Frogleg wrote in
:

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and
there is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

You do see remarkably large things proceeding along lanes with seemingly
about half an inch of clearance either side. And you should see the milk
float go up the steep unsurfaced lane by our house! It makes a hell of a
noise, but somehow it does it :-)

I meant the grabbing arm thing really - it probably relies on the rubbish
being roughly the same distance from the truck, and on having a wheely bin
handle to grab. And for that you need to be able to wheel your bin out (no
steps) and have somewhere flat to leave it.

Victoria

Frogleg wrote in
:

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and
there is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

You do see remarkably large things proceeding along lanes with seemingly
about half an inch of clearance either side. And you should see the milk
float go up the steep unsurfaced lane by our house! It makes a hell of a
noise, but somehow it does it :-)

I meant the grabbing arm thing really - it probably relies on the rubbish
being roughly the same distance from the truck, and on having a wheely bin
handle to grab. And for that you need to be able to wheel your bin out (no
steps) and have somewhere flat to leave it.

Victoria

Frogleg wrote in
:

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and
there is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

You do see remarkably large things proceeding along lanes with seemingly
about half an inch of clearance either side. And you should see the milk
float go up the steep unsurfaced lane by our house! It makes a hell of a
noise, but somehow it does it :-)

I meant the grabbing arm thing really - it probably relies on the rubbish
being roughly the same distance from the truck, and on having a wheely bin
handle to grab. And for that you need to be able to wheel your bin out (no
steps) and have somewhere flat to leave it.

Victoria

Frogleg wrote in
:

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and
there is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

You do see remarkably large things proceeding along lanes with seemingly
about half an inch of clearance either side. And you should see the milk
float go up the steep unsurfaced lane by our house! It makes a hell of a
noise, but somehow it does it :-)

I meant the grabbing arm thing really - it probably relies on the rubbish
being roughly the same distance from the truck, and on having a wheely bin
handle to grab. And for that you need to be able to wheel your bin out (no
steps) and have somewhere flat to leave it.

Victoria

Frogleg wrote in
:

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and
there is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

You do see remarkably large things proceeding along lanes with seemingly
about half an inch of clearance either side. And you should see the milk
float go up the steep unsurfaced lane by our house! It makes a hell of a
noise, but somehow it does it :-)

I meant the grabbing arm thing really - it probably relies on the rubbish
being roughly the same distance from the truck, and on having a wheely bin
handle to grab. And for that you need to be able to wheel your bin out (no
steps) and have somewhere flat to leave it.

Victoria

Frogleg wrote in
:

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and
there is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

You do see remarkably large things proceeding along lanes with seemingly
about half an inch of clearance either side. And you should see the milk
float go up the steep unsurfaced lane by our house! It makes a hell of a
noise, but somehow it does it :-)

I meant the grabbing arm thing really - it probably relies on the rubbish
being roughly the same distance from the truck, and on having a wheely bin
handle to grab. And for that you need to be able to wheel your bin out (no
steps) and have somewhere flat to leave it.

Victoria

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from Frogleg contains these words:

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:22:34 +0000, Victoria Clare
wrote:

Frogleg wrote

We put the wheely bins out at the curb, and they're
collected by 1-man trucks with automatic grabbing arms,

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and there
is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

The Ground Force truck is quite a bit smaller than the usual kind of
UK dustbin-trucks. And, let me assure you, the locations where the GF
truck goes are nowhere near as restricted as rural lanes in Cornwall
(and other places).It's common in rural areas, for householders to have
to carry their rubbish down to the nearest place the binmen can get the
truck...which might be a mile or more from the house.

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Janet.

The message
from Frogleg contains these words:

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:22:34 +0000, Victoria Clare
wrote:

Frogleg wrote

We put the wheely bins out at the curb, and they're
collected by 1-man trucks with automatic grabbing arms,

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and there
is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

Oh, but I've seen the Ground Force van in some mighty tight
situations. :-)

The Ground Force truck is quite a bit smaller than the usual kind of
UK dustbin-trucks. And, let me assure you, the locations where the GF
truck goes are nowhere near as restricted as rural lanes in Cornwall
(and other places).It's common in rural areas, for householders to have
to carry their rubbish down to the nearest place the binmen can get the
truck...which might be a mile or more from the house.

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Janet.

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:36:07 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

Looks like the same as we have in Zuid Holland. There's a letter in
the current Dutch Consumer Association magazine from some one
complaining, that they used their own container, instead of the one
provided. The bin men chucked the container and it's contents in the
back of the garbage truck and crushed it.
The local bye-law says anything put out that's not in a provided
rubbish bin will be treated as rubbish :-)
--

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:36:07 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

Looks like the same as we have in Zuid Holland. There's a letter in
the current Dutch Consumer Association magazine from some one
complaining, that they used their own container, instead of the one
provided. The bin men chucked the container and it's contents in the
back of the garbage truck and crushed it.
The local bye-law says anything put out that's not in a provided
rubbish bin will be treated as rubbish :-)
--

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:36:07 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:57:38 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

Some areas of the UK do have the kind of trucks that grab a wheely-bin
and empty it, but the ones I've seen are never operated by one person
alone. There's a driver, plus a team of fetchers who move the bins to
the grab and remove them afterwards.

Ah. That's what we had 'til a few years ago.

Not than anyone cares, but here's a picture of the local arrangement.

http://www.hampton.va.us/publicworks...r_garbage.html

Looks like the same as we have in Zuid Holland. There's a letter in
the current Dutch Consumer Association magazine from some one
complaining, that they used their own container, instead of the one
provided. The bin men chucked the container and it's contents in the
back of the garbage truck and crushed it.
The local bye-law says anything put out that's not in a provided
rubbish bin will be treated as rubbish :-)
--

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad