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A gully emptier (colloquially: "gully sucker") is a type of specialized
tank truck
A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars, which are also des ...
with suction gear which can suck
wastewater
Wastewater is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes. Another definition of wastewater is "Used water from any combination of domestic, industrial ...
and mud and sludge out of hollows such as the hollows below drain grids in street gutters and carry it to a suitable disposal point. It needs to be able to suck out and pump through into its tank any road grit and miscellaneous solids that have entered the hollow.
Some have a means of squeezing the water from its load, and letting that water into the drain or keeping it for high pressure cleaning of drain pipes.
Differences to vacuum truck
A vehicle which is purely a
vacuum truck
A vacuum truck, vacuum tanker, vactor truck, or vactor is a tank truck that has a pump and a tank. The pump is designed to pneumatically suck liquids, sludges, slurries, or the like from a location (often underground) into the tank of the truc ...
has a long wide flexible hose without the big solid nozzle with controls on.
Gully emptiers are often outfitted with devices to separate the liquid content of its tank from solid matter, allowing the liquids to run to storm drain. Since this is not done with cesspool content, cesspool emptiers have no need for such separative capability.
Sometimes a gully emptier has a flexible hose without solid nozzle like on a cesspool emptier.
Images
Image:Aa gully emptier 00.jpg, Gully emptier in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
(UK)
Image:A gully emptier 00-rear end.jpg, Gully emptier in Manchester (UK)
Image:Aa Gully emptier MVC-464F.JPG, Gully emptier in street in Manchester (UK)
Image:Aa Gully emptier MVC-465F.JPG, Close-up of controls
Image:Aa Gully emptier MVC-468F.JPG, Sucking a drain gully out
File:Aa Gully emptier Bowdon P1010007.JPG, Gully emptier, A556,
Bowdon, Greater Manchester
Bowdon is a suburb and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
History
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, both Bowdon and Dunham Massey are mentioned in the Domesday Book, cit ...