32 yarder for residential pick up

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  1. Mike2633

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    I did spot the Peterbuilt sleeper it was pulling a cattle hauling trailer. I don't have a picture of it though.
     
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    I think with these Crane Carrier Corp trucks they were built for inner city routes. I don't think they were intended to actually go to the landfills. I think they were designed to empty out at transfer stations in the city and then go back out on there routes.
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    These trailers are ejector trailers which were manufactured by Pak Mor from the mid 1970s till about 1991.
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    The city of Millwaukee, Wisconsin used the Pak Mor ejector trailers as mobile transfer stations.

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    Pak Mor also manufactured transfer station equipment. The packing ram loads garbage into the ejector trailer. The city of Rocky River, Ohio operates a 1970s era transfer station similar to the picture above.

    Around the later 1950s and early 1960s garbage transfer stations started popping up.

    Well lets take a step back for a minute.
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    The building you are looking at is The City of Lakewood, Ohio Department of Refuse and Recycling. Lakewood, Ohio is a very old city one of the first founded in Cleveland's west side. The city was founded in 1889. Why does this matter?

    Because the building to the left has a smoke stack, that building is an old time garbage incinerator. They use it as a recycling center now, but the building was originally built as a municipal garbage incinerator.

    Garbage incinerators kind of went out of style in the mid 1950s, they were determined to be problematic and not really healthy. Also around the mid 1950s open air city dumps were still a dump. Public health officials also determined that open air city dumps were a public health hazard and there only real quality was that they were economical.

    The solution was the modern day sanitary landfill which was engineered and started to really gain traction around the middle 1950s.

    This caused the popping up of modern day municipal transfer stations in the late 1950s, 1960s. Leach Company, Heil and Pak-Mor were all big into transfer station equipment. Leach really promoted the idea of transfer stations. In 1956 the city of Los Angeles California department of Sanitation was formed, to collect garbage and was the new uniform standard in garbage collection for the city.

    Prior to 1956 Los Angeles had a bunch of back yard fire burners or private garbage haulers running around, but most of the private garbage haulers went out of business around World War 2 and then people started burning garbage which was deemed a public health issue, so the government established the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation.

    Thanks to Classic Refuse Trucks for the history.
    Here is a picture from Classic Refuse Truck professional photographs from the opening of the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation in 1956 at there transfer station.
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    What I am getting at with all this history is in the 1950s and 1960s going to the landfill for collection garbage trucks was starting to go out of style and transfer stations started popping up.

    Pak-Mor, Leach and Heil all were big players in the transfer station game, Pak-Mor and Heil were bigger players Leach got out of the ejector trailer manufacturing business in the 1970s, Pak-Mor got out of the ejector trailer making business in the 1990s.
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    In 1968 Heil started manufacturing 75 cubic yard transfer trailers. That hauled garbage from the transfer station to the sanitary landfill.
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    I think Crane Carrier Corporation meant for there trucks to operate in municipalities that were close to transfer stations, there trucks I don't think are really designed to go to the landfill. I think Crane meant for there trucks to start there day at the city garage/transfer station and then go on there routes and when full go back and unload at the transfer station and then go out again. Like the City of Cleveland runs there own transfer station on Ridge Road here is the handy link to the transfer stations brochure.
    http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/sit...ications/RidgeRoadTransferStationBrochure.pdf

    Most of the garbage trucks parked at that transfer station are Crane Carrier Corp units that scale in at the transfer station and dump there. R&J Trucking hauls the garbage to the landfill with the big municipal waste trailer trailers.

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    I think with CCC they had it in there mind that the trucks would off load at transfer stations and stay out of the landfills. Not saying it worked that way 100% of the time, but I think that was more of the idea around there trucks. There customer base was commercial and municipal waste haulers in major urban centers.

    Anyhow, anyone learn anything?
     
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    Truck #2 on the list the EZ Pack Goliath.

    In 1984 EZ Pack/Galion Company of Galion, Ohio and Cynthian, Kentucky had been in the refuse body manufacturing industry for about 20 years or so. The company had designed three different rear load trucks in that 20 year period, a small duty, medium duty and then a heavier duty truck. But the company was indeed of a sever duty truck and a flagship model to out do any other flagship models.

    Crane Carrier Corporation had there 1984 Integrated Rear Loader out on the road with it's 32 yard cylindrical body able to pack endless loads of refuse and busy boasting about it's 3.5 yard hopper, and worked well for residential collection routes.

    But dumpsters, commercial dumpsters were over flowing. Garbage everywhere, rats as big as cats running in the streets. Oh mercy me oh my what's a girl to do?
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    Front load dumpsters can not come in any bigger size then 8 yards. But rear load dumpsters rear load dumpsters can come as large as 12 yards!

    But to dump a 12 yard dumpster takes massive power, not any truck will do the worst thing is to keep having to cycle the packer over and over and over and over again and it just won't eat the load it just won't gulp it down. Oh it's awful. The garbage was winning. Wimpy packers and trucks with small hoppers were out gunned by the massive loads of trash. Well except the CCC IRL and IFL those trucks could pretty much pack anything, but still...

    And all the while the piles of garbage were piling up, garbage collection is a war it's a flat out war a war of machine and man and the Peabody Galion, company of Galion, Ohio and Cynthian, Kentucky decided it was time to ad another truck to there line up a flagship model a game changer a sever duty truck beyond heavy duty, a rear-load garbage truck that went on to become the M1-Abrams Tank of Garbage Trucks at the time.

    The EZ Pack-Goliath was born. In 20, 25 and 31 yard options.

    The truck was built for only the heaviest, toughest and ugliest of collection routes.

    It was the companies flagship top of the line model. It was as Classic Refuse Trucks said "A real bruiser".

    This was the largest biggest truck ever built by Galion and at the time was the heaviest duty body ever seen.
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    The hopper was 3.7 yards which was at the time the biggest hopper on the market. This truck as you all know is still in production to this day you can go and buy one brand new if you like and the new ones the hopper is now like 4.5 yards or something it has the biggest hopper on the market.

    The swing link packer unit which eliminated tracks and slots and instead used cylinders had a very smooth action and absolutely packed a huge punch. This was one of Galions best designs and the swing link packer blade was one of the biggest changes to the refuse industry in the past quarter century when the truck debuted in 1984.

    This truck was a bulk rear load truck. This was not some little cutesy truck to pick up a garbage can or 2 from some cottage in Cape Cod. This truck was New York City 200 stops a night 20 tons a day.

    This was a truck of biblical proportions and named after the biblical warrior Goliath.
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    If you look on the front pillar there is a logo, this truck had it's own logo of the warrior Goliath holding a trash bag.

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    The truck had an over head cylinder meant for the pick up of 12 yard dumpsters.
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    Also the massive wide open rear load hopper meant the truck was perfect for Satellite truck operations which are pretty popular in affluent communities like Shaker Heights, Ohio, Rocky River, Ohio and Naples, Florida.

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    With the newer Goliath's being able to pack a 4.5 yard punch and the wide open hopper the truck is perfect for bulk collection. These 4.5 yard Satalite trucks dump right into the back of this City of Naples, Florida Goliath rear load truck and with one cycle of the packer blade 4.5 yards gets swallowed right up.
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    This is an EZ Pack Goliath custom job used for bulk pick up out in California.

    This is a new 2006 and newer E-Z-Pack Goliath.
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    E-Z-Pack was restructured in 2006 and the E-Z-Pack refuse trucks are made in the factory in Cynthian, Kentucky.

    Modelers on Classic Refuse Trucks.com have taken to even making some custom models of the Goliath. I think that @x1Heavy may like this twin steer 31 yard E-Z-Pack Goliath.
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    After the E-Z-Pack Goliath hit the streets gone were the days of running continuous packing cycles and making no headway. Now they just back right up to an over flowing 12 yard dumpster and 3 cycles of the packing blade and you're done. Gulp there's 4 yards, Gulp there's another 4 yards and Gulp the last 4 yards go right in.
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    Kenworth T-800 with 31 yard E-Z-Pack Goliath Body. Courtesy of former WM driver.

    The days of the overflowing rear load dumpster were now over. As the Goliath came in and waged war against the garbage monster.
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    Sorry for a monstrous quoute.

    Maybe I am the damaged one, looking at function rather than pretty and form. (With few exceptions with others of the opposite sex) When I saw the big cargo pipes behind the cabs and higher, all I can think of are two things. First you are going to have generating some form of gases. Maybe even a battery that has spilled into that water off say a remains of a ice machine from a icecream truck. Salt and so on combined to generate a gas that is pretty lethal to the people in the front cab.

    Second don't anyone care for protecting the precious electronics anymore? I remember when I did my CAT 936 work the last thing I wanted was water inside certain specific parts of the machine which will just KILL IT and make my big boss ... a very large strong hard profane man, weep copious tears until he's ready to take my life. ...=)

    I just imagine all those fluids which probably when mixed together in ways they really should not be. Example Drano trash with a dripping bottle of bleach, you can kill a town with this gas... You follow me?
     
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    One of the things they always talk about is trash and garbage getting behind the ejector blade where it’s not supposed to be. It’s usually more of a problem on front load trucks, but could be s problem on rear loaders too.
     
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    Alright last but certainly not least on the list of my top 3 rear loaders is the Leach 2R.
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    This is going to be a biggie, because there's a lot of history behind this truck as Leach was the company that invented the high compaction rate rear loader and by the late 1970s had 50% of the rear load market in there corner. Lots of history with Leach as they were at the time America's #1 brand and manufacturer of rear load garbage trucks, capturing 50% off all rear load garbage truck sales here in the USA.
     
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    Leach Company pretty much invented the modern day high compaction rear load garbage truck that we have on the streets today. In 1959 Leach company was riding a wave of sales for there rear load garbage trucks.

    They were selling about 1,000 trucks per year so there factory in Wisconsin had to manufacture 2-3 trucks a day to keep up with sales demand.

    It all started in 1947 with Cyril R. Gollnick who was the designer of the Leach Packmaster hydraulic packer. Which was Leach's first and really the fist major produced all hydraulic rear load packing garbage truck. This was the birth of the modern rear load garbage truck that we have today.
    This is what it looked like in the begging in 1947.
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    Drawing of the Pack Master Hydraulic packing blade. Gar Wood Industries had produced an all hydraulic load packer in 1937, but the hopper and packing blade wasn't quite like the Leach Packmaster and Leach needed to compete with Gar Wood and in doing so created a more expensive, complicated, but modern truck of the future known as the Packmaster.

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    Was the truck that started it all and eventually morphed into the Leach 2 and eventually the modern day Leach 2RII.
     
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    Did you guys see on the news today a Monterey beach California garbage truck caught fire fully engulfed in flames and was rolling uncontrollably down a hill towards a house.
     
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    I saw this on you tube today:
     
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