On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:19:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



"James Wilkinson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:29:27 +0100, Rod Speed
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"James Wilkinson" wrote in message
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"Tim+" wrote in message
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James Wilkinson wrote:
A neighbouring council has wheelie bins that look like this, but
I've
never seen them anywhere else. What is the hood for?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpzkw50rday7lsz/bin.jpg?dl=0


It's to enable the bin to be picked up from the roadside completely
mechanically (if it's close enough to the road) without manual
intervention. The lorry just pulls up alongside and a mechanical
arm
controlled from the cab does all the work.

Ours have always been emptied like that and dont have anything like
that.
They look like this.
http://www.cusack.co.uk/Catalogue/Ja...240-Ltr-B15618

The bigger "canopy" makes alignment less critical.

Doesnt explain why the other type works fine.

Yours are almost identical to ours. But ours are taken to the back of
the
lorry by the binmen, then they press a button for the lorry to lift
hem.
Too much street parking round here to allow fully mechanised.

Yeah, that's what I meant, he's wrong about that difference
with that bin being to allow mechanised pickup.

If he's wrong,

He is because our system handles bins like yours
without anyone except the driver involved fine.

For some reason we have men pull the bins to the lorry,

Basically because you have a lot more parked cars at bin pickup time.

We shouldn't. My street for example has driveways which all take multiple cars, I can get 5 in mine. Yet I see cars in the street next to drives that aren't full. I guess people are too ****ing lazy to move one out of the way to get a different one out. Mind you I have the advantage that my driveway is butted up against my neighbour's, so we can use each other's to get cars round each other.

But what really ****es me off is the absolute moron 100 yards from me who always parks on the other side of the road to everyone else. Quite how lorries and buses are meant to get past I don't know.

and AFAIK most in the UK do this. Must be the busier streets - too many
parked cars to get the arm in.

Yes.

Or some health and softy bull**** about the arm being dangerous.

Nope, it is the parked cars.

You'd be surprised how much health and softy we have here.

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