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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.

Yes, but while ever there are plenty streets with lots of parked cars in
them, they have to have the bin men and it isnt feasible to have them
have a sleep in the back of the truck while going down your street etc..

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.

One of my neighbours particularly only parks it the
street, doesnt bother to park in his drive at all. That
is uncommon tho so its not a problem for the fully
mechanised bin machine with no bin men at all,
just the truck driver doing everything.

They should just miss out the bins with cars in the way, that would teach the moronic drivers.

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.

With streets that narrow, you're only allowed to park on one side.

I've never seen a street which states which side to park on. But people with common sense park on the same side as an existing car.

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.

Nope, you lot are notorious for that, and ****wit unions too.

Agreed.

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