Drum Crusher Flattens Steel Barrels

Drum Crusher Flattens Steel Barrels FARM SHOP Miscellaneous Miles Brett was hired for maintenance and trouble shooting at a Calgary Alberta business with a yard filled with thousands of steel 55-gal drums which used to hold rubberized asphalt crack filler Brett had to come up with a solution to get rid of them “I had previously built a log splitter for personal use ” Brett says “I decided to build a barrel crusher using the same concept except it’s vertical and larger in scale It’s equipped with a 5-in dia hydraulic cylinder that exerts more than 44 000 lbs of downward pressure ” That’s enough to crush even the thickest steel drums made in the 1920s Brett built the crusher using materials he had on hand plus purchased parts including an 8-hp gas motor for the hydraulic fluid Early on he realized he needed a strong base that wouldn’t bow and the professional welder he hired beefed it up with 3/4 by 4-in steel plate on the front and back with 1 1/2-in square steel bars across When finished the crusher could flatten a barrel in under a minute Brett stacked about 50 of them on pallets and hauled them to a metal recycler that picked them up with a magnet and paid about $100/pickup load Getting paid for the metal was a bonus preferable to paying drum recyclers to take them A video of it can be seen on YouTube: Miles Brett Crushing Drums Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Miles Brett Calgary Alberta Canada mbrett329@hotmail com

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