I love technology

We saw a bin lorry with two separate compartments, one for general waste and one for cardboard recycling.

 

2 Sundays ago, Mr Jenny and I watched a huge fire engine go through a full check out. It had 6 stabilisers that came out the sides , then 6 legs appeared and went down to the ground. Then the ladder started to unfurl and rise up, complete with platform on the top.
This was in the grounds of the Fire station in Hastings - quite a large depot. Very fascinating .

 

Mixed on lorry and you only pay for what you have and no waiting time to pay if you go over half an hour like the nomal concrete lorrys and no waste concrete left over

 

A few years ago there was a telly series called Full Metal Challenge. I have a sneaking suspicion that UK or US military might have had a say on the idea because it came out about the same time as it was in the news a lot that our military were looking at more agile, multi-role alternatives to our fleet of land vehicles including tanks and such. The idea of the TV program was that teams would be given a budget to build a multi-role "endurance" vehicle without knowing what challenges they would be subjected to, so they had to build for speed, agility, toughness etc just to cover every eventuality.

Throughout the series, one vehicle, the British entry called Octopush, just blitzed everything else and it was truly brilliant. Here's the final, skip to about 5 minutes in to get straight down to business.