Machines | Garbage Trucks / Skip Lifts: DPR Kontenerowy Wywóz w Krakowie
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Whether you call them skip lifts/hoists/handlers or load luggers, this type of garbage truck foreign to most Americans had recently piqued my interest so I was especially keen on seeing some in action while in Poland this summer. Having hit a few dead ends in my search for companies to film I stumbled on a bright orange DPR skip sitting streetside while on a tourist-y midday stroll through Kraków's Old Town. Naturally I stopped to snap a few pics for future reference, drawing the attention of the company owner who was on-site for an interior demolition job. After a quick explanation on my part Damian showed off the DPR Kontenerowy Wywóz Facebook page with pictures of his two trucks prominently displayed. As luck would have it the pair were both favorites of mine among European makes, a sharp looking DAF CF and pretty-faced Scania. The next week I took a late-morning train into Kraków main station and hopped into the cab of the Scania for a glimpse of a day's work at Kraków's premiere hauling operation. Perhaps a bold claim but I really do think DPR Kontenerowy Wywóz is a top notch company. While Damian focuses on the demolition part of the business, Krzysiek and Artek bomb around Kraków in their trucks hauling both for DPR's own demolition projects as well as standard skip bin service. DPR seems to have secured a disproportionately large piece of the Krakow hauling market between a healthy dose of entrepreneurial drive, all around competence, and choice of skip loading equipment over hooklifts. The advantages of the skip loader (bramowiec in Polish) are numerous. Telescopic lifting arms open up a world of versatility. Containers can be stacked and nested for both storage and transport. They can be lifted and lowered at various heights like on loading docks, or over short fences or walls. Models with independently telescoping arms can manipulate the angle of the container mid-air; a neat trick is setting containers between parallel parked cars. Unloading is accomplished by lowering the arms while restraining the rear of the container. Normally this is done from the comfort of the cab with the pneumatically actuated tipping hook but chains or straps combined with the telescopic arms can be used to dump farther or higher behind the truck like in the beginning of the video. Extreme dump angles will unstick even the most stubborn loads, be they packed tight or frozen. The container stays level throughout the loading and unloading process ensuring spills are kept to a minimum. Of course there are trade offs. Much more steel goes into one of these skip loader bodies than a comparable hook lift or cable roll off. Accordingly empty weights are higher, legal payload is lower, and the initial purchase price is quite a bit higher. These factors combined with the smaller container sizes (skips top out at roughly 20 yards for the largest tandem axle mounted units) and lack of confined spaces mean we aren't likely to ever see the skip handler / lugger hoist take off stateside the same way it has in Europe. But for the intended market there really isn't a better tool for the job. At the beginning of the video we join up with Artek's Scania as it tips a 6m (almost 8 yd) skip full of fill into a pit. In this case a chain is used to restrain the rear of the container for extra reach behind the truck while dumping. The stacking/nesting capability of the system is next demonstrated with the now empty container. Next we join Krzysiek in the DAF picking a skip full of mixed construction waste in Nowa Huta, a demonstration of the DAF's 12 speed transmission (turn on Closed Captioning for translation) on the way to dump at the local C&D MRF, and unloading with the more conventional method of using the built in tipping hook. Then back into the often frustratingly tight confines of the city center to drop the container for the next customer. Finishing off back with the Scania as it demonstrates yet another skip loader advantage: what would be a 6 way switch for a hooklift or roll off hoist becomes a 3 way with no need to re-position the truck throughout the container switching process. Technically the “officially approved” method of switching bins in place is to first nest the full skip on the ground into the empty on the truck, drop both, then lift the full skip out of the empty one leaving it behind for another batch of waste. In the video Artek skipped a step to save time, easily done with a container leveled to the top with dirt. Thanks to Damian, Artek, and Krzysiek for letting me tag along. Be sure to show DPR Kontenerowy Wywóz some love on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dprwywoz/ as well as their website: http://dpr.info.pl/ Filmed August 31st, 2015. For more garbage trucks, follow georgewuzheer on: Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/georgewuzheer Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/georgewuzheer
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Awesome are you from Europe ?
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cool truck
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YOU FROM poland?
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I was working with this kind of garbage trucks in Amsterdam for the well known company; Gansewinkel.
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Polecamy nową strone www. dpr. info. pl :)
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You should try to make a video in your style of Luke
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It's great to see another upload from you, but saying that I guess you've been too busy working with the trucks ;) I've gotta say I'm pretty excited that you caught all these different parts of the skip/handler/lugger/marrel job in action, especially the unloading process which I've barely seen myself. This video shows it's not just about hooking some chains on and lifting a container on the back! First clip made for a good start - I found it amusing watching the container swinging around and banging into the arms as he rolled forward hehe I'm not surprised you edited out a lot of the slow lifting and lowering movements too, otherwise you'd send someone to sleep without a loud engine revving! The concept behind the changeover at the end never occurred to me as an option, I always assumed it would be a drop the empty off and pick up to relocate later. You've got me wondering which word he said at 4:45 :P Love the 4x2 Scania and DAF too, a nice change from the big monster models I always see. Something I've always liked about the Euro trucks is that similar kind of low grumbling sound they all make at idle, at least what I've noticed with the medium range DAF, Volvo or Scania. Looking at the explanation on the gear changes, it reminds of the time I first became familiar with the low/high ranges in those dinos at Watts, but it took me a little bit to get my head around the function of the splitter back then. One day I'd like to work with these kinds of trucks, not that it may be as fun as ASL/RL/FL, but still interesting to learn and be able to say you've done it. I know we have a zillion of these trucks working in Sydney, but I wonder how common they are in other Aussie states versus hook-lift.
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that first clip alone's enough to make me want an external mic. then I think I already mentioned a little bit ago how cool the abbreviated 3 way was, how lucky to capture that and be able to include it. other favorite elements included the lack of construction workers' PPE, the one guy almost getting banged in the forehead at 8:03 lmao, and some background European techno--something I'd just about forgotten since the side loader uploads from Frankestein01nl haha. again, great upload, how bout doing some more of it eh?
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Cool :)
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George Lanoszka Bardzo dziękujemy za wykonanie pracy na filmem. Jak będziesz kiedyś w Polsce odwiedź nas Jeszcze !! Serdecznie Cię Pozdrawiamy !! Damian Baś DPR !!
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First off, thank you George for getting off your busy Polish butt and entertaining us again especially starting off your 2016 offerings with a glimpse into the Old Country. We appreciate it. Second thing, thank you for showing me the normal operations of one of these trucks. Now that I can watch a feature laden skip loader that has lots of neat tricks in action, I can see why they even exist in the first place.
You can do a whole lot with one of these little trucks. Too bad they are so heavy to start with, and your loads are quite limited. -
Very informational and interesting video. Excellent work.
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Nice video George, I like Dafs, They're made by Paccar same company that owns Peterbilt and Kenworth.
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Skip trucks here in the UK, Once had one on hire waiting for collection and it disappeared early on the Sunday morning before 7:30am without anyone hearing it being collected.
Both our cars were parked down either side with about half a foot of space between them and the skip but the driver never scratched a thing.
Theres also a local construction company in town who have some small shipping containers with the lugs welded on so they can move them with the truck, one has a mini ex in it and others are used for material storage on sites and can be moved easily to new sites without the need to bring in a Hiab. -
over here in holland we got tons off this kinda off trucks . nice vid
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What a fantastic opening shot! Just like you said, definitely something foreign to Americans. I think the only place I've seen lugger trucks widely used is in the Chicago area. Still shocked that Polish is your first language lol That part where he explained the gears was neat. Never knew you could get a seven and a half and stuff like that. Curious, does anyone out there actually use roll offs? Seems like mostly everyone in this type of business is using skip lifts or luggers. That last stop was a clear example of some of the benefits of these trucks. Didn't even have to move the truck and was able to drop and unload a container. That was neat. Real glad to see another post from you, awesome work!
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I can see right off the bat this driver is a pro. His fine tunes lifts and dumps are very clean. I'm sure if I had a go it would be swinging all over.
I'm not sure which system is better skip or rollo? For sure dumping is way easier since you don't have to open any doors and the body dumps at a very nice degree. I see pros and cons in both but they even out. I'm not sure why there are not many skips in the US, maybe it's just preference and USA just being the USA. What do you think?
In the end lovely post. I love the vibes from other countries and how they do things. -
Great video!
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Very nice for the areas they were working in!! I run a wrecker service and could not imagine having to get in and out of some of them spots with a flat bed. Great video of a very capable system.