sdakscrapper 
I have managed to find myself a couple of local sources of cans. I am pulling in between 20 and 30 pounds of beer and pop cans each week, and in the fall I am guesstimating that I may be able to grab well over 100 pounds of cans during a few select weeks. There is a recycling company locally that only pays about half of what a few places pay within about a 50 mile drive of me, and so it makes sense for me to save them up and take a larger load on a 50 mile drive. I have been crushing all these cans by the heel of my boot so that I can haul more in a load and have been looking into figuring out something mechanical to crush cans. I see some pneumatic air powered can crushers on ebay for over a hundred bucks that have caught my eye but I'd like to build my own and hopefully not spend that much. Ideally I'd like to do something with 2 spinning wheels kind of like a baseball pitching machine that would just pull them in out of a hopper and spit them out the other side into a trash can. Does anyone have any experience with any kind of mechanical can crushers?
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