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    Low cost plastic bottle baler

    The following site says that the baler will produce a 35-40 pound bale that measures 3'long x 2'wide x 1'deep
    http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/topic/vermic.../ag473-12.html
    the plans where modified from this Burley (tobacco) baler
    http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/id/id38/id38.htm

    I wonder how it would work on cans.?.


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    Don't know if it would have enough pressure to compress the cans, but I've been looking for an old ringer washer and hook a drill motor to the ringers and run the cans thru the ringers and let them drop into a trashcan. You can change the thickness of the gap between the rollers.
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    It's been a while since I've seen one of those! I searched on google patents to see if I could find the workings of the wringers, but it was messing up with me so I will try later.

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    I have to wonder if the roller will catch the can and pull it through, or if the can will kinda "skate" on the rollers.

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    I can remember when I was a little kid my mom caught her shirt sleeve in one and before it got shut off she was up above her elbow thru the rollers, stayed black/blue for a week or more.

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    yea;;. those machines were mean and unforgiving ;;;;

    Ben there and done that...and it hurts....

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