|Check out this gallery of videos of an industrial shredder doing its thing on a broad variety of things. Watch it gobble down oversize tires! Watch it eat a sofa! It chomps half a dozen tower-size computers and doesn’t even have to pick its teeth!|
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On March 4th, 2005 Boing Boing said:
Industrial shredder eats washing machines, tree stumps, concrete blocks
From the MAKE Blog, regarding shredders. I recently blogged (HERE) about an industrial shredder I found online. Check out the demo videos–this thing tears right through a massive load of paper… and tree stumps, and oversize tires, and a couch, and a…
On March 5th, 2005 E Pluribus Unum said:
What you do when you can’t sleep…
Ever wonder if an industrial shredder could really eat a refrigerator? Yeah, me too… Sweet! (HT to Dan’s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth)…
On March 5th, 2005 E Pluribus Unum said:
What you do when you can’t sleep…
Ever wonder if an industrial shredder could really eat a refrigerator? Yeah, me too… Sweet! (..:later:..) Damn! There must be an easier way to herd chickens… Sweet! (HT to Dan’s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth)…
On March 5th, 2005 E Pluribus Unum said:
What you do when you can’t sleep…
Ever wonder if an industrial shredder could really eat a refrigerator? Yeah, me too… Sweet! (..:later:..) Damn! There must be an easier way to herd chickens… Sweet! (HT to Dan’s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth and, of course, boingboing)…
On March 5th, 2005 Jc said:
They look like reground/machined camshafts or engine cranks. In a previous picture I just saw. Spun out eh. I think i’m going to watch the concrete in a metal drum clip…
Jc
On March 5th, 2005 steve said:
that machiene can do one damn good job! hope nobody falls in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On March 7th, 2005 Dan Ray said:
It’s funny, the responses I’ve seen to this fall strictly down gender lines. Men say, “Cool!” Women say, “I hope nobody falls in!”
Men may eventually get to “I hope nobody falls in” too, but that’s not usually the first thing out of their mouth.
On March 8th, 2005 A Bluegrass Blog said:
Shredders
We’ve recently implemented a personal document retention policy, which led to many boxes worth of old financial documents, records and credit card solicitations that needed to go away permanently. Which in turn leads one inexorably to shredders. First…
On March 8th, 2005 cathey said:
I am the webmaster at SSI….I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s comments. This IS the fun part of my job, taking and posting the videos. We see this stuff everyday but were also amazed with the video of one of our shredders eating a refrigerator in 8 seconds flat!
On March 8th, 2005 cathey said:
PS….you guys are killing me on BANDWIDTH! You had over 10,000 page views about our shredders…I’ve had over 500GB of bandwidth transfered in the last week alone. Yikes!