Drum Crusher Flattens Steel Barrels
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Miles Brett was hired for maintenance and trouble shooting at a Calgary, Alberta, business with a yard filled with thousands of steel 55-gal. drums which used to hold rubberized asphalt crack filler. Brett had to come up with a solution to get rid of them. “I had previously built a log splitter for personal use,” Brett says. “I decided to build a barrel crusher using the same concept, except it’s vertical and larger in scale. It’s equipped with a 5-in. dia. hydraulic cylinder that exerts more than 44,000 lbs. of downward pressure.”
That’s enough to crush even the thickest steel drums made in the 1920s.
Brett built the crusher using materials he had on hand plus purchased parts including an 8-hp. gas motor for the hydraulic fluid. Early on he realized he needed a strong base that wouldn’t bow, and the professional welder he
hired beefed it up with 3/4 by 4-in. steel plate on the front and back with 1 1/2-in. square steel bars across.
When finished, the crusher could flatten a barrel in under a minute. Brett stacked about 50 of them on pallets and hauled them to a metal recycler that picked them up with a magnet and paid about $100/pickup load. Getting paid for the metal was a bonus, preferable to paying drum recyclers to take them.
A video of it can be seen on YouTube: Miles Brett Crushing Drums.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Miles Brett, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (mbrett329@hotmail.com).
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Drum Crusher Flattens Steel Barrels FARM SHOP Miscellaneous Miles Brett was hired for maintenance and trouble shooting at a Calgary Alberta business with a yard filled with thousands of steel 55-gal drums which used to hold rubberized asphalt crack filler Brett had to come up with a solution to get rid of them “I had previously built a log splitter for personal use ” Brett says “I decided to build a barrel crusher using the same concept except it’s vertical and larger in scale It’s equipped with a 5-in dia hydraulic cylinder that exerts more than 44 000 lbs of downward pressure ” That’s enough to crush even the thickest steel drums made in the 1920s Brett built the crusher using materials he had on hand plus purchased parts including an 8-hp gas motor for the hydraulic fluid Early on he realized he needed a strong base that wouldn’t bow and the professional welder he hired beefed it up with 3/4 by 4-in steel plate on the front and back with 1 1/2-in square steel bars across When finished the crusher could flatten a barrel in under a minute Brett stacked about 50 of them on pallets and hauled them to a metal recycler that picked them up with a magnet and paid about $100/pickup load Getting paid for the metal was a bonus preferable to paying drum recyclers to take them A video of it can be seen on YouTube: Miles Brett Crushing Drums Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Miles Brett Calgary Alberta Canada mbrett329@hotmail com
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