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I can see smaller versions of these mounted on the side or back of garbage trucks someday.

• all2 3y ago
  Our local trash service already has pneumatic arms that grab and dump the trash cans. [0] is one of many offerings. [0] https://www.heil.com/bodies/liberty-automated-sideload-garbage-trucks/ https://www.heil.com/bodies/liberty-automated-sideload-garba...
  • throwaway14356 3y ago
    we use to have those but now there are underground containers. My card can open the one in my street and 2 around the corner. If one is full sooner than planned there is a phone number and they usually come pull it out of the ground in an hour, sometimes after 2 days. Happens every 2 year or so. Wonderful system, no garbage around the house.
• freeopinion 3y ago
  Garbage trucks have long been a marvel to me. I used to wince every time I heard the dumpster outside my office get emptied. Every single time the operator would lift and tilt the dumpster, then smash it at least six times to make sure everything shook out. The dumpsters and the trucks had to withstand this beating over and over. The truck especially amazed me. Hundreds of pounds hanging on a cantilevered arm smashing down repeatedly--then moving onto the next dumpster! You just have to take whatever crazy spec you were given for the mechanical parts and then multiply that by 100 to engineer anything that could survive a single day.
  • pard68 3y ago
    Hydraulics are extraordinary.