Can crusher

When i was much younger i used to walk the town picking up cans, scouring dumps,and a few beer drinkers along the route saved then up for me. A good heavy post mall worked fine, just lay them on the ground and splat,splat did the trick. The picking them up twice did slow me down. later a harbor freight manual can crusher worked just fine. It worked even better after the kids were big enough to do it,they loved crushing cans,but when the teen years came about i lost my cheap labor

Originally Posted by Arkansaw

Later a harbor freight manual can crusher worked just fine. It worked even better after the kids were big enough to do it,they loved crushing cans,but when the teen years came about i lost my cheap labor

LOL!! My secratary brings her 5 year old grandson out to the shop a couple days a week & he loves crushing cans. He's good cheap help, a bag of gummy worms a day and he's a happy camper.

Originally Posted by Dieseldozer

LOL!! My secratary brings her 5 year old grandson out to the shop a couple days a week & he loves crushing cans. He's good cheap help, a bag of gummy worms a day and he's a happy camper.

thats why farmers have lots of kids....free labour

I've got a setup for quite some time now that is cheap, and works well. Get a 5 gallon metal bucket, 12"x12" 3/8" thick sheet of steel, 2'-3' long black pipe. Cut a circle out of the steel, about 1/2" less then the diameter of the bucket bottom. Weld the black pipe to the middle of the cut-out. Easy peasy. Only issue I have sometimes is the cans wont come out of the bucket, just gotta smack her around, or add a bit a lube to the bucket before you crush em.