Rollee Bin Hitch

When you live out in the sticks you find out all the things that are different than city life that you might have taken for granted. Taking your trash can out to the main road is one of them. Here is my solution for easily moving the standard rolling trash bin using a simple to fabricate carrier and the trailer hitch on my truck. Enjoy. Tom

[@t.d.mich.7064]

I used to work with a fella that hauled his garbage can down his long driveway by slipping the handle over his trailer hitch ball on his pick-up. One day he came to work looking a little frustrated. Turns out he hooked the can up, forgot about it and drove all the way to work(20 miles), with the can behind him. The wheels were burned off and the entire bottom of the can was worn away, and most all the trash was missing!😂

[@xmachine7003]

😂😂😂😂

[@garys9694]

Good story, funny as hell!

[@t.d.mich.7064]

@@garys9694 Funny and 100% true!

[@markm0000]

Lololololololo

[@dand3975]

Same thing happened to a car the old lady was towing in that movie with Clint Eastwood and Clyde.

[@michaelpeace716]

Now we need a three can design. We have trash, recycling, and green waist that all have to go out. Three round trips would be a lot.

[@ramosel]

Ha! Tom, I'm just a bit north of you're following Hwy-49. We have Recology for waste management. I built a similar contraption (for my Tacoma). Ver. 1 worked well but dropped the empty bin a few times on bumpy section of my 1/4 mile driveway. Ver. 2 required a trip to the Recology office in Roseville. Their driver had to come to the (dead) end of the main road, dump my bin and then backup 300+ ft to get to a turn around point. I was told their lawyers and insurance people do not like their trucks backing up. Drivers are told to avoid backing at all costs. So I offered to let them come down my driveway, turn around in the paved area in front of my house, get the trash and leave. They don't have to back up even an inch. They bought in. Ver. 2 has worked perfect now for 11 years. Ver. 1 got turned into a drill guide for Dexpan work.

[@joell439]

good one 👍👍

[@garys9694]

Your concrete must be strong, those trucks can be pretty heavy.

[@ramosel]

@@garys9694 No, it's normal. Half is asphalt. I'm rural and lots of narrow, winding roads. All the rear hopper goodies as a big truck, but short box, short wheel base.

[@noelhenderson700]

You're lucky. There's no garbage pick-up where I live. I have to take it to the tipping station myself. But, the tipping station is in the way to town, there is no fee to use it, all the re-cycling bins are there as well and there is a share shed so I can take home more junk than I took in.

[@xmachine7003]

Love dumps and junkyards!😉

[@mmerdmann]

Okay, I have been battling moving the cans up and down my extremely steep driveway for years. So this is totally a head slapper, "Why didn't I think of that!" Great work Tom, will be making something similar.

[@davidkennedy3050]

I prefer Skeetching down the driveway when it is icy. It is like skiing or skating with no control with the added benefit of the occasional broken arm and concussion (we have a long drive that family steep). I did show my wife and she wanted one. I told her I don't have a welder. Her response was to ask you politely to build me one.

[@Leroys_Stuff]

I like that I’ve been using my window and dragging it through the snow

[@lowlypawn]

Those perfect welds! I find it funny for something so mundane. You should make a second one, from rusty scrap metal, stick weld only, not clean anything and make all the cut by hand with a plasma cutter :)

[@craiglister2192]

Looks very similar in function to a product that has been on the market for a number of years. That product is the Cansporter Trash Cart Carrier. Basically the same concept with a few variations.

[@dougrobison1156]

Hey Tom! congrats on escaping the BA. I was born in Walnut Creek Kaiser in 1955 and raised in Pleasant Hill. At age 35 my job moved to Grants Pass, Or. I wasn't sure I'd like it but I did and in '98 I moved to Portland. My dream had been to buy a property somewhere along Hwy. 128 before Philo and start an artist colony. Oh well! I've been a happy Oregonian. My brother stills live in Benicia off South Hampton. As well as other friends and family in the area. Looks like you are somewhere around Ukiah or such. I am betting you will be very happy up there! All my Best, Doug P.S. I just got through binge watching the Baby Bullet series. Great work!

[@OldIronMachineWorks]

For all the people in California that like to dump garbage on the side of the road I could see a light bulb going off in their head right now. :) I remember the days of taking me cans up the levee to the main road, I usually put them in the bucket of my Kubota. Didn’t have to get my sorry A out of the seat. Very nice work as always Tom. Gary

[@markm0000]

That’s … actually happening? What kind of shit hole has CA become.

[@nathansnow]

Nice work Tom 👍 A common way in Australia to take our bins (we call them wheelie bins) out to the road, is to turn the bin around and lay it back until the lid hinge catches behind the towball. Then we just drag it like a trailer

[@paulcooper2897]

Looks like a great solution! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@kraklakvakve]

Suggested usage: 1. Attach the rolling bin 2. Start driving the truck 3. Receive a phone call pertaining some shopping requests 4. Forget the bin is attached and continue driving to the shopping mall

[@pontoonrob7948]

I have driven mine all the way to the gas station, about 13 miles, several times. Seems I can't remember to stop at the end of the driveway.

[@stuartsaunders5525]

K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid. Works every time. Very nice job.

[@scottsession7789]

And why is the theme song to Green Acres playing in my head? Glad to see your thinking muscle is not getting soft. Scott

[@davidparker3346]

Fantastic Idea, Great fabrication too. Just found your channel, Love it, keep them coming.

[@outsidescrewball]

Sweet build…simple/smart…

[@sween187]

I used to use a bit if rope, loop it through the handles, (have a fixed ball hitch), then tip the bin over loop the rope over the ball, so the lid pushes against the ball holding the lid shit. Really like your solution here, 👍

[@kevinengland8209]

Great Idea !! Thanks for sharing !!! Good Times !!!

[@craigsbully]

I am building one for my lawn tractor RIGHT NOW!! That is just awesome! thanks Tom!

[@NskLabs]

Hi Tom, great job, thanks for your videos. I started the countdown BTW.

[@billyraibourn758]

Wonderful, Outstanding, I like it. Thank you

[@paullewis6612]

Tom, Cheap skate? NO Necessity is the Mother of invention! YES This is where all the best ideas come from, and what for what we’ve seen you invent over the years, THANK YOU!

[@pontoonrob7948]

Love it Tom, the rest of us just hook the handle end over the hitch...

[@keithruss4279]

#oxtoolco or two "s" brackets out of the same tubing that you are using for your receiver with a tab that will fit in the space between the tailgate and the bed so that holds the handle on the tailgate and carries the handle to let the weight stay on the ground

[@keldsor]

Hi Tom ! Nice and easy - thx for sharing ! Long to see you back here !

[@robertdebusk6157]

I love it. I'll bet you could sell a ton of those to people like yourself that have a long driveway to get to the garbage pickup point. Very ingenious. Take Care and Stay Safe. Bob

[@watcherofwatchers]

Oh, I definitely need one of these for my UTV!

[@billlee5307]

Keep an eye on that rod in the bin. I have seen them come out quite often. Nice!

[@e2jw]

A marketable product right there Tom! Crowd funded of something? Many could benefit from your ingenuity! Really great job dude!

[@diamondpressco2673]

me an my son were just thinking of one of these this weekend for 4 wheeler . we own powhatan powder and fab

[@rgmoore]

Love the design except for one thing. I would get tired of putting that pin in the hitch. Given the distance, the need for security being low (its trash) I would use some sort of indent to hold the device in the hitch so I could snap it in, snap it out, and be about my biz. I guess my arthritis dictates a lot of my preferences and bending over isn't one of them.

[@brandontscheschlog]

Every time haul my trashcan up the driveway I brainstorm ways of hooking it up to my SUV hitch. Thank you, love it!

[@NickHorvath]

Beats holding on to the handle out the window as you drive :)

[@PeterWMeek]

LOL, that's how I brought mine back to the house. Tough on the arm at 30 mph.

[@James-fs4rn]

👍 nice! Compost, recycle, and burn the rest in a drum🙂

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@VWKID61]

I have built my own it mounts on my 2” square receiver on my side by side. It helps out when you have a 1000” driveway.

[@Name-vu1kn]

I like this idea. My neighbors use a wheelchair carrier they picked up at the scrap yard. It has a ramp to load/unload and holds multiple bins.

[@T-MANONE]

Thats a wheelie good idea

[@Chris-bg8mk]

Awesome hack Tom! You could put another flexture on the other side with a little spud to drop into the hitch pin hole. After all it’s a very light cargo. Not a boat or anything.

[@gleaseman]

Awesome idea.

[@gwharton68]

Great fix to a common problem. Necessity is the mother of all good inventions.

[@fryreartechnology7611]

Smarter not harder!! Well done

[@curtcmiller]

Thanks for the close up.

[@thompsonjerry3412]

This goes in the category of tuna tips.

[@jamesogorman3287]

Rotating 10 degrees further forward will also reduce the chance of the wind blowing the cover open. That would be important in our area.

[@tonfue]

Great job. Maybe you can add a kickplate to the latch so you can kick it of the latch. Eliminates the need to bend down. :)

[@mxcollin95]

Sweet little setup!

[@jeremydoblinger3609]

I like the design tommo

[@iteerrex8166]

Very cool! Now you should install some ball bearings on the wheels, and a simple suspension 😂

[@royreynolds108]

The can is owned by the refuse company. Why spend money on their can?

[@iteerrex8166]

@@royreynolds108 I know, I said that jokingly but I was a little serious too. Well the company replace it in a few months, after it has been driven back and forth, and has been worn out?

[@jacqueshickley]

As non American I was glad to finally see a normal, read not a huge, pickup in your country. But one of a size the rest of the world use. BTW very nice idea, I'm also always trying to make life Little bit easier.

[@surveywaters]

Many of us would buy a smaller truck, but they aren't sold here anymore.

[@Deezle_Gaming]

The fuel economy difference is often not enough to justify a smaller truck, might as well go bigger and more capable, it's not like we have tiny roads. In fact, my fullsize truck gets more than 35% better fuel economy than my small/midsize pickup that weighs 3000lbs less, but that's a little apples and oranges.

[@phooesnax]

Nice job. Watch that can bar. Outs came loose.

[@schlomoshekelstein908]

i use a fence stretcher with 3 hooks and drop the eyelet you're supposed to attach the come along to to my ball hitch and then just lay the handles of the trash can onto the hooks that pull the fence, i put 2 hooks on the big recycle and 1 hook on the trash bin

[@ryanshadders750]

Nice work Tom although I have to be honest I figured you for a Smart car Guy LOL just kidding buddy. You're very intelligent man I love your videos I'm glad to see more coming out recently

[@ronbellaire9329]

Mine is much simpler, just a receiver for a hitch ball with a turned aluminum disc that allows a 1/4 x 2 flat stock bar about 12” long to pivot. Two 3/8 round chain hooks bolted to the bar near the ends. It pivots when you turn and allows the hopper to follow like a trailer. I usually bungee the lid shut. I also bought a 5/8 t handle push button release pin from all star performance so I don’t need to use a hairpin clip. My hopper gets heavy, sometimes has metal in it.

[@toddweinke3893]

Smarter not harder! Excellent example of simple and easy.

[@AWDJRforYouTube]

Very nice practical weldment idea from a great Idea guy...LIKE IT TOM! Also, those containers make a ton of noise when you roll them when empty on pavement. We use them in the city and it sounds like thunder on trash day lol.

[@jeffbuckles]

I got some 5/8 rod stock and a set of 10" pneumatic wheels for rolling ours down the gravel drive. Made it quieter and much easier to control with the left arm slung out the car window!

[@zvonibab]

Good one Mr Tom worth while having it in sleeve! Cheers

[@evanjones2539]

Nice one Tom... We have the same problems here in Wales... Different wheelybins though, you've got my head working overtime now.

[@oxtoolco]

Wheelybins. That is the name I was looking for! Thanks for reminding me. Cheers, Tom

[@evanjones2539]

@@oxtoolco Refuse collector calls at a Chinese restaurant and asks "Where's your bin" Chinese man replies "bin Hong Kong" Refuse collector replies... "Your wheelybin..? Chinese fella.... "I wheely bin Honk Kong"

[@railfan439]

Great for a single can trash day. Down here we have 3 cans: trash, recycles and green waste. Thanks for the video. Jon

[@Zappyguy111]

Ah ha! That was exactly the way I would've done it, except from the back and with two arms because our bins don't have a bar at the front.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

A "wheelie" good idea! (We call them wheelie bins in the UK lol)

[@jdmccorful]

Nice fix. Thanks for the look.

[@vitesseguy]

Showing off your versatility! The very opposite of lapping plates etc. All equally useful depending on the job to be done. Thanks.

[@joshbrucksch]

Love it! My "solution" also was to just toss em in my truck bed, which is obviously way more lifting than this haha! Thanks for sharing.

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

I've seen full bins weighing over 600lbs, that utilizing a hill and 6 guys, we managed to lift (4) of into the back of a pickup...... Oil spill cleanup for a trash company on a gravel driveway. 1 truck alone hauled back 2400lbs in those 4 bins with at least 1 more truck.

[@joshbrucksch]

@@ravenbarsrepairs5594 wow that is crazy! I’ve only had to deal with my residential ones, just typical trash and recycling

[@johnjohn-ed9qt]

Elegant solution. I like it. Those grab bars are meant to be rugged and take the banging of the waste service truck grabbing them, so I'd imagine it'll do all right. Of course, you are still suburbs, if you have scheduled pickup and a bin. Real country living is either hauling it out yourself to a dump point, buying a skip and you call for pickup, or just turning a gully into arable land on a time plan. I grew up with the first for everything but kitchen waste, which went to the pig farmer down the way.

[@5h4n368]

I had a nighbour that would just hook the handle of the bin on the tow hitch. Couldn't drive very fast but worked for the distance they travelled.

[@LumaLabs]

Ha! I moved out of the big city to the country, where we have a 1/4 mile driveway with a 15% grade... and my trash night is also Wednesday! My solution? Buy the really thick drum liners off of ULine and chuck well secured bags of garbage in the back of the 4 Runner. The roll bins live down at the gate.

[@ShainAndrews]

Pretty neat. I see compact tractor in your near future ;-)

[@mkegadgets4380]

Great build I love the simplicity of it.

[@bikedawg]

Ingenious! You could sell a lot of these!

[@transdimensionalist]

if you just lean it over and hook the handle over the towball it works good, except the time i forgot it was on the back and started driving down the road to the first corner, massive noise scarred the life outta me, then had to explain to several passers by why i was picking up recycling in the road!

[@brosselot1]

That is a very good idea. Tom I'm going to build one. Thanks for sharing

[@TraditionalToolworks]

Laziness is the mother of all invention! I like it, not sure if I will need this or not on my property.

[@jonnafry]

What a load of rubbish ...delivered in style to the roadside collection point with this nifty carrier! Great job!

[@jjbode1]

Yes, tilt up a few degrees, but also add weight to service max beforehand and imagine you're older.

[@johnmolnar2957]

Cool project !

[@tlent55]

Cool video Tom!!

[@bradley3549]

Looks like a foot actuated release might be the next upgrade.

[@markwatters6875]

Nice and simple. Usually the systems that work best. Thanks for the tool and the video.

[@columjevens4612]

Great solution, 👍

[@LetsRogerThat]

Welcome to country living Tom ;)

[@Nf6xNet]

I like the tilting feature! That's pretty slick. I use a pair of hitch-mounted can carriers on the rear (or sometimes the front) of my tractor. I have hydraulics for lifting and lowering the cans that way, but your tilting feature looks like a really smart way to make your carrier easy to use on a regular trailer hitch.

[@chrisdecker1443]

Absolutely Art!

[@pijnto]

Various versions about these days, although it was first invented in Australia 25 years ago

[@michaelweatherhead9470]

Nice Tom.

[@PeterWMeek]

Mine was similar, but I milled an angled bar with a slot with a re-entrant latch to hold it up. I had a string to pull up/release the latch. The string had a small magnet on the end to stick to the tailgate where I could reach it. Totally no weld, so a LOT of bolts. (I left it for the new owner of the house with the 1/3 mile driveway. Hope he figured out what it was and didn't just throw it away.) I should have made a tandem one, because we also had a recycling wheely.

[@MarkWarbington]

I bought a dual cart carrier from Cansporter about 8 years ago. It was hard to justify the cost at first (over $300) but it's well made and I believe it was a good decision. Their latch system is much more sophisticated. At a glance, I'd worry about yours popping loose if you hit a speed bump or pothole too hard, and the amount it sticks out in the down position might get you a ticket if you run into a cop in a bad mood.

[@dangerrangerlstc]

I'd fix the potholes first before re-engineering the wheel bin carrier

[@fristlsat4663]

I think I might have a problem with a cop giving me a ticket for driving in my driveway, and I do believe that potholes and speed bumps in my driveway are also my problem. This isn't for hauling bins on public roads.

[@kevCarrico]

brilliant - great video!!

[@georgebeer3498]

much simpler than the one i made, mine has a winch to lift heavy cans and can haul two cans. love watching someone who has more skills than me; always learning something

[@stephentorri1233]

Nice solution.

[@turbocobra]

Nice tig welds as usually. Rollee Bin Hitches, like all other weldments need nice tig welds!

[@SlipFitGarage]

Great idea, Sir!

[@kimber1958]

Simply brilliant

[@DJ-yp4kc]

Tig Welded at that......Nice

[@zekeabercrombie3583]

Nice video. Mine only roll 30' out to the the street on concrete, so not needed. However, I live in one of the windiest places on earth. I had to fab a chain and hook system to keep the top closed. When the wind blows the lid flips open like a sail creating a tip-over and dumped contents. Just have to remember to unlatch the chain on trash morning.

[@phantommotorworksllc7681]

Great Idea

[@mayo_moto]

That there is a mighty fine rolly-bin trailer hitch.

[@alexaltrichter1597]

I used a 4 inch drop receiver hitch and flipped it over and put a long bolt through the ball hitch hole, then tip the cans handle over the bolt and away you go!! Haven't lost it yet after 7 years! It also works good in the snow.

[@TheTtribe]

Very nice. I drive by a small farm where the owner built a wide, low-boy trailer that he takes multiple cans to his curb. Its wide enough that the trash truck can lift the cans and put them back down on the trailer.

[@ke6bnl]

We have a large bin and I have a cart with 3 trash bins in it, when full I tow the whole thing with my Kawasaki Mule to the dumpster and heave them in. Yours is great for the individual containers