Stay out of the Dumpster with Self Dumping Trash Bins
Have you ever stopped to think about crane riggers getting into dumpsters to unlock some trash bin designs? They climb up this ladder to 7’ up in the air unsecured over a fall on one side, and a fall and sharps or a crushing on the other side. Then they get in the dumpster with a bin sitting on loose materials that will have a 4 yard trash bin crushing them if it shifts. It’s a precarious job. It’s one of those things that is just, “How we do it.” so we keep on walking by the hazard. There are multiple other ways to solve this problem.
Self dumping bins land in the dumpsters. when they reach resistance and the rigging becomes slack, the bale arm drops and the lock can come out of the latch. If the crane operator swings or changes their radius away from the latch, the arm will miss the latch and the bin will begin to dump out like a dumptruck clearing all of the gear. It’s a rare event that anything can get stuck in there. It’s usually because people are wedging plywood sheets in there that span from side to side. But at no point should a rigger need to get in the dumpster with our Eichinger 1045AM’s.
The work could be managed in a few other ways too with our line up. The Drop Bottom Bins can be rated at 2.6 yards and 4400 lbs. These little beauties can be handled by a crane or a forklift. They also stack. A site could fly down bins and stack them so the forklift can dump them without the crane. Then when the crane comes back through, they can be lifted back to the working deck. Or they can be used on castors and moved around by hand and into the Construction Hoist (Buck Hoist for those old timers). Equipment managers can ship everything the site needs in them. Once they are on site, they can be stacked out of the way, or put to use as trash bins. No rigging to maintain. Just put it to work.
Another option is using a Tipping Bin similar to what I just described. Our 2013C tipping bins are rated at 1.5 yards and 3300 lbs with the crane. Fly these down and also run them to the dumpster with the forklift and just keep that crane swinging. And this is the best part. That crane is the heart of the job. Any time you can save by landing work back on the forklift is time not spent on overtime or with a site being clogged up with deliveries. Keep the critical path going with the crane, and the forklift will pick up the slack.
Our products aren’t just about keeping the status quo. We want to be a disruptor that changes how we function. There is more profit to squeeze out of our production. But in a safe way. Let us take our rigging and operation experience and apply it to your equipment fleet. You’ll be safer, happier, and more profitable with Seattle Tower Crane and Eichinger.
