weighing your wheelie bin

100gSoma

I noticed that 3 of my last bin lifts were exactly 34.00kg. The weighing is accurate to within 500g so I'm amazed that 3 household rubbish lifts were all between 33.50-34.00kg.

Is there any way to weight a wheelie bin yourself before leaving it out. Just out of interest.
I'm sure the weighing lift equipment is calibrated often, and I'm no mathematician, but seems not great odds to get the the same given the randomness of household rubbish.

Slippin Jimmy

Only way would be a scales I would have thought.

it does seem a bit strange that the last 3 lifts were the same.

Fred Swanson

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onceyourhappy

With Greyhound, they charge 7 Euro for a 25kilo Black bin. I had a bin collected last week weighing 81 Kilo's and they charged me 26 Euro. They're explaination was 7 Euro for 25k and 33 cents for every Kilo over and above.
My question : how do I know that the bin weighed 81 Kilos.

Seems like this pricing is only being implimented recently.
Anyone else throw any light on this.

How can we measure the weight b4 it goes for lifting.

Thanks
Tommy

homer911

onceyourhappy wrote: »

With Greyhound, they charge 7 Euro for a 25kilo Black bin. I had a bin collected last week weighing 81 Kilo's and they charged me 26 Euro. They're explaination was 7 Euro for 25k and 33 cents for every Kilo over and above.
My question : how do I know that the bin weighed 81 Kilos.

Seems like this pricing is only being implimented recently.
Anyone else throw any light on this.

How can we measure the weight b4 it goes for lifting.

Thanks
Tommy

What are you putting in your bin to make it weigh 81 Kgs? Bricks?

homer911

onceyourhappy wrote: »

How can we measure the weight b4 it goes for lifting.

Well if you are really determined, get two domestic weighing scales, place them a few feet apart, place a plank of wood across them, then sit the bin on the plank of wood. Note the sum of the weight on each and repeat after the bin is emptied and deduct from the first weight..

L1011

You can get luggage scales that weigh up to 50KG albeit its not a particularly cheap way to find out; and the hand-held spring ones either don't go that high or require herculean strength to use if they do.

Beano

L1011 wrote: »

You can get luggage scales that weigh up to 50KG albeit its not a particularly cheap way to find out; and the hand-held spring ones either don't go that high or require herculean strength to use if they do.

best of luck trying to lift an 81KG wheelie bin.

The method that homer911 posted is the best approach.

wmpdd3

onceyourhappy wrote: »

With Greyhound, they charge 7 Euro for a 25kilo Black bin. I had a bin collected last week weighing 81 Kilo's and they charged me 26 Euro. They're explaination was 7 Euro for 25k and 33 cents for every Kilo over and above.
My question : how do I know that the bin weighed 81 Kilos.

Seems like this pricing is only being implimented recently.
Anyone else throw any light on this.

How can we measure the weight b4 it goes for lifting.

Thanks
Tommy

26 euro for a bin lift!!!! I nearly choked on my coffee!

spaceHopper

We've twins put a weeks nappies in the bin an you'll soon know about it our last bill was 200+

Beano

spaceHopper wrote: »

We've twins put a weeks nappies in the bin an you'll soon know about it our last bill was 200+

81KG of nappies? holy sh...

Yakuza

That's some heavy sh1t, man.

Walshclan

Time to go back to cloth nappies ....

hdowney

wmpdd3 wrote: »

26 euro for a bin lift!!!! I nearly choked on my coffee!

the new pay-by-weight charges in my area are approx .25c per kilo so depending on what you put in the bin it can get heavy pretty quick, and cost a fortune

dudara

Zombie thread, closed

dudara