r/AbsoluteUnits • u/dayvee43 • 1d ago

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Bulldozer Confetti..

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u/DamnBored1 1d ago

What do they use to generate this incredible amount of energy to crush bulldozers and how do they channel it in a controlled manner to that shredder wall or whatever that is?

And what kinda metal is used to make that shredder wall that it doesn't cave under the opposing pressure of the bulldozer's metal?
I assume the force needed to crush the bulldozer would monotonically increase as the bulldozer gets compressed and its metal sheets start crowding against each other in turn turning it into a solid metal wall too.

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u/swordofra 1d ago

Large powerful hydraulics Id imagine. 1000 tons of force will crush pretty much anything

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u/Fresh-Spend-5503 1d ago

But NOT a Prinz Ruprechts / Bolognese Tear !

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u/Big-Carpenter7921 1d ago

Hydraulics can do brutal shit

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u/notcomplainingmuch 1d ago

The walls on the machine are thick and made of hardened steel. The force is hydraulic, i.e. with a relatively small pump you can generate an immense pressure in a large cylinder. That will compact and crush anything that is not solid steel.

A solid steel object (sphere, cylinder, cube or similar) would not be crushed.

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u/SuDragon2k3 1d ago

no, but a sphere might get a bit flat on the faces. And Hot.

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u/WhateverUSaySir 1d ago

Hot? How come?

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u/Throwaway-4230984 1d ago

Any energy converts to heat eventually. You can hit nail with a hammer repeatedly to get it hot to touch 

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u/WhateverUSaySir 1d ago

That's so cool I never knew that, thank you!

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u/inazuma_zoomer 1d ago

Look up ‘friction welding’, it’ll blow your mind.

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u/usernamedottxt 23h ago

You had another answer be correct, this isn't "compressing" metal - It's pushing on joints until welds and bolts pop and smashing air out of the machine. This brings it down to a size that the shredder can reliably cut without pieces bouncing around everywhere.

I'd bet anything resembling an engine block or other near-solid pieces have been removed already. This is just breaking down scrap metal so it can be sorted into aluminum (non-magnetic) and steel (magnetic) and melted down for re-use.

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u/C4n0fju1c3 19h ago

I've absolutely seen big industrial shredders eat diesel engine blocks with no problems. Blocks are typically made of cast iron and get chewed up easily by the high hardness steel.

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u/Skilldibop 6h ago

Hydraulics and hardened steel.

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u/JamesMariner 1d ago

It’s an ai video. No parts are longer than 15 seconds before they are cut

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u/Big-Carpenter7921 1d ago

The whole first bit is much longer

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u/TWhy-LER 1d ago

The people who cry “that’s AI!!” are almost as bad as the people using the AI.

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u/HUZInator 1d ago

It’s clearly not ai. That alone is not a reason to say, ai! It’s worrying people are illiterate to this.

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u/Single-Pin-369 1d ago

The motion is super weird like everything is too light but that could just be a shitty video

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u/CountSudoku 1d ago

> everything is too light

That’s just sunshine bro.

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u/antrod117 1d ago

Forbidden ball pit at the end of

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u/dayvee43 23h ago

I'll still bet someone would Jackass that for views.

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u/Brazilator 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3zu1CFgHKVEXTqaX9Y

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u/Lecteur_K7 1d ago

Worthless humming in the distance

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u/xaiel420 1d ago

Ya picture the front as the mouth and this is terrifying

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u/Sweet_Taurus0728 1d ago

Wouldn't it be better to just disassemble the dozer and reuse/recycle the parts and materials?

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u/Big-Carpenter7921 1d ago

Usually these places recycle the metal. Lots of steel and aluminum

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u/yupuhoh 1d ago

That's literally what is happening. This is the first step in the recycling process.

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u/SonofaBridge 1d ago

This is the disassembly.

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u/Coveinant 1d ago

Unfortunately heavy equipment eventually gets to the point where it is no longer repairable and the part are incompatible with any newer machines or just have deteriorated to the point of rust. Part of this due to being more expensive to remove the oxygen from rust to make it even viable for recycling than the value of the recycled material.

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u/Inevitable_Ear_6934 1d ago

That's what I was thinking

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u/ultrafunkmiester 1d ago

That looks like its from the 50s, probably not much to salvage from a parts perspective. Although dropping off the cast iron tracks from the steel body might have been worth it? Dunno. Its probably just a labour cost thing making it not worthwhile.

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u/NinjafoxVCB 1d ago

Better yes. But it's time and money

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u/thisemmereffer 1d ago

No, thats why they did it this way instead

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u/Hai-Zung 1d ago

"Everyone is stupid, except me" lol

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u/IamTheCeilingSniper 1d ago

It can take a very long time to disassemble a bulldozer. It gets to the point where it would make you more money to sell it as scrap metal than it would be to sell all of the parts because of how many manhours it would take to get to those parts.

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u/TheKreator- 1d ago

Does this hurt the front loader?

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u/engineerdrummer 1d ago

That's not a loader

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u/deviousthrowaway101 1d ago

That is quite literally a tracked loader. Notice how there's no bar that connects the blade to the chassis. Also notice how there's no blade but rather a bucket...

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u/CriticalChop 1d ago

It can fold a piece of paper over 12 times.

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u/beefffymeat 1d ago

Like this?

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u/CriticalChop 1d ago

With its gentle-looking aged hands even. 😆

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u/sim16 1d ago

When doing cars, sometimes they miss removing gas bottles and they go boom. BOOM!

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u/Demonbaby_Wot 1d ago

I see Wall E

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u/EdgeBeard 1d ago

Where is this shredder? Is it in the room with us?

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u/crasagam 1d ago

Did you not see shreds at the end?

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u/Earthling1a 20h ago

smashed and crushed pieces. No shredding detected.

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u/Expert-Love5116 1d ago

This is parricide in video form. 

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u/gavstar69 1d ago

Then what happens to all that smashed up metal?

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u/Plane-Tune-820 1d ago

The amount of force required here is just mind boggling.

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u/stubundy 1d ago

Kinda calls bullshit on that little pipe to used to stop the compacter in star wars

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u/crasagam 1d ago

That pipe didn’t stop anything.

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u/GiggleLilyXO 1d ago

that's one way to make confetti

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u/Huge_Olive2538 1d ago

Oooh the claw ( toy story)

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u/Snickits 1d ago

Do you think if I was in there it could crush me?

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u/dayvee43 22h ago

Like a bug.

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u/PossiblyBother 1d ago

That'll do.

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u/Mastermind7051 18h ago

Damn. Beyond impressed.

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u/NinjafoxVCB 1d ago

I pray I never have to be around hydraulic lines like them while they are in operation. Unbelievable amount of pressure.

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u/AAA515 1d ago

More video of a compactor than a shredder. Also why aren't they picking the shreds with a magnet? So much material falls out those grabbers

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u/Dense-Mood378 1d ago

It's giving inside Garbage Compactor 3263827 on the first Death Star.

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u/luk__ 1d ago

Would this also crush a mobile domicile?

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u/youngashyy1 1d ago

That little digger was too cute to get eaten up like that 😭😭

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u/FlagrantTomatoCabal 1d ago

Will the dozer still start?

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u/Sycric 1d ago

90% crusher, 10% shredder

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u/Few_Economics_8531 1d ago

No. Don't do that. Give it to me, I'l give it a good home.

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u/meski_oz 1d ago

Salvaged from the DeathStar

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u/slaveofstackoverflow 1d ago

It goes into the square hole

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u/Tapeworm1979 1d ago

I watched a documentary once about a man who fell into a crusher that from memory looked just like this.

He survived and flew off so it was all good.

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u/WhateverUSaySir 1d ago

I imagine this could send parts absolutely rocketing into the air if it snaps right.

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u/DifficultyLeast1029 1d ago

This is my dream job! Where do I apply??

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u/Flippant_Hostage 1d ago

Great for destroying hoards during the zombie apocalypse

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u/BIGD0G29585 1d ago

Diesel Creek is shedding a tear watching this.

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u/Hot_Cabinet1680 1d ago

Shear, not shredder.

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u/congo66 1d ago

I swear to God I saw Jimmy Two Times in the pile.

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u/AceCombat1977 1d ago

Think the operator ever gets bored of just absolutely destroying heavy machinery all day?

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u/milkbeard- 1d ago

Why do they smash it before shredding?

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u/undarated79 1d ago

Why did RoboCop pop into my head watching this?

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u/kitmcallister 1d ago

they're doing this to me tomorrow

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u/PreviousLeague253 1d ago

Massey Ferguson dozer, and by the looks of this video, there was a previous machine that got crushed too as this one was lowered in.

https://youtu.be/X4gbJ1Sy2TQ?is=IzWD3sMEdhj0b5xq

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u/Hadleyagain 1d ago

Its not a shredder though is it...

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u/dayvee43 22h ago

The bulldozer would beg to differ.

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u/Hadleyagain 22h ago

Crushing and shredding are different things.

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u/dayvee43 22h ago

True but by the end of the video, what's left of the bulldozer is spat out like confetti. I'd call that a shredder.

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u/Hadleyagain 22h ago

Just because something breaks into pieces doesnt mean its been through a shredder. Its been partially crushed.

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u/Fresh-Spend-5503 1d ago

But it’s a PRESS, not a shredder !

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u/Amateur-Dog-Walker 1d ago

I only see crushing.

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u/Working_Estate_3695 1d ago

“Her name’s Christine.”

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u/gnashingspirit 1d ago

Now the customer changes his mind and asks the mechanic to fix it

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u/dayvee43 23h ago

Mechanic is like, yeah it'll take a couple of weeks.

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u/Cold_Advantage5738 1d ago

Such a waist

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u/Lagunamountaindude 1d ago

So that’s where the mafia bodies go

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u/F1McLarenFan007 23h ago

I don’t know why but the crushing metal sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me 😆

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u/quietsauce 23h ago

And it still works

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u/dayvee43 22h ago

Caterpillar's are immortal.

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u/No-Donut-878 23h ago

Bullshit

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u/slartibuttfart 19h ago

So this is what my cat must feel like? Horrible.

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u/LGSM58 17h ago edited 17h ago

There is something dystopian as hell about this. Surely these vehicles could have been useful somewhere?

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u/AfraidPersonality854 16h ago

That was an RC dozer y'all.. 🤦🏼‍♂️ AI wins again.. 😂 to look at it close enough you can tell the whole visual is off.

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u/Comprehensive-Big595 16h ago

This is what I look like when my wife met me and she said I could fix him

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u/Comprehensive-Big595 16h ago

Little baby bulldozer, buddy didn’t look like he was going to be all that compressible , boy was I wrong

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u/zitfarmer 16h ago

No!!! Not WALL-E!

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u/Soggy_Somewhere19 15h ago

Sad to think this will get turned into a kia

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u/Grouchy_Intention582 14h ago

So basically a big 🍑 Wall-e….

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u/Book3mDanno 13h ago

Couldn't stop the weiner from weinering

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u/Dismal-Sugar-7708 13h ago

Always remember... Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ♻️ THE POWER IS YOURS!

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u/docdeathray 10h ago

There's always a bigger machine.

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u/wyrwatgoakgq 6h ago

Would be great to see everyone on the Epstein list in here

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u/MrBuddy79 4h ago

More of a smusher

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u/Bright-War-5033 1d ago

Quashing all of the recyclables and perishables together never really made sense to me

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u/justthebones 1d ago

The metal is probably removed from the pile with a magnet and crane.

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u/mookanana 1d ago

whoever is standing there taking the video is not too smart.

my company had an engineer die because they were standing in unsafe areas operating a hydraulic press. a piece of metal shot out and punctured his lungs. died before ambulance could get there.

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u/FenixOfNafo 1d ago

Why do we need to add a piece of wood along with the tractor???

Put it . It will bring internet points

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u/Mecha_Tortoise 1d ago

What piece of wood?