On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:46:55 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:23:44 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:20:37 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 19:54:24 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
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news On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:49:23 +0100, NY wrote:

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news On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:44:12 +0100, Tim+ wrote:

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.

The bigger "canopy" makes alignment less critical.

Ahhh, I didn't think of that as I got mixed up and thought it wasn't on
the truck side of the bin. The binmen don't wheel mine to the lorry and
hook the handles on, the other side gets hooked on.

So I guess people not bothering to put the bins the right way round
(like
my neighbour) wouldn't get it collected at all. Round here they're
wheeled to the lorry by the binmen and they don't mind the odd one
facing
wrongly.

You mean there is a "right way round" for putting wheelie bins on the
roadside for collection? I never knew that. I've never seen any
instructions. Looking along our road, people place them various ways
round -
some with the handle closest to the road (which means walking into the
road
as you are dragging it onto the grass verge), some with the handle
furthest
away from the road (closest to the house) and some at right angles (which
is
how you would drag it behind you as you walk towards the kerb but then
turn
at the last minute to avoid walking into the road).

But our bins are always collected and hooked onto the lorry by hand. One
man
typically walks ahead and gathers several bins into a group, and then he
and
another guy take the bins, two at a time, onto the two "hooks" on the
lorry.

We were told to when we first got the bins, and it seems pretty obvious,
and 90% of them are done this way, to place the handles nearest the road.

Imagine you're collecting 1000 bins in the day, would you want to turn them
all round to pull them to the lorry?

I cannot imagine that as I am not a bin man.

Does a bin man's wishes concern you?

They are paid to empty the bins.

Occasionally they put one back outside the correct house when they have
emptied it.

I wish mine would and so does my nieghbour as she pays to have hers cleaned.
I don't. I can see my pin outsoide the house next door becaus eit has my house munber written on it as does my nieghbours.

People who wash their bins are presumably the same weirdos who get enemas.

Well my neigbour is 94 years old just back from 8 weeks in hospital she's lived there since before WWII.

Being old is no excuse for being daft.

Why wash something which becomes dirty the instant you use it?

Are you talking about your arse ?
well only the french use arse washers.

Most people don't get enemas.

But the bins do get a bit smelly some people care about their bins, thier front step as they see it as a refelction of them.

Wash the outside of the bin if you like, that's all that gets seen or is exposed to the outside world. But then that's not the dirty part anyway. And if you put your rubbish in binbags like you should, then the bin doesn't even get dirty in the fist place. If you just chuck mucky rubbish into the bin, it's going to fall out the back of the lorry if there's a wind when they're collecting.

Remind me what's rain is for, cleaning cars and house windows. :-)
why else would it happen.

Agreed - I hardly ever wash anything outside. Except my drive once a year as it gets mossy.

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If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? -- Monty Python, Episode 25