Ku-ring-gai Green Waste

Looking back, it’s coming up to 16 years since I posted a full video of one of these trucks, so I guess I’m due to finally share my last piece of older Ku-ring-gai footage. A few years ago I uploaded a current green waste collection truck from this council, which at this point is actually not far from being switched over for a new Volvo! In this upload we see what was around before the modern SPAK Iveco side loaders came into the picture, being 1 of 3 MJE Iveco side arms that were dedicated to fortnightly garden waste pick-ups. This trio was introduced into the council by Collex in late 2004 as part of a new contract, which was when the existing 1980s Rapid Rail bins being used for garden vegetation were replaced with fresh 360L Schaefers. These trucks battled the green waste job in Ku-ring-gai for over 10 years before being relieved of duty by Veolia during 2017.
Long ago when I was doing my earliest KZbin videos, I showed off truck 408 multiple times from my original school holiday visits to the Ku-ring-gai area. On this occasion I bring to you different unit 407, which I located on a Wednesday morning in late March 2016, working in a quiet western pocket of Killara and Lindfield. I’ll mention some years earlier this truck was involved in a rollover incident right in the vicinity of where I took this footage - you may notice it’s more white in colour compared to the other Collex siblings. Everything else about it remains on point as a Ku-ring-gai greens truck but, especially the neat heavy duty grabbers necessary for these bigger bins. They also had the large 29m bodies to provide good capacity for the bushy and bulky material collected in the region, with special blades welded atop the paddles to assist in sweeping the vegetation out of the hopper.
NorthShoreGarbo took a video of this same truck some years back, so there is further footage to see of it if you can’t get enough. I don’t believe anything was ever captured of the third green waste truck but. There’s plenty to see of the current Ku-ring-gai side loading services on KZbin, but this older action is its own kind of special and rare. It’s just cool hearing the old black Cummins engine chugging along, and paired up with the MkIV/ACCO combo, it makes for a refreshing sound and sight compared to what’s out there now. On this same morning a 22m rig was also around doing garbage, but I didn’t commit to catching it at the time and sadly never achieved further footage of the weekly rubbish run during the old fleet days. Time will tell if I bother proceeding to get one of the young Volvos on video in future. Lastly, a massive thanks to the professional driver operator for being all good with me following along.

[@acco_0003]

Awesome video! Cool to see a MJ in this council as it always superior paks.

[@sunrisegarbo]

Absolute beast this truck would have done my bins when I lived up there growing up as a kid

[@edwardleecaliforniausa]

Great template Mitch glad to see the Mje series of the Action

[@Campbelltown-Garbo1]

Nice mate pretty interesting truck here. Glad you got some footage of this truck

[@MarionGarbo]

Nice vid Mitch you do a great job mate

[@PerthAussieGarbo0759]

love it mitch i rember seeing them old mkivs in perth for cleanaway and sadly got scrapped wish they never got scrapped but nowadays its just shit dennis newer ones ruined the childhood we had

[@ronniemackenzie097]

Awesome! Going to likes! What rpm would you say this is set at? And The heavy duty grabber, arh yes yes the larger 360l grabber i feel it's a must have on side loaders! Does Bucher or spaks still make them? Longer 360l grabbers is what side loaders in particular need for scooping up heavy bins!

[@AussieGarbo]

Typically these would operate around 900RPM. Not sure if Bucher still makes this bigger grab and as far as I know SPAK has always used the same size. I believe Aussie designed 360L bins are able to be gripped effectively by the Aussie made grab lifters, so upgrades are not necessary now.

[@Burrtectruckfinder217]

how are there ssi bins here?

[@lachlanwynn163]

Hey Mitch. Could you please film the Cassowary Coast Cleanaway split truck this year before august 2024 because that is when JJ richards will take overly the service. Also if you do film the cassowary coast could you please try and get all areas around the cassowary coast regional council. The wet and dry waste services also end in august 2024. All areas include Innisfail, Tully, mission beach and Cardwell.

[@AussieGarbo]

Sorry mate, I won't be videoing any Cleanaway trucks in Cassowary Coast, I no longer plan to travel the country to film collections. However, somebody else has recently been there to document the wet/dry streams single pass service, so keep an eye out on KZbin in future or I'll let you know when that footage has been posted. Cheers

[@lachlanwynn163]

@@AussieGarbo Well are there any KZbin links that can be listed for the cassowary coast wet and dry waste collections

[@AussieGarbo]

Nothing has been uploaded yet that I'm aware of...