In the early 80's my friend and I used to visit a scrapyard west of Montreal that had a similar crusher. What differed regarding efficiency between theirs and yours is the following: the pivoting point was only a few inches from the ground. As well an important factor of physics is sheer mass: the swivel structure was filled with concrete increasing the weight of dropping mass, thus the cars in a single drop would have been 12 inches high.
We got one here almost identical to yours that was built almost 35 years ago, quit using it because it took too long to cycle, had issues with the cable and winch , but most of all was unsafe due to no control after it was tripped. Also doesn't work well on vans or SUV's because it blows them out too wide. Hydraulic is really the only way to go. And eventually your hinges will fail and when it does it's not pretty.
Hey Tony Another successful build ! I would like to see a car put in with the engine facing away from the pivot as well as two cars at the same time. Put a car in upside down. Stand a car on end. Put one on it's side. I mean, sense we are playing, lets try it all ! Thanx fur the entertainment. Now about the upcoming build with the Super Singles ? Play Safe, Be Well
What happens if you stack 2 smashed cars on each other and resmash them together ? Could you get another foot shorter on each car? May be easier to stack?
Adding a bit more weight to the lid I think it would crush two cars at once. I still think that the hight between the bed and the lid is a bit too high. The hood and trunk are not affected much by the crushing
if the engines are still in the cars they probably turn intoo a wedge shape , maibe if the stack them with the noses in oposite direction the engines can embed themselfes in the trunkspace
“”HULK MAD… HULK SMASH CARS!!! I read you had a lot of suggestions, may I make another, turn the car around so the most weight hits the engine compartment where the most structure is. Cool build!!!
I would look to some sort of cable release and wieght the hook so you can free spool it down because the rapid unspooling seems like that will be hard on the winch. Cool build
I'm thinking he means like the bushings in the drum etc spinning pretty fast. Probably hurt it over time. A quick disconnect on the hook end of the cable might prevent that. Sort of like a large car door latch you could pull with a rope on the cable hook end.
I'm impressed- but I think it would do better if the hinge was level with the table! also if you load the cars to the end of the swing it will make em flatter!😁
I was gonna ask him the same thing why did he position the hinge pin so high off the surface you figure it would be more stable if it were attached to the floor
If hinge was level it wouldn't be able to crush 'flat' it would leave the cars less crushed on back side. Therefore could not stack the crushed cars. 🤷 That's just my weird little brain. Who knows 😆🙌✌
Great idea . Yup my thought was the pivot point why so high however .. flatten a car or 2 then double stack and flatten them with one on top of the other. Should have a good result ..
I sure wouldn't want to be removing a few parts from a vehicle while it's sitting on that crusher 😱 That's a pretty small diameter cable? Just right for a snap one day. I'm surprised that the hinge is so high up. Likely half that height would work better.
Hey it has weight. That's what counts 😉 Not even lowering the hinge will help because all the mass is lost as soon as it hits the part of the car closest to the hinge. This is a coffee break project and not a piece being buildt to go into production. Pure männer fun stuff.
None that we have crushed so far would be too wide to go on a truck. Having that said I think you would need to push the doors in on a pick up or a Van to keep them from being too wide
Well it does smash cars, I deny that but thats not all flat really! It just crushes roofs! For flattening it all out, you got to raise the platform on where the car sits, so flapper comes sandwiching car in between, but because your sitting ground is way below your hinges mechanism, it doesn't fully crush properly. Its not hard to make, just a shorter panel to leave space for hinges to close in normally and just laying smasher more firmly and tighter on the crushed car. Aside from all above... Crushed cars looked in a real good shape though to be crushed, Except for last one!
You will most likely run in to the problem that the lever arm has to be double the length and double the weight to flatten it completly then. Cause the lever gets momentum loss as soon as it makes contact , now the top part of the lever (fastest most momentum) makes contact first with a lower hinge the slowest traveling part would make contact first and would slow the smasher down giving it less momentum and less power.
It only has to crush the roof down to make it a level base to stack other crushed cars on top so they can be stacked on top of one another on the truck.
Junkyard next to me while growing up used one of the same basic design. That was in the early 70's. Now i shudder when i think of the cool cars it must've crushed.
@@brandonsciulli774 If you're gonna act like you're smarter than someone else and correct they're spelling, you ought to know how to spell it yourself. The word is "cease", As in "cease and desist"
For much better results, remove the tires, open the windows, smash the front windshield and take off the gas cap before smashing. Less pneumatic counterforce to deal with this way.
Nice Job! I'm in my fifties now but when I was a teenager, I drew up plans for a crusher just like this design. One correction I see is you'll need to push the doors in so it will fit on a semi trailer correctly. Overall, I'm jealous that you have this crusher and I don't.
She still has a bit of flex which will eventually wear out them hinges . I would just run a little more support in there. Thats just me. But awesome rig!
Built pretty much the same car crusher 45 years ago. 20 inch high beams and 3/4 steel plate. Burned up to Lincoln welders, welding at damn thing up. We use the 5-ton rear axle and the GMC V6 engine. It worked okay but it was extremely time-consuming and Messy. They ended up just letting the regular car crushers come in.
Great Car crushers mate, nice build. In one of my past jobs i had to work with a lot of smashed glass, please make sure you guys are at least using a P2 mask to reduce the risk of Silicosis.
Male the hinge side closer to the bottom for more clamping action. The gap caused by having the hinge so high uo doesn't help compress the front. You could actually put more hinge points on the face of the hinge block and make it sort of adjustable if needed.
years ago the guy down the street built one similar to this but really old school , he had engine blocks as weight , it would flatten them pretty far , good job gettin her done.
If it was me..... I would add a hydraulic cylinder onto a pin lock mechanism to hold the ram in the upright position. And then release the cable from the lid. You have the hydraulic setup already. Add 1 valve. And some hoses. Pull lever. Pin gets pulled out which releases hulk smash. Cables under high speed whipping around open areas like that is my main concern. Love the build.
My old boss built a crusher like that but he used two hydraulic cylinders off a old grain truck he got in. It to this day works very well. Great job guys!
I think i would load the cars with the engine towards the end of the smasher. I would also make another maybe 6"-10" plate to place on the platform under smaller cars to smash them even flatter since the hinge is so high. That or spin the cars around and hit them a second time might even work.
@@1stontario Would be easier and safer to just remake the hinge in such a way its adjustable and able to move up or down for thicker/thinner vehicles. That hinge needs to be rigid as possible to be safe as possible.
Great job Lads....im wandering if you poke the door and pillers in with the loader or digger they'll fit easier on the load out rig..... maybe a sideways smasher......😉😎
And add a quick release to the end of the cable. Letting the winch free spool adds a lot more danger. If the cable snagged the result could be catastrophic
Very well done. I would have looked into a slightly different hinge design that would drop that plate at a flatter angle of attack, that way it would hit the cars on a more even strike. That way you could get let’s wobble in your strike, and the cars would be nice and evenly flattened. But very nice, and ASMR!
@@chrisallen9154 Why the attitude. He has a valid opinion. I thought the same thing. Only not every vehicle is going to be the same height or crush the same. It would be quite difficult to offset the hinges while retaining the strength. Based on other comments though, this is about as this type of crusher can get. They blow out taller vehicles like vans, which could be a real problem when loading them on a truck.
Someone built one out of concrete in pa in the mid 70s. It was 12' wide 30' long and the concrete was 8' thick. It would flatten a car no less than 2". It was mind blowing but people all around was complaining about it shaking their farms and homes. It was a monster. I'm going to try and find it but it was used in a 80s movie.
You guys need to raise the front tire area just a little bit. That way the whole car will get squashed the same amount. Just a thought. The back is smashed more than the front.
We don't have Bojangles in Texas. Every time I take a fall trip where they have a store i get it. Love it. Last fall i got Bo Jangles and got very sick. Even my dogs did. Never again. So sad.
Add some cross bracing at the rear between the uprights and Maybe add a sloped ramp at the left to 3/4 of right side to ensure an even smash even when not placed in perfect
think the point of first failure will be the hingepins , my guess it that over time it will tear off the welds and the part that falls on the car will lift it upand it will slide off the car to the oposite side
If you haven't watched it yet, the best smash is at 10:00. At least that's my favorite!
Cheers mate. That saved 10 wasted minutes👍
He smash the car in the camera!!! 🤣
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What a rescue mission for that camera lmao
Put 2 smashed cars on top of each other and smash them again please
In the early 80's my friend and I used to visit a scrapyard west of Montreal that had a similar crusher. What differed regarding efficiency between theirs and yours is the following: the pivoting point was only a few inches from the ground. As well an important factor of physics is sheer mass: the swivel structure was filled with concrete increasing the weight of dropping mass, thus the cars in a single drop would have been 12 inches high.
We got one here almost identical to yours that was built almost 35 years ago, quit using it because it took too long to cycle, had issues with the cable and winch , but most of all was unsafe due to no control after it was tripped. Also doesn't work well on vans or SUV's because it blows them out too wide. Hydraulic is really the only way to go. And eventually your hinges will fail and when it does it's not pretty.
Where can i put my ex?
Facts
Great job on the car crusher dude I want to see what it does if you stack one on top of another then drop it I wonder how far it will crush it
Me too, I was going to post the same comment. Can't wait to see this happen!
I wonder what would happen if they turn the car around so that it smashes more of the motor side of the car
EXACTLY
can you submit this to the nearest city as an option for execution? of course only for the atrocious people who deserve it.
@@EternalResonance which ones are that you know occasionally humans do make mistakes and convict the wrong person
That thing is brutal. I love it. But I almost cried when you crusher the Intrepid.
Love it. You should pour concrete in the top 6ft of it. Reduce the bounce add a few ton.
I think the winch is already pumping it’s little guts out already with the load it’s lifting already.
30k winch whole lid is less then 13K and only picking up one end. The winch is fine!
maybe sand ? concrete might crack if you dont reinforce it
The crusher is cool but that dodge boom truck is amazing. I can’t believe what some people will scrap I would love to own that thing
That's pretty bad ass! You can crush as much of those ford's as you want! Lol
Yeah not much lost there. Lol
Hey Tony
Another successful build !
I would like to see a car put in with the engine facing away from the pivot as well as two cars at the same time.
Put a car in upside down.
Stand a car on end.
Put one on it's side.
I mean, sense we are playing, lets try it all !
Thanx fur the entertainment.
Now about the upcoming build with the Super Singles ?
Play Safe, Be Well
Hmmmm that does sound like a good time!
@@HardCoreFab might as well throw some semi’s in there to.
After crushing stak 2 or 3 and see how flat that gets
Make sure that if they still have running engines, you red line 'em during the crushing process. But WAIT! Let me go make some popcorn.
What happens if you stack 2 smashed cars on each other and resmash them together ? Could you get another foot shorter on each car? May be easier to stack?
Yes... this would be worth watching
Adding a bit more weight to the lid I think it would crush two cars at once.
I still think that the hight between the bed and the lid is a bit too high. The hood and trunk are not affected much by the crushing
We are planning on playing with it more soon
@@HardCoreFab You could also try tilting the car to the side and giving it one more smash. 😎
if the engines are still in the cars they probably turn intoo a wedge shape , maibe if the stack them with the noses in oposite direction the engines can embed themselfes in the trunkspace
Put a car on its side! Please!
“”HULK MAD… HULK SMASH CARS!!!
I read you had a lot of suggestions, may I make another, turn the car around so the most weight hits the engine compartment where the most structure is. Cool build!!!
I would look to some sort of cable release and wieght the hook so you can free spool it down because the rapid unspooling seems like that will be hard on the winch. Cool build
When the dog on the winch is disengaged the gears in the winch aren't turning so there is no stress on the winch.
I'm thinking he means like the bushings in the drum etc spinning pretty fast. Probably hurt it over time.
A quick disconnect on the hook end of the cable might prevent that. Sort of like a large car door latch you could pull with a rope on the cable hook end.
@@scubasteve7946 yes plus cable whipping at end
Very well built. I love it!!!
Thank you!
I'm impressed- but I think it would do better if the hinge was level with the table! also if you load the cars to the end of the swing it will make em flatter!😁
I was gonna ask him the same thing why did he position the hinge pin so high off the surface you figure it would be more stable if it were attached to the floor
@@pipegang6497 that's my way of thinking! I agree 100%.
The only reason for the elevated hinge is it allows for better momentum and keeps it from binding up.
If hinge was level it wouldn't be able to crush 'flat' it would leave the cars less crushed on back side. Therefore could not stack the crushed cars.
🤷 That's just my weird little brain. Who knows 😆🙌✌
@@mikethatguy27 you are correct, plus the engine is the most un crushable thing in the car, so having it level would not work
I think it works pretty damn good. 👍
Thanks
Cool build and looks like it works pretty good. You always impress with what you build.
Got here by accident stayed for duration cause content!! Awesome guys
That’s awesome!!
Great idea . Yup my thought was the pivot point why so high however .. flatten a car or 2 then double stack and flatten them with one on top of the other. Should have a good result ..
Stack 2 smashed cars then smash them again! Lol
Definitely turnd out cool. Could watch it work all day!
My old intrepid always treated me well, no maintenance ever needed. I drove from edmonton to kamloops on one tank of gas at 130kmph not bad!
Q. why not place the cars in backwards? Would the engine block stop the "SMASHER"? Thanks for entertaining us!
Glad you enjoyed it
Works good. You could pour some concrete on there for some more weight
I sure wouldn't want to be removing a few parts from a vehicle while it's sitting on that crusher 😱 That's a pretty small diameter cable? Just right for a snap one day. I'm surprised that the hinge is so high up. Likely half that height would work better.
Hey it has weight. That's what counts 😉 Not even lowering the hinge will help because all the mass is lost as soon as it hits the part of the car closest to the hinge. This is a coffee break project and not a piece being buildt to go into production. Pure männer fun stuff.
Yes you get it!
GEEEZ!!!that's awesome! That "wrecker truck" is a winch truck with gin poles, it's got oddly mounted poles but it's super cool
The bed is junk but the rest is sweet!
Hard to believe y’all painted it before you tested it.
Got to look fresh for the first car
I painted my vehicles before I drive them too! LOL
It's certainly an awesome attempt at building a home made crusher! Well done guys!👍😀
That’s Excellent Job Question will those cars look Wide when I get crushed will they fit on a tractor trailer without all the hanging
None that we have crushed so far would be too wide to go on a truck. Having that said I think you would need to push the doors in on a pick up or a Van to keep them from being too wide
Great job. Works better than I thought it would.
Hey, give him credit, at least he was out doing something not sitting on your dead dupas doing nothing.
Did you get the go-pro out?LOL!
Lol Surprisingly it was unscathed
Pancaked em. Should make for easy stacking.
Well it does smash cars, I deny that but thats not all flat really! It just crushes roofs! For flattening it all out, you got to raise the platform on where the car sits, so flapper comes sandwiching car in between, but because your sitting ground is way below your hinges mechanism, it doesn't fully crush properly.
Its not hard to make, just a shorter panel to leave space for hinges to close in normally and just laying smasher more firmly and tighter on the crushed car. Aside from all above... Crushed cars looked in a real good shape though to be crushed, Except for last one!
You will most likely run in to the problem that the lever arm has to be double the length and double the weight to flatten it completly then.
Cause the lever gets momentum loss as soon as it makes contact , now the top part of the lever (fastest most momentum) makes contact first with a lower hinge the slowest traveling part would make contact first and would slow the smasher down giving it less momentum and less power.
It only has to crush the roof down to make it a level base to stack other crushed cars on top so they can be stacked on top of one another on the truck.
Nice job !!! Need some safety shields on the sids
A paint can or watermelon on each would be cool LOL
Could hang a few shirts across the back wall and have a new merch line 😁
Junkyard next to me while growing up used one of the same basic design. That was in the early 70's. Now i shudder when i think of the cool cars it must've crushed.
Stack 2 smashed cars together on it and smash
The use of kinetic stored energy is a novel elegant approach. Be mindful of forces on hinge point..and safety when its up
You never sees to impress me from Belding cars to crushing them lol
Seize
@@brandonsciulli774 If you're gonna act like you're smarter than someone else and correct they're spelling, you ought to know how to spell it yourself. The word is "cease", As in "cease and desist"
@@bobd9193 hehehe
Car-nage! Awesome
best thing that could happen to a ford
Yeah because the chevys are all gone rusted to pc or crushed
I drove a Chevrolet for a while… Then I got a job!
The panther platform cars are insanely reliable lol
Obviously a genuine millenial or the parent of one.😂
100%
I am a happier man now and would love to see 2 cars stacked up for a second crush. Such satisfying entertainment.
For much better results, remove the tires, open the windows, smash the front windshield and take off the gas cap before smashing. Less pneumatic counterforce to deal with this way.
Maybe take all the tires off crush it smaller , good one
Very impressive, moves so fast you better be paying attention all the time to avoid a disaster.
Right!
6:25 that looked like a clean Vic!
I showed my car this video, it’s never broken down since.
Lol
Great job on the crusher but I think you need to put some more engine on that lift so you can get more done with it.
It's just a toy
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Nice Job! I'm in my fifties now but when I was a teenager, I drew up plans for a crusher just like this design. One correction I see is you'll need to push the doors in so it will fit on a semi trailer correctly. Overall, I'm jealous that you have this crusher and I don't.
Very satisfying watching that car get crushed
Very cool build for sure. Looking forward to seeing how it all holds up.
That thing is merciless… I love it
She still has a bit of flex which will eventually wear out them hinges . I would just run a little more support in there. Thats just me. But awesome rig!
Built pretty much the same car crusher 45 years ago. 20 inch high beams and 3/4 steel plate. Burned up to Lincoln welders, welding at damn thing up. We use the 5-ton rear axle and the GMC V6 engine. It worked okay but it was extremely time-consuming and Messy. They ended up just letting the regular car crushers come in.
Great Car crushers mate, nice build.
In one of my past jobs i had to work with a lot of smashed glass, please make sure you guys are at least using a P2 mask to reduce the risk of Silicosis.
Male the hinge side closer to the bottom for more clamping action. The gap caused by having the hinge so high uo doesn't help compress the front. You could actually put more hinge points on the face of the hinge block and make it sort of adjustable if needed.
If we where going to work it that could be an option but it's just a toy
Wow that works really well. Good job!
What a satisfying crush guys love.love that beast u made
when the back plate slid into position, all I could think of is Jim Carrey saying "Like a glove!"
years ago the guy down the street built one similar to this but really old school , he had engine blocks as weight , it would flatten them pretty far , good job gettin her done.
"If you build it, they will come"
If it was me..... I would add a hydraulic cylinder onto a pin lock mechanism to hold the ram in the upright position. And then release the cable from the lid. You have the hydraulic setup already. Add 1 valve. And some hoses. Pull lever. Pin gets pulled out which releases hulk smash. Cables under high speed whipping around open areas like that is my main concern. Love the build.
My old boss built a crusher like that but he used two hydraulic cylinders off a old grain truck he got in. It to this day works very well. Great job guys!
That whole thing whips around a lot... Long as I don't have to be around it, you do you Pal.
I think i would load the cars with the engine towards the end of the smasher. I would also make another maybe 6"-10" plate to place on the platform under smaller cars to smash them even flatter since the hinge is so high. That or spin the cars around and hit them a second time might even work.
maybe have the hinge capable of dropping as it falls.
@@1stontario Would be easier and safer to just remake the hinge in such a way its adjustable and able to move up or down for thicker/thinner vehicles. That hinge needs to be rigid as possible to be safe as possible.
Congrats Tony on building the Hulksmasher to show us how it smashes cars. agree that the cars need to be higher to flat it more. cool video.
What a great build . Looking in from Ireland 🇮🇪
That's Cool as Hell, I think Cowboy Car Crushing would Love this Crusher.
I highly recommend installing a vertical steel tube with the winch cable running through it just incase the cable snap it doesn't kill the operator
Great job Lads....im wandering if you poke the door and pillers in with the loader or digger they'll fit easier on the load out rig..... maybe a sideways smasher......😉😎
Absolutely
First video I've watched on this channel. Can't wait to watch more👍
Well that’s just awesome and now you can really stack those things up on the scrap trailer and send them down the road
That has to be cheaper than running a hydraulic press type crusher. Maybe even quicker as well
100%
And add a quick release to the end of the cable. Letting the winch free spool adds a lot more danger. If the cable snagged the result could be catastrophic
Awsome video. Bust the side windows so glass does not blow all over
You should stack them and crush them more
I was going to say that you guys should keep the car off center to the hinges to reduce the leverage on the hinges 🧐👍 great job Anthony 😎
well done it keeps you going
Very well done. I would have looked into a slightly different hinge design that would drop that plate at a flatter angle of attack, that way it would hit the cars on a more even strike. That way you could get let’s wobble in your strike, and the cars would be nice and evenly flattened. But very nice, and ASMR!
Well then, you just go ahead and build your very own crusher and we will be more than thrilled to watch your videos.
@@chrisallen9154 Why the attitude. He has a valid opinion. I thought the same thing. Only not every vehicle is going to be the same height or crush the same. It would be quite difficult to offset the hinges while retaining the strength. Based on other comments though, this is about as this type of crusher can get. They blow out taller vehicles like vans, which could be a real problem when loading them on a truck.
That last view from inside the car was crazy!!!😊
Yes it was!
your diagonals supporting the snatch block frame need x bracing between one another. That's a lot of weight oscillating, those welds will break
Someone built one out of concrete in pa in the mid 70s. It was 12' wide 30' long and the concrete was 8' thick. It would flatten a car no less than 2". It was mind blowing but people all around was complaining about it shaking their farms and homes. It was a monster. I'm going to try and find it but it was used in a 80s movie.
I'd like to see that!
I would have liked to see you stack another on top, maybe a few after too.. Add some forms and fill the end with concrete! More can't hurt, can it?
Great job you should put a measure stick (add piece of steal to end ) to c how much it crushes
Ok
That's awesome. You should put a car in on its side to see how skinny it can get
Mint, shoulda put one half way on to see if it’ll cut one in half
Needs more weight and a car shaped heavy steel bump out to really get a good crush...Nice simple idea...I wonder if it's still operating..
You guys need to raise the front tire area just a little bit. That way the whole car will get squashed the same amount. Just a thought. The back is smashed more than the front.
Much faster than those hydrolic crushers and just as effective. Have you stacked cars to make them even more flat?
Yes there is a part 2 video
Nice! Turns any car into a skateboard
Pretty much!
We don't have Bojangles in Texas. Every time I take a fall trip where they have a store i get it. Love it. Last fall i got Bo Jangles and got very sick. Even my dogs did. Never again. So sad.
I'd put some textured bedliner on the steel sheet the cars get crushed on... make it look a little cooler probably not practical tho. Very cool toy!
That would be big money and not last to long I wouldn't think!
Sickeningly satisfying. LOL. TOO COOL GUYS!
awesome build ...it seems to crush a little better on cars that had tires removed...no rubber !!
Yes it does!
Love it, especially the comments from people who probably couldn't even weld to bolts together telling you how they'd build it 👍
It is the world we live in!!!
Add some cross bracing at the rear between the uprights and Maybe add a sloped ramp at the left to 3/4 of right side to ensure an even smash even when not placed in perfect
think the point of first failure will be the hingepins , my guess it that over time it will tear off the welds and the part that falls on the car will lift it upand it will slide off the car to the oposite side
Awsome build you could probably fill the bit your lifting with winch with concrete that'll be interesting
can you stop the hammer on its way down? does it have any safety interlocks? seems risky for the average salvage operation.
It's just a toy! It's not used for the salvage. They have a hydraulic one for the salvage!