*wtf *fear *fail

Adding video to channels (Fail, Fear, Wtf) - requested by ant.

Broken hydraulic line?

I was curious why this was being filmed. Apparently the youtuber just loves filming garbage trucks. Guess everyone needs a hobby...

You had me at trash fire.

"What happened was the hydraulic fluid hose broke and the fluid went near the exhaust and caught on fire the driver was OK. He used a fire extinguisher to put the fire out. I stopped recording after he jumped out of the truck." - guy that filmed it

2020 just gets better and better.

Would it be better if I said this video is from 2021?

Maybe an Engineer filming that absolute failure of mechanical design. Seriously, that is the dumbest automated pickup system ever. It achieves exactly 0 efficiency goals.

Designed by an accountant most likely because it achieves the efficiency goal of having fewer people to hire and pay to pickup trash. However, it seems that having a more complicated machine would require more people to fix or maintain it.

I remember when I was a kid, the garbage truck had a driver and 2-3 guys that ran ahead to pick up the trash cans and dump it in the truck as it drove slowly down the street. We now have a similar two-man system, but it's not like the one in the video. It has a crane thing in the back, one guy drives the truck and another gets out and pulls the trash cans to the back of the truck for the crane to pick up and dump in.

It seems slower as the truck is constantly stopping and going and it's just one guy dumping one can at a time. I suppose it's safer, and also requires fewer people to pay.

I'm no expert but to me, that piece of machinery looks poorly conceived..