Blue Mountains Litter Bins

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One of those short and sweet videos right here! Ages back in 2008 I found this truck by chance during my initial visit to the Blue Mountains, only managing to get two very brief clips of it with my old digital camera, something I posted long ago. Unsure if I’d ever get anything further, three years later I was back in the Blue Mountains and was lucky to spot unit 953 again during my travels. The truck had just about finished its rounds for that Monday morning, but luckily a legend bloke was steering it that day and helped me capture the footage featured in this upload, so many thanks to him. I was very grateful to document it properly, which was especially lucky considering this truck was just about to be retired, with its replacement vehicle waiting at the depot. We have a pair of hopper shots with a pack cycle to complement both bin lifts, two exterior views show the lifter working at the final pick-up, then we have a little tour of the truck, before a short departure concludes.
The council operated two of these for public bins, one working in the upper mountains and the shown truck servicing the lower mountains region. Both were built in 1999, with Mitsubishi Fighter cab chassis’ and Garpac body and lifter gear, likely being some of or the very last side load machinery produced by the manufacturer. These were cool machines, with big grabbers instead of a comb lift and a slide sweep compactor system to clear the hopper, all fitting nicely into a compact rig. On the bigger side load models very visible hydraulic cylinders operated the sweep blade, but I’m not quite sure how it functioned with these mini versions, perhaps it was a rotary actuator or even a chain drive system? The council ran little Garwood side loaders on UD cab chassis’ afterwards and in recent years switched over to mini rear loaders, neither of which I have any videos to share - this Garpac was the best thing to show on this job anyway. Also must love the early “BM City Services” scheme/branding!

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@westaustraliangarbo341 3 ай бұрын

Cracking catch mitch, shame these cool little rigs were uncommon and not documented more:( Thanks for sharing this rare video

@GarboTracker 3 ай бұрын

Amazing, I saw the other video you had up of this and I have been wondering if you had more footage of it and well here it is! Such a unique design for a side loader, Garwood has always made some cool side loaders. Sad to see they aren't in production anymore :( Just like a lot of cool and old things these days.

@AussieGarbo 2 ай бұрын

Just to clarify, Garpac and Garwood are two different builders of garbage trucks, Garwood is still around today and continues to build small side loaders, it's the Garpacs which went out of production over 20 years ago.

@GarboTracker 2 ай бұрын

@ Ohhhh my bad I cant read lol.

@melbgarbofan 3 ай бұрын

Now this is something ive never seen before, it reminds me of the Inverell recycle unit, and with that compacter is even crazier.

@AussieGarbo 2 ай бұрын

I uploaded a video a while ago you may not have seen titled "JR Richards Garpac SL" - hit it up for your enjoyment.

@melbgarbofan 2 ай бұрын

@ thanks

@NSWGarbo47 3 ай бұрын

Been waiting to see if you had more footage of this truck or not, would of been cool if they made these trucks for residential work.

@AussieGarbo 2 ай бұрын

If you don't already know, there were bigger Garpac side loaders for household runs, Cleanaway had a bunch of 4x2 ACCOs with comb lifters doing recycling in Sydney and Lake Mac Council had a fleet of them with grab arms, there were quite a few of them out there in the past.

@NSWGarbo47 2 ай бұрын

@AussieGarbo you have jogged my memory, I remember seeing a photo of the Lake Macquarie ones, they were big bodies. I also now remember the ones that cleanaway had, I am pretty sure the photo of the 4x2 one was actually a Blacktown truck.