Not necessary, if you could collect cans from an entire community and put in the effort you could probably get a hundred bucks each week. It's more a "make money from trash instead of throwing it away". A church near me has a can collection program that makes about 600 bucks each week.
@@Bramon83 what is wrong in your head? Did you read somewhere that I wrote that he wrote something wrong ?! i just opened an invoice so that everyone can imagine how many cans it takes to earn how much money! if anyone's a little idiot here, it's definitely you 🤣😂🤣👍👍
True DIY: Go mine the ore, smelt and form it into the bars needed. Then pedal a bike or some shit to build the electricity into batteries (that you, of course constructed... DIY, remember?) to run your power tools and welder. Then put it all together. So simple! DIY, anyone can do it! Not knocking the poster, it's ingenious and a good demonstration of machining, engineering, and welding... but don't call it "DIY" like anyone can do it. Everyone with a foot can stomp a can. Next time, call it "Cool Home-made Can Crusher" or some shit lol.
Pvt Stash you really think this 70 year old man cares what the videos called it just helps views from tags from the name poor feller probably had his grandson help him upload the videos 👴🏼
That my friend looks like the highest quality can crusher I've ever laid my eyes on! They are going to find that machine in the year 2872 and scientist will ponder its use for many years after!!! One heck of a nice job!
yeah, little does he know, he's paying more for power then he's making on aluminium.. being 30 cans is only like 80 cents and power around there is 10 cents a kilowatt. funny though the one's that are levered work fine with just your arm..
" he's paying more for power" ... show us some maths. That motor looks like 1/2 HP (approx 375W) or 3/4 HP (550W) at most. It's got a gearbox to provide the torque, so a small motor will do. Facts 1) In Australia (where i live), electricity is around 30c per kWh. 2) This machine crushed 7 cans in 18 sec, lets say 20 sec, which means 21 cans a minute, or 1,260 cans an hour. 3) Also in Australia returned cans can earn 10c a can. So in one hour, the machine can potential earned $126 AUD (assuming cans are ready to be crushed), and for a 3/4 HP motor, electricity is only cost 15c (AUD). Even for a 1.5kW motor (it isn't by the size), it's only $1 AUD. I have no idea how you worked out that electricity cost are more than recycling cans So please do show us your maths..
If it cost $400 to build, and the machine can make $1.5 per kilo of cans crushed. It will need to crush 266.67 kilo/266670grams to create $400. 1 can weighs 14.9 gram, so approx 17897 cans are needed to break even not including fuel cost of cans and so forth. At 2.14 seconds to crush a can, it needs 38299.58 seconds to crush the 17897 cans. So it would need 10.638 hours.
Not really. Everything but the angle grinder, and welding machine you can get for free from scrap heaps/recycling centers. The angle grinder and welder would also become tools you can do pretty much anything with too. Turns a one-off project into a nice hobby. Hell, with practice, maybe even your own business. Businesses aren't made by college grads. Businesses are made by regular people with the tools to make their ideas a reality. Those non-college grads then pay college grads to do the tax filing for a small percentage of the loot 🤣 The meek own the world already. If only more people saw this, and tried to do the same for themselves, we'd have less couch potatoes demanding others give up their earnings so they can continue the couch potato life uninterrupted 🤗
In Finland we have recycling system. You get 0,15 € reward from every can you take to your local store. 100 cans=15€. 95% of all cans are recycled in Finland.
30 cans = about 75 to 84 cents in scrap aluminium here. its recycled here too, but they actual give you the cost of what its made of, your getting ripped off. smash em down and sell it....
Absolutely wonderful contraption. With the prices of scrap aluminum going through the roof and being able to compact them into realistic loads I must say that this is a wonderful thing. Imagine sitting around watching youtube videos while you crush cans and then getting 30 bits for the pound for them. Aluminum cans are abundant and littering the streets. For a couple of hours you can pick up cans and at the end of the month get back a few hundred dollars. Brilliant.
well in germany you get money by bringing the cans back. No need to crush them Edit: since many people don't read through the comments: You pay 0.25€ more for cans/ plastic bottles. If you return them you get 0.25€ back.
@Jason St-Coeur LMAO faceplant. The recycling station in Germany needs to be able to scan the barcode. Difficult if you already crushed them. After the barcode has been scanned the cans are crushed...
@@AstralApophis actually the cans have a set value that is not comparable to the market value of aluminium. You get 0.25 € per can. The aluminium market value is 0.39€ / kg. A can is roughly 15-16 gramms. But other then that you don't make Money from it since you buy the cans for 0.25€ more. It's to produce less waste and stuff. I know that you americans aren't the best at that. The only people that make money from it here are homeless people that look for cans and bottles from people who are too lazy to return them.
@@galliance Funfact. Our (Coke)cans arent made from aluminium but from iron or some iron alloy as you can see on the recycling sign which says "FE". Yet there are other cans like from Rockstar which are made from aluminium. Weird to talk in english to another german tho.
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow mines always came out straight even when i squeezed it flat in my hands, and you think i would care with grammar i speak with different accent, or change my voice to sound deep to cover my real voice
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow i don't really edit my grammar because it want bad after i started learning Russian before it did after my English in writing mostly
it might be a little to heavy but the way he is crushing them is the strong side of the can. you can stand on a pop can if you can balance well and put all the force straight down. I can do it and i'm 200 lbs.
I mean who doesn’t have expensive table saws, welding torches, welding masks, angle grinders, drills, vice grips, metal pipes, and a workshop just lying around the house! So easy! Thanks!
I collect cans to melt and cast. This would be really handy for people like me that actually use the crushed cans instead of selling them on to a recycler. The motor alone makes this silly if purely for domestic can recycling.
@@j.c.cannon2112 putting "DIY" in the title of the video implies that anyone watching can do it. I agree with Josiah, this is not DIY. Sure he did do it himself but aren't all things done by someone?
about 100 dollars worth of parts, that's 2000 cans worth.... if your a smelter it makes smelting easier and less labor intensive..... tbh, watching what he did, I'm not a machinist and i can figure how to put something similar together without using a lathe and just using a bench grinder, side grinder and a belt sander. total cost of parts including tools is 300 bucks and the tools are multi-use for other projects.
you literally could just step on them and they are as flat as in the video... I wonder how many tin cans you had to crush to make the motor itself pay of all the work excluded, also that the recycler probably also pays for normal ones an even if not you can crush them by hand/feet
May be overkill but I bet this machinery could run 24x7 as long as you had several people feeding it. Of course, I don't think it would work with bent cans without manual loading. I like it!
@@benediktfrasch2812 Earlier in the video he appeared to smash them thinner but at the end they're not as flat. It appears he needs to adjust the placement of the motor, or have an adjustment device, so it totally smashes them. Of course, this saves your foot and shoes.
@@benediktfrasch2812 I have done this before by hand, most of the cans come from the streets and are disgustingly dirty, the beer cans usually have decomposing liquid with bad odor wich means dangerous bacteria, if you smash those cans with your feet or your hand and your cut your skin youll get a horrible infection for sure, also is very tiring to smash 300 or 500 cans using just your feet so this machine is a wonder for the people that make a living from recycling aluminium.
@@elrickking9293 I don't think you would have to build something like this from steel plates and weld it... mostly wood would do the job also if you have a welder and all this stuff you don't have to make a living from aluminium cans
Excellent engineering, quite practical (compressing--less space/more weight) Have used wall mounted hand operated devices before....this is far superior. GREAT JOB, THANKS FOR VIDEO
I see a chap on my way to work picking cans up and placing them in the road, on the way home I see him picking up crushed cans and putting them into his bag.
what a wonderful gizmo you have created, sure you can buy similar things from tool shops etc, but showing the creative flair you have using old scraps really is both entertaining and inspiring,
Put it to work crushing cans that people bring to you. Or set up can collection points that people drop cans at. It'd be a good side hussle if someone has time. Or for someone with a disability.
They give 5cent per cans in most grocery stores here(the 5 cent is charged when the canned beverage is bought and they given back to whomever brings the can back)
@@yoanngirard8780 That's because you are paying the 5 cents when you buy the can. It's an incentive by the government to prevent people from just throwing them out.
I think some of the folks with negative comments might be missing the point. This apparently is a labor of love. The builder is a very skilled person and I enjoyed watching his use of the angel grinder. Very skilled indeed.
Great video ! Definitely not on the cheap side of DIY, but for a more industrial or long runs it's definitely worth it. I recycle aluminium cans for casting parts as a business. This is definitely a design I am considering using.
Thank you for sharing, excellent work and video, I wish I had that machine hear we have in the shop 1.872.000 cans and growing, and they take lots of room in the yard. If the employees keep drinking I will have to order one from you LoL. Have a bless day.
I get 10c ea for them here in South Oz. Cans have a deposit. That machine needs a few different guides, 375ml cans, 350 ml as well as energy drink can all being different dimensions.
Unfortunately it really doesn't pay to recycle aluminum cans anymore. Cost per pound is laughably low if you account for inflation, and so much now days is in plastic bottles there's less and less cans out there.
stefan Lopez When I was scrapping aluminum it was 50-60 cents a pound depending on the grade of aluminum. I was told that the Chinese (go figure) flooded the market and that’s why the price crashed. True? I do not know, but I know I could no longer flip aluminum for a profit after the price drop.
@@sooverit3258 back then they are using real aluminium, now they change to composite of tin, China have bigger tin mine than US, so the price is very low compared with Tin made in USA, so many big industry in USA start to import from China and slowly replacing aluminium with tin so yeah the bottle now is 100x cheaper than what it used to be because different alloy. not China fault for big companies in US bought it for in the first place. the real aluminium itself still in high price both US and China have same respectable value.
Where I live in the US most my aluminum cans come with 10 cent deposit and cannot be damaged for return. This would be very useful, however, for tin can and other like containers that usually take up lots of space. Nice video.
The craftsmanship of this is amazing. I'm sure there will be less "dislikes" if you remove the "Make money from your aluminum cans" from the title, because, let's be honest, if you take into consideration the time, tools, materials (steel, paint, freaking motor!!) there is no "make money" in this. But for pure personal satisfaction, is a great project. Congrats!!
Used to visit my great grandparents at their elderly home, and one of their friends had a machine like this. I recall it being much more effective (dangerous) looking. Was just a horizontal piston, with a guide rod and plate at the end to crush the cans. Old dude used it to make a few bucks off of discarded cans in the parking garage of the building. It was cool, but would probably crush your hand.
I need one for pet food cans and veggie cans to save room on recycling. Soda (Pop) cans have a nickel deposit around here. Dont drink enough to sell for scrap aluminum
I love these kinds of projects. My grandfather dumped them in the driveway by the thousands. His farm truck got them just as flat no matter which way they were oriented.
I bought a can crusher and was getting ready to go through the tedious process of crushing thousands of cans until a co-worker suggested to do what your grandfather did. Now I have to unload a can crusher somewhere, LOL !
That's bad ass man I used to have a shop like you and do the same things you are doing in this video and it reminds me of my days of the good old times I used to have doing that same thing thank you for your great video I enjoyed watching it very much and God Bless you and your family p.s. You can sell those because they are excellent.
The cans would have be given to you, plus you'd have to run it from solar or you'd lose money. Can... appreciate the work you put in. Thanks for the video
Well, if you figure 2 bucks per every thousand views, he's made about $4,000 with this video. I'm guessing the money he gets for the actual cans is less than he's paying for the electricity to run that machine, though.
@@whatsthebigfndeal At any time, expect 20-35c per pound. Right now for some reason my local guy (texas) is 40c a pound rn. You need around 24 cans to get a pound.
@@mrskunk4732 24 crushed cans for $0.40... or 8 non-crushed cans with a $0.05 CRV (California Redemption Value)...hmmm... let me think that one over ;-)
@@gregall2178 Tell me about it! I grew up in Michigan. 10c. It was how I funded my childhood :p Now I'm in Texas and no deposit, I donate them to the schools.
2 Tipps for you 1. Don't push while welding! Pulling while welding will make youre welds look better 2. Don't paint somethink untill it's completely done. IF something doesn't work and you have to change something you have to paint it again.
This is a master piece of fabrication. I'm thinkin he doesn't need the money for the crushed cans but loves perfection. Best can crusher I've seen. All the others are far less efficient. He just loves showing off lol.
Back in the early 90s they had can recycler centers on corner streets, it was about 20 cents a pound, I was about 10 years old at the time and I found out that if you fill half the can with dirt or sand and crush it, it would take about two to three cans to make a pound instead of the 34 cans. I would clean that machine out once a week with a bag full of cans. Not the honest thing to do but growing up poor around that time when my parents lost their jobs due to shutting down I needed a way to find money so my parents and little sister could eat. I felt bad but had to do what I must do survive.
@@yogidemis8513 I collected cans as a kid, in the 80's & 90's. We used to crush them, until the recycling centres stopped accepting crushed cans because of people like yourself. We couldn't collect as many once we had to keep them uncrushed. :(
In some towns like mine mostly where people drink alot you can crush your cans and give them to someplace and it doesn't make as much money as in the thumbnail
Он показывает 900 баксов. Для этого надо собрать 40000 банок. И это без учета материалов на станок и электричества. Мне тоже кажется, что ногой эфективнее :)
To those thinking 'refundable deposits' are the best idea... Lets presume a 10 cent deposit. They also add those ten cents to the price of the can in the first place.So a 2.10 can of redbull would cost 2.20 to buy, and you get .10 back for the empty. The store then weighs the empties in and pockets the 0.01. So you end up paying 2.10, and the store makes 0.01 from recycling, per redbull can they sell.~ Where there is no deposit, you pay 2.10 for the can of redbull, and *you* own the empty, so *you* can recycle it and earn the 0.01 - meaning the can effectively only costs you 2.09 if you recycle it, and still the same as a refundable (2.10) if you dont, with the added advantage you dont lose another 0.10 if you cant take the empty home with you.
I don't usually think of metal work as beautiful, but because of your skills and care, this was. Thank you. A question: Could you modify this crusher so that it could handle regular TIN cans (like soup cans)? If so, I think you could sell a lot of them, because in all my searching, I haven't found a single company that's making a simple, affordable powered tin-can crusher. Aluminum, yes; tin or steel, no. Best, Chris (Maine, USA)
In most of developed world we get money back when we return our cans and bottles to the supermarket, because we have not had landfills for 35years....in Scandinavia at least about landfills.
you would think wouldn't you, but here in the U.S. which is going backward as opposed to the rest of the world going forward its on a state by state basis with most opting out. Its very sad
I remember as a kid in California collecting cans and bottles, returning them to the grocery store for money. Even back then I think we got the 5-cents a bottle. My friend and I would take the money and get an Orange Julius. I don't know what the grocery store did with the bottles but at least we got the amount of money the gorcery stores charged when the product was bought. Now, recycling gets you almost nothing compared to what it costs when purchased.
Everyone jumpin to the end and this was one of the best diy editing jobs ever done. This 22 min video was probably a 10 hr job with lathing. another 3 days of editing all the shit we dont need to see. Also if you live anywhere near N. Ga. I got a few thousand cans I need crushed.
The only way this machine makes you money is by putting it on youtube and collecting ad revenue.
Not necessary, if you could collect cans from an entire community and put in the effort you could probably get a hundred bucks each week. It's more a "make money from trash instead of throwing it away". A church near me has a can collection program that makes about 600 bucks each week.
@@j.c.cannon2112 But you don't need to crush them to do that, and this device doesn't collect or return the cans.
@@j.c.cannon2112 ah, over here we already recycle it with 6 different trashcans. Nothing to make money on.
Civilized countries like Norway has a system where you get around .20$ per can you deliver to recycle stations located at every supermarket.
@@tollevkvendbo "Civilized countries like Norway" love it.
150 years later and this machine still hasn't paid for itself
Omg right lol
1can is 12,9g, then are 77 cans 1kg = 1,5$ , than are 7700 cans = 150$ and so on.
@@tomwi_since2015 so hes right? but you got him beat by 87 years? shut up. loser.
@@Bramon83 what is wrong in your head? Did you read somewhere that I wrote that he wrote something wrong ?! i just opened an invoice so that everyone can imagine how many cans it takes to earn how much money! if anyone's a little idiot here, it's definitely you 🤣😂🤣👍👍
@@Bramon83 I did the same thing with my foot in a boot
DIY for professional machinists. For everyone else: stomp with foot.
works with all types and sizes of cans
I taught my dog how to do the dirty work for me, now he'll grab cans and body slam them
True DIY: Go mine the ore, smelt and form it into the bars needed. Then pedal a bike or some shit to build the electricity into batteries (that you, of course constructed... DIY, remember?) to run your power tools and welder. Then put it all together. So simple! DIY, anyone can do it! Not knocking the poster, it's ingenious and a good demonstration of machining, engineering, and welding... but don't call it "DIY" like anyone can do it. Everyone with a foot can stomp a can. Next time, call it "Cool Home-made Can Crusher" or some shit lol.
Pvt Stash on another note you didn’t happen to play Pardus quite a few years ago did you? I knew a Pvt Stash there...
Pvt Stash you really think this 70 year old man cares what the videos called it just helps views from tags from the name poor feller probably had his grandson help him upload the videos 👴🏼
Painting a Coke can crushing machine Pepsi Blue is the most savage thing I've seen all week.
More like rc cola blue
😂😂😂
my mom has a machine like that next to her bed
Made my day!!!!!!!!!
Eww
lol, a 9 inch coke machine no doubt
Hopefully she doesn’t chip her teeth with it.
Does she have an onlyfans page? Asking for myself, not a friend.
That my friend looks like the highest quality can crusher I've ever laid my eyes on! They are going to find that machine in the year 2872 and scientist will ponder its use for many years after!!! One heck of a nice job!
yeah, little does he know, he's paying more for power then he's making on aluminium.. being 30 cans is only like 80 cents and power around there is 10 cents a kilowatt.
funny though the one's that are levered work fine with just your arm..
@@harleyme3163 So you know he dont ownes a photovoltaic system??
" he's paying more for power" ... show us some maths. That motor looks like 1/2 HP (approx 375W) or 3/4 HP (550W) at most. It's got a gearbox to provide the torque, so a small motor will do.
Facts
1) In Australia (where i live), electricity is around 30c per kWh.
2) This machine crushed 7 cans in 18 sec, lets say 20 sec, which means 21 cans a minute, or 1,260 cans an hour.
3) Also in Australia returned cans can earn 10c a can.
So in one hour, the machine can potential earned $126 AUD (assuming cans are ready to be crushed), and for a 3/4 HP motor, electricity is only cost 15c (AUD). Even for a 1.5kW motor (it isn't by the size), it's only $1 AUD.
I have no idea how you worked out that electricity cost are more than recycling cans
So please do show us your maths..
How bout instead of a motor.. install a mechanism with bicycle pedals. Like that you exercise and crush the cans at the same time
My grandfather would have though this was the coolest thing ever .
Same. He just put his in a line in the driveway and drove over them lol
Same 2 including me
Why dosnt he
Figuring that machine costs about $400 with parts fab and everything. You would need 64,004 aluminum cans just to break even.
Annnd now you're obese
However, only 38 hours to crush the 64,004 cans
If it cost $400 to build, and the machine can make $1.5 per kilo of cans crushed. It will need to crush 266.67 kilo/266670grams to create $400. 1 can weighs 14.9 gram, so approx 17897 cans are needed to break even not including fuel cost of cans and so forth. At 2.14 seconds to crush a can, it needs 38299.58 seconds to crush the 17897 cans. So it would need 10.638 hours.
If use are going that far into detail, add the amount of power draw and cost of power used also in your calculations?!? Please and thanks
Not really.
Everything but the angle grinder, and welding machine you can get for free from scrap heaps/recycling centers.
The angle grinder and welder would also become tools you can do pretty much anything with too. Turns a one-off project into a nice hobby. Hell, with practice, maybe even your own business.
Businesses aren't made by college grads. Businesses are made by regular people with the tools to make their ideas a reality. Those non-college grads then pay college grads to do the tax filing for a small percentage of the loot 🤣 The meek own the world already. If only more people saw this, and tried to do the same for themselves, we'd have less couch potatoes demanding others give up their earnings so they can continue the couch potato life uninterrupted 🤗
Engineers don't do things because they need to...They do things because they can!
You're really crushing it with that pun
Take America Back From Isяael Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
@@aaronlord1258 2 planes can't collapse 3 steel & concrete buildings like sandcastles dumbo. Even a math challenged tard can see that does not add up.
i really like that comment these guy are just loading with ideas and im sure they don't bother with the small details about if they should make it lol
Pat B: Engineers are like mountaineers. Mountaineers have to climb that mountain because (they think) they can.
In Finland we have recycling system. You get 0,15 € reward from every can you take to your local store. 100 cans=15€. 95% of all cans are recycled in Finland.
30 cans = about 75 to 84 cents in scrap aluminium here. its recycled here too, but they actual give you the cost of what its made of, your getting ripped off.
smash em down and sell it....
Here in germany we get 0,25€ per can. Thats nice
@@niclashansch4352 But you paid for it upfront.
@@ywnm2065 not if you collect them from of the street or soccer matches ... a lot of people do that.
do they tax you on the 15€ you make
Absolutely wonderful contraption. With the prices of scrap aluminum going through the roof and being able to compact them into realistic loads I must say that this is a wonderful thing. Imagine sitting around watching youtube videos while you crush cans and then getting 30 bits for the pound for them. Aluminum cans are abundant and littering the streets. For a couple of hours you can pick up cans and at the end of the month get back a few hundred dollars. Brilliant.
Does anybody see the irony of crushing Coca Cola cans with a machine painted Pepsi blue?
Nope, they are crushing the competition!
No
No
I have a thing like that. It's called a "boot heel."
Fun, though.
And here I was thinking "boot heel" was a brand for a sec
My grandpa has kept an old sledgehammer with a split handle in his garage for decades for squishing cans. Was fun as a kid to drop it on cans.
Hell yeah, @@doodbob2250 , that takes me back. :)
When you want a can crusher that your grandchildren will inherit
@Jim Hammill HI theis is Logan
@Jim Hammill Machinery that eats fingers is a great indicator of quality.
well in germany you get money by bringing the cans back. No need to crush them
Edit: since many people don't read through the comments:
You pay 0.25€ more for cans/ plastic bottles.
If you return them you get 0.25€ back.
@Jason St-Coeur LMAO faceplant. The recycling station in Germany needs to be able to scan the barcode. Difficult if you already crushed them. After the barcode has been scanned the cans are crushed...
Joel Olsson they go off of the aluminum market value, and input the weight of the cans, so the conversion and boom. Payout!
To be more precise: When bringing the cans back you get some of your money back you payed extra when buying the can. Like a pledge.
@@AstralApophis
actually the cans have a set value that is not comparable to the market value of aluminium. You get 0.25 € per can.
The aluminium market value is 0.39€ / kg.
A can is roughly 15-16 gramms.
But other then that you don't make Money from it since you buy the cans for 0.25€ more.
It's to produce less waste and stuff. I know that you americans aren't the best at that.
The only people that make money from it here are homeless people that look for cans and bottles from people who are too lazy to return them.
@@galliance Funfact. Our (Coke)cans arent made from aluminium but from iron or some iron alloy as you can see on the recycling sign which says "FE". Yet there are other cans like from Rockstar which are made from aluminium. Weird to talk in english to another german tho.
would literally watch a live stream of someone crushing cans with this for 3 hrs
one stroke of this machine is more expensive than the can.
This machine would have cost over $15,000 if it were made at my machine shop at work. Cool idea though.
Now they just need to drink 175 cans of soda a day to make it worth building and operating the machine!
If you ran it all day ,you would make like 600 bucks if you got the cans . do you think it would coast 600 a day to run it ???? I don't !
you'd make more money attaching a flesh light on the end and selling them lmao
cheaper to hire a bum to do it
Who else fast forwarded to the end? It does do a flatter job than those hand operated ones.
Is easier to crush them with your feet it still the same amount of time with the mechanic
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow would it just be easier putting them between wood and 2×4 support and hitting with a slug hammer
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow mines always came out straight even when i squeezed it flat in my hands, and you think i would care with grammar i speak with different accent, or change my voice to sound deep to cover my real voice
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow i don't really edit my grammar because it want bad after i started learning Russian before it did after my English in writing mostly
Those hand 1's r junk not worth a penny .
Regardless of what the naysayers have printed, you did a good job. It was fun watching.
With material use, you could probably crush the Titanic
Frozen water already did that.
it might be a little to heavy but the way he is crushing them is the strong side of the can. you can stand on a pop can if you can balance well and put all the force straight down. I can do it and i'm 200 lbs.
ua-cam.com/video/HJ2A7g2tZ3c/v-deo.html no thats not me lol but this silly kid has a video for ya which saves me the time.
It's the best I support👍
qual são as medidas
In Germany we call this „Pfand“
25 cent for one
wollte gerade exakt das selbe schreiben ^^
Is halt so
Ja ich auch 😅😅
Sauerkraut!
Mashed Potatoes
*YOU CAME HERE FOR THIS PART: **20:46* Enjoy! ;D
Yes
Sounds like the Tardis from Dr. Who, waiting for it to start vanishing and jump through time.
@@lelandclayton5462 :D
Thank you!
Lmao
the piston crunching the can is satisfying af
The year is 2050 and this contraption still hasn't paid for itself!!!
I bet it’s still going though
I mean who doesn’t have expensive table saws, welding torches, welding masks, angle grinders, drills, vice grips, metal pipes, and a workshop just lying around the house! So easy! Thanks!
Another "life hack" that will "pay for itself" when your grandkids are using it.
untill one decides to put her arm in the machine
2 million views and rising. This "hack" will only make money for "DIY Useless Ideas"
The value is about £0.01 per can. Maybe 1.5p if you removed the ring pulls to sell separately
I collect cans to melt and cast. This would be really handy for people like me that actually use the crushed cans instead of selling them on to a recycler. The motor alone makes this silly if purely for domestic can recycling.
This definitely earns my "MUST BUILD" stamp
Unless you're a professional machinist, this is not DIY.
DIY means do it yourself, not that you don't need skill to do it. he built it himself as such it is DIY.
@@j.c.cannon2112 putting "DIY" in the title of the video implies that anyone watching can do it. I agree with Josiah, this is not DIY. Sure he did do it himself but aren't all things done by someone?
Also, not very cost effective. Good for a UA-cam video but not practical
about 100 dollars worth of parts, that's 2000 cans worth.... if your a smelter it makes smelting easier and less labor intensive..... tbh, watching what he did, I'm not a machinist and i can figure how to put something similar together without using a lathe and just using a bench grinder, side grinder and a belt sander. total cost of parts including tools is 300 bucks and the tools are multi-use for other projects.
@@j.c.cannon2112 Really?
Ah, so now I understand the word "overkill". But nevertheless, well done...
you literally could just step on them and they are as flat as in the video...
I wonder how many tin cans you had to crush to make the motor itself pay of
all the work excluded, also that the recycler probably also pays for normal ones an even if not you can crush them by hand/feet
May be overkill but I bet this machinery could run 24x7 as long as you had several people feeding it. Of course, I don't think it would work with bent cans without manual loading. I like it!
@@benediktfrasch2812 Earlier in the video he appeared to smash them thinner but at the end they're not as flat. It appears he needs to adjust the placement of the motor, or have an adjustment device, so it totally smashes them. Of course, this saves your foot and shoes.
@@benediktfrasch2812 I have done this before by hand, most of the cans come from the streets and are disgustingly dirty, the beer cans usually have decomposing liquid with bad odor wich means dangerous bacteria, if you smash those cans with your feet or your hand and your cut your skin youll get a horrible infection for sure, also is very tiring to smash 300 or 500 cans using just your feet so this machine is a wonder for the people that make a living from recycling aluminium.
@@elrickking9293 I don't think you would have to build something like this from steel plates and weld it... mostly wood would do the job
also if you have a welder and all this stuff you don't have to make a living from aluminium cans
Excellent engineering, quite practical (compressing--less space/more weight)
Have used wall mounted hand operated devices before....this is far superior.
GREAT JOB, THANKS FOR VIDEO
I didn't expect it to be this satisfying to watch.
Every german is like: "mein Pfand!!"
I see a chap on my way to work picking cans up and placing them in the road, on the way home I see him picking up crushed cans and putting them into his bag.
lol
stonks
How do you think I started my retirement fund. Free money making free money.
I like that design. That is something I'd like to make with my powerarc.
what a wonderful gizmo you have created, sure you can buy similar things from tool shops etc, but showing the creative flair you have using old scraps really is both entertaining and inspiring,
Definitely a great build. Works perfect with no effort.
Go on show us the making money bit.
Put it to work crushing cans that people bring to you. Or set up can collection points that people drop cans at.
It'd be a good side hussle if someone has time. Or for someone with a disability.
@@fartzinacan Cans are very low-grade aluminium. There isn't anywhere here that will give you anything for them period.
True.... If you bring 49,000 cans to a recycle center, they give you $1.18
They give 5cent per cans in most grocery stores here(the 5 cent is charged when the canned beverage is bought and they given back to whomever brings the can back)
@@yoanngirard8780 That's because you are paying the 5 cents when you buy the can. It's an incentive by the government to prevent people from just throwing them out.
Ah, the UA-cam algorithm, we meet again.
Yeah, I get to see the same video suggestions about 20 times, for videos I have already watched.
It's not about how much money it can or cannot make.the video was brilliant to watch.
I think some of the folks with negative comments might be missing the point. This apparently is a labor of love. The builder is a very skilled person and I enjoyed watching his use of the angel grinder. Very skilled indeed.
Great video ! Definitely not on the cheap side of DIY, but for a more industrial or long runs it's definitely worth it. I recycle aluminium cans for casting parts as a business. This is definitely a design I am considering using.
out of sheer curiosity what are you making with recycled aluminum cans?
@@Drillz007 I cast mostly parts for my drum making business and to upgrade my shop tools
That machine is not as simple as it looks, the precision needed to make it work so smoothly is of a high degree.
You’re a craftsman
Thank you for sharing, excellent work and video, I wish I had that machine hear we have in the shop 1.872.000 cans and growing, and they take lots of room in the yard. If the employees keep drinking I will have to order one from you LoL. Have a bless day.
Maravilhosa essa máquina, parabéns pela criatividade
Sanding on a lathe and wearing a long sleeve shirt, lathes have a lethal bite my guy
Guy was also wearing a watch -_-
@@ItsArghinTime And gloves during drilling.... please don't do that anymore! Thanks for the video though!
As my teacher used to say: - "I know the safety precautions on a lathe like my two fingers."
I'm waiting for a next stage of conversion compressed cans into a gold bar !
Awesome job man!!! Very nice working parts I like how you made it look so clean
Great job and thank you for sharing this with us.
If you conert it to a "V", hopper, it will eliminate the issue of cans missing the crushing chamber amd have alot more capacity.
What's a V Hopper look like? Do you have a link to a picture? Thanks
I think hes trying to say is have another can rack (hopper) on the other side. \••/ looks like a "V"
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Man this is absolutely beautiful!
Just loved the thickness of the first can!! 😂😂
I get 10c ea for them here in South Oz. Cans have a deposit.
That machine needs a few different guides, 375ml cans, 350 ml as well as energy drink can all being different dimensions.
My wife and I collected cans in the 1990’s. At 10 cents each, she still has a nice gold ring from our profits. It works to recycle.
Yep, made thousands from recycling aluminum when it was around 50 cents a pound.
Unfortunately it really doesn't pay to recycle aluminum cans anymore. Cost per pound is laughably low if you account for inflation, and so much now days is in plastic bottles there's less and less cans out there.
That's a nice payday. It now averages $0.01 per can
stefan Lopez
When I was scrapping aluminum it was 50-60 cents a pound depending on the grade of aluminum. I was told that the Chinese (go figure) flooded the market and that’s why the price crashed. True? I do not know, but I know I could no longer flip aluminum for a profit after the price drop.
@@sooverit3258 back then they are using real aluminium, now they change to composite of tin, China have bigger tin mine than US, so the price is very low compared with Tin made in USA, so many big industry in USA start to import from China and slowly replacing aluminium with tin so yeah the bottle now is 100x cheaper than what it used to be because different alloy.
not China fault for big companies in US bought it for in the first place.
the real aluminium itself still in high price both US and China have same respectable value.
Where I live in the US most my aluminum cans come with 10 cent deposit and cannot be damaged for return. This would be very useful, however, for tin can and other like containers that usually take up lots of space. Nice video.
I like seeing the machine working from the start besides waiting until the end of the video to see if it’s something I want to build.
I skipped to the end once I saw it was a project. I just wanted to see it working
The craftsmanship of this is amazing. I'm sure there will be less "dislikes" if you remove the "Make money from your aluminum cans" from the title, because, let's be honest, if you take into consideration the time, tools, materials (steel, paint, freaking motor!!) there is no "make money" in this.
But for pure personal satisfaction, is a great project. Congrats!!
Yep! Some things are much more important than mere money, zobook. Self satisfaction is one such thing.
Used to visit my great grandparents at their elderly home, and one of their friends had a machine like this. I recall it being much more effective (dangerous) looking. Was just a horizontal piston, with a guide rod and plate at the end to crush the cans. Old dude used it to make a few bucks off of discarded cans in the parking garage of the building. It was cool, but would probably crush your hand.
Very nice work. I've wanted to build a heavy manual for doing multiple items. Such as milk jugs. Also to get the cans flatter like your machine.
A bit expensive for a can crusher but I appreciate your skills and ingenuity this build works flawlessly
I'll just use my forehead like a normal person.
I need one for pet food cans and veggie cans to save room on recycling. Soda (Pop) cans have a nickel deposit around here. Dont drink enough to sell for scrap aluminum
Love it very old school. Great engineering.
Respect from a fellow tinkerer.
Wow, you need to start drinking. At that price, you'll need to crush 35,839 cans to get your $800.
don't forget the ads revenue he will get from this video xD
@@AbderrahmaneFafouri and at 1 can per 2 seconds only 7 weeks to do!
Not to mention electric bill and maintenance
it now all the same size of cane lol
I started drinking on Friday
I love these kinds of projects.
My grandfather dumped them in the driveway by the thousands. His farm truck got them just as flat no matter which way they were oriented.
I bought a can crusher and was getting ready to go through the tedious process of crushing thousands of cans until a co-worker suggested to do what your grandfather did. Now I have to unload a can crusher somewhere, LOL !
That's bad ass man I used to have a shop like you and do the same things you are doing in this video and it reminds me of my days of the good old times I used to have doing that same thing thank you for your great video I enjoyed watching it very much and God Bless you and your family p.s. You can sell those because they are excellent.
That is the best machine on UA-cam
The "make money" part is ad revenue from making the video, not from bringing cans in.
edit: typo
The cans would have be given to you, plus you'd have to run it from solar or you'd lose money. Can... appreciate the work you put in. Thanks for the video
Melhor ideia de máquina de amassar latinha que já vi, parabéns!
This way or this kind off can crushing is the most solid and perfect made i ever see on youtube; good skills and filming also,tanks
I loved the stack of $100’s being wave in the clickbait intro.
Well, if you figure 2 bucks per every thousand views, he's made about $4,000 with this video. I'm guessing the money he gets for the actual cans is less than he's paying for the electricity to run that machine, though.
@@whatsthebigfndeal At any time, expect 20-35c per pound. Right now for some reason my local guy (texas) is 40c a pound rn.
You need around 24 cans to get a pound.
@@mrskunk4732 24 crushed cans for $0.40... or 8 non-crushed cans with a $0.05 CRV (California Redemption Value)...hmmm... let me think that one over ;-)
@@gregall2178 Tell me about it! I grew up in Michigan. 10c. It was how I funded my childhood :p
Now I'm in Texas and no deposit, I donate them to the schools.
Bit late to it but I thought that was the cost of building it ;)
You put a guard over that and make it liter, you could do well with this as a built in for kitchen counter tops, make it prettier too.
Good job
Of all the can crushers i've seen recently I like this compact design. I think I will build one similar.
Fab machine, great skill levels. A thing of beauty. Nice job
My first thought is how you get an endless supply of cans in the first place. You’d save more money by just drinking water
Yeah, and on hospital bills
Crush your water bottles with it then.
@@thorhammer6040 i think you missed the point... I’m saying buying drinks other than filtered tap water is probably wasteful unhealthy and expensive
In my engineering class we had a pneumatic one, but I really like the beauty of this one.
Gostei muito bom ,prático e eficiente, um abraço.
22 minutes to assemble. Simply amazing.
Or you could just step on them and save the money lol.
OR just drive over them on your way out of the garage.
I was about to say, I got a foot, and that doesn't involve welding
Where's the fun in that?
@@SimonSomething where's the fun in wasting time and money building a useless device?
@@radein26 go get disposable income and tell me you dont spend it on useless fun stuff
2 Tipps for you
1. Don't push while welding! Pulling while welding will make youre welds look better
2. Don't paint somethink untill it's completely done. IF something doesn't work and you have to change something you have to paint it again.
mirco _b04 pulling while welding ? You mean stay at the same distance right?
This is a master piece of fabrication. I'm thinkin he doesn't need the money for the crushed cans but loves perfection. Best can crusher I've seen. All the others are far less efficient. He just loves showing off lol.
AWSOME GREAT WORK OF ART.. 100 POINTS PLUS
Great ... And how exactly are crushed up cans going "to make money" ??
Exactly, because crushed cans still have the same scrap weight as one that isnt crushed
Back in the early 90s they had can recycler centers on corner streets, it was about 20 cents a pound, I was about 10 years old at the time and I found out that if you fill half the can with dirt or sand and crush it, it would take about two to three cans to make a pound instead of the 34 cans. I would clean that machine out once a week with a bag full of cans. Not the honest thing to do but growing up poor around that time when my parents lost their jobs due to shutting down I needed a way to find money so my parents and little sister could eat. I felt bad but had to do what I must do survive.
@@yogidemis8513 it wasnt the wrong thing to do.
@@yogidemis8513 I collected cans as a kid, in the 80's & 90's. We used to crush them, until the recycling centres stopped accepting crushed cans because of people like yourself. We couldn't collect as many once we had to keep them uncrushed. :(
In some towns like mine mostly where people drink alot you can crush your cans and give them to someplace and it doesn't make as much money as in the thumbnail
Cans? You could crush the skulls of your enemies with that !!
Outstanding project, outstanding job!!!
I just happened to have some metals under my bathroom sink and a welder behind my pots and pans. I'm making a killing! Thanks!
Dude, you're going to be sooo rich!
Very cool, if just a little overengineered for crushing aluminum cans...
i will probably never build this but freaking AWESOME!!!!
Thanks for your inspiration sir!
Интересно,сколько банок надо собрать,что б окупить эту машину?
Приблизительно бесконечность в третьей степени
Он показывает 900 баксов. Для этого надо собрать 40000 банок. И это без учета материалов на станок и электричества. Мне тоже кажется, что ногой эфективнее :)
To those thinking 'refundable deposits' are the best idea...
Lets presume a 10 cent deposit.
They also add those ten cents to the price of the can in the first place.So a 2.10 can of redbull would cost 2.20 to buy, and you get .10 back for the empty. The store then weighs the empties in and pockets the 0.01. So you end up paying 2.10, and the store makes 0.01 from recycling, per redbull can they sell.~
Where there is no deposit, you pay 2.10 for the can of redbull, and *you* own the empty, so *you* can recycle it and earn the 0.01 - meaning the can effectively only costs you 2.09 if you recycle it, and still the same as a refundable (2.10) if you dont, with the added advantage you dont lose another 0.10 if you cant take the empty home with you.
The point of the deposit isn't to earn you money, it's to stop people putting aluminum in the landfills
Still a better solution.
I don't usually think of metal work as beautiful, but because of your skills and care, this was. Thank you.
A question: Could you modify this crusher so that it could handle regular TIN cans (like soup cans)? If so, I think you could sell a lot of them, because in all my searching, I haven't found a single company that's making a simple, affordable powered tin-can crusher. Aluminum, yes; tin or steel, no. Best, Chris (Maine, USA)
Fantastic! Hug from Brazil!😅
In most of developed world we get money back when we return our cans and bottles to the supermarket, because we have not had landfills for 35years....in Scandinavia at least about landfills.
you would think wouldn't you, but here in the U.S. which is going backward as opposed to the rest of the world going forward its on a state by state basis with most opting out. Its very sad
Do your own farts smell good?
@@RicoDuroska Depends on what I ate?
RicoDuroska how does denial working for you?
I remember as a kid in California collecting cans and bottles, returning them to the grocery store for money. Even back then I think we got the 5-cents a bottle. My friend and I would take the money and get an Orange Julius. I don't know what the grocery store did with the bottles but at least we got the amount of money the gorcery stores charged when the product was bought. Now, recycling gets you almost nothing compared to what it costs when purchased.
Everyone jumpin to the end and this was one of the best diy editing jobs ever done. This 22 min video was probably a 10 hr job with lathing. another 3 days of editing all the shit we dont need to see. Also if you live anywhere near N. Ga. I got a few thousand cans I need crushed.
Very neat! Works well.
Wow! Awesome Craftsmanship, Design, and Implementation! WTG!!