Recycling Truck in NYC: Heil DuraPack 4060

I had always liked watching the old G&H split rear loaders at work back in Naples. Two hoppers, two packers for twice the fun and clean recycling seemed like a fun route. The sorting out of 18 gallon bins not so much. With the smaller hopper sizes carted routes aren't ideal either, at least not without a foot of hopper extention and MSL style tippers. The transparent bag system really is the best of everything. Quick, clean, easy to reject contaminated setouts, and no wasted movement replacing empty cans/bins. Would work just as well outside of a dense urban area like this too.

The DuraPack 4060 is a neat design catered to DSNY specs. It borrows the Formula 4000 packer but with a more conventional hinging of the sweep plate. Manual control levers for each hopper are mounted on their outer sides, accompanied by four buttons for each quarter of the packing cycle on the opposite side hopper (Blade Up, Slide Out; Blade Down, Slide In) You can see how it works at the 4:20 mark. What has me stumped is they kept a container bump bar on the narrow hopper side, no idea why. Maybe it serves a structural purpose?

Big thanks to Scott / Trashman242 as it was his idea to head to Brooklyn to find both a split rear loader and whatever was collecting in the organics pilot program. We found ourselves in Greenpoint surrounded by hipsters and as a pleasant suprise plenty of my fellow Polaks. I'm sure I annoyed the hell out of the crew following for so long but the video came out nice, their patience is much appreciated. Filmed June 23rd, 2015.