-Bryn
Wittke Express Manual Side Loader body on a Volvo WXLL chassis
Friday, January 31, 2014
Video of the Week!
It's Friday, and that means my latest YouTube video is up and public! This week's video features a Wittke Express Manual Side Loader body on a Volvo WXLL chassis. I found this truck collecting residential recycling in a quiet area of Portland, Oregon back in April of 2013. This truck has a little bit of personal history for me, as it originally came from my local yard, before being sent away to Portland back around 2006. Though this particular truck as never my neighborhood's regular route truck, it did occasionally swing by my house a few times as a help truck. So it was pretty neat for me to see a truck once again that I chased around a few times when I was a kid. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this week's video! Next week's video features some exciting new experimental camera angles, so be sure and tune in for that!
-Bryn
-Bryn
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Garbage Truck of the Day
Here's a photo I snapped yesterday afternoon. This old beast is a 2003 Freightliner Condor with a Wittke Starlight front load body. This unit has been outfitted with The Curotto-Can II for automated residential waste collection. Though she may be starting to show her age, she still slams back cans and gets the route done like she did on day one!
See a video of this truck in action here!
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| 2003 Freightliner Condor Chassis with a Wittke Starlight Front-Load Refuse Body. Outfitted with The Curotto-Can II. |
-Bryn
Monday, January 27, 2014
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to a blog dedicated to all things waste related!
Where did it all begin?
First off, I'd like to share a little history. For just about as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by garbage trucks. Odd? Perhaps. Believe it or not, it all stemmed from an irrational childhood fear. I was about 3-years-old at the time, and every Tuesday morning, as I'd hear the garbage truck drawing closer and closer to my house, I would scream and cry, and insisted that I must hide in the bathroom and that my mother had to hide with me to keep me safe from the clutches of the ever-terrifying garbage truck. Finally the day came that my mother had had enough of the weekly tantrums, and I was forced, despite my best efforts, to sit and watch the garbage truck from the safety of the living room window, in order to prove that there was nothing to fear. This was supposed to be one-time occurrence, just to prove a point, and nothing more. But, the following Tuesday, I excitedly insisted upon watching the garbage truck again. And again the next week. You get the picture. Everyone figured it was just another one of those childhood phases, that it would soon pass, and my youthful mind would become fascinated with something else. And then years passed by, and this "phase" continued. By the time I was about 6- or 7-years-old, I had befriended my neighborhood garbage man and would follow the garbage truck down my part of the street. Some of the other kids in the neighborhood and at school would pick on me as a result of this strange hobby of mine, but I never let it stop me. Though the vast majority of the people in my life have been extremely supportive of my interest in the waste business, there have of course been a fair share of naysayers as well. I have had teachers, school counselors, and the like tell me that if I continued with this obsession with garbage trucks, I would not lead a successful life. People would think I was weird, I wouldn't have friends, I wouldn't get a job, certainly no one would want to marry me, or raise a family with me, and so on, unless I "learned to grow up". Did I take their advice? Of course not. And yet here I am, 20-years-old, still as fascinated with garbage trucks as ever, in fact, I only become more and more interested in the solid waste industry as time goes on, and on top of that, I am gainfully employed, engaged to be married, and have many close friends. On top of that, I have created a very successful online brand, Thrash 'N' Trash Productions, in which I share videos and photos of garbage trucks with others who share this unique interest. Which brings us to more current times...
Classic Refuse Trucks
The one rather negative thing that this hobby brought me through most of my childhood was a feeling of emptiness; I always felt alone. I of course had plenty of friends, but I never met anyone else who found there to be anything even remotely interesting about garbage trucks. I just came to feel that I must be the only person on Earth who had such a deep fascination with these machines. But that all changed in 2007. While browsing the web after school one day, I stumble across a website called Classic Refuse Trucks, which is essentially an online museum and library dedicated to the history of waste collection. At last I knew that I was not alone in this interest! There was at least someone else like me out there. After spending many, many afternoons enthusiastically absorbing all the information the site had to offer, I noticed that there was also as online forum attached to the site. Of course, I joined immediately and discovered to my great joy, hundreds of members of all ages from all around the world, and all just as obsessed with garbage trucks as myself! It really brought on a great sense of relief to know that I was not anywhere close to being alone in this unique hobby. In addition to the forum, many of the members also posted videos of their local garbage trucks on YouTube, so in the summer of 2008, I purchased a cheap camcorder, opened up a YouTube account, and joined in!
Thrash 'N' Trash Productions
Since first creating my YouTube account nearly six years ago, I have created a unified online brand called Thrash 'N' Trash Productions which I have dedicated to documenting a vast variety of garbage trucks and other waste-related equipment through a series of professional grade, high-definition videos on YouTube, professional-grade photographs on Flickr, and more recently, a Facebook page in which other garbage truck enthusiasts of all ages can talk to me about the waste industry, ask me questions, and get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at what I do. Over the past two years, since graduating from high school, I have had the opportunity to meet several other waste industry enthusiasts, as well as getting to film and photograph garbage trucks in three different states, including Oregon and California, as well as my home state of Washington.
Wasted In Washington
As I begin to grow this blog, what you can expect to see here is: exclusive sneak-peak photos and video clips of upcoming YouTube and Flickr uploads; recollections of some of the crazier things that have happened to me on my garbage truck adventures; tidbits of waste industry news, history, and trivia; pictures of and information about some of my custom model garbage trucks; and of course, links to my latest YouTube and Flickr uploads!
Thanks for taking the time to read this blog, and welcome aboard!
-Bryn
Follow Thrash 'N' Trash Productions on:
YouTube
Flickr
Facebook
Where did it all begin?
First off, I'd like to share a little history. For just about as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by garbage trucks. Odd? Perhaps. Believe it or not, it all stemmed from an irrational childhood fear. I was about 3-years-old at the time, and every Tuesday morning, as I'd hear the garbage truck drawing closer and closer to my house, I would scream and cry, and insisted that I must hide in the bathroom and that my mother had to hide with me to keep me safe from the clutches of the ever-terrifying garbage truck. Finally the day came that my mother had had enough of the weekly tantrums, and I was forced, despite my best efforts, to sit and watch the garbage truck from the safety of the living room window, in order to prove that there was nothing to fear. This was supposed to be one-time occurrence, just to prove a point, and nothing more. But, the following Tuesday, I excitedly insisted upon watching the garbage truck again. And again the next week. You get the picture. Everyone figured it was just another one of those childhood phases, that it would soon pass, and my youthful mind would become fascinated with something else. And then years passed by, and this "phase" continued. By the time I was about 6- or 7-years-old, I had befriended my neighborhood garbage man and would follow the garbage truck down my part of the street. Some of the other kids in the neighborhood and at school would pick on me as a result of this strange hobby of mine, but I never let it stop me. Though the vast majority of the people in my life have been extremely supportive of my interest in the waste business, there have of course been a fair share of naysayers as well. I have had teachers, school counselors, and the like tell me that if I continued with this obsession with garbage trucks, I would not lead a successful life. People would think I was weird, I wouldn't have friends, I wouldn't get a job, certainly no one would want to marry me, or raise a family with me, and so on, unless I "learned to grow up". Did I take their advice? Of course not. And yet here I am, 20-years-old, still as fascinated with garbage trucks as ever, in fact, I only become more and more interested in the solid waste industry as time goes on, and on top of that, I am gainfully employed, engaged to be married, and have many close friends. On top of that, I have created a very successful online brand, Thrash 'N' Trash Productions, in which I share videos and photos of garbage trucks with others who share this unique interest. Which brings us to more current times...
Classic Refuse Trucks
The one rather negative thing that this hobby brought me through most of my childhood was a feeling of emptiness; I always felt alone. I of course had plenty of friends, but I never met anyone else who found there to be anything even remotely interesting about garbage trucks. I just came to feel that I must be the only person on Earth who had such a deep fascination with these machines. But that all changed in 2007. While browsing the web after school one day, I stumble across a website called Classic Refuse Trucks, which is essentially an online museum and library dedicated to the history of waste collection. At last I knew that I was not alone in this interest! There was at least someone else like me out there. After spending many, many afternoons enthusiastically absorbing all the information the site had to offer, I noticed that there was also as online forum attached to the site. Of course, I joined immediately and discovered to my great joy, hundreds of members of all ages from all around the world, and all just as obsessed with garbage trucks as myself! It really brought on a great sense of relief to know that I was not anywhere close to being alone in this unique hobby. In addition to the forum, many of the members also posted videos of their local garbage trucks on YouTube, so in the summer of 2008, I purchased a cheap camcorder, opened up a YouTube account, and joined in!
Thrash 'N' Trash Productions
Since first creating my YouTube account nearly six years ago, I have created a unified online brand called Thrash 'N' Trash Productions which I have dedicated to documenting a vast variety of garbage trucks and other waste-related equipment through a series of professional grade, high-definition videos on YouTube, professional-grade photographs on Flickr, and more recently, a Facebook page in which other garbage truck enthusiasts of all ages can talk to me about the waste industry, ask me questions, and get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at what I do. Over the past two years, since graduating from high school, I have had the opportunity to meet several other waste industry enthusiasts, as well as getting to film and photograph garbage trucks in three different states, including Oregon and California, as well as my home state of Washington.
Watch the video above to see exactly what I do at Thrash 'N' Trash Productions!
Wasted In Washington
As I begin to grow this blog, what you can expect to see here is: exclusive sneak-peak photos and video clips of upcoming YouTube and Flickr uploads; recollections of some of the crazier things that have happened to me on my garbage truck adventures; tidbits of waste industry news, history, and trivia; pictures of and information about some of my custom model garbage trucks; and of course, links to my latest YouTube and Flickr uploads!
Thanks for taking the time to read this blog, and welcome aboard!
-Bryn
Follow Thrash 'N' Trash Productions on:
YouTube
Flickr
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