ODB LCT600 Leaf Vacuum Picking Up Leaves on a Chilly November Afternoon скачать в хорошем качестве

ODB LCT600 Leaf Vacuum Picking Up Leaves on a Chilly November Afternoon

It’s that time of the year again, where CT gets buried in leaves which means fall leaf collection is back. Here is one of my town's ODB LCT600 leaf vacuums being used to vacuum the leaves. My town has 4 of these vacuums and 8 trucks with leaf boxes. The town collects nearly 14,000 cubic yards of leaves each year, which are then dumped at the town landfill. Massive operation that requires 24 full and part time employees. I was on my way home from work the other day and spotted this crew and decided the opportunity to grab this video was too good to pass up. The type of collection depends on which town you live in. The easiest is to simply rake the leaves to the curb and a leaf vacuum will vacuum them up such as how my town does in this video as does Wethersfield, Rocky Hill and Middletown. My hometown of Cromwell has a leaf vacuum as well that they use on the really busy roads, but the majority of the town is collected using a Tink Claw attached to a payloader which they dump into dump trucks and then a street sweeper passes threw right after. Always found this method very entertaining even when I was a kid, although this year Cromwell bought a second leaf vacuum and are going to just use the two leaf vacuums for leaf pickup. Other towns require residents to bag the leaves in massive paper leaf bags for collection. This to me would be quite annoying and a major pain honestly. Once the leaf bags are at the curb some towns such as West Hartford and Simsbury contract the local refuse hauler to collect them. Other towns such as Meriden use older rear loaders they own (when they aren't broke) to collect the leaf bags, and Wallingford uses a payloader with a Versa Bucket to grab the leaf bags and dump them into a dump truck. Like I said, lots of variety to the different types of leaf collection in CT. Sadly there are other towns in CT that are too cheap and don't offer any type of leaf collection at all for their residents. It's fine if you live in a heavily wooded area such as Tolland or Haddam as you can simply dump the leaves in the woods, but good luck if you live in a town such as Glastonbury where it is very densely populated and yet doesn't offer any type of leaf collection at all.