How was the bucket garbage truck born?

The birth of bucket garbage trucks is closely related to the development of China's environmental sanitation industry. In the 1980s and 1990s, China's urban garbage disposal methods were relatively backward, and traditional flatbed trucks or human powered tricycles had low transportation efficiency and were prone to secondary pollution. To solve this problem, China's first generation of bucket mounted garbage trucks emerged.

Early design features

The initial bucket garbage truck had a simple structure, resembling a tricycle in appearance, using the Shanghai 581 tricycle chassis, with a load capacity of less than 3 tons. The core design is to achieve the loading and transportation of garbage through the combination of a car ladder lifting system and a matching garbage bin. Sanitation workers need to manually hang garbage bins onto vehicles and use mechanical devices to lift and dump them. Although this is an improvement over traditional methods, it still relies heavily on manpower and has problems such as high energy consumption and poor sealing.

Technical improvement and application

With the increasing demand for sanitation, hydraulic systems are gradually being introduced into Hydraulic Lifter Garbage trucks to achieve automated loading and unloading. Through the hydraulic lifting device, the garbage bin can be automatically flipped and poured into the carriage, reducing manual operation and improving efficiency. It is compatible with 120 liter or 240 liter standard garbage bins and is suitable for fixed garbage collection points such as communities and streets, becoming one of the main models for short distance transportation of urban garbage.

Development and Limitations

Although the side loading garbage truck significantly improved the efficiency of garbage collection and transportation at that time, its reliance on manual hanging, easy damage to matching garbage bins, and limited loading capacity were still prominent issues. After the 1990s, China gradually introduced more advanced garbage trucks such as compression type and side loading type, and bucket mounted garbage trucks gradually withdrew from the mainstream market. However, their design concepts laid the foundation for the automation development of subsequent environmental sanitation vehicles.

summarize

The hanging bucket garbage truck is a product of China's early mechanization of environmental sanitation, which originated from the demand for efficient and enclosed transportation. Although the technology is relatively simple, it marks an important stage in the transition of China's garbage trucks from pure manual labor to mechanization.