Not trying to come off as being a D-head. Those machines are tonka toys. A scrap yard would be better off pounding a trailer or railcar then condensing it with something that small. The cylinders are the same size as a bobcat. Go big or go home. I am trying to condense scrap not split logs.
I agree with ya 100% PTS that machine would be a sorry waste of money. Kinda had it figured when he said the hydraulic pump was powered by a 5hp electric motor most log splitter's require much more.
I was going to use a 48 HP Kubota diesel to run the pump, with cylinders from a fairly large excavator that Jack had scraped out, and this still would have only been a very small press on the press with limited capabilities.
The press above looks like its best suited for baling cardboard.
Last edited by gustavus; 06-21-2012 at 08:25 AM.
We aim our machines at the smaller scrap guys that can't afford a $300,000 machine not the guys that do 400tons a week. But you would be surprised what it can do. Its actually powered by a 10hp electric which is about the same as a 25hp gas engine. Plus you have the mechnical advantage of the seesaw action of the lid. I didn't say this was the machine for every yard its a machine designed to condense white goods and scrap.
Last edited by mightymite; 06-21-2012 at 08:56 AM.
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