32 yarder for residential pick up

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  1. Mike2633

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    This was a first generation Leach Refuse Getter which was one of Leaches first real famous garbage truck models that really hit the main stream. This was an ancestor to what would become the 2R.
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    Hi guys sorry for the hiatus, long end to the work week at work. Call offs and short handed and double headers and stuff.

    Anyhow back to it the main garbage truck on my list of top 3 rear load garbage trucks.

    Leach Corporation from Wisconsin, was the first garbage truck company to start to manufacture the large scale rear load garbage truck bodies that we see and are used to today. They invented the high capacity rear load garbage truck.
    BFI rear load.jpg Later Model Leach 2RII working for the now way defunct Browning-Ferris Industries of Huston, Texas.

    Back in the 40s and 50s rear load garbage trucks were the norm and they were small little machines usually made by Gar-Wood Company.

    Well in 1959 Leach Corporation invented the slide sweep packer, which is now the common most packer design on rear load garbage trucks.

    Sorry for all this history, but these rear load garbage trucks go way back and while nobody thinks about it there actually modern marvels that have developed a ton through the years and through a lot of engineering and ingenuity.
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    Anyhow Leach developed the first high capacity slide sweep packer and they were the first to come out with the high capacity high tonnage refuse body. There trucks were very popular with private haulers in Chicago and New York City. Infact to this day the city of Chicago has many Leach garbage trucks and if you look around for videos of private garbage haulers in New York City many of them have Leach garbage trucks.

    The big Leach 2 panel packer with the two big massive hydraulic arms was able to pack loads of up to 800-1000lbs per cubic yard. This is the modern rear load garbage truck that we know of today the 1959 Leach 2R
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    Was the largest garbage truck on the market in the late 1950s. Infact it wasn't an immediate success, according to Classicrefusetrucks.com a lot of the cities and other agencies never saw machines so big units so heavy, but the private industry saw a use for the powerful machine.

    Back in the day tipping fees at transfer stations was based on body size and not weight so a 20 yard Leach 2R could pack more weight then a 20 year Gar-Wood so you could dump more weight for the same price with a Leach packer, so Leach trucks gained popularity in Chicago and New York city quickly because demolition companies in New York City could easily pack lots of weight with the Leach 2R packer body with it's powerful 2 panel packing blade.

    Also the truck was big enough to pick up large rear load containers and dumpsters.
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    The other garbage truck makers were still using chains and sprockets and stuff for there packer blades. When Leach came out with the 2R Packmaster and it's hydraulic packer system that immediately made all other refuse bodies obsolete Leach pretty much invented the modern day refuse truck which is why they are so popular and well known.
     
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    Now in 1962 Leach moved into there new factory, but while they were riding high on the success of the 2R they ran into a bit of trouble. They were bested by Heil Company who in 1960 brought the ejector/push out garbage truck to the forefront and main stream. At that time Leach was still making dump body garbage trucks.

    Well Leach while they had the packing blade down they needed to get the ejector system down and into the modern era because dump body trucks would never be able to compete with high capacity push out style ejector blades.
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    So in 1962 Leach created there version of the push out ejector blade for there rear load garbage trucks.

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    In 1964 the market was developing for the larger leach packer bodies and Leach came out with the Leach 2R 31 yard packer body.
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    Immediately these 31 yard bodies were actually sold as semi trailers as they were the biggest garbage truck bodies in there class.
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    In later years these truck bodies would be mounted to straight truck chassis and the trailer style of packer body would go away.
     
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    Leach 2R swallowing a Volkswagen.
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    In a previous post a picture of the two steer axle model was present.

    My first impression was that the truck's trash capacity when full is too runt. Too little to carry with all that over thinking engineered rig. In that particular model the second axle offered nothing.

    What I would have done is chop the frame aft of the second steer and built a pernament articulation then lengthened the frame and box of the rear section to where you can axle out the extra capacity Maybe move the second steer back a litle more to 10 feet spread to gain the 40K up front and add the third axle (Tag more than likely) to create a triple axle set with roughly 50K capacity back there. Total 90K That articulation similar to the modern volvo rock trucks today combined with the two forward steer axles should create a rig able to get where it wants to. The aft cargo box will need to be bigger to accommodate another two or three large dumpsters.

    Maybe the extra two or three dumpsters you can stuff into these would create a situation where a territory is done quicker and earlier in the day or you gain more customers and more territory. Unfortunately it will not be a very good truck on top of a landfill. Not unless you drove the two steers in the front with planetary hubs, gearing and powered off the hydraulics. Speeds would be low but up top you are low anyway.

    Basically it will be a Class A tractor trailer and hopefully there is enough flexibility to get into the old town, perhaps with a logging style floating aft triple axle set where in tight corners the rig will help out around it.
     
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    LEACH 2RII
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    In 1985 the Leach 2R and the rest of there designs had been untouched for 30-40 years and it was time for an update.

    In the middle to late 1980s the DOT started to crack down on weights and CDLs and all the fun stuff we have now and real consequences started to show up.

    Well, the garbage industry was not immune to that and the old days of extremely heavy high tare weight trucks were coming to an end as the industry realized they needed lower tare weight trucks.

    Leach was not immune to this and they made some updates and redesigns to the 2R. The body style was changed to the ribbed design that was prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s before the smooth wall trucks of today.

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    Also changes to the packer blade and a new light bar were implemented most of the changes were for a lower tare weight.



    I think around the early 2000s like 2004ish was the end of the Leach 2RII and it's production run.

    But the Leach 2RII earns a spot on the top 3 because of the way it revolutionized the garbage industry.
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    Here's an interesting one:
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    BFI had some ratty equipment. Around here in Cleveland area circa 2003 there rear load garbage trucks all were old and shot looking they were mostly paper clipped together middle 1990s Ford 9000s.
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    @Ruthless

    I was doing some research today I wanted to find a used surplus ex-Repbulic Services Rehrig-Pacific Husky Lite 95 Gallon Garbage Can that I could buy for like $30.00 and keep it behind my garage and use it to store surplus yard waste in because our yard waste collection season starts a tad late and ends a tad early. I wanted one that still had the logos on it so I could just wheel it out to the tree lawn and the garbage truck would pick it up, but what ever no luck.

    Well I haven't had good luck finding surplus garbage totes in my area and you would think that with as many places that have automated garbage collection the internet would be litter with surplus garbage totes/carts.

    Well there are some, there's a guy in Colorado who sells garbage carts.48 gallons, but I don't need like 300 of them so it doesn't pay for me to drive to him.
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    Anyhow, I was looking at Rehrig Pacific's line up of products and I remember you saying you're municipality had some goofy food waste program that was eventually disbanded.

    Rehrig Pacific makes this 2 gallon food waste container/pale.
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    So in order to send food waste to the recycle plant I'm supposed to have this stupid pale in my kitchen and fill it with food garbage and put it out once a month or week? I have trouble with ants as it is, in the spring the last thing I would want is to have this stupid food waste pale in my kitchen or have to dump it in some goofy goof 35 gallon tote:
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    Which is now all filled with raw food waste, so after these things are emptied I now have to wash and spray them all out with soap and water.

    I don't know we've taken this recycling thing to far I think and it's kind of silly because as popular as recycling is, the actual recycling market it's self is in the total toilet I don't even bother to recycle cardboard there is no recycling market for cardboard right now.

    Really anymore recycling is just garbage collection by a different name.

    I wouldn't have some stupid food waste container in my kitchen, that's not for me. So I can't blame you or you're neighbors for not participating it's not practical the cost benefit analysis isn't there.
     
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