Originally Posted by
sdakscrapper
I have managed to find myself a couple of local sources of cans. I am pulling in between 20 and 30 pounds of beer and pop cans each week, and in the fall I am guesstimating that I may be able to grab well over 100 pounds of cans during a few select weeks. There is a recycling company locally that only pays about half of what a few places pay within about a 50 mile drive of me, and so it makes sense for me to save them up and take a larger load on a 50 mile drive. I have been crushing all these cans by the heel of my boot so that I can haul more in a load and have been looking into figuring out something mechanical to crush cans. I see some pneumatic air powered can crushers on
ebay for over a hundred bucks that have caught my eye but I'd like to build my own and hopefully not spend that much. Ideally I'd like to do something with 2 spinning wheels kind of like a baseball pitching machine that would just pull them in out of a hopper and spit them out the other side into a trash can. Does anyone have any experience with any kind of mechanical can crushers?
I know it would be a fairly big investment but have you considered baling your cans? There's a couple of balers on an online auction in minneapolis with a couple days to go and so far the high bid is $480. Now I know there's still a few days to go and anything can happen so it's hard to say what they will sell for. I don't know how often you sell your cans but if you figure the amount of space saved by baling cans rather than having them loose and figure the time it takes to make a bale of cans vs. the time it takes you to crush them individually a baler might be the best bang for your buck in the long run. Just my $.02
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