I’m scheming to build a roll off or hooklift truck with a front loader for small dumpsters. Does anyone know if these already exist or have been custom built?
Front loader/roll off combo
Discussion in 'Waste Removal and Garbage Truck Driver Forum' started by Grainboy91, Jan 31, 2022.
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I'm sure someone has made one. The question is why?
You could only dump a couple of dumpsters before the front of the roll off is full and with no way to move the garbage back to add more.Grumppy Thanks this. -
......... and if you have a 30 yard roll-off can, you can only dump 30 yards of un-compacted trash. That is 15 - 2 yard cans or 4 - 8 yard cans (for example)... if you can figure out how to move it to the back of the can every dump. Then you gotta go to the land fill. Then you gotta tarp it so the trash dont fly out everywhere. With a normal front-end load truck, it will compact & you can put many yards of un-compacted trash in a 32 yard front-end loader & compact it.
However, you could use a 10 - 12 ton (empty weight) self contained food compactor style design, but now your limiting yourself on the "weight" of trash you can pick up.
There was at one time a front-end loader built that had a removable bucket on the front where you could dump residential cans in the bucket, then dump into the back of the truck & compact it but, that was designed for a relatively small number of specialized applications. Not widely used at all.
I am also curious what you idea/intention is for such a design. Not making fun of you. Just curious. -
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That said, nothing a custom rolloff with can't handle. Borh to seal any leaking and a top to prevent slosh. Of course I could be smoking something too as I'm just guessing at your needs by your description. -
Sounds like you need a truck with an organic waste body on it, the kind that has the lift on the back. Either that, or you could try a vacuum tanker.
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In the 90's, WM teamed up with Heil and FWD to create "Heil Pods". They were a smaller FEL truck for residential collection. When they were full, the container detached, and a hoist onboard moved to onto the side of the road so that a hooklift on a single axle WhiteGMC moved it onto a semi trailer with about three of these "pods". The same type of machine (hooklift) dumped them at the landfill.
They only problems I can see is that these things are at least 24 years old, and because they were commissioned by WM, they could have been scrapped already. If you have the skills to replicate the Heil Pods or make them even better, I would say go for it! I am a sucker for refuse equipment and I really would like to see what would happen since nobody has these things on the market.
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