E-Z Pack 2nd Generation Side Loaders The new 1974 E-Z Pack side loader     With the rear loaders redesigned in 1972, the next product improvement under Peabody International was to update the aging side loader. The old Hydro E-Z Pack was nearly twenty years old, and looking quite dated by the early seventies.     Bill Herpich once again delivered an novel design to replace the Hydro, and the new body was available by 1974. It was much lighter, with a low-profile packing ram that shoved refuse in small batches into the rear compartment. Unlike most side loaders of this type, the new E-Z Pack had a packer blade which extended the full length of the body to pack and eject the load. A chain of hinged follower plates, traveling along a trackway prevented refuse fallback as the packer blade entered the body. Upon retraction, the blades stacked up vertically in the front of the body.     Body capacities for the new side loader were 12, 14, 20 or 22 cubic yards. Though the new E-Z Pack was a valiant effort to modernize their side loader, it does not appear to have survived the seventies, being replaced by the HCSL by decades end. Hinged, sectional follower plate (green highlights) allowed low profile packer plate (red highlights) to travel length of body, without refuse fallback. Benefits were increased compaction and ejection unloading through repeated cycling. A large capacity side loader with optional cart dumper from 1975 SELECTED PATENTS Patent # Description Inventor Assignee Date US3955694A Side loading refuse body Herpich Peabody Galion June 18, 1975 10/4/09 © 2009 All Rights Reserved Photos from factory brochures/advertisements except as noted Logos shown are the trademarks of respective manufacturers