Yea just a loose bale. Like I said I did not want to crush the devil out of the copper. Just make it more managable and easier to store. I have actually done this before and light can be seen through the bale. Oil filter crushers have some guts for sure. They can flatten the toughest filters. Thanks for the advice though.
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Make sure your bale is a loose bale or the yard may not want to buy it in case there is something hidden inside. I had a guy bring me a 4x4x2" block of copper that he baled really tight in an oil filter press. After he left I was looking at it and there was some brass mixed through it that I didn't see when buying it. We made an alligator shear out of some steel plate, thick pipe, truck rim, small cylinder and an old hydraulic power pack that we got in the scrap. works good for what we do with it (chop and clean copper/brass/aluminum). You can take a roll of 3/8 copper and make a cut through the whole roll on both sides then place the two halves together and make a cut through it all at once.