I used to work on the back of a garbage truck. It always gave a smile to my face when customers come out and ask will the truck handle that. And I reply watch this.

Brings back memories , i worked in truck wreckers many years ago for a short stretch , the old fella that ran the joint had a whole bunch of old trucks for sale one of which was a compactor with a bin lift on the back , the hydraulic pump was dodgy on the compactor so the old fella sourced a pump from something else in the yard to get it going , we put a bin next to the lift and activated it , the pump he put in was much higher capacity , the bin lift picked up the bin so fast and threw it over the top of the truck about 30 yards :).

I knew there were firetruck-groupies and even some cop-groupies but I never expected there were any garbage truck followers. Learn something new every day.

They are a great team. The DRIVER did not only drive , he also helped to pick up garbage hats off to you two. Garbage collectors are VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE. If they stop working, the country stinks. They should be paid more.

Worked on a garbage route for years loved every minute! It's a fun job! Also drove a bulldozer In a landfill packing garbage every day it was a great stress-free job. I would love to do it again!

When I was 7 years old, I was obsessed with the hydraulic systems on these trucks, I can say now, at 29 years of age, I am still obsessed, I could watch that all day every day and never get bored, a modern marvel imho, where would we be, if not for the awesome power and mechanical prowess of hydraulic systems and their operators.

The best student job I ever had was sweeping up around a carton printing works one summer and putting the waste card into a compactor. I had a yard brush, a shovel and a bin on wheels. No bother, no hassle, outdoors all the time, (it was a lovely summer), listening to the birds tweet. It was totally stress free and I got paid as well. Happy, happy days, young and carefree. AND the outside always looked spik and span.

Some of the hardest working, most underappreciated people out there! Big respect to the refuse guys out there! Thank you guys!

These guys just look so thrilled being followed by camera. If that was our garbage guys they would be swearing at you! But these are hard workers for sure!

The unsung heroes in villages and cities everywhere!

Our Waste Management trucks in our area must be super spoiled. They would look at a couch in front of someone's yard, laugh and keep on going. They'd tell us to throw that crap away ourselves because they ain't doin' it. lol

I'm a Janitor for a living. I take out trash to the dumpsters and it gets on my uniform. I clean toilets. People in the rich neighborhood I work in sometimes give me dirty looks. It's a dirty job. But I don't mind doing because I get paid good for doing it. These garbage truck guys deserve a pat on the back for doing it. Us lower class blue collar trash mover's and toilet cleaners make it sanitary for all the people to enjoy. I like being a janitor. I want to drive the garbage truck. I want to run the hydraulic controls. Awesome Guys!!!

I've been on the garbage trucks for nearly 20 years,experience tells me to never crush a sofa or chair before checking out under the cushions and down the back.

I set a couch at the curb at my old house. In that town, they have auto loading trucks only. no back loading. The buy just picked the couch up using the claw for the trash cans, and mashed it through the top hole. It was awesome to watch, and impressive.

It was worth watching just to see Herbie drive by.

2 hardworking average Joe's. Respect to you guys!

Where I live, you call for a special pickup, and they send a pickup truck LOL. Too much damage done to the regular trucks.

Herbie The Love Bug was gettin the heck out of there!

That hydraulic system on that truck is beast! 🤔

That couch went straight to heaven.

I worked on the back of those for almost 10yrs,that thing can break up washing machines & dryers with no problem

These guys do a wonderful job! What would we do without them?

Everybody: dang, truck devoured that sofa. Me: HERBIE!!!

My new brother-in-law left a 'present' in our basement some forty years ago; their massive white elephant of a couch. I removed the cushions and settled upon the idea of putting the hefty frame on my back like I was portaging a canoe. I got it out to the front alright then stacked the cushions alongside. That couch made a number of very satisfying crunching sounds as the truck just ate it up. It was wonderful.

Herbie casually drives past lol

Would have been really funny if those furniture's had just been delivered, and not yet brought in.

Clearly, it is not the job, it is what you make of it and these workers clearly took pride and had job satisfaction as well they should, they earned that right.

That garbage truck was like nom nom nom... what a yummy couch...

sounded like two big giant upholstery covered tortilla chips

1:58 Herbie the love bug went buy.. Love it LOLOL

Here I am, watching a garbage truck eat a couch, and suddenly bloody Herbie drives by!

Those guys are awesome. In my old neighborhood if the lid couldn't fully close on the can (they'd say it was over loaded), they'd leave it and drive on to the next house.

Worked on 25 cubic yard Leech when I was in HS and college. Dumbest thing we crushed was an old fridge with an ammonia based cooling system. McNeilus compactors built just down the road in Dodge Center.

Absolute wow. The “Godzilla” truck.... how the heck can a truck just devour those couches. AMAZING!!!!!

This kid is literally getting paid watching other people work. Genius

I don't know how I got here, but I find it to be oddly fascinating. What machinery! Also what an enormous amount of waste people generate.

You’re going to damage the legs of couch dragging it on the road like that.

That's why I love trash day

Those were some nice couches!

@Truck Master642 what do you like about garbage trucks? Is it the hydraulics and mechanical mechanisms that are used to exert so much force onto object?

Had no idea trash trucks could do that. I had to throw out my old sofa bed. My hubby took out the entire metal reclining piece which got picked-up by a scrap metal collector. I'm glad some use will be made of my old sofa.

I have seen people pick up couches and mattress that someone died on or was infested. IF you can Always ask the owner about the history of the item before you take it. Plus, they might have other items to give you.

Thaz cool how the back of that garbage semi has that garbage can picker upper dumper thing on it. That helps if the load in the can is heavy.

Saw Herbie the Volks Wagon Bug drove by, lol.

I’ve seen first hand in Minnesota what you guys do. It’s amazing the disrespect & disgusting crap people leave for you. We have two dumpsters @ our bldg. One regular, one recycle. Apparently some people can’t read, leave their trash in front of the dumpster, not use the back because that would require two more steps & so on. So to all of you, thanks guys.😎

On that second garbage semi, I've never seen one with 2 compactors before. Wow!

They take full on couches. The garbage truck in my town wont even take boxes that aren't collapsed. that can lifting system on the back is pretty fancy, in my town they have to lift the cans by hand to dump them in the truck. (My town doesn't have a certain trash can. Its whatever the person that occupies the house buys.)

I bet that drivecam went off when he didn't stop at that stop sign

The poor couch you can hear the truck cracking its bones I mean boards lol

Wow that’s awesome that the truck has two different compactors

1:59 Nice car :)

On the back of the second garbage semi, the compactor on the right is wider than the compactor on the left.

Give these guy credit. In our city they would not stop let alone load it.

Wow that's so satisfying to watch 😊

Perfectly good looking couch next time give it to somebody who needs it

Blackjack (his CB radio handle) worked on the garbage truck, he referred to the truck as the honeywagon on the CB.

These men are important people in our economy

Great job! $75 a week and all you can eat.

Awesome video.

THE TRASH TRUCK ATE THOSE BIG OLD FART COUCHES... LOL

I would always throw the cushions and pillows on first and then check for money and other valuables. You would be surprised at what I would find.

5:45 Was that chair garbage? I could see a exact same in the background🤣

This thing can solve a lot of the worlds problems =O

Nice work guy's wish we had you in appleton wi .thay won't take anything like what you do.

Why is this so fascinating

This is Tuff work man

The beast is hungry for couches lol

That couch sapped all the trucks energy.

And hurbie just drives by 😆

Didn’t know this truck could be that powerful

That truck ate that 😳😆

And our wheelie bins are half the size here in the UK than the ones there. Collected every two weeks. 😳

Lucky homeowner! I cant get my WM to take 4 -30" rolls of carpet.

SOME OF THE MAINFRAME WAS BUSTED UP THE BOTTOM WAS TORE UP CUSHIONS WERE TORN UP AS WELL

I used to take my unwanted sofa to Watkins Glen race track and burn it up after race….talk about smoke….Damn!

That job seems quite fun

All the work that goes into making things and splat! All gone in a few seconds.

Boa noite família! Que pena né, eu aqui no BRASIL 🇧🇷PRECISANDO de um SOFÁ e vcs aí colocando no lixo, EM FIM DE MÓVEIS. UM ABRAÇO PARA TODOS linda cidade.

Saw them do this over in thailand with a truck crew of five. They pick up the trash and sort out the cans and plastic in bags strapped down on the top of the truck for cash.

Nice!

At 2:02 Herbie drives by!! Awesome!!😁

I did not expect to see Herbie.

Cool! hungry truck eating the couch. 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I didn’t know waste management had a household moving devision.

There truck was hungry! Nomnomnom lol

I'd take those if I had room for them , they are nice

The City of Los Angeles used a similar truck like this to clear out the homeless encampments at Venice Beach. All their stuff fit in that truck.

it's the rick james truck, I said F your couch

Do they normally take all the recycle with the trash? seems like a waste of time to recycle then.

Makes me think of the Shredder scene in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie. LOL

I was hoping the seams on the truck box would give way and spit out the couch.lol.

Definitely not the cry baby garbage people we have here in Vaughan Ontario Canada. Our guys here cry about a box that is not broken down. Great video of real working guys. 5 thumbs up.....

Nice

If you put that in the hopper upside down, when the blade cuts it in half you might find some money that has been lost inside.

I like that truck!!

1:00 maybe it was waiting for the friendly neighborhood reupholster ? 2:59 no, too many other couches already .

Really hard to hold the couch with 1 hand and work levers with the other

Let's imagine these two pieces of furniture could serve 5 maybe 10 years more at someone's house (maybe poor person); After renovation and cleaning - of course. We wear second-hand clothes, so why we can't have refurbished couches too in our (maybe not well off) homes? :-)

I put a truck camper top in our truck for spring cleanup

that's a job for the Leach Sanicruiser!