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Anyone use a trash compactor?

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by wildwest, May 16, 2025.

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  1. wildwest

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    Finally pulled the trigger on Gladiator. Had to fidget with zip codes but I have an order confirmation estimated delivery early July.
     
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    It show up?
    Guess what I stumbled across today?
    The one I thought I must have scrapped!
    I could only see the back, thought it was a lil metal filing cabinet... nope!
     
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    HA! Yesterday I learned how to change the first bag in this one and almost posted because I was having trouble lol. There's a lever to tilt one side of the bin out- used the end of a pipe wrench finally to click the stuck lever :thumbs:

    Anyway leave it there or use it but don't scrap it, the ones with metal cog wheels and metal chains are 100% better!
     
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    Burning is such a good thing for us. We separate burnable and nonburnable garbage. I take 8 cans of nonburnable to the dump once or twice a year. 8 cans is all that fit in my pickup at one time. Garbage pickup is available but the cost is very high. Can you not put a metal mesh grate on the top of the burn barrel to keep floaters from leaving the barrel? Is that the reason you don't want to burn the burnable trash?
     
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    A friend's kitchen had one growing up. I don't think it was used much. His mom is the one whom I learned to break down packaging flat (food boxes, etc) before putting in the trash. I think she figured out that was all the compactor really did anyways? Another friend lived in a house with an actual incinerator for a little while. Only one I've ever seen IRL. Still kinda want one.

    Garbage man collects the garbage, burnables go to the burn barrel.
     
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    No, not at all, it's I'm not able to, and husband does very long days so I can't ask him for that too ontop of everything his covers already.
     
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