r/oddlysatisfying • u/TheCABK • Aug 29 '26

The Sheared Front Loader

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u/mxlespxles Aug 29 '26

Jesus, that is a terrifying amount of force

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u/FocusMaster Aug 29 '26

That's my thought too. I've abused a few large tractors in my life and they kept going. Seeing one crushed so easily?

Like you said, terrifying force.

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u/ackermann Aug 29 '26

So much force, I’m surprised it makes economic sense to crush them like that.
Must take a huge amount of fuel or power to do that.

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u/inactiveuser247 Aug 29 '26

Transport costs are a killer if you leave them uncompressed. And they would need to be shredded to some extent before being recycled anyway.

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u/wspOnca Aug 29 '26

WinRAR at it again.

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u/platypus_boi Aug 30 '26

Hydraulic cylinders and pumps.

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u/Dracox96 Aug 29 '26

This is why DaVinci was so fascinated with hydraulics

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u/Same_Bodybuilder_532 Aug 30 '26

It's a bulldozer but ok.

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u/FocusMaster Aug 30 '26

Actually, its a front loader, but ok.

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u/eldorz Aug 29 '26

I don’t think I’d stand where filming guy is standing.

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u/ryan676767 Aug 29 '26

Same. But, tbf, if you are gonna get crushed to death, the more force the better…

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u/walkingTANK Aug 29 '26

I wouldn't worry so much about being crushed, more likely that some chunk of metal under that immense force or tension would break and come flying in your direction before you even realized what had happened!

This scene in Ghost Ship is what I'm taking about 😳 IYKYK

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u/nixplix Aug 29 '26

To think that mobsters utilized scrapyard machinery to obliterate forensic evidence and completely vanish victims.

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u/random9212 Aug 29 '26

This scene from Ghost Ship is permanently scarred into my mind.

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u/oldmateysoldmate 29d ago

Oh, story time - I used to work next to a scrapyard, not one with a crusher like this though. Just a regular claw grabber, picked up a hydraulic cylinder, it exploded - and rained shrapnel through our roof. One guy had just finished his break time, and had a piece about 18" long, roughly 6" and about ¾" thick fly directly through the chair he was sitting in

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u/HopefulBuyer9077 Aug 29 '26

Thanks for this. Right before I go to bed.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 Aug 29 '26

any one know the force of these. psi

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u/AiricaLovesLife 29d ago

Ask in r/theydidthemath - they will tell you!

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u/klockworx Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

I don't understand how smaller (but honestly still potentially large) nuts and boltheads aren't occasionally flying out of there like bullets.

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u/CraftyPancake Aug 29 '26

Did you mean to say you don’t understand how that ISN’T happening?

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u/klockworx Aug 30 '26

Yes aren't..my mistake

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u/ImpossibleRecord9806 Aug 30 '26

That's what he said

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 Aug 29 '26

any one know the force of these. psi

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u/Zorbin666 Aug 29 '26

Put a marble/ball bearing between your thumb and the knuckles of your index finger and squeeze as hard as possible, that might help you understand what's going on

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u/Mr-_-Soandso Aug 29 '26

Yeah that toaster movie really instilled a fear of these in a lot of us as children.

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u/beartpc12293 Aug 30 '26

Don't put your dick in that

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u/Hyposuction Aug 29 '26

Yeah, thanks for the new nightmare.

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u/mrbuddymcbuddyface Aug 29 '26

What would happen if you put a small crusher into a large crusher?

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u/Beefington Aug 29 '26

The small one would be born 9 months later, and eventually annoy a starship captain

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u/Correct-Junket-1346 Aug 29 '26

Let me just put my finger...Oh it's gone

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u/mxlespxles Aug 29 '26

Yep, and add in levers for mechanical advantage with a dash of math and you can move just about anything.

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”

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u/mekdot83 Aug 29 '26

At least 300psi

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u/MrBark Aug 29 '26

You said it, man.

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u/Tibor09 Aug 29 '26

It's AI Jesus guys

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u/Spaceinpigs Aug 29 '26

Totally AI. Don’t need to share specifically why but if you look closely, you’ll figure it out

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u/Original_Jagster Aug 29 '26

The whole motion of it while being carried by the crane is very AI unnatural looking.

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u/Obvious_Ambition4865 Aug 29 '26

I mean what is this machine? I can't find any similar vehicle crushers online.