compacting towers

I was wondering if anybody found an easy way to compact empty computer towers? I try to fill them up with smaller pieces but always have a lot of emptys hanging around taking up prime truck/trailer real estate. If they could be flatend easily it would allow more weight per trip. I don't want to spend time cutting them up and my tractor is lent out right now (my usuall way) any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

a tracked vehicle would work well or a industrial compactor, could always shred them

Originally Posted by Bear

I've hauled numerous loads of them going back 8 or 10 years, and never even considered messing with it, sometimes replacing the cover for easier stacking after having removed the innards, sometimes collapsing the easy to bend covers and filling the open cases with smaller things.
I have found too that if they're stacked too tight the yard can't even get a claw in there to lift them out, and wind up unloading by hand(yards that even have this service), and actually found this out the hard way. I stuffed around 25 old dot matrix printers into a bunch of computer cases, thinking they'd snatch em out and make the printers "disappear". Well, the claw couldn't get in there to grab em, and we wound up pulling it all out one piece at a time. Haha, nobody said anything though ; )

i do the same thing, i shove all the stripped floppies and cd roms and power supplies in empty cases and put the cover back on

I take the thin ones(where the carcass frame is thin) and without the cover/face I lay it flat on the ground and try to run over it with a truck tire.
Usually it will collapse down almost flat. The older/thicker steel ones are pretty stubborn and won't collapse. Almost half of them will collapse which saves a lot of space, be sure to wear gloves as it tears the metal, sharp edges.

Originally Posted by rawresale

I was picking up some pallet racking from a contractor yesterday and he had a good suggestion for compacting computer cases. Use a log splitter and modify it to flatten things. I thought that was a good idea.

perfect time to fire up the splitter thanks rawresale this will definetly help me out!!!

Originally Posted by Bear

I've hauled numerous loads of them going back 8 or 10 years, and never even considered messing with it, sometimes replacing the cover for easier stacking after having removed the innards, sometimes collapsing the easy to bend covers and filling the open cases with smaller things.
I have found too that if they're stacked too tight the yard can't even get a claw in there to lift them out, and wind up unloading by hand(yards that even have this service), and actually found this out the hard way. I stuffed around 25 old dot matrix printers into a bunch of computer cases, thinking they'd snatch em out and make the printers "disappear". Well, the claw couldn't get in there to grab em, and we wound up pulling it all out one piece at a time. Haha, nobody said anything though ; )

unless I bring whole loads of a single material or vehicles/large items all loads are hand removed hand seperated and weighed using a floor scale. i like my yard for this reason great customer service!!! yards in my area are small and the guys who work there are fast maybe 25 min to do a truck/trailer. The larger stuff gets the claw my son 6 loves it when he sees the trailer with a washer or dryer on it because he knows we go to the claw and i hype him up saying Hope jon doesn't miss and grab the truck!! so he directs the claw guy with his hands and jon being the nice guy he is puts the claw over the truck and points to it and my boy goes crazy its a riot.
small yard = big fun!

I've ran them over numerous times. The only thing that I do differently is that I put a couple old 3/4" 4x8 sheets of osb on top, just so I can protect my tires. They flatten right out when you roll a 7.3 diesel over them.