can crusher

does anyone have a simple cheap device doing this ( besides Jimbos method! )

Ever try setting in a "First Graders" school chair?

Know anyone with a roller?

Wen, this is a make it your self kind of thing. Go to the Kiwi Mart (Wal- Mart) and have a look at the soda can crusher, go back to the shop and make a big soda can crusher, or you can modify a log slitter.

Wend - my solution would be to buy a 20 ton (tonne?) air/hydraulic shop press ($250 US). I have one, but have never considered crushing my cans, as I leave them with my customers as a thank you gift.

cheers lads I'll get a press good idea.

I just finished a large Air Force/DOD job. The crew I worked with used a fork truck to crush the 55 gal drums we were using. It was funny to watch him do it. It cruched them flat in a few motions. Im sure a 5 gal pail should be easy. Franklin Paint in Mass will cruch your cans. they have a big crucher. The cans look like a cube when done. Kind of like a car at a junk yard.

Hi Wend - Gazza here from Chch (Thats Christchurch in i the South Island of New Zealand, Wend lives in the other island, for the rest of you) I dont know why you dont change to 200L/44 Gallon drums, the saving per 200L/44gal is just under $300 as opposed to buying 10 x 20L, all our Waterborne and chlor rubber is purchased that way, and for everyones info we won't even go near alkoyd , its just cheap and nasty !!!! My competitiors here all use it, and Im making a killing by upselling to my clients waterborne in summer and chlor rubber in winter. Just me another kiwis 2 cents worth. Cheers all, love the site, more of a reader than a speaker.

Newstripe makes a crusher.... No idea what the cost is though. http://www.newstripe.com/ns_big_squeeze_product.htm

The link refers to a cost of $3,219.00. Surely not!?!?!

wow! didn't see that price there. I just happened to come across that site the other day while looking up something for athletic field stuff. I'll build you one for half of that price!

hiya Gaz, how are you transferring it? I have often thought about getting the 200 ltr pails for the obvious savings that come with it. how long does it take to transfer into 20 litre pails? Is it legal to keep that much flamables( 2 x 200ltr yellow and white) at a residential property? I always get paranoid in case of a fire would the insurance company pay out? . When they deliver it do you need a forklift to move it off the truck or do they have a trolley to get it off? how do you go about it? also with the waterborne (which I'd rather be using for safety and environmental reasons) how long is the drying time in summer I only use chloro. cheers wend

I have found a cheap way to crush a can me welder man is going to make a H bracket that will be dynobolted into some concrete on the ground you place a heavy duty hydraulic jack under the can which sits on a bracket that slides up and down the H bracket it will crush the cans. Very cheap and effective. Good old Kiwi ingenuity.