Great job! Very interesting to watch! That guy burning rubber at 3:10 is the reason I have all those "Slow Down" things at the end of my vids....

Awesome footage!!!! I sure hope you can get more, even some footage of them sucking the leaves up would be xcool to see too! Thaks for showing! 5 and fav!

Thank you sir!

Thanks!

haha Damn that's a lot of leaves!!! =] Nice vid! Haven't seen this type of street cleaning before, just get the sweepers in my council.

Yeh I can see just how much of a pain they are, wouldn't be this bad in my area. The truck packed out too, that's nuts!!!

The city has a few Leach 2RIII's, but they're all used for commercial garbage, so there weren't any available

Great job on the second vid too!

nice 5 and fav

nice video, though never seen a leaf collection before

Yeah it would, unfortunately, they won't let me into the landfill =(

Its always interesting to see something like this seems more time consuming though...how oftem do they do it?

Very good video.But that packer is actually holding up the progress he would be making.That looks like a leach if it is i don't like leach packers?What do they do with the leaves compost them??

They use leaf vacuums as much as possible which is a lot faster, but it rained all weekend before I filmed this, so the leaves were too wet to be vacuumed, so it was time to get our the Tink claws and Leach 2RII's instead. They come around starting the first of November, and then as soon as they finish that round, they come around again, which is usually in late December or early January. So twice a year

oh ok. are they on volvo chassis??

Thank you!

bring out the truck with the vacum and its hooked too a chipper could do a whole street in 10 mins

Yeah, my new neighborhood is one of the oldest neighborhoods in town and is known for it's ridiculously large trees. Beautiful in the spring, a pain in the ass in the fall. You have no idea how long it takes to rake that many leaves lol! They started my street with an empty truck, and packed it out before they even got to the end of the street cause there's so many huge trees! Definitely a huge difference from the more desert-like area I lived in before, and they're only 45 miles apart!

Sure is a mouth full, isn't it?

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they should have used a leach 2R3

They do that as much as possible, but it rained the entire weekend before I filmed this, so the leaves were too wet to use the vacuum

Nope. CCC's

ohh ok

Actually, you are exactly right. This truck is from the 80's. Most of the trucks here are much newer and look much different than this. This is just a very old spare truck they keep around. 25 tons of fruit! Wow! That must have smelled pretty bad!

Yup it's a Leach. All of the city's Leach's are AT LEAST this slow. The city mulches the leaves and uses them to fertilize grass seed in the spring in new parks and along highways, etc.