Cambooya Split Truck
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2014
- The split bin collection system was once a common find in numerous Aussie councils, way back when recycling was introduced as part of the domestic waste service. Some councils used split bins to keep paper and cardboard separated from bottles and containers and some councils used split bins to keep mixed recycling separated from general household waste. Overtime technology has become more sophisticated and there has been greater demand for capacity, which has seen the split bins gradually faded out and is now almost an extinct system.
The three Richards companies ran a well known split bin system for garbage and mixed recycling, widespread in small councils and regional areas. The bins were always divided east to west, usually in a 50/50 or 70/30 configuration and could be emptied by small single axle or monster dual axle side loaders. The cool and unique thing about the Richards trucks is the finger/teeth/comb lifter utilising a water jet to spray the lids open, so the bin and truck dividers meet close and properly.
Solo Resource Recovery still runs what I believe is the last split bin truck in Kyogle, the last JR Richards split bin trucks finished up in Clarence Valley in July 2012 and the last of the JJ Richards dividers completed their runs in the middle of 2013. I'd videoed a Solo and JRR truck, but I wanted to get a JJR truck on video also, so just about two years ago I found myself in the regional areas of south-west QLD, hunting down one of these split trucks in what is now Toowoomba Regional Council.
First thing on a fresh Monday morning I was south of Toowoomba itself, videoing an old truck collecting the garbage in the former Clifton council area, then it was a quick drive to the next former council for the split bin action. I stuffed around in the small town of Greenmount trying to spot the truck, then travelled further north to the town of Cambooya, but I could only see full bins. An hour later I was back just outside the Cambooya locality where I finally noticed some empty bins, looked ahead in the distance and eyed an enormous dark green side loader turn off the highway and head towards the main town.
I first saw pictures of this truck when it was brand new back in 2008, just brought in to replace the much older and smaller unit previously collecting in the area for well over a decade. This truck was based in the areas south of Toowoomba, servicing the former shires of Pittsworth and Cambooya, which includes a handful of urban areas and shitloads of rural coverage. It's no wonder this truck clocks up so many kilometres and is out on the road all day! There was also an identical truck doing the fulltime runs in the former Jondaryan council and there were a couple of these big splits working in Lockyer Valley under the former Laidley shire.
I'll wrap up this essay length description now. Basically you've got a very rare and interesting truck collecting split bins all around the town of Cambooya on a sunny Monday morning. I went crazy taking pictures and videos of this truck, being such a special machine to document and I was very satisfied with my success, especially considering the bonus unloading view. I reckon the concluding clip was sweet, taken on the town outskirts where he approaches from the distance, empties a lone standing bin and takes off into more distance =] A note for those who are curious about the compaction, a paddle is swinging through the garbage on the bottom and an auger moves the recycling through the body up top. Lastly a massive thanks to the champion driver for being cool with me following along and for putting on some quality full throttle action; very much appreciated. Hope you enjoy the action!!! - Авто та транспорт
Excellent footage.. this truck drove through toowoomba every Monday morning and i really wanted to see it in action.. i never though I'd get to see it, but this video has made me a happy man.. once again, excellent vid!
Great vid mitch !
I really like this video, you seem to have captured the peacefulness of the town and brought back the fascination I had with their random rubbish services I had as a kid. I love it how there is no kerb in this town. It looks quite hot.
Awesome Video Mitch! This truck sounds fantastic. Brings back my memoirs of when I was younger and we had the JJR Split Bodies mounted on old International's collecting simultaneous Garbage and Recycling here in Mackay. Well done Mitch, Great Video! :)
BLOODY AWESOME !!!!!!! this truck is just amazing the growl of the engine and it is a QLD truck !!! i have to get to Toowoomba :) intresting how there was a split ksbs in there ! wonderful video
Awesome video good to see a split truck in action Shoalhaven have a split MJ gen v
That 6:00 shot was so cool...nice timing. I liked the one around 2:29 also, with the fields going way off to the horizon in background...it's too bad recycle is on top and not on the bottom in these bins/truck, that way if anything got out of the "top" compartment (when bin is being tipped), it would fall to the recycling side and not go to the landfill. From seeing these split trucks with that cool jet spray, I know every once in a while the lid doesn't get opened in time...or when he's shaking the bin the contents from the "upper" side of the bin go into the bottom. Just think it'd be better if recycle was the lower compartment of the truck.
But maybe they have some reason I'm not aware of, for doing it this way.
And actually getting through the description, I guess that auger is the reason why lol. Wouldn't make a lot of sense to have a giant paddle packer on the top, making this already-tall truck even more top heavy..when it could just go on the bottom. And holy crap--you can see the shaft of that auger packer coming out the front of the body in the last clip, I just noticed it! that's fucking cool.
Having the recycle on the bottom instead of the top is something I've always wondered about too, for the exact reason you mentioned, because you don't lose any recycling that crosses over. A shame too when you see/hear the recycling falling to the bottom. Same problem with the other system where glass would fall into the bottom and get packed up with the paper. I reckon the top heavy issue is probably the key influence for having garbage on the bottom, especially when there's more of it. Thanks for the big group of words!!! :D
and if it was to top heavy it would instantly tip over when going around shap bends. not good it causes big messes
Thanks for the upload Mitch, really appreciate it :-). I wonder if this truck was ever used in Logan at all. I remember seeing a google maps post on flickr a while back of one in Logan?
Also that shot around the 4:36 mark was terrifically done to :-)
Ivecofan21 Nah this truck has always been based in this area, completely different truck in Logan. Also gets me wondering how many of these later model splits were built up around 2008... the end of an era. I should've held the camera still in that tripod shot, but unfortunately I didn't consider the wind rattling it a bit. Looks pretty cool with all the bins lined up down the street :P
Nice work! This probably one of the newest JJR split truck or the newest truck with a comb lifter. Interesting packer system though with the paddle below and the auger above it I don't think there are any other trucks in Australia with auger compactors aswell.
Nice video Mitch, thoroughly enjoyed viewing this post from you. Really like the shot starting at around the 10:24 mark, captured that engine / exhaust sound coming from the Cummins engine beautifully. Cambooya really shows just how far you are out in western qld, literally in the middle of nowhere! 😂🤣👌 haha, if only these huge giant JJR split truck beasts were still around today, eh. You can be sure that I would make a journey and travel out to catch one too. Cheers for the share =}
wow
Is that a KSB and newer standard sulo with a divider? I thought they kept the older mouldings for divided bins, but obviously not.
I love these tranquil rural communities; they're always wonderful places to visit. I'd love to be the one and only garbo in a small council =] This was actually one of those sunny, fresh and crisp winter mornings - the rainy version sucks. I e-mailed you the pictures I snapped of some bins there, including a KSB.
I don't like those types of lifters, but nice video.
How dose this truck work any ideals only we had this in Melbourne
what make is that body
U can come back to the southern highlands after July u will get a jr richards