Getting the garbage can to,the street?

[Walkin Horse]

I had somebody tell me a funny story today. He replaced the ball with an angle iron. He cocks the can back and hooks it over the angle and straps to 2 hooks on the bed rail.

He said one morning he loaded and headed to work. He got about a 1/2 mile down the hard road when he heard something dragging. Then he remembered that he hadn't stopped to take it off. He said it took him hours to clean up blown newspaper and styrofoam peanuts. It was Febuary and freezing cold. So what ever method you use, don't forget to leave it at the end of the driveway.

 

[PILOON]

More than a few times I have seen cars with a trash bag sitting on a roof rack as absentminded drivers forget it is there.

With our 3 bin system about to start the city has hired garbage police to assure trash is properly assorted and cans etc washed with labels removed.
Pizza boxes not in recycle but in trash etc. Then next will come fines if you leave a bin by the roadside beyond the prescribed window period.

Bins will now be dumped every 2 weeks alternatively with combustible one weekly but monthly in winter.
Naturally the city presumes that coons and bears wont be hungry between pickup dates.
They say that fines will vigorously applied as of this May which will be a serious problem for seniors living in condos on hilly streets that have stairs on one side leading up to their entrance way and across the street from the curb you walk down to your front door.
Maybe they will need to introduce a 'handicap exemption' tag system.

Mayor says that a good neighborly gesture will be the way to go.
I don't mind giving the occasional helping hand but certainly do not want a year round responsibility that incurs fines and spilled garbage pickup also to remember when you combine take out and retrieval it will soon add up to quite time consuming especially in scattered rural settings.
Condos being side by side would be feasible but not hilly side streets/roads with long drives.
While this would be a good source of income for teens (as paper routes used to be) today's entitled teen feels it is below him to do these menial tasks.

 

[Sodo]

today's entitled teen feels it is below him to do these menial tasks.

It's been my observation that pretty much ** anyone ** who isn't accustomed to dealing with their own refuse,,,, feels entitled to have "someone else" do it for them. There should be no surprise teens feel that way, they go with what they learn from their parents. It can be a tough pill to swallow when your own teen does it and you have to look in the mirror.

 

[rswyan]

We are the only residents on the road we live ... so the road is essentially part of our driveway. It's probably about 1000' from the other road down to the house.

We were already paying for "backdoor" service due to the above.

This winter the wife took the trash can at the house and moved it up to the shop - which is about halfway to the road - with the other one.

Wasn't a problem this winter, with the 'coons hibernating ... but now that warmer weather is here, I'll have to add some type of latch to keep 'em out.

Now if I could get the wife to leave the trash cans alone ... instead, she insists on "putting them out" (moving them 30' closer to the road) every trash day ... despite the fact that they set outside the shop, right next to the driveway.

Like we don't already have enough work to do ... :confused2:

 

[KevT]

I leave mine by the road, just like all the neighbors. I throw a bag om my hood and take it down to the can when I leave for work.

Yep, the same here