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Bury meets new law with Bucket Loader
Page 71
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AN EDBRO BUCKET LOADER mounted on a Dennis Pax V 12ft-wheelbase chassis is being used by Bury Corporation cleansing department to meet the requirements of part 3 of the Civic Amenities Act, which comes into force on July 27(1968).
This part of the Act obliges local authorities to provide "convenient" sites for household refuse, and to dispose of vehicles abandoned on or near the highway, Said by director of public cleansing Mr. Derek Sutcliffe to be ideal for these purposes, the Edbro hydraulic materials-handling equipment is being used with 10 buckets as mobile refuse dumps, and without the buckets to lift and carry derelict vehicles.
By siting the buckets at strategic locations throughout the borough's 7,434 acres, Bury is providing every householder with a dump within a mile. These are moved for emptying by the Dennis-Edbro vehicle as necessary, thereby fulfilling another requirement of the new law that sites "be kept as not to give cause for complaint."
Siting of the buckets is based on streetsweepers' operating areas. These men use them for their own refuse, and they are responsible for keeping the sites tidy. Eventually, all the sites will have a concrete base and be surrounded by shrubbery.
Built to Bury's own design, the 10 cu. yd. buckets are of welded steel and weigh 25cwt unladen. One end consists of a bottom-hinged door, This is always down on site, providing a ramp up which wheelbarrows can easily be pushed for emptying.
Buckets are also being used at the department's refuse-disposal plant, both as receptacles for articles which will not go through the separation equipment, and to take on dust and cinders from the hoppers.
For this second application, the Edbro equipment includes two hydraulically operated roller jacks at the rear, because the vehicle will frequently have to lift a full bucket from beneath the hoppers and move forward with it suspended before lifting it on to the platform.
This is the first Bucket Loader to have Edbro's own design of roller jacks, which drop down vertically.
Buckets will in future also be used for big household pick-ups, a free service in Bury. Where a full house of furniture or large articles such as a piano have to be moved, the buckets are easier to load at ground level than is the platform of a lorry. On such occasions, the bucket can be left for loading while the motive unit moves on to other tasks.
Other, occasional, uses of buckets have become evident since the system was introduced in mid-April. Several have been on loan with wheelbarrows to "Operation Springclean" enthusiasts. One was left on the site of a weekend caravan rally. Others will be in evidence at the Bury Agricultural Show early in June.
Plans are also in hand to use the vehicle and its lifting equipment in other ways. One is to move compressed tailings from the disposal plant to the town's only dump in special 10 cu. yd. enclosed containers equipped with lugs to match the lifting gear.
Another possible use now being investigated is to employ the vehicle in winter as the base for a demountable gritter and spreader, which again would be lifted on and off the steel platform by the hydraulic arms.