Avenger
Veteran Member
I live out in the country and stock pile my trash in cans in the garage. I would certainly do it outside, but lesson learned when a bear drug a full can though the forest.
I am tired of the smell and doing "dump runs" every 6-8 weeks. Not to mention the amount of space the cans take up.
One of my neighbors down the road has a metal trash bin, from our waste management, that gets dumped every two weeks. He keeps his down on the road and complains about people dumping their trash in his dumpster. Other neighbors use the curb pick-up style trash cans, but they have short driveways.
If I can swing it, I would like to get a metal dumpster and leave it by my garage, pick it up with the forks on my tractor to take it down to the road for pickup every two weeks. According to my neighbor who has a metal dumpster, the bears seem to leave it alone. However, I am concerned about the cost of doing this.
A cheaper way is doing the curb side weekly pickup using a smaller, plastic, bin on wheels. Dragging this down my driveway weekly would be a chore. I am uncertain about lifting it into the bed of my pickup as well due to weight and height of my bed.
My thought is, if I cannot get a metal dumpster, to somehow mount the plastic bin (without drilling holes in it) to a pallet and use the forks on the front of my tractor to move the bin up and down my driveway weekly. My issue is figuring out a way, without having a pallet OR the bin, to make this happen. I would hate to order this bin and find out that there is not real way of doing this.
Have you attempted this before? Can it be done? How can it be done? Please let me know.
I am tired of the smell and doing "dump runs" every 6-8 weeks. Not to mention the amount of space the cans take up.
One of my neighbors down the road has a metal trash bin, from our waste management, that gets dumped every two weeks. He keeps his down on the road and complains about people dumping their trash in his dumpster. Other neighbors use the curb pick-up style trash cans, but they have short driveways.
If I can swing it, I would like to get a metal dumpster and leave it by my garage, pick it up with the forks on my tractor to take it down to the road for pickup every two weeks. According to my neighbor who has a metal dumpster, the bears seem to leave it alone. However, I am concerned about the cost of doing this.
A cheaper way is doing the curb side weekly pickup using a smaller, plastic, bin on wheels. Dragging this down my driveway weekly would be a chore. I am uncertain about lifting it into the bed of my pickup as well due to weight and height of my bed.
My thought is, if I cannot get a metal dumpster, to somehow mount the plastic bin (without drilling holes in it) to a pallet and use the forks on the front of my tractor to move the bin up and down my driveway weekly. My issue is figuring out a way, without having a pallet OR the bin, to make this happen. I would hate to order this bin and find out that there is not real way of doing this.
Have you attempted this before? Can it be done? How can it be done? Please let me know.
