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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:54 pm

^^From what I've seen around town (the rollout started last week), one will be brown (trash) and the other blue (recycling). I will have my face pressed to the window in excited anticipation.

I'm sure the powers-that-be won't mind a wee bit of personal artistic license. Wink

ETA: first post on page two of wheelie bin blasphemy... yessssss.

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 2:47 am

That could never happen to our wheelie bin, we protect it! Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:27 am

Sheer genius, a Still made from a wheelie bin.

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:56 am

I have a wheelie Bin but I don't use it. It sits empty in my garage for the day when it is needed. Therefore I'm probably guilty of Wheelie Bin neglect. Crying or Very sad

(Wonder what heinous penalty that carry's)

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:08 pm

B8er wrote:

I'm guessing that wasn't filmed in the UK, as aparently the bins are only emptied once a year in most places now.

Yeah, these ones in Manchester was emptied the month before I visited...

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:50 pm

^^ I had you all wrong I thought you were staying on Canal Street Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:52 pm

We stayed in Fallowfield, but I was in Moss Side most of the time, as this was the area my group had chosen to examine. Wink

And har-har-har. I do, however, plan to send lads to the tunnels there. Twisted Evil

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 13 Jan 2014 Posts: 698

They're great for getting the wife home from the pub on a Friday night ....... so I'm told Embarassed

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 2:44 pm

^a shopping trolley is just as good.

We have 3 wheelie bins black, brown and blue, collection once a fortnight, great fun if you forget which one should go out for collection. Black one this week, brown and blue next week.
Have it marked on a calendar in different colours and then there is bank holidays, one day later normally.
The Fae have fun when yours come. Laughing

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^ we have exactly the same

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:09 pm

Tsnerd wrote:

Asena, I truly am intrigued by how your mind works.

^ I bet you say that to all the weirdos, Snerd Wink

- like most (all?) in the UK, my wheelie bins get wheeled from the pavement to the truck by the wheelie bin men - hence my fascination with the grabber arms! Like, how do they work when parked cars are in the way? do they work if the bins are at an angle etc etc. So many questions, endless fascination ...

And, since it's been a couple of years or more since that other fab wheelie bin thread, an update on mine: now 3 bins - blue lidded, green lidded and the original grey one (mine has come of age and is now 21yrs old Laughing

) plus a dinky food collection mini bin complete with kitchen caddy for indoors (both of which have been consigned to the shed) - recycling the food scraps lasted all of a month or so in my house, before the kitchen caddy lost it's cute appeal.

So there we have it, phew! Cool

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:00 pm

@Fo, I will! jump_4_joy

Methinks we need a new wheelie bin thread. ::looking at Klaas:: Very Happy

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 13 Jan 2014 Posts: 698

I was a councillor when ours were introduced and I'll never forget the priceless moment during a debate in Council when a rather stout, middle-aged lady councillor kept insisting that she wanted the bin men to push hers up her back passage once a fortnight. She couldn't understand why everybody present was helpless with laughter Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:15 pm

^I just lol'd outloud for real. Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:31 pm

Imagine her grin if they had.

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:14 am

@ Fae, Please don't make me post a photo of my poor neglected Wheelie Bin. I'd rather do a Romance bait...(Twice). ...or work on my car. Laughing

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 580

Around here there are 3 garbage companies and until recently, they all came down the street on different days but all before 8am. Now they all come down on the same day but before 7am. Unless there is a holiday, then 1 will drive down the street the day before, 2 will came the day after.

Asena wrote:

- like most (all?) in the UK, my wheelie bins get wheeled from the pavement to the truck by the wheelie bin men - hence my fascination with the grabber arms! Like, how do they work when parked cars are in the way? do they work if the bins are at an angle etc etc. So many questions, endless fascination ...

One company has the grabber arm and if he can't quite grab the bin, he pulls forward, backward, beep beep, forward, backward, beep beep, until he lines it up properly the grabs the bin and dumps it. If there is a parked car in the way, he drives past your wheelie bin. If your bin is at an angle and he can't grab it, he skips you.

The second company has a truck with a big dumpster type bin that sticks out in front of the truck like a giant back hoe. The driver parks the loud truck in the middle of the street and wheels bins to the dumpster bin and tips them in, then drivers a few meters down the road and repeats. When he thinks the big dumpster is full, he hops in the truck and powers the dumpster up and over the cab to tip the contents into the open top of the truck. Since my house is in the middle of the block, he usually does that in front of my house.

The 3rd company is the typical style truck where the driver wheels the bin to the open back end, tips it in and big bar comes down to squash and push the garbage into the truck.

Garbage is picked up weekly and what we call "bulk trash" monthly. Bulk trash can be almost anything; old sofa, leaking water heater, broken furniture, contents of your garage or attic. Basically anything but building supplies, dead animals and hazardous materials.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:34 am

^I am frightened now. Shocked

@Big Al. You know I want to see. Razz

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@ TheFae
Well, the bulk garbage pick up can be a scary thing. You never know what the neighbors will put on the kerb.

Although the scariest part is what people will take. Local scrap metal dealers will drive around the neighborhoods the days before the monthly pick up and grab anything with metal on it, old exercise equipment, lawn chairs, bikes, bed frames, appliances, etc. Seeing those old trucks piled high and rarely any rope tying down the jumble, is another scary sight.

Other people will cruise around looking for furniture to repurpose, children's toys, electronics to repair and resell or anything that catches their fancy.

@BigAl
I second TheFae's request for a photo.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:11 pm

^Aha, see? @Big Al, you're cornered. Razz

Local scrap metal 'hunters' are frightening. A few years ago one of them had an old refrigerator fall out of the truck and left it in the middle of the street. I expected them to come back but they didn't. Fortunately the firestation is just up the road, so I gave them a call. I thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle of several very fine young men wrestle an appliance in the street. oooo Very Happy

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:49 pm

Klassvak will have to now mark this thread NSFW:

Sorry PF. My abuse of my Wheelie Bin is totally defacto. I have thoughts of bringing it into my house and polishing it with car wax just to make it feel better. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:04 pm

^

It's just resting. It's not dead, just resting. Shocked

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:11 pm

^^Not even a proper standy up space Shocked

Poor wheelie bin, you are heartless Big Al!

@ Merry, thanks for the grabber arm info Thumbs up

(Glad we have the men shifting ours - would be seriously hacked off if the bin wasn't emptied cos of angle or parked cars!)

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@Al I see you have some of those newfangled plastic gas cans with the exotic safety nozzles. I loathe those things, they are a curse to all that is good and decent in this world. Probably invented in Canada.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:16 pm

^I see a wheelie bin in distress, and you're looking at fuel nozzles?
A sad day. Crying or Very sad