don't see much apart from some 240L bins belonging to small businesses. The back lanes are where a lot of action happens, but the serious deal is found underground, which is something I love about CBD waste collections.
This night was the first time I got to go down below the busy streets and madness, with this video giving you a look at the first dock I got to see. There was plenty down there, especially those 1100Ls you get a look at on the left and then the group of 1.5m containers at the end of the first clip. All we were getting down there was a 660L and a single bale, but we threw a few extras on from another spot, so there's some sweet footage of bales getting packed by this little rear loader. We also checked out the bin room which all those loaded 1.5m bins came from - just wish I got a closer look at the compactors they get hooked up to. A Hino rear loader joined us down below during the video too, which tackled all those 1100L bins by utilising the same method shown in one of the other videos I posted of this truck.. Also hearing that Hino thunder through the dock made me wonder what an Acco would sound like :P
I saw a few other trucks out and about including two Scania rear loaders belonging to Sita and Cleanaway, then also a handful of smaller trucks belonging to Dimeo, Eco Sense and Veolia. There are so many videos I want to get from the city with a very different setting down in those docks, then all the trucks that pass through intrigue me even more! I hope you guys enjoy this footage, look out for more of this little Isuzu and other Watts Waste machines. One mistake I made on that night was not getting rest beforehand... I ended up being awake for 37 hours before I got to sleep on Friday night! haha
City of Kingston Dept. of Public Works Leach Alpha Truck 11
Monday Trash Collection N. Wilbur Ave and Pine St. Crews "Scooter" and "Shady" feed Truck 11 with trash, some wood, rugs and unwanted toys. Truck 8 can also be seen in action. Truck 8 got a funky route so I don't chase this truck.
KMC Clean-Up
I was told by a driver that the clean-up guys probably wouldn't be out because that Monday was a public holiday. However, after sighting the paper truck again, I noticed this truck driving towards me. The guys were cool with the filming, so I followed them around for a while until they stopped beside two decent piles I'd seen earlier. I also recognised this truck after hearing it rev and see its body size, so I went to the front of the truck and saw #328; one of the old Warringah vegetation trucks. Please rate, comment and hope you enjoy!
Body Make: Compaction Systems (now Superior Pak)
Model: 25m Maxi Pak
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Ku-Ring-Gai Municipal
Contractor: Veolia Environmental Services
Collection Type: Clean-Up / Bulk-Waste
Warringah Units -- The New JP5 (Papers)
Here is some footage of truck #166, the new JP5 operating in my council, collecting the paper in the Wednesday units just after getting back from the transfer station. This was shot way back on my 2009 July holidays when the truck was still clean and shiny just after the contract had started... a bit of a different story now.
The new truck seems to pack a decent load, is much quieter than other JP5 / Accos and is awesome to work with! The only real let down about this truck is the slow operation speed as you will see with the lifter and packer. Since I shot this footage the truck has become a little faster, but the packer is still quite slow. When the revs aren't on, the lifter seriously looks like it isn't even moving after a certain point on the way down! haha
Hope you enjoy, please rate and comment. Also be sure to take a look at the video of the massive JP5 doing garbage and the old Heil doing the bottles recycling...
Body Make: MacDonald Johnston
Model: 19m JP5
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Warringah Shire
Contractor: United Resource Management (URM)
Collection Type: Paper & Cardboard Recycling
Heil Rapid Rail--Packer in Action Pt. 3
Hopper stayed full a lot of the time in this one. Makes it better watching...enjoy! Trash footage is available here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_3oSgwDg0
Warringah Clean-Up Pt 1 (Truck #123 / Dirty Residents)
I took these videos one Tuesday after school while all the trucks were out trying to get the rest of my area finished. In this video we have truck 123 taking care of a large set-out by some dirty residents - all this rusted, heavy and loose material was scattered all over this nature strip. Then there is another shorter video of this truck servicing a few other piles, a single clip of 046 feeding on some sofas and a metal cabinet, then finally we have a full truck 122 struggling to get one last pile squashed in. Hope you enjoy the four videos, please rate and comment.
Body Make: MacDonald Johnston
Model: 28m JP5
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Warringah Shire
Contractor: United Resource Management (URM)
Collection Type: Clean-Up / Bulk-Waste
Waste Management Trucks - Inspired by 3amrepmike3
After watching 3amrepmike3's Burrtec video, it inspired me to create a similar video. I know that most of you like videos that have a lot of different trucks in each video. I decided that you all might like this. I will continue to make videos like this but only of clips that you haven't seen so everything will be new to you. Some of these clips are ones that you have seen and some you have not seen yet. I hope you enjoy this video I put together. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments down below!
Link to 3amrepmike3's Burrtec video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoDmBaJroE
4th Of July Hopper Footage - Monday Pt. 3
Part 3 is a fun one, lots of bulk and odd items. You'll notice that soccer magnet that held on for this entire series finally falls off around 8:30. At 13:39 the truck is just as pissed off as I am at the bag that stuck in the can and sounds badass when it takes off.
Enjoy.
Summer Break 2011: J&J Refuse GMC Moving Van
Today I was going to film the J&J mini packer at my grandma's house again, only to find out it was broke down. They don't have a back up truck and evidentally the city contract will not let them service this one-lane private road with a full size truck, they decied to rent a moving van to collect with. Enjoy this unusual footage!
Warringah Clean-Up Pt 2 (truck #123)
A nice pile to start with which includes some mattresses and a sofa, followed by a shelf and a crunchy mattress from a previous pile, then a little bit of cardboard...
Warringah Units Garbage Pt 1
Here we have a couple of Veolia's former Warringah side loaders working early on a Wednesday and Friday morning, collecting many 240Ls during the units run. We see truck 047 in the first and last clip, and then we see 049 throughout the rest of the video. I hope you enjoy this footage, please rate and comment. Be sure to take a look at the video of the units recycling with a single pass and the other video of 049.
Body Make: MacDonald Johnston
Model: 22m MkIV SPORT : Standard Refuse Body
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Warringah Shire
Contractor: Veolia Environmental Services
Collection Type: Units Garbage / Trash
