I've spent 30 years repairing vehicles. I think it's time for a change. I want this guy's job destroying things; no customers to satisfy. It has to be a great stress reliever!
This is so cool. I have watched this video a few times already. I had a family come over my home to watch it with us. We all enjoyed it and decided to share it with another family who is willing to drive 3 hours to watch it with us. Guess you can't go wrong with this video. It's very nice to see that a great video can get do great reviews. I will be watching it again tonight with our neighbor.
As an unfortunate regular customer of New York city's MTA bus, I find this video very soothing for the soul, the dysfunction that is MTA is absurd. Notice how the operator kept picking on the drivers seat location.. I guess he's a customer too!!
What a horrid waste of a good bus!! The GMC RTS II Advanced Design bus was and still is the MOST durable coach GM ever built. As for scrap value, the body panels are worth about $200 each. The windows about $300 each The door engines even as rebuilable cores about $150. The HVAC package over $2000. The engine core about $2500. The transmission another $2500. Who ever sent this bus to be dismantled in this way was a FOOL!!
Before I retired I used to work for a transit district which had these babies. LOVED to work on them. GM had created one of the very best buses it ever built. 2-3 million miles of city operation was not unheard of.
+Wayne Alan I don't know much about these buses but having worked in a breakers yard for a long time, I can see there are a lot of useful parts which are just being wasted , sad times,
+Wayne Alan I used to work in the transit industry and agencies can get federal $$$ to buy new buses whether they need them or not. When it comes to free $$$ from the government, it's a case of "Use it or lose it". However, its' also a huge -and I mean HUGE- waste of both financial and material resources.
They'll have taken any bits deemed to be worth saving off it before it gets fed to this machine. Working parts are worth a lot more than shredded scrap. This is a cheap way of dealing with the residue thats left after they've removed the valuable bits.
That's an "RTS" transit bus which has a unitized body and frame. They are very strong and to qualify for federal transit administration funding, they must pass a 4000 Lb. side impact test.
***** Transit agencies can get funding (70% of the cost) from the federal government to buy new buses every 12 years. That encourages agencies to just scrap their existing buses instead of maintaining and rebuilding. It's a huge waste resources
+Lefty McStinky Actually they make EXCELLENT conversions to motor homes. I did one to the one I bought and it is the quietest motor home I've ever ridden in.
+Cacharroteca NOS I agree, that was a terrible on what they did to that bus. It looked like it could have been fix, there didn’t look like any thing was wrong with it, it even had a motor. They probable couldn’t start it up so they scrap it.
+Tim L No sir. The average life span of a bus typically is about 15-20 years. After that time, the frames and bodies develop stress cracks. My company uses x-ray on the frames. NJDOT comes in and determines whether or not the bus gets a new sticker. If it does not pass their tests? The bus get's put out of service. So you can't just look at the this video and say, nothing wrong with the bus.
Wow… I didn’t think they did that to determine that the bus would have to taking off the road if it didn`t pass. I wondered what then did with all the old buses because I never seen any,.. any wear. Now I know that they go to the scrap yard to get re-cycled. Thank you for telling me that.
+Tim L well on the flip side of this, the scrap yards will gladly sell the buses as long as they hold the title to a private individual. in some cases, they take them to club meets where other bus fans own their own buses. some buses even get turned into more motor homes.
Can't believe I sat through the entire 15 minute video. Mesmerizing. For some reason this reminded me strongly of the scene in Jurassic Park (the first one) where the T.Rex flips the SUV and then starts ripping it apart, ripping bits off it etc.
it's crazy, you know. You see these big buses on the road or Highway and think "that bus looks so heavy, it's huge" yet here's a crane tossing it around like a toy... damn.
+chris logan Yep. best and structurally the strongest bus ever manufactured. 30', 35', 40' and 45' (45' was a custom order only 12 of them ever made) 5 foot modular sections of stainless steel with a pair of stainless steel guide rails for assembly.
That is a waste of parts. Where I work we have a coach that is currently off the road due to it having a blown turbo, but we can't get any parts for it because nobody saves the parts because they just crush them for fun.
i was mislead by the title... i came here from a SSI video, expecting to see a bus go through a shredder.. skipped all through the video, no shredder, then i look at the caption to say it's "preparing a bus to get shredded"... let down
Drove for 21 years in Milwaukee and we had 150 backbone of the fleet. Didn't like them on heavy routes as doors didn't close quickly and slow to make transition. A lot of squeaky plastic and fiberglass and I recall they got less than 5mpg
Dam do those buses take a pounding! Did you guys see that bucket loader PLOW INTO THE SIDE OF THE BUS?! How come they remove the wheels on the cars but NOT the buses??
You know since the Scooby-Doo Gang's 50-year-old Mystery Machine van had been driven for years since 1969, it seems it's time for that crummy old vehicle to get DESTROYED!!!!!! (In Vyond)
Wooah! When you said shredded i didn't think you meant it literally. It's surprisingly rare to get footage of something getting completely ripped apart. Usually people film a minute of maybe a gas axe at work and then move on.......
They should have provided it to developing countries. Indian railways provided their Metre Gauge locomotives and coaches to some African countries and South Asian countries when they decided to expand the Broad Gauge rail network.
There really isn't much metal on this buses, we had several of them that we sent to the scrapper with no engine or transmission in it. and when all was said and done we got 200 a piece for them, the frame is stainless steel, aluminum and fiber glass shell. We ended up selling them to private parties for more money than the scrap yard gave us. The best way would have been to set it on fire and clean up the mess afterwards, the aluminum melts pretty good. Seen a few burn to the ground.
I once worked on a scrapyard and operated excavators and forklifts and I can tell you it can be fun tearing a bus apart in no-time! I didnt even have to care avoiding scratches!.....lol!!
slowpoke96z28 well, shredding a bus in under 20 mins. was the givven time on the scrapyard I worked on. When you have to prepare up to 20 busses a day for the shredder, you have to hurry up!
Gives me an idea for a Reality TV show: Pack a bus (outfitted with live video cameras) full of senior citizens who think they've won a free trip to the local casino. Then have the bus take a detour through the Junkyard of Hell!! 😨😱😈
That was a terrible on what they did to that bus. It looked like it could have been fix, there didn’t look like any thing was wrong with it, it even had a motor. They probable couldn’t start it up so they scrap it.
Sometimes these old machines need to be scrapped, I am a fleet technician, and lemme tell ya, some days I would love to do this to a vehicle, I am one of those people who see a vehicle for its potential, and enjoy rebuilding it into a usable machine, but sometimes its too far gone. Besides, it will be melted down and turned into something new, and hopefully improved. And no, destroying a vehicle is not illegal. What I thought was really dumb was when 'cash for clunkers' took descent vehicles - that most times were driven to the dealer, purposely ruined the engine, and crushed them, heck most of them that were crushed were way newer than what I had been driving. Had it been my decision, I would have offered those vehicles to the people driving a real old junker for a low price, and removed the really old (dangerous) junk from the road. But instead they destroyed them.
+Mike Ebz Except for the RTS II that was hit by a train, I have never seen one which was "too far gone". These coaches were all stainless steel modular (5' each) construction. They were designed to go over 2 million miles in the very worst kind of operation "Stop and Go". Garbage trucks are replaced after about 6 years. Buses have a half-life of 12 years. Back in 1972 I went to work for a transit district and we only retired buses when the Feds said we met the 14 year average age for the fleet. Our RTS's went nearly 18 years before we finally decided to retire them and then that was NOT because they were worn out, it was because the engines were 2 cycle design which could not be brought into spec for smog purposes. Re-power packages were possible however it was more economical ($'s wise) to replace them. The coaches were then sold at auction. I bought one and it is now a very nice motor home.
PlyingFiddle260 because we are men and we love strong machines. And we love to watch other men penetrating and destroying things. Not only in porn movies....lol
It's like some nature show. "Once the prey has been killed the predator must finish his meal quickly as to not attract scavengers. Naturally the predator starts with the tastiest parts first." "The bulldozers will have to wait their turn"
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I've spent 30 years repairing vehicles. I think it's time for a change. I want this guy's job destroying things; no customers to satisfy. It has to be a great stress reliever!
This is so cool. I have watched this video a few times already. I had a family come over my home to watch it with us. We all enjoyed it and decided to share it with another family who is willing to drive 3 hours to watch it with us. Guess you can't go wrong with this video. It's very nice to see that a great video can get do great reviews. I will be watching it again tonight with our neighbor.
nothing is quite as it seems
@@jackster330 I wonder why they drove 3 hours to watch a bus demo vid somewhere else. Don't they have You Tube!
As an unfortunate regular customer of New York city's MTA bus, I find this video very soothing for the soul, the dysfunction that is MTA is absurd. Notice how the operator kept picking on the drivers seat location.. I guess he's a customer too!!
What a horrid waste of a good bus!! The GMC RTS II Advanced Design bus was and still is the MOST durable coach GM ever built. As for scrap value, the body panels are worth about $200 each. The windows about $300 each The door engines even as rebuilable cores about $150. The HVAC package over $2000. The engine core about $2500. The transmission another $2500. Who ever sent this bus to be dismantled in this way was a FOOL!!
+Wayne Alan Agreed
Before I retired I used to work for a transit district which had these babies. LOVED to work on them. GM had created one of the very best buses it ever built. 2-3 million miles of city operation was not unheard of.
+Wayne Alan I don't know much about these buses but having worked in a breakers yard for a long time, I can see there are a lot of useful parts which are just being wasted , sad times,
+Barry McGuigan Agreed
+Wayne Alan I used to work in the transit industry and agencies can get federal $$$ to buy new buses whether they need them or not. When it comes to free $$$ from the government, it's a case of "Use it or lose it". However, its' also a huge -and I mean HUGE- waste of both financial and material resources.
A BUS. A TRAIN. A PLANE. THEY ARE AL HOLLOW INSITE. IF YOU MADE THE SHREDDER BIG AS NEEDED. I MAILT ALREADY TO SOME FACTORIES
I'm gonna be sick! Such harshness to a beloved RTS
Smash that crap up - that was junk!
heelfan1234
It could well have been a flood victim or something nasty like that, no use keeping it around!
Aussie50 Good call, we must get rid of junk to make way for new vehicles.
***** The old ones are shit, they pollute and use more fuel. Break them all for scrap!
They'll have taken any bits deemed to be worth saving off it before it gets fed to this machine. Working parts are worth a lot more than shredded scrap. This is a cheap way of dealing with the residue thats left after they've removed the valuable bits.
That guy must love his job it looks like so much fun
That's an "RTS" transit bus which has a unitized body and frame. They are very strong and to qualify for federal transit administration funding, they must pass a 4000 Lb. side impact test.
***** Transit agencies can get funding (70% of the cost) from the federal government to buy new buses every 12 years.
That encourages agencies to just scrap their existing buses instead of maintaining and rebuilding.
It's a huge waste resources
+Lefty McStinky Actually they make EXCELLENT conversions to motor homes. I did one to the one I bought and it is the quietest motor home I've ever ridden in.
12:20 I thought they drained all the fluids before they do demolish? I can't tell, but that looks like the location for the fuel tank.
it's really hard to not see them as like dinosaurs or like great mechanical beasts
New York had a lot of these during the late '80s up to mid '90s.
getting paid for having fun. the best job ever
This video takes me back to some of the old sy/fy movies of the 50’s/60’s! That machine operator probably sleeps better at night that I do!
There is some kind of satisfaction to be had watching this..
INSIDE THAT BUS, WAS MY MOTHER I LAW... YEAH!
Awesome!, gotta keep on shredding :D. love the way it hits the ground and one of the tires lets go!
*****
lol Twilight
Omg bronies run there gonna grind us XD
* _sniff!_ * Ya can't help but get a little choked up, seeing the ol' gal go...
Damn! that man has a beautiful machine control... he makes the act of shredding look like a fine and delicate art :3
The actual shredding is done by another machine that uses a 6000 Hp. motor to grind up the remains.
Well I really don't know much about this kind of machines but I liked what I saw :P
That bus would have done for us, we could of lived on that! What a shame. Still dreaming of going back on the road in a double decker.
+Cacharroteca NOS
I agree, that was a terrible on what they did to that bus.
It looked like it could have been fix, there didn’t look like any thing was
wrong with it, it even had a motor. They probable couldn’t start it up so they
scrap it.
+Tim L No sir. The average life span of a bus typically is about 15-20 years. After that time, the frames and bodies develop stress cracks. My company uses x-ray on the frames. NJDOT comes in and determines whether or not the bus gets a new sticker. If it does not pass their tests? The bus get's put out of service. So you can't just look at the this video and say, nothing wrong with the bus.
Wow… I didn’t think they did that to determine that the bus would have to taking off the road if it didn`t pass. I wondered what then did with all the old buses because I never seen any,.. any wear. Now I know that they go to the scrap yard to get re-cycled. Thank you for telling me that.
+Tim L well on the flip side of this, the scrap yards will gladly sell the buses as long as they hold the title to a private individual. in some cases, they take them to club meets where other bus fans own their own buses. some buses even get turned into more motor homes.
+Tim L there is a scrap yard in new Jersey that sells buses, if they have any at that time for about 6000 bucks.
I wondered where my bus went. I only nipped into Mc Donalds for a burger.
Can't believe I sat through the entire 15 minute video. Mesmerizing.
For some reason this reminded me strongly of the scene in Jurassic Park (the first one) where the T.Rex flips the SUV and then starts ripping it apart, ripping bits off it etc.
I love this! It's probably the second most fun thing that can happen on or to a bus.
I played it backwards...looks like you made a bus to me from shreds
that was a nice 1996 TMC RTS nova bus :(
how did i get here? i need to be doing my homework, and i just watched a 15 minute video of a bus getting shredded!
+TF2Player By clicking on the video, otherwise you wouldn't of made a comment.
It's like watching a giant metal animal picking at the corpse of their prey. The worker driving is a master of his craft. It's beautiful.
it's crazy, you know. You see these big buses on the road or Highway and think "that bus looks so heavy, it's huge" yet here's a crane tossing it around like a toy... damn.
good video.
6:23 How did the operator fling some of the parts of the bus like that
A lot of good parts wasted
Playing a claw machine in a nutshell
You have the BEST job!👍
The worst job you mean
I imagine being in the back of that bus while that goes down is what being in a T-Rex attack would be like.
move to the back of the bus! that was an RTS the toughest work horse out of any transportation system. It took a while for that machine to mangle it.
+chris logan Yep. best and structurally the strongest bus ever manufactured. 30', 35', 40' and 45' (45' was a custom order only 12 of them ever made) 5 foot modular sections of stainless steel with a pair of stainless steel guide rails for assembly.
So it's like playing a prize claw game for a living: you miss your target half the time, and when you don't miss, all you get is junk.
"Your bus will be a few minutes late due to some slight mechanical issues."
i feel you bro. the claw machine always drops my prizes
That is a waste of parts. Where I work we have a coach that is currently off the road due to it having a blown turbo, but we can't get any parts for it because nobody saves the parts because they just crush them for fun.
:(, what a waste indeed.
Charlotte Clarke
The derpy pug it is for broken cars so you're an idiot my mom's boyfriend channel is this
Jay your the idiot, you can't f***ing spell
I remember when those RTS IIs were the latest thing from GM Truck and Coach.
i was mislead by the title... i came here from a SSI video, expecting to see a bus go through a shredder.. skipped all through the video, no shredder, then i look at the caption to say it's "preparing a bus to get shredded"... let down
DAMN! I wish I had that job
The poor bus!
Zo Sanabria *Exactly*
This guy has the best job ever!
@1:43
bus: "pull my hair daddy" 😂😭
@stephen Sanchez 😂😂😂🔥🔥
As a waste management consultant, I'm very impressed with the new version of. Equipment
I grew up riding the RTS by GMC... This video is sad to watch.
Looks like Speed 3 was canceled :P
I think you missed the point of the joke
+Colin Donovan LOL!! More modern version of a GM Bus would be very correct in Speed 3
+Colin Donovan This IS Speed 3 :D
Drove for 21 years in Milwaukee and we had 150 backbone of the fleet. Didn't like them on heavy routes as doors didn't close quickly and slow to make transition. A lot of squeaky plastic and fiberglass and I recall they got less than 5mpg
Linus- "You didn't say you were gonna kill it!!"
Dam do those buses take a pounding! Did you guys see that bucket loader PLOW INTO THE SIDE OF THE BUS?! How come they remove the wheels on the cars but NOT the buses??
bus:heeeelp!
8:09
May that RTS rest in piece...
Rye bus born unknown
Died June 11 2012
May you have a nice long femin the big bus station in heaven
Life
@@goldcoastfilms7065 xdsz
pieces
You know since the Scooby-Doo Gang's 50-year-old Mystery Machine van had been driven for years since 1969, it seems it's time for that crummy old vehicle to get DESTROYED!!!!!! (In Vyond)
Why does this bring me so much joy ?
This is a job I could love.
You get to destroy all kinds of stuff and play with the big boy toys to get the job done.
Shred a Sherman tank next !
*WHY DOES MY LITERAL FAVORITE BUS IN THE WORLD HAVE TO BE ABUSED TO DEATH LIKE THIS*
Cool job :)
I think one of the passengers in the bus pulled the "Stop Requested" cable during this procedure.
No, Not THAT bus !!!
Wooah! When you said shredded i didn't think you meant it literally. It's surprisingly rare to get footage of something getting completely ripped apart. Usually people film a minute of maybe a gas axe at work and then move on.......
Every man's dream job! Thanks for the post.
after that claw clang there goes the mega punch 😂😂
I used to love going to scrapyards with my dad as a kid...
They need to make a shredder that will fit one whole!
That bus is Busted!!!!
I didn't expect to see you here.
HDXFH расстреляю
At first the bus was like, hey Dude!
Then the excavader was like, fresh meat...!
Bus...nooooo!
Excavader...burp....that was delicious
That bus sure as hell gave that claw a pretty good work out!
Damn it man,as bad as I want one to convert!!!
Nothing can escape the claw of destruction!!!!!!
They should have provided it to developing countries. Indian railways provided their Metre Gauge locomotives and coaches to some African countries and South Asian countries when they decided to expand the Broad Gauge rail network.
For being a fiberglass body on this city bus,it tooked the machine sometime to find the weaker sides,why do they leave the rims and tires on it?
+Nut Zack The RTSII was an all stainless steel modular construction coach. The lower panels were fiberglass to save on weight.
This looks like a fun job.
I WANT THAT JOB!!!!
+MissPickletoes Right?!? Me, too!
+MissPickletoes To quote future Bart Simpson- "I cant believe they PAY me to do this!"
OMFG IKR
hi
Glad I missed that bus.
Is this the true ending to The Magic School Bus?
WELL that body would'av made a great rv motorhome always loved the gmc, i had an rv over here in the uk my pride n joy , gmc v8 30ft great days
There really isn't much metal on this buses, we had several of them that we sent to the scrapper with no engine or transmission in it. and when all was said and done we got 200 a piece for them, the frame is stainless steel, aluminum and fiber glass shell. We ended up selling them to private parties for more money than the scrap yard gave us. The best way would have been to set it on fire and clean up the mess afterwards, the aluminum melts pretty good. Seen a few burn to the ground.
I once worked on a scrapyard and operated excavators and forklifts and I can tell you it can be fun tearing a bus apart in no-time!
I didnt even have to care avoiding scratches!.....lol!!
This was definitely not no time. that shredder was crying by the end. That bus was kicking it's ass.
slowpoke96z28
well, shredding a bus in under 20 mins. was the givven time on the scrapyard I worked on. When you have to prepare up to 20 busses a day for the shredder, you have to hurry up!
Gives me an idea for a Reality TV show: Pack a bus (outfitted with live video cameras) full of senior citizens who think they've won a free trip to the local casino. Then have the bus take a detour through the Junkyard of Hell!! 😨😱😈
Cool yet somehow heartbreaking
It look like the 1980s GMC transit bus that used for city transit bus. The front tires of the bus are not flat.
That was a terrible on what they did to that bus. It looked like it could have been fix, there didn’t look like any thing was wrong with it, it even had a motor. They probable couldn’t start it up so they scrap it.
those claw games always drop the stuffed animals!
Sometimes these old machines need to be scrapped, I am a fleet technician, and lemme tell ya, some days I would love to do this to a vehicle, I am one of those people who see a vehicle for its potential, and enjoy rebuilding it into a usable machine, but sometimes its too far gone. Besides, it will be melted down and turned into something new, and hopefully improved. And no, destroying a vehicle is not illegal. What I thought was really dumb was when 'cash for clunkers' took descent vehicles - that most times were driven to the dealer, purposely ruined the engine, and crushed them, heck most of them that were crushed were way newer than what I had been driving. Had it been my decision, I would have offered those vehicles to the people driving a real old junker for a low price, and removed the really old (dangerous) junk from the road. But instead they destroyed them.
+Mike Ebz Except for the RTS II that was hit by a train, I have never seen one which was "too far gone". These coaches were all stainless steel modular (5' each) construction. They were designed to go over 2 million miles in the very worst kind of operation "Stop and Go". Garbage trucks are replaced after about 6 years. Buses have a half-life of 12 years. Back in 1972 I went to work for a transit district and we only retired buses when the Feds said we met the 14 year average age for the fleet. Our RTS's went nearly 18 years before we finally decided to retire them and then that was NOT because they were worn out, it was because the engines were 2 cycle design which could not be brought into spec for smog purposes. Re-power packages were possible however it was more economical ($'s wise) to replace them. The coaches were then sold at auction. I bought one and it is now a very nice motor home.
I dont know why But i like watching cars , buses, trucks etc, being destroyed.
me too LOL
Because you're a man and it's AWESOME!
Yeaah!
me too...porn cars...
PlyingFiddle260 because we are men and we love strong machines.
And we love to watch other men penetrating and destroying things.
Not only in porn movies....lol
Sednomo, did you work there?
It's like some nature show. "Once the prey has been killed the predator must finish his meal quickly as to not attract scavengers. Naturally the predator starts with the tastiest parts first." "The bulldozers will have to wait their turn"
that work looks like fun!! destroying stuff
Imagine if there are still passengers inside. Helpless, and strapped to their seats.
Ok. Where is my bus. I'm sure I parked it right here !
Looks like that bus is letting the machine know what time it is. It took almost all that machine had to scrap it.
1:52 made me laugh so hard.
I"d like to see this video in reverse. LOL
this is what happens when a rock star OD's on his tour-bus.
I only wish a few bad Metro bus drivers were in that wreck as it's shredded. Hehe!
Just guessing, but I'll bet this bus will be late... O.o
General Caeser Over 4 years late, lol.
lol
This looks like fun, I want to do that. I all about recycling, let me recycle shit out of some cars!
jkmkm
I used to do that, I miss my old job.