Aluminum Can Baler
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2014
- This is a homemade can baler attachment I made for a 5 ton log splitter. I came up with the idea after getting stung by bees trying to recycle a few trash bags full of aluminum cans.
Building Tutorial part 1 is at: • Can Baler Tutorial part 1
Part 2 • Can Baler Tutorial part2 - Наука та технологія
Awsome video on utilizing existing log splitter. Your idea on extraction of bale with sliding hopper is brilliant.
i never thought of baling the cans. this solves ALL kinds of problems. Thanks for the great video!
I had this idea....knew I'd find it done on the internet. Thank u sir!
Thats cool. Now you need to build your assistant a bucket stacker....
The best can crusher.
The teeth on the ram plate is a great idea!
This is what I was thinking! Nice build and thanks for uploading your video!
Nice job. 266 cans to a tiny bale is impressive. I estimate 5 kg. It might be worthwhile to refine the design, make it so it can be made cheaper, and sell them, but you will only sell to those who collect a LOT of cans. You have thought it out well. I love seeing versatile home engineering that solves awkward/difficult problems. Thanks for showing us. Other applications could be in bars/pubs where they have to deal with high volumes of cans. If you could make a unit for that use, then I think you might have something commercially saleable.
My thoughts exactly. I have no interest in trying manufacturing but someone in the business that already manufactured a log splitter could make an attachment. Glad you got the concept that by reducing the size to an easy storage you eliminate the mess and bulk that comes with recycling. Biggest benefit is cubes can be stored and sold when UBC market(Used Beverage Can) is at a high (.50 lb) instead of having to unload them daily or weekly to avoid the trouble of storing
Get design registrations completed when you get the final version completed (important to keep control of your design). A patent could be worthwhile, but get advice on that first as global patents (3 domains) can be up to US$30,000 with the research. As you now have a considerable expertise in making a machine like that, and it is an attachment then once you bed down that first machine, don't stop, carry that expertise over to something else. My 'business eye' constantly looks for new small businesses and my 'invention eye' does the same for problems to solve (I write about small business). For selling your machine, approach the manufacturer of the log-splitter (but only after you have intellectual property controls in place) and see if they'll either make it and sell it or sell it if you can get someone to make it. If they won't, then approach another log-splitter outfit - but don't stop until it's a sold thing. Also, to stop potential sales being lost as people don't also have a log-splitter, which applies only to cold countries, where people will log-split themselves, then try to make a machine that is independent of a log-splitter. Your machine attachment kind-of rides on top of sales for the log-splitter. There's plenty of non-cold countries that could use a can compression machine like that. Better to design for the market and I think that would be bars/pubs. Give it a nice name too (listen to the sounds it makes, there's a clue for a good name and trademark the name). Make it light, good looking, easy and safe to operate (it is now) and something where it can mount to a low bench or be usable under a bench, think of the machine in practical every-day use. Love the design and I'm impressed by its compression capability. Measure that if you can (volume of cans before over volume after), impress people with the specification on paper and images. You'll see plenty of them. Good luck. Also, last thought, you might want to think of making a machine that will attach with a can crusher can-by-can and a can crusher/compressor - same base, two different attachments - that way you might be able to graduate can crusher sales into buying the compressor attachment later and of course in the compressor attachment form bars/pubs are buyers.
Something else I thought of is to try to make it fully automatic, so people (employees) can just throw the next bunch of 2, 3, 4 cans (whatever) in the hopper and when the hopper is full, the machine auto-starts the next crush and is totally automatic. A light is green meaning not full and red meaning remove the current bale (doing the auto stuff is cheap with a $4 computer and some relays - get someone to do that part if you do decide to commercialize it. It's actually not hard to do (I'm an electronics engineer and not offering, but I do know it is fairly simple). At my club here in Sydney I do know they have a huge problem with handling all the cans and they have nothing to crush them down, and definitely wouldn't trust staff to operate the machine in the way you do (insurance will be an issue too). But the more I think about the potential of your machine, the more I think you are on a winner.
I would love to see some plans for this with some dimensions or maybe another video with you measuring.
How much would you charge to build one for me to use on my log splitter
I just watched your video & that's cool.
I have the same splitter would you be interested in making all the parts for can crushing and selling them to me if so how much
Check with the recycler if they take cubes. Ones near me will not.
is it possible to give me a more detail of how you work on it sir. and what hydraulic compactor you use. thanks
really cool and very useful invention! you should check the hydraulic oil level. it sounds like it´s running on air the last bit of travel.
great job Sir,thank you ,I think I can do it!!
where i live most of the kids have horses or goats or cattle as projects. i see a way to use this to make small bales of grass hay that kids can lift. i am going to see about making mods to do that.
I've smelted 300 cans and just got enough aluminium to fill a bean can
Do you still use this?
Una pregunta como se hace la interfaz que tenían los videos viejos de UA-cam? 0:01
I'm watching a legend
How much does it cost for you to make one for me I collect tons of cans
very nice, could you list the construction specs?
Tim McNeil I will try to post a construction tutorial in the next few weeks. It is filmed but takes days to edit that much raw video.
How much would it cost to make one for me
@rlbob1 I'd like an update on the functoion of this machine after years of use
Would you build one and ship it
What would you charge to build me your attachment
Does it ever jam? What about filling the hopper completely full.
yes its same my inquiry and its going to be more industrial
that's nice
Very nice design. I would use it if I could but I can't crush cans and still get the $0.05 deposit on them in NY.
Very nice job man! Great idea. I don't know if all scrap yards would accept them in that form though. Some places like them separated to check for debris/other materials from folks trying to jack up the weight.
***** I have heard that does occasionally happen, especially in small towns with no competition. Large cities dare not try that or lose their business. I don't see a problem in this case since you can simply remove the custom ram and use the flat backer. A single bailing wire will hold it together for transport then you cut it and it all falls to pieces in the dumpster like slices of bread. You are right though. Recycling in America has a long way to go and that is why I took the trouble to make this device and give it to the world.
finster101 Yes that is quite unfortunate. It is an attempt by legislature to force people to recycle. It was probably done when aluminum prices and energy was cheap. The bad thing is you are not actually recycling only getting your money back. Laws like that actually tend to kill and stifle free enterprise and no longer have a purpose today. The good news is they predict an aluminum shortage next year which will drive prices through the roof.
True but you can still collect the non returnables to bale them. I.E. Teas and juice cans.
I still pick those up when collecting.
I'd like to buy one. What do I have?
Hi
Just announced. I want the same size as this machine
What is the price of this machine
I want to output the same size as the bale
With thanks and appreciation
Can I buy one from you? My welding skills suck.
Hello , I am from the Ivory Coast in West Africa. I live in another country called Mauritania. One of my activities is to buy used aluminum cans, plastic cans and bottles with a view to sell them to a Chinese company, which transforms them into various finished products. I want to become like them and like you by making large-scale finished products myself. What advice can you give me to achieve this?
nice mini baler. we have bigger one
what is the weight of 1 cube
Since you have made this and can squash all these cans down so compact, you could make a crucible and melt it into blocks of aluminium and sell for much more than the cost of selling the cans. You are missing out of hundreds of dollars by just taking them down to a recycler. There is a few videos on UA-cam that show you how simple it is to make one, melting down the crushed cubes looks very easy and making the crucible looks very easy too.
And since you could be making blocks of aluminium, if you go one step further, you could buy a small lathe and finish the aluminium off into nice quality machined parts too or just finish off the blocks with a nice machined face, would look much better and machine shops could buy them off you and then finish the machining themselves. You have a welder, so the crucible would be an easy build for you
MotorcycleTherapy retail scrap metal dealers depend on identifing the type of alloy the metal is by experience or observation of the procts originally manufactured. When joe blow brings a block of aluminium in tte scrap metal dealer would have to grade the block as the least value. Say alum siding @20 cents a pound instead of 40 cents forclean alum.cans . So its best to maintain the appearance of the original product to get the top price. Prehaps a block of melted cans would make sence to lower transportation cost to the scrap metal dealer ,say 4 fifty pound blocks of melted alum. Cans in a trunk of a car as compared to a pickup load of whole alum.cans in plastic bags approx 100 pounds
MotorcycleTherapy one scrap metal dealer in Kentucky also has a foundry that cast manifolds from the scrap . Or joeblow could cast model working steam engines parts for resale. The only thing i can think of is casting Confederate graveyard crosses but being alum they are likely be stolen so who wouldbuy a Confederate cross made of alum
you need to add some hydraulic fluid to splitter.
Do you sell these???
Do you remember how much you were able to get for the bale of cans?
Yes It weighed 8lb @.60 cents per lb. Each cube used about 260 cans. We have recycled 10 cubes so far which is approximately 2,600 cans for $48.80 not much money but the cubes easily fit in the trunk of a car and did not make a mess.
Thanks for the reply. I didn't think it took that many cans to make a little less than $50. But hey the way I look at it $50 is a half tank of gas, groceries, more soda, or tools from harbor freight. It adds up.
+Love2boat92 Plus, it's $50 you didn't have before.
Michael Rabil That is true also.
Love2boat92 many people horde their scrap all year til Thanksgiven more practical with copper than alum. But a homemade baler maybe just the ticket
good thing you have the chairs , as slow as that thing runs....
8:49 'o boy is trying to loose a finger or two !!!!
+jetegtmeier71 Haa ..Haa Yea right ...finger in way .Here it comes ...wait for it ...wait OMG lost my finger! Good Joke
Harbor freight log splitter?
Love2boat92 yes harbor freight 5 ton
Sweet. Been thinking about getting one of those myself.
I can barely hear you.
256 cans at 34 cans per pound, roughly 7.5 lbs bale.
+Sho'Nuff Says ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧₒᵤ LeRoy! ™ Yep Not compacted enough for "Briquettes" but still loose enough for the recycler to take over. Just trying to save space for personal storage but not interfere with the recycler"s bailing requirements.
+rlbob1 It's a great idea. I own a scrap yard. Baling lose cans is a shitty job. Wish more people would come in my yard with your train of thought.
@@rlbob1 what is your tips to get 23 lbs bale ?
Nice rig but I don't know about sitting down on the job. 2 man operation???
I'm glad you put that tarp down. Might've spoiled that nice rubble driveway otherwise.
Sooo.... I've found that the most efficient way to crush cans is with my foot right after I get done drinking the nice tasty beverage within. Then, I toss that reduced can into my storage facility until it's full. No gas. No electricity. No hydraulics. No nothing.
Good concept, but a waste of time unless you own a recycling business.
Tell your friends to crush their cans when they're done. That's my moto.