Warringah Greens Marathon Pt 1
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2011
- It absolutely sucked saying goodbye to the manual green-waste collections in Warringah, grew up with it for years and years. I didn't appreciate the manual work until I joined up on CZcams and started seeing the speedy changeover to automated collections. I always thought about my council's manual greens service changing to automated and I considered it to possibly come around in the next waste contract. I was right... only that it came 5 years earlier than I expected!
It was the summer holidays in early 2009 when I found out about the contract renewal in the next 5 months. I didn't think much of it until I read the contract tender and skimmed along the stomach-wrenching part about an option for a "fortnightly bin-based vegetation collection". I feared the worst, and that fear came true in the following months when the contract was awarded to URM and when residents saw the roll-out of brand new 240L bins. It was a time of sadness seeing the wipe out of something I really enjoyed, but also a time of excitement to see a new service on the way.
As a sort of memorable thing for the manual green-waste collection, I captured heaps and heaps of new footage and gathered some existing footage of the old service in action. Instead of just getting standard footage of the Veolia guys collecting at the back, I decided to get myself in some of the videos. Was awesome throwing bundles and boxes into the back, emptying the old crates and manual bins into the hopper and smashing the 240Ls on the lifter, but the deep roar of these Accos in the early morning was probably the best part! I just wish I took more time to appreciate the manual collection while it lasted... too bad I wanted to do this as a job initially after leaving school.
I really hope you enjoy this series, which came mostly from that following April with the help of truck #329. All ratings and comments will be much appreciated, be sure to check out all the footage uploaded as part of the series. In these first three videos we see 329 working hard during a number of Wednesday and Monday mornings...
Body Make: Compaction Systems (now Superior Pak)
Model: 25m Maxi Pak
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Warringah Shire
Contractor: Veolia Environmental Services
Collection Type: Green-Waste / Vegetation - Auta a dopravní prostředky
@tharealsteven Yeh definitely... I never experienced the workload with just the driver, but even with two runners it can be pretty tiring. Like summer was murder for the veg guys, but winter was always a chill out session :P
@Binboy97 It's a council decision on the service types which are provided, the contractor just performs the services the council requires. Warringah decided to move away from a rear loader collection, URM was appointed to carry out this collection.
@Trashman242 Yeh there are tonnes of different schedules... I just try and focus on Australia because generally things are the same with weekly or fortnightly :P That's only how they did the vegetation service with the four zones handled across a month. As for bulk in Warringah, there are 24 zones which are serviced twice a year (with the exception of zone 20 - Dee Why units - which is handled four times a year).
@Trashman242 Cheers Scott, I watched these videos over and over again for a while haha =] This job was done monthly in Warringah; the Mon-Fri zones were broken into four areas, one done on each of the four weeks of each month.
Great video mate :D the Opening clip of the GenV the arm hits the hopper very hard; must be loose. Anyway least you got tonnes of footage of the greens from the old days at Veolia. Must have been awesome do do the greens for a while. I bet summer was a killer for all the runners. You did a awesome job Mitch as a runner mate, but your now a full time worker not a holiday worker not getting paid but you enjoyed it anyway. The manual greens looked fun :D
@trashking900 Yeh this was before URM took over; was never officially employed with Veolia, just a before school / holiday activity for me =]
hello great truck i have a garbage company in montreal canada and i am looking to buy some on these do you know who makes or sells them thank you
tyrone bailey These used to be built by a company called Compaction Systems, but now they fall under the manufacturing of Superior Pak.
Nice vid :) Are the GenVs getting worn out because when Campbelltown got the new trucks they got worn out pretting quickly
haha mitch is that mabbsy with you in this one?
@garbo23 Yeh you betya lol
Doing that all day, be stuffed by the time it hits knock off time eh :D