![]() 20 is powered by a 110-hp diesel engine operating at 2,000 rpm. Crushing the car with the engine intact also adds value to the scrap because it weighs more. 20 eliminates the time and expense of removing a nearly worthless engine. Older cars or cars that have burned or suffered substantial front-end damage generally do not contain an engine worth removing, so the No. Cars can be crushed even if the engine has not been removed. ![]() wide flattening the car does not significantly change its length. 20 automatic car crusher, Figure 1, manufactured by Al-Jon Inc., Ottumwa, Iowa, flattens cars into a uniform slab approximately 10-in. This is the philosophy of recycling – squeeze out the empty space from scrap to reduce its size. The crushing makes subsequent handling more productive because three or even four crushed cards can fit into the same space as one whole car. In a matter of seconds, cars that have taken the pounding of highways for thousands of miles are effortlessly reduced into a pile of scrap. ![]() 20 crusher uses hydraulic cylinders to feed and successively crush cars for economical transport to subsequent reclamation processing.Ĭar crushers provide a dramatic illustration of the power of hydraulics.
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