Hurstville Recycling

It was nice to have finally gotten these Hurstville videos up here on YouTube!!! It took me a whole bloody year just to make a visit to the council itself, then it took a grand total of 6 individual visits to Hurstville to get decent footage of each of the trucks...

Visit #1 brought around that walkaround video of one of the old garbage trucks from a while back, visit #2 gave me a bit of quick greens footage that I didn't even use, visit #3 scored me a short video of the units rear loader, visit #4 allowed me to finally get the recycling truck on video, visit #5 resulted in me shooting footage of the garbage trucks which I also didn't use, and finally visit #6 provided me with a heap of clean-up footage and finally a satisfying video of the garbage and greens trucks... ok I've had my whinge...

Hurstville City Council is found down on the southern side of Sydney in the St George region. The council has also adopted the 3-bin-system and at the time of video, had Cleanaway contracted to carry out the collections. In Hurstville, Cleanaway used a fleet of old Superior Pak Raptors for the weekly garbage, fortnightly greens and fortnightly recycling. They also used a number of MacDonald Johnston RLs for the clean-up, units and public bins.

Hurstville, along with two of its neighbouring councils, Kogarah and Rockdale, is part of a regional waste contract that has been awarded to WSN Environmental Solutions. Rockdale begun its contract with WSN in early 2008, Kogarah renewed in November 2009 and Hurstville started midway during 2010. Saying this all the old trucks have unfortunately been replaced with an almost pure fleet of MacDonald Johnstons.

In this video we have one of the two old recycling trucks finishing off a Tuesday recycling run during the late morning. Got there pretty much just in time to shoot a couple of nice clips of a certain stretch of road and a cul-de-sac before they both finished up. Thanks very much to the driver, please rate and comment, hope you enjoy the video. If you haven't already, check out the videos of the garbage, greens, units and bulk-waste...

Body Make: Superior Pak
Model: 29m Raptor (Early Model)
Chassis: International Acco
Council: Hurstville City
Contractor: Cleanaway (Transpacific Industries)
Collection Type: Commingled Recycling

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[Trashman242]

I sure don't understand how that sounded any bit like a Peterbilt but ok..Excellent post, very neat operation! How long have these been (their arms, rather) been operated by a hydraulic cylinder? In other words, are the newer models still or no?

[MitchellM15]

This was their first type of grab lifter to be used on their ASLs, until the new lifter with rotary hydraulics came out in 2001. You can tell the obvious advantage with the new arm is that it's much simpler with none of those excess wires sticking out of the arm, and it doesn't take 3 individual cylinders just to raise/lower the arm. This old lifter isn't made anymore, becoming very hard to find...

[RainbowDisposal]

Why did he skip that second bin at the beginning? Anyways loved the huge line of carts @ 4:00. Great job on the recycling. 5 stars, a fav, and feature.

[MitchellM15]

He seemed to have just accidently missed it, I told him though. Thanks!

[laserkeyboard]

nice vid, these raptors sure are old man haha. they need some new ones, but since the contract ends soon. probably unlikely ae. lol

[MitchellM15]

You can betya they're old, starting to screw around now as well =] Yeh they'll be keeping these for the next 9 or so months... should last until then.

[Accoraptor]

The truck sounds like an airliner Boeing 747.

[Accoraptor]

The sidepaks are green, the Raptors are red and the jumbo raptors are yellow

[Binboy97]

@MitchellM15 Did he go back.

[Binboy97]

Did he miss a bin at 0:22? These Hurstville trucks r as old as the old Cleanaway trucks that use to work in Knox. I have no vids of them but I do have photos.

[yeahboiii86]

my favorite bit is when the rubbish fell into the truck, truly amazing, long live the Raptor, with its mighty total weight holding capacity and great km's to the liter , never will they be another truck with its reputation for carting someone's trash to another destination, forever their while be a place in my heart for this great piece of machinery, close to the 8th wonder of the world

[Aussiegarbo13]

Same :) haha, did he go back for it? :D