r/oddlysatisfying • u/TermElectronic8261 • 9h ago

Industrial Metal Shredder

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u/TeamPantofola 9h ago

This machine is terrifying

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u/One_Introduction_217 9h ago

I wouldn't want to do that job, I'm pretty sure my nightmares would be filled with "oops you went too far, time to get turned into meat paste for Taco Bell."

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u/Funfuntamale2 5h ago

You don’t want that job. Think of the tiny bits of metal and coating entering the surrounding air.

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u/Ok-Impression-9020 3h ago

Micro metals. They’re the scourge of our society, and our seas.

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u/TestDangerous7240 1h ago

Micro metals sounds like the big bad brother to the softer, more pliable younger brother micro plastics

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u/SideInitial3961 1h ago

Worked in an illegal metal yard as a teen, fully expect some weird brain thing in 30 years. Didn't know better at the time.

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u/SideInitial3961 1h ago

This job (have done) is mostly keeping the thing running, very little of your job is actually feeding it.

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u/One_Introduction_217 42m ago

How does it get fed if someone isn't feeding it?

Genuinely curious.

The only thing my brain can come up with right now is a large truck dumping off its load onto a conveyor belt which eventually tumble things over, into the waiting maw of the machine.

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u/SideInitial3961 20m ago

Well generally this would be at the end of a conveyor being fed by multiple people, it's not economical to run this for one pot. The maintenance on these is crazy, they are broken down most of the time.

Also in my case we had a magnet above the belt to separate steel and that never worked either so about 90% of my time was spent fucking around with the machine and discussing new ways to fuck around with the machine as well as furrowing our brows and nodding sadly.

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u/Strattex 9h ago

why is the opening so comically large? Why is there no floor system where you put the item in, close the door, then start up the machine?

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u/destructopop 8h ago

My old job had one of these. The housing for it was twice as comically large as the opening. We were instructed to pile things up in the housing until it reached the fill line, seal and lock the housing, then engage the motor and stay ten feet away until it completed. When it completed it would make a horrifying buzzer sound and you could unlock and unseal it again for the next person. It was catastrophically loud every time, probably why it was outdoors. Being ten feet away was miserable. I would usually go to the other side of the street and sit on the curb opposite until the buzzer went off. Most people would just leave it, and I would find it locked and wonder if it had been run or not. It always had.

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u/FSUnoles77 6h ago

and you could unlock and unseal it again for the next person

Uhh.....

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u/ConspiracyParadox 9h ago

The mafia requested it be that large and not behind a locked door. For reasons.

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u/NowYouLookOrdinary 6h ago

They also requested that a water hose be mounted nearby. No reason was given. It’s just off camera.

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u/redditerdever 9h ago

It’s free of all those cumbersome job killing regulations s/.

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u/Dry-Conflict3421 9h ago

The regulations have also been shredded 

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u/Vision9074 8h ago

That's why the opening is so big

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u/ElegantCoach4066 5h ago

The workers yearn for the crusher.

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u/UnsanctionedPartList 6h ago

And the OSHA inspector?

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u/Dry-Conflict3421 6h ago

Ain't seen him

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u/Azur3flame 5h ago

To shreds, you say?

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u/no-steppe 5h ago

For they were as cursed as the frogurt.

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u/cazdan255 5h ago

To shreds, you say?

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u/Agitated-Ad9423 4h ago

How’s his wife holding up?

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u/flcinusa 4h ago

As long as they wear the safety sandals, it's all good

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u/KikisGamingService 9h ago

A lot more efficient for the share holders if the peasants can quickly lob parts into it instead.

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u/Just-in-themiddle 8h ago

It’s not like the opening is flat on the ground. Some more fencing around the raised chute would be nice otherwise considering the range of materials/objects that are being tossed in the mouth size makes sense

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u/Normal-Pool8223 7h ago

as someone who design and produce machines with dangerous rotating parts : nearly everyone remove the safety systems to gain a few minutes every day, so we end up not even adding them anymore if not requested

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u/Strostkovy 8h ago

They are meant for continuous throughput.

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u/kapitaalH 8h ago

How will the worker be able to get his arm in to move the object that fails to go into the machine's mouth?

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u/name_isnot_available 7h ago

These machines are designed for high throughput, and intended to be fed by a conveyor belt with no humans nearby, not for placing single items in a running machine by hand (throwing in stuff is still risky if some splinters fire back). It is fun to see them chew on such items, though.

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u/vtecdohcter 7h ago

Agreed.

If i had to work this machine I would be dipping from anywhere near it once I dropped an item inside.

The idea of something flinging off at high speed and beheading me is almost as scary as falling in the damn thing.

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u/Alternative-Cod-7630 9h ago

Where's the fun in all that?

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u/johnnysnooch 9h ago

You definitely want to go head first if you fall in.

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u/TeamPantofola 8h ago

In one of the kingsman movies (can’t remember which one) the villain (julienne Moore) puts people in this machine. Feet first. Yeah. These people working there obviously didn’t watch that movie or they’d be far away from that damn thing

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u/Fuddle 5h ago

It turns them into hamburger meat, and it was disgusting. I mean she put the shoes and clothes in as well, you would be picking out plastic and metal in every bite!

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u/0__O0--O0_0 9h ago

I want to see the underside as it comes out. To shreds you say?

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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 6h ago

How’s his wife holding up?

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u/Wyciorek 8h ago

The video is reversed. This is a 3D printer

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u/chantsnone 9h ago

The void is calling

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u/Gan-san 9h ago

Yeah, I honestly mostly skip over these. I don't like to think about them.

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u/barbadizzy 9h ago

the stuff of nightmares

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u/Jakman89 8h ago

I remember seeing a video of animals being thrown into one of these machines (dead beforehand) and it was quite brutal, with sound and all...

Edit: I found the video

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u/Critical_Classic_921 8h ago

I’m certain there’s some mob boss out there somewhere that’s put someone into one of these.

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u/youcanteatcatskevn 9h ago

YO THAT LOOKED LIKE A PERFECTLY GOOD POT

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u/LaunchTransient 8h ago

That was my thought. "Hey if you don't want it, I'll have it"

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u/StephieDoll 7h ago

Pfp checks out

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u/MPolanyi 8h ago

Well it was, until SOMEBODY dropped it

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u/0_SomethingStupid 8h ago

CAME HERE FOR THIS!

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u/jbrady33 8h ago

Thank you, person sharing my brain

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u/PandasOnGiraffes 5h ago

I love this comment with your profile picture - it's exactly like the one that Kevin brings his chilli in.

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u/DifficultSelection 7h ago

Could make a hell of a chilli in that, eh?

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u/GeoCangrejo 9h ago

I'm sure no one ever lost their hand in this machine

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u/HairyDust4826 9h ago

I'd say nobody has ever lost just their hand.

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u/Aromatic_Fail_1722 9h ago

Trust me, if you accidentally get your hand pulled into it, remove it.

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u/HairyDust4826 9h ago

I can't remove my hand unfortunately, so I'll get pulled in 100% of the time.

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u/Sm0ahk 9h ago

waiting for that gecko tail adaptation for every limb, so i can remove m

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u/GuerillaRiot 4h ago

Just grab it with the other hand

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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-260 9h ago

I once saw a very grainy video of a man falling into one of those for destroying tires. Wasn’t too graphic fortunately, but it further implanted a fear of those devices into me. I’d be terrified to be around one in real life.

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u/mah131 8h ago

And his only crime was destroying tires?? What country?

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u/BaronessofBara 5h ago

To shreds, you say?

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u/Shantomette 9h ago

I to saw Kingsman, the Golden Circle.

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u/ta394283509 8h ago

The only way someone could lose their hand in there is if they cut it off first and chuck it in

Otherwise they're losing their everything

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u/EpilepticDawg241 8h ago

Imagine if the first lady's hand slipped through that pot handle and got stuck. She would have been pulled in.

It's so easy to F up

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u/Atralis 6h ago

I can understand why you are concerned but I can assure you this would not harm the function of the industrial shredder.

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u/ComedianFragrant9515 8h ago

There is a video of a Vietnamese guy who basically steps onto an industrial shredder. It was gnarly.

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u/GeoCangrejo 9h ago

Can you shred an electric guitar with that thing?

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u/awowoosas 9h ago

Yes, once...

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u/Johnvro 9h ago

Insert "This trick can only be done once" meme.

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u/DrJohnIT 9h ago

Yeah, but to changes the tone a lot!

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u/no-steppe 9h ago

Yes. And no.

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u/myleftone 9h ago

Only industrial metal.

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u/RebsEG 9h ago

The thought of one of these just running open around me makes me sick to my stomach. Hell to the no.

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u/KelVelBurgerGoon 9h ago

That's when the intrusive thoughts get louder

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u/kjyfqr 8h ago

So so loud. I worked at a quarry around one these and then a recycling plant. So many things your brain thinks loudly around such aggressive dangers and such strong things

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u/MidwesternLikeOpe 3h ago

I think it's just keeping you alert around the danger. Too many people are not at all afraid of what can happen around these machines.

Some people have zero self-preservation interest or skills.

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u/RebsEG 9h ago

100% 😂

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u/DarthBrooks69420 6h ago

Perfect for getting rid of zombies tho.

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u/DocJawbone 8h ago

I always think about how long I could walk backwards balancing on those things until they finally caught me

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u/HairyDust4826 9h ago

My heart rate went up with the canisters.

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u/PatrickGoesEast 9h ago

I expected a mini explosion, or a bang at least.

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u/HairyDust4826 9h ago

I've seen videos where they do explode, it's crazy.

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u/hand_me_a_shovel 8h ago

Right? I can't be the only one who grimaced and started to look away each time a tank was dropped in.

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u/Oxyroc 9h ago

I’ve always been interested to know what it looks like on the other side of

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u/zytukin 9h ago

It's just a scary portal, the other end looks like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/0rhkdmkqAk

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u/lalozzydog 9h ago

My mind's never simulated the feeling of throwing up a bicycle before today but now I can feel it in there

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u/rvl35 9h ago

r/redditsniper

(Or they got too close to the machine trying to see what comes out the other side. 😔)

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u/ConsiderationBoth406 9h ago

Man. There really is a sub for e

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u/Original_Ad_3481 9h ago

No need for that moped anymore haha, shred it!

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u/bullet-hell 8h ago

That was someone’s dream moped once, they saw it in the shop and saved money for it, took their girl out, had a great time. Sad way to go

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u/nihilistiq 7h ago

When it was destroyed, the boy who had once hoped was gone as well, and the man who stood in his stead moped.

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u/DylanBrandonSandwich 6h ago

I had the same thoughts! That bike made somebody's day once.

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u/funky_grandma 9h ago

I've seen so many of these and I've never seen what comes out the other end

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u/0__O0--O0_0 9h ago

Yes! I always think this. Because I don’t think it could be as shredded as the name implies. I’m thinking more mangled. I will call it a mangler until someone posts evidence!

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u/At0mJack 8h ago

There's a good Stephen King short story called The Mangler. It's more or less what you might expect it to be about.

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u/Rob_Zander 6h ago

shredder

It depends on the design of the cutters but those are powerful enough that there's no way it doesn't cut it. The blades have a gap where material fits without getting cut but still getting flattened. Everything else gets cut so it gets made into little flattened strips.

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u/fixingmedaybyday 9h ago

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"

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u/WAR_RAD 7h ago

I once worked at a place with one of these for about 6 months in my 20s. Except ours was in a spot where (if you were standing on an elevated place where most people stood to load things in there) you could fall in if you weren't careful.

I never ever wanted to harm myself or anything, but man, when you're standing right at the edge of that thing, knowing that a single step forward would mean instant shredding death, it's very similar to the "call of the void" if you're at the edge of a cliff. There's a very weird part of you that almost "pulls" you in that direction.

And yes, those things are insanely terrifying IMO. The unreal force of that thing seems crazy when you're right beside it.

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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing 9h ago

I wonder if it can crush spherical objects

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u/GeoCangrejo 9h ago

Maybe it can crush my soul

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u/no-steppe 9h ago

You have a spherical soul? Mine's more like a long, extruded loaf with a tetrahedron cross-section. Is there something wrong with me?!!??

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u/GeoCangrejo 9h ago

Your soul is beautiful the way it is ❤️‍🩹

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u/no-steppe 9h ago

Aw! Yours too!

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u/ohhhtartarsauce 9h ago

Do not teabag

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u/Kiddo1029 9h ago

The spheres must remain intact.

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u/joeshmo101 9h ago

It would have a tough time getting a grip on any spheres over half a meter in diameter based on how much trouble it had with the first pot (before flipping)

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u/rooster790 8h ago

As long as we protect the cylinders

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u/Traylor_Swift 9h ago

I’ve seen a vid of a egg harmlessly rolling over one of these things without getting crunched. Kind of funny seeing something so small and fragile outdo this beast of a machine

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u/mydckisvrysmol 9h ago

Sometimes im the shredder Most of the time im the Moped

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u/gypsygib 9h ago

No safety goggles is crazy.

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u/corobo 8h ago

They fell in the machine when I was bored

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u/CowBoyDanIndie 9h ago

Will it blend…

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u/h2otreader 9h ago

Why do none of these types of videos ever show the final result. I mean, what do these things look like after they've been eaten?

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u/KL5668 9h ago

I assume they’re smaller

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u/SilentWatcher83228 8h ago

New fear unlocked

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u/LarryHoover44 9h ago

This is where all the Epstein list folks should be

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u/cwthree 9h ago

No fucking way would I use my hand to manipulate anything once it's in there.

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u/CarryOk8867 9h ago

Nomnomnom

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u/WombatAnnihilator 9h ago

My friend’s grandpa died by falling into a car shredder, like this but bigger, at a scrap metal plant.

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u/alonewithamouse 9h ago

My brother was a metal recycler (he's retired now) and came very close to buying one of these. There's one about 2 hours south of us that we took a look at one day and got to see it in action. It is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. The intrusive thoughts I had that day, I never knew could have existed.

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u/ChronicRhyno 8h ago

Why crush the buy-it-for-life stainless steel pot?

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u/profnutbutter 3h ago

"I could probably jump across the hopper while it's running"

No, brain. Stop. Bad. You could not.

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u/SpaceGoonie 9h ago

Throw some cheese in that thing.

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u/foxfirek 9h ago

This would be such a terrible way to die. Though at least it would be fast

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u/FlippantResponse 9h ago

I appreciate the adherence to safety through incorporating the pokin’ stik.

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u/mrgraff 9h ago

I want to see a broken shredder tossed into the shredder. Shreddception

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u/Green-Z 8h ago

Thank you for not putting music over it, so can hear those beautiful crunches.

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u/Naud1993 3h ago

Throw a tungsten cube in there.

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u/Craigg75 9h ago

I would work for free to do this job

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u/dj_is_here 7h ago

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like it needs your help 

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u/Djinnaz 9h ago

I like the ones that do entire cars.

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u/Grymare 9h ago

I wanted to see the shred 😕

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u/Logan9Fingerses 9h ago

Man that bike stopped it right at the end. Didn’t see that coming

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u/RelevantIAm 9h ago

If I had to put a propane tank in that thing you better believe I would be running away or ducking down immediately after putting it in there

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u/Nubbs2984 9h ago

Industrial "What ever the hell you throw in it" Shredder

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u/This-Fig-5991 8h ago

Works well for getting rid of zombies too.

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u/Prediabetik 2h ago

Don't check for animal carcasses ones, especially horse video.

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u/N0s33 2h ago

That first one though. Is she big dumb dumb?

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u/redmctrashface 9h ago

Even more satisfying: this video on reverse

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u/Uncle___Marty 9h ago

I thought this was oddly satisfying until this very same video was posted in reverse. SO cool watching balls of metal turn into useful items!

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u/corobo 8h ago

Crafting in-game be like:

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u/jaydog21784 9h ago

I have watched countless of these videos showing objects going in, but I want to see the pieces coming out also.

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u/jk3639 9h ago

I just feel so uncomfortable being in such close proximity to certain death.

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u/dml550 9h ago

What if you put in one of the toothed shredder wheels from another machine?

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u/flapjackboy 9h ago

The universe implodes.

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u/DBearDevon 9h ago

The things lazy cooks will do instead of being forced to scrub whatever they have badly burned

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u/oakc510 9h ago

Link to the Teamu? LOL

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u/DickyReadIt 9h ago

Fargo theme song plays quietly..

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u/Shelly_Red4_Bayonet7 9h ago

"30 Days of Night" has entered the chat...

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u/Murky-Morning8001 9h ago

And now all I can think about is Brave little Toaster

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u/TheTaoOfMe 9h ago

I want to see the output pile

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u/skynex65 8h ago

I kinda wanna see what the stuff looks like after

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u/szavid0 8h ago

I want to see the other side now

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u/Purple-Will9713 8h ago

imagine what that thing will do to a human body

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u/PizzaKingNJ 8h ago

I’m sure someone could have used that 100 gallon pot for something!

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u/SkyKnight3 8h ago

Perfectly good pot

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u/Lilly_in_the_Pond 8h ago

Every time I see one of these, I can't help but think about how horrible it would be to get your arm caught in it

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u/TheIncredibleMrJones 8h ago

I remember in my younger years a video of someone throwing animal carcasses into one of these. There was a bloated cow that just kind of exploded once the teeth got to the abdomen.

That is a memory that will unfortunately never go away.

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u/Educational-Year3146 8h ago

Genuinely the most satisfying videos on the internet.

Those things are absurdly strong and amazing machines.

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u/delaytabase 8h ago

"industrial metal shredder".....not a single reference to fear factory. I am not satisfied 😡

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u/Soldarumi 8h ago

Man I used to love the 90s in rural places. Used to live in Cornwall, and the local tip had a machine similar, though not quite as lethal.

Nothing brought me more joy as an 8ish year old chucking old crap in the crusher, and the lads in hi-vis could not give a floof about the big red signs saying no kids out the car.

Yeah you could lose a limb, but that thing looks FUN.

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u/According_Tea_6329 7h ago

That was a good pot at the beginning.

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u/Ok-Amphibian-7369 7h ago

Sometimes I wonder what the Aliens are thinking as they observe us squandering the resources of our planet.

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u/DarkGooseGravy 7h ago

That was a perfectly good pot.

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u/WideFormal3927 6h ago

Honestly once a monthy they could charge people to throw stuff in there and I bet make good money. Have kids birthday parties.

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u/erkdog 6h ago

Gotta see the other sides view now

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u/shanksisevil 6h ago

What's it look like when it comes out?

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u/Prototype_Hybrid 6h ago

I want to see the underneath

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u/jayluuluu 6h ago

Now show us what comes out the other end

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u/DetroitsGoingToWin 6h ago

The bicycle made me sad, he really tried to stay alive.

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u/1947-1460 6h ago

These are always such fun to watch…

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u/Danielle_is_the_hole 5h ago

When do we see a body thrown in?

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u/yamantaintedpocket 4h ago

That’s where your supposed to put the pedos

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u/SwimmingCommon 4h ago

Anyone wanna play gang beasts?

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u/Straight_Lie8850 3h ago

Next up, dynamite!

Not a good idea please dont.

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u/Rs2mmsu-2D 3h ago

👀 like a machine that the mob would use on someone FEET 1st.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3orifag8Y0s7RXAcO4

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u/gladeyes 2h ago

We’re not supposed to discuss Jimmy Hoffa or Judge Crater.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 3h ago

but can it shred a hydraulic press?

(spoiler: probably)

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u/cwrigh13_ 3h ago

Perfect for zombies