Pumps' Perplexities

Garbage trucks were not quiet......There was a day before the
nice and quiet, hydraulic, load mechanism truck came along.....

Prior to hydraulics the garbage was loaded into a truck by
means of a conveyer....The conveyer would take small
"clumps" of garbage up a ramp and drop it into the top of
the truck.....Much like the first moments of a roller coaster
ride......This conveyer was run by a motor driving a large
over-sized bicycle chain.......And the noise it made.....The
"clank-clank-clank" could be heard 1/4 mile away.....

Oh yes, and the garbage cans were made of metal.....Galvanized
steel, no plastic then.....No hydraulic can loading devices
either.....The garbage man earned every bit of his pay.....Pumps