Can crusher

Originally Posted by scrapping4ever

I tried to make one once. We took a piece of aluminum pipe like for flag poles welded a piece of metal to one end, cut a hole in the middle the size of a can, cut a hole by the welded piece of metal on the pipe itself about a quarter of the original size of the can, got an electric motor , and a piston from a lawn mower, atattched the piston to the motor. You would turn it on, drop the cans in, and they would fall out the other end.

That would be great if it had an automatic feed