2003 Peterbilt Curbtender Hopper Footage 

ASLman237 haha thanks man. I’ve got quite a few up now and tons more to eventually post one day

zp12684 thank you! Yeah there’s many reasons why I see a lot of people switch from curbtender to scorpion now. Scorpions would be a huge improvement over these curbtenders. Either way it’s still a very comfortable ride and a reliable truck for sure

I totally agree!!

West Coast Refuse Trucks I could never get my Curbtender to power pack that far???

WMmaster626 thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. My perspective on curbtenders definitely depends on what material I’m collecting. Yard waste comes out in that standard brick you know, and how curbtender setup their hopper makes it so you really only fill and use half the hopper therefore only half the body is truly full. Hopefully you can see that in the video. Garbage however would be just fine since it’ll spread out over the length of the hopper and not just 1 spot so it’s much better. Because of the material and how full the carts were, I was only getting anywhere from 193-220 carts on a truck. Usually for yard waste you aim for about 300, but due to the material and the amount of it at each house it just wasn’t possible. To put that into perspective, you usually aim for about 500-550 carts per truck with garbage. Yard waste is a tricky material to figure out for sure

If they would've had dual chris crossing cylinders instead of that one creating a divider in the middle it might spread as the packer goes out but the stupid tail in the middle of the hopper keeps that from happening and keeps pulling the load back out when it retracts. No packer body is perfect though. Python has no crusher panel-hopper cover, McNeilus has too many sensors, Rapid Rail and Cool Hand are both totally retarded. Labrie joystick makes your hand and wrist tired.

AussieGarbo haha glad you liked the video. Those couple of spills (especially the first one) were my bad. The blocks of yard waste as well as branches are super irritating because, if you can tell, the packer geometry with that giant metal block make it so that you only work with about half the hopper and as a result only pack about half of the body instead of a full load. You’ll be able to see that more in future videos than this video since in this I started the video with an empty truck so as it gets a load on its even more prominent where the greens land. I can imagine that a paddle packer would suck. And as for the pack cycles, yes the standard pack cycle just goes to the edge of the body and then returns so any time it goes father into the body that’s me manually running the packer into the body. Due to how curbtenders were designed you really have no choice but to manually pack in order to keep your hopper clear enough to run the route fast enough and not just get packing at every house. Glad you enjoyed watching the full motions of the packer

I don't know what they call it specifically but J. J. Richardson in our town has a packer that swings left and right in a reverse cycle around a half circle that handled large amounts of date palm, coconut palm, and traveler's palm fronds. That machine was just amazing at how easily it pushed back even large amounts of the stuff. We had an enormous date palm tree in our yard and it took a lot of time just to cut up the palm fronds so they would fit into a standard 240 litre wheelie bin. I'm in Australia so don't know if your area has any trees that size. I have seen various types of packer pack and handle these palm fronds with little to no effort as general waste, since we didn't have a green waste collection system in a town as small as ours at the time.

@@DarkVoidIII The JJR trucks use paddle packers - been the most common packer type for our side loaders in Oz for many years. They are pretty efficient and can put away a lot of rubbish, but if the truck is getting full and you have a big blob of material that is extra heavy and dense, it can potentially stop the paddle in its tracks. I used to collect garden vegetation in Hornsby Council (Sydney) and that was one place you saw a lot of bulky tree trimmings and other heavy green material... it wasn't a JJR truck specifically, but it had a paddle packer and pushed almost everything through.

He was using the can shake feature on curbtenders. It goes up and down banging on truck. That's what he was doing. Notice at 2:15 he was doing it. Still rushing though

Most of this material is byproducts of plans like leaves grass clippings and pruning’s also everything here will be composted into soil which will help plants grow

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ATSFpony whatda ya think that arm bouncing was for lol

West Coast Refuse Trucks clearly it was insufficient towards the beginning...

Whatever dude, I was a thrower for 18 years and I could never load a truck as fast as I can with an arm...and the trucks arm takes a year or two to get tired and a human arm takes less than a day.

@@sidwellsk8er I wish we had those arms when I did it. Got cut and stabbed by broken glass more times than I can count doing manual collection. Much safer with the arm.

Totally dude, I threw all through the 90s and up until 2007, I got scars all over bro. I hate throwing trash now, I let the truck do most of the work now.

I agree, rear loaders are a lot better, especially if they have automatic lifts,

what does that have anything to do with the video?