Surviving the Compactor: A Day in the Life of a Landfill Operator
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2021
- How does a trash compactor work? This is what a day in the compactor at the landfill looks like. We use CAT 826C models here at Williams Landfill in South Carolina. They are very dependable machines, but will beat you up a little! Our landfill is a Construction & Demolition disposal facility. We don't take any household material here. Thanks for watching! #landfill #CAT #heavyequipment
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I have worked with waste disposal for a couple of years now and here in Norway we recycle wood, cardboard and metal.
This is often sorted out at the customers' premises and picked up by suitable vehicles that only collect that fraction of waste and timber at facilities for recycling
This is how we try to avoid these large landfills that pollute for many years to come.
The items that are recycled become new materials that in turn save the environment
Love it! Hopefully we’ll be the same one day!
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@@TheRealMrDiggmost places do. My family has offered recycling for going on 4 generations. So this clown tells you they send out several trucks to pick up multiple streams of material. We send one truck . The trucks go to facilities and get sorted in one place. Much more efficient. Why you are doing so much pushing with a COMPACTOR is beyond me. The dozer spreads the compactor pacts
I think seeing the inner workings of a landfill is fascinating. I grew up in the '60's. We burned everything. The ash was pulled by conveyor from an underground pit and loaded into dump trucks where it was dumped throughout the area. The incinerator belched black soot that landed on clothes on the backyard clotheslines depending on wind direction. Frequently there were dump fires that taxed the local Fire Dept. They passed my house which was midway between the two and around the corner from the Highway on ramp that led one exit up to the dump. In the 2000's I was mid Career for Tilcon CT. They built a Leachate containment system around the dump, converted to a landfill. As a kid I played in dumps. In the early '80's I had to bring my trash to the local dump, drive my car to wherever the loader operator told me to dump it and go home, usually getting a flat tire in the process and having to plug it. Then in the '90's recycling started and that was a great thing collecting glass, cand and newspaper in different bins. Now, in CT it's single stream but not here in NY. Everything goes into dumpsters, then a single truck and off to barges to be added to landfills elsewhere from Transfer Stations. Tipping fees for items not allowed in the regular trash are exorbitant. I've yet to recycle anything at the local transfer Station. I don't have any electronics that need to go there and when I do I'll bring them. For the most part I strip the components and trash the housings. We do have a separate dumpster for cardboard which I use but as I said, everything goes into the same truck on pickup day.
Thanks for sharing this, it’s very interesting. We as humans are so wasteful and it just gets worse and worse it seems. Eventually there will be a lot less land and we’ll have to recycle more and be more resourceful!
really sad that a country like usa a lot of areas still dont have robust recycling systems in place
We were just talking about this... it really is a shame.
Recycling is a scam lol
That's because the US is huge compared to a country like Denmark. Many places do recycle and waste to energy. NYC for example.
@@FinalFront thats nonsense the size of the country doesnt matter its local authoritys that handle waste collection and many major population centres in usa do not have recycle systems in place,everything is landfill!
@@roobear78We used to. It turned out to be a scam and most of the "recycled" waste went to landfills anyways.
Of all the SW compactors I have run over the decades the ol' 826C was my favorite... simple, stout and nothing fancy... missed the ol' girl the day after she was replaced.
Love the 826C, that's all we run.
When I was a kid I wanted to work at the landfill driving a compactor when I grew up. As an adult I did work at the landfill for a bit but never got to drive a compactor.
It’s fun, but they’ll beat you half to death!
I started at a landfill about 8 months ago and as a laborer and recently got promoted as packer guy and lemme tell ya it can be a blast but it can also get irritating sometimes but overall not shabby
like they way you describe things its easy to understand and just watching explains a lot too ...thanks
So nice of you, thanks!
Soon they will be digging all this stuff back up to mine it for resources. It's all about money $$$$ recyclable materials will get more valuable.
I think you're right about that!
Man I worked the tipping floor for a C&D recycling plant, I 100% understand pushing piles just to make room for the next truck to dump, especially when the line to dump is a mile long lol
It can get stressful!!
Thanks for taking us along with you. Great camera work and narration. The comparator is an important machine at the landfill. Appreciate your hard work.
I appreciate you watching and commenting!
Glad I found your channel.... interesting businesses you have......
Thanks for watching!!!
Our City dump just had a fatal accident. Not sure what she was driving, but she rolled off the side of the hill. Other workers said she was strapped in but seen her get slung out of it. Please be safe!
Oh no, that's awful! Safety first for sure.
looks like someone watches a lot of news
great explanation of what that compactor does and how to work with it.👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
Soooooo working at Fresh Kills Landfill for 28 years. I have many thousands of hours on Compactors. A typical garbage operation (1 shift of 3) would consist of 4 Compactors pushing 6 barges of garbage (6 Payhaulers, holding 150 tons of garbage, making 6 trips each per barge) per shift per location. (Plant #1 and Plant #2) Plus 2 truckfills with 2 Compactors each. May I offer some friendly advice. "Experts" say (yes, we had experts do 'compaction and time studies), you need to make at least 4 passes with the Compactor to achieve maximum compaction. The best way to achieve this is to push a partial blade. Then, back up over your same wheel marks. Then, move over another wheel width and repeat. As you continue to move over. You will naturally make the desired 4 passes. You will notice that the garbage is nice and flat. We always set our Compactors to automatically run 1st gear forward, 2nd gear back. But, you do you. You don't look too busy. Enjoy.
Great comment, sounds like y’all were busy!!!
yes I work at a landfill driving the same dozer and safety is the most important thing with me if customer's come to the landfill they must have a safety vet and hard hat on or they can not dump their load and must leave the property.
This is a good educational video on what goes on after the trash truck dumps our trash. Nowdays, we see open top box trailers bringing in trash from transfer facilities but this is great since we see what goes on after the trash is dumped at the landfill.
Love getting this fresh perspective. Thanks for watching!
Thank you sir. I have been waiting for a compactor video and you made a great one. Inside and outside views are great. The sound of it crushing everything in its path is great. Make as many as you want and can, I enjoy every minute. Love to see anything go under and come out flat but maybe a piano if you find one? Thanks again.
Thanks for the support and we'll find some cool stuff to crush for ya! Appreciate ya!!
Got anything to absolutely crush under the wheels. It would be cool to watch good stuff be destroyed. Piano?
We had a piano come thru the landfill today. Didn’t see it get crushed tho. Only one I’ve seen lol
That would have been awesome to watch. You located near Minnesota at all? I’ve always wanted to watch in person.
@@mankatomn We're all the way down in South Carolina. Come see us if you're ever down this way. (Btw, your Vikings sure looked good this past season!)
Thanks for the ride along Ryan’s maybe do a video of a day in the life with you would be cool 🍻🍻
I’ve kind of got a day in the life video that I’m currently editing
@@TheRealMrDigg sweet 👍👍
Looks like the one I saw heading east on i20 last week just outside of Atlanta. Awesome machine.
Theyre tough, thats for sure!!
Wow! that looks so fun heat and air sitting and operate all day packing it is a stirp mine in reverse 😍😍😍😍what a nice job like my box truck job
It really is! Thanks for watching!
Not sure if I like the Cat compactors anymore! TANA has a solid drum model that from my experience blows the Cat away. Plus you can adjust the ballast on the drums by adding water/antifreeze to compact more!
Oh really!!??? That’s cool!
Tana compactors are mazing to run! Keeping a Tana running is no easy task though! Our 826H CAT isn’t as effective but it’s a lot more faithful.
wow nice video great job
Thank you very much!
I could never do that job…. I’d find treasures in every push that I couldn’t live without.
Trust me, I get it. It’s hard sometimes
@@TheRealMrDigg are you ever able to save anything?
I had a 701 bomag compactor it had a 3408 weight was 138000lb it was bigger that a 836 used it on big dirt jobs . Awesome video sir !
That’s huge!!!!!
Thanks for what you and your team do
Thank you for commenting this!!!!!
I love compactor content. Id like to see excavtor stuff too.
We'll add that to the list. Thanks for watching!
The best compactors are from Bomag. The new ones have a Cummins-Diesel
I've heard of them, but never ran one. Where are they made?
In Missouri no tree/yard waste can go into any landfill.
That’s a move in the right direction!!!
Looking at the CAT logo it's a newer machine. It's gotta have ac no. I'm good I don't want your job but on the other hand I commend you. It's one of those jobs where someone has to do it so ya ty for doing it 👍🇨🇦
thanks!
Used to haul caleche to help cover the dump with a scraper. Me and my coworker would pick up huge rocks and dump them just to watch the compactor operator bounce his ass off. Fun times
Good video thanks a lot
Id like to see a video on the maintainers of those machines......how'd that windshield crack in the lower left corner?
Piece of rebar came up and smacked it! Happens often
Thanks I learned alot
Glad to hear it, Bob. Thanks for watching!
Great video! This compactor must be older than the operator!
I think we're about the same age, actually! :D
I'm trying to catch up with most of your video's. I'd like to know now more about you, 'the man' who runs all this, I mean what a job what a responsibility.
I’m just a regular dude that works too much 🤪
Thats a pritty old cat. Still going strong.👍
Still working everyday!!
Yeah fabrics and rolls from textiles were the worst we had to bury those we just couldn't deal with them we ended up asking what they were bringing in if fabric we had to change their course. And go somewhere else
Rolls are the worst!!
Conpactors are a favorite of mines, I appreciate this video! I have a question - what do you think about the Tana Conpactors with two drums instead of wheels?
Haven't used those, so couldn't really say - all we use is CAT. Would be curious to know myself!
i would love this job
Careful what you wish for!!
that looks like a fun job
it is the most fun ever!
My dad use to manage operations at a landfill in Florida and he told me about all the odd stuff he saw. It was an indoor facility that used a series of conveyor belts that started at one and was manually sorted by hand and separated until it was 10-15 belts separated by material or waste type.
There was about 30 workers and one day my dad said a couch came through and was tossed down to the bulk belt and that's when a bunch of cash came out to it. It was over $100k and they all split it and my dad didn't take ay cause he truly thought those workers deserved it. But he said every time after that the crew made sure to cut open every couch lol
WHOA! Thats awesome, thanks for sharing!!
836K operator here. Logs and concrete; the absolute worst. It's a great job though!
Concrete sux!!
My son just started a new job at a construction waste landfill. His first day in the compactor was yesterday.
I hope it was a good experience for him!?
@@TheRealMrDigg Yes he loves it, said it was easy and fun. They are getting a new Wagner LC90 in a few days. They are very excited about it.
Do you have a height limit for the rubbish?
What do you cover it with and how deep? I to work in a landfill in Australia. Our biggest problem is contaminated water leaching out of the confines of the site.
We use Komatsu loaders and Cat 963C Traxcavators for pushing and crushing and use a mix of sand and clay for cover.
We use Moxy trucks to move our cover material around.
Yes we are restricted by height. Very cool what you’re using over there! Thanks for sharing
We have drains and retention ponds. Closed parts have liners . Right now in my part of Florida we use wood chips as daily cover instead of dirt. It breaks down in months so you are not wasting space. We've heard the new landfill going in will be the 2nd highest elevation in the state 350ft I think
Great video. I'm the landfill operator at sample and son.
Oh hey! Nice to meet you!!
@@TheRealMrDigg you as well. Do you own atomic sand also?? I worked there many years ago when it was foster dixiana
Should try magnets to sort some of the metal out of it
We have a hyundai excavator with a magnet, it works great! I have a video of it on my channel
For safety, why no backup alarm?
I don’t remember, but it was probably broken. They have them.
Worked with 4 Volvo waste compactors Lm1641, L160c, 2 L180c.
Very cool!!
I run a bomag 773 compactor and we have a 43xx, she's old lumpy we call her. Like you said concrete and stumps kill your back and kidneys
They’ll hurt you for sure!!
Awesome video! Would love to see more. Any idea if youll get a newer compactor? :)
Thanks! We always rebuild the ones we have, they tend to be easier to work on.
Doesn't look like there's much recycling ,Just dump anything and everything intro landfill especially plastics.. Which takes 1000years to deteriorate into smaller bits ..
We recycle 20% off what comes in the gate. Trying to do more but it’s tough
I could not do this job... Not because of the smell, but because I would be afraid to crush a life animal that has been thrown in the trash purposely
My cat Pepe came from the landfill. I think his mom must’ve had the babies inside of a dumpster and then he was dumped out a truck driver found him and brought him to the office. He now lives the best life ever!
I would like to try that
It's so much fun!
after compacting - does the compacted material get landfilled?
Yes it does.
Sometimes at a landfill you see a tall pipe with flames coming out. Why is that?
That would be a municipal solid waste ladfill, and those pipes burn off the methane emissions. We dont make any methane at our landfill because ours is only construction and demolition material.
How many hours are on that machine and how many do you think it runs daily? Being an "older machine" I can only imagine how many tens of thousands of hours it's been running
Probably 20,000 frame hours, and it runs 8 - 9 hours a day.
Safe to assume the engine and hydro pump have been replaced at least once?
@@towcat That's correct!
cool stuff..... try running that on electric lol
Lol, yeah right!
Upload some videos of what happens to the compacted material
We've got it in the works, stay tuned
Concrete is 100% recyclable!
Sure is! We crush a lot of it
I don't get it. I mean it's much more expensive to prep land and do the whole filling process and then cover it and never use it again, than just burn most of the stuff and regain the energy. Most stuff looks like wood or wood based products.
In Germany we just burn most of the trash, while having sophisticated filter systems to clean the smoke to be nearly completely harmless.
With this energy we run steam turbines to generate electricity and with the waste steam we heat buildings.
I know. It’s stupid! Government doesn’t care
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Something fun about running stuff over and crushing the stuff thats not already crushed
It's addicting, isn't it.
@@TheRealMrDigg getting to smash things and keep calm hell yeah
Ох уж эти рекомендации ютуба, спустя 1 год.
Thanks for watching!
Wouldnt want to be the CAT tech who as to work on that thing
It ain’t fun!!
Scraper please
My dream job. When can I start
Tomorrow!🤣
seems like you could send all this shit through a rough shredder. then use a magnet belt to at least pull all the iron metal out. plus smaller parts means easier to compact
It's too much like hard work. Governments turn a blind eye to this.
They’re too slow to handle this amount of waste
Gibt's da keine Müllverbrennungsanlagen ??
Not many……
vingtaine d'années, dans se métier, à former des jeunes
Bergera monoyeur en france, et à l'île de la réunion, pour le groupe CGEA, Aujourd'hui VEOLIA.
De Père en fils, dans le monde.
Very cool! Thanks for watching!!
Any videos of running a dozer
I’ll add some soon for you!!
We are some nasty polluting creatures
Aren't we though!!
Do you need some type of license to operate a machine like that one
Nope, sure don’t. Thanks for watching!
Hello Oliver, franch
Hi Oliver France! Thanks for watching!!
How do I get this job !? Hiring ?
Be careful what you wish for!!
@@TheRealMrDigg ,I have a tough stomach , been at my job pushing 30yrs - time for a change . Somebody has to do it ! Like the change in scenery everyday 😁😁
Crush mattresses, sofas and appliances under the wheels
You got it!
$22 an hour max
I wish
@@TheRealMrDigg you have to pay people more than 22?
So no no recycle then.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
We recycle 20% of the waste
The engine runs hydraulic pumps, not abused yes strong
Very strong!
American Made Caterpillar Tractor Company Doing the Work ! But You are Sporting a Korean Company on your New Coat What is Up with That ? Any Else Notice ?
Good eye! We run lots of different equipment
люди зажрались они перемалывают товар в мусор и идут за новыми вещами ...создавая горы мусора... и сами уже в очереди на свалку стоят ....самоубийцы....
It is a downward spiral!
Does anyone recycle here? Like WTF? Talk about an environmental disaster in the making.
Unfortunately it’s more expensive to recycle. I’m trying to change that, but it’s hard!
People are disgusting.
Unfortunately
recycling is a scam
It can be, depends on who’s doing it I guess
@@TheRealMrDigg have you seen penn and teller recycling is bullshit? I went on a field trip with my daughter to the local dump and we saw the recycling trucks dump into the same area as all the other trucks. zero sorting. maybe it was temporary. but the reality is im too lazy to sort my trash
I bet that landfill stinks 🤢🤮
Not too bad, no household waste here
I think we have an overpopulation problem after seeing all this garbage at one landfill!
Under recycling problem more like it……
ran one 30 years ago not much changed
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