Trashing a trash truck #1

[sleeptyper]

It's like a nut in a cracker :O

[mrbluenun]

Hi Griffencph,

Nice close up video. Not until you watch this up close you can get some idea of the gigantic scale of these machines?

Thanks for the video.

Take care,

mrbluenun

[flyingscrapyard]

Oh; I thought you wanted a short wheelbase truck. My mistake.

[angryrecycler67]

try explaining that damage in your defect book

[madbiker53]

after a hard day sat in one of these things its good vid to watch cheered me up lots ;]

[maxneunundsechs]

like a huge ant would be eating a truck. :-)

[BlakeSchneider]

Man that claw is immense! Thanks for telling me about your channel mate, I'll keep checking in for sure.

[Vista0009]

Why did you destroy that truck again?

[Griffencph]

It was worth more as scrap iron than as spare parts. It's only a Mercedes... :-)

Apparently nobody wanted the truck unless we brought it to them for free, but the scrapyard paid the metal price, so... Easy calculation, right?

[EuropeanUK]

@Griffencph "It's only a Mercedes... :-)" YES!!! thats right ;-)

[Griffencph]

Looks like the machine is a Hitachi Zaxis 500 carrying a Hitachi Giant Shear. You can find the specifications here: .hitachi-c-m dot com /global /pdf /brochure /current /attachment /giant_shear.pdf

[Griffencph]

(continued)

If it's the larger version of the shear, it has 337 tons of cutting force. So the guy was exaggerating, but it's still a huge machine. And that's a 50-ton digger you need to carry the shear. So compared to a 7- or 12-ton truck (not sure which those were), it's going to look huge.

(continues)

[Griffencph]

(continued)

But interestingly, diggers get even bigger. The famous Ace of Spades excavator, which is currently being dismantled to be shipped to the USA, could lift two of those Hitachi excavators in its bucket:

.modelexcavatorcompany dot co dot uk/vintage_excavator_trust1NEW­S.htm

Info from user: funscience, thank you

[Thc60]

Oh my good!!! Thats a Nightmare to see that. Thanks Griff.

[mikey7719]

bit of a waste, y not break the vehicle 4 spares?

[Griffencph]

We don't have any more of that model, and all spares we could use were taken already. Many things wouldn't be worth reusing.

We couldn't sell them to any dealers worth messing with, so it would be this or having them rust to death in a corner. They already stood there for a couple of years.

[jakelee16]

Were the trucks drained off toxic chemicals or oil ? Otherwise you might have been standing on toxic ground! Anw its kinda sad to see a truck torn up like that, but it sure gives our eyes some pleasure!

[Griffencph]

It appeared the tipper cylinder was not empty, but

1) they dig off the soil these days

2) the later years we've used hydraulic oil based on plant oil. (I don't know the english word for those tall plants with yellow small flowers that grow small black corns that you press. You also use the oil for cooking instead of that made from olives or grape stones.) It's not nearly as bad to the environment as oil products based on crude oil.

[Griffencph]

..And per definition ALL soil from Copenhagen is concidered toxic untill tested. I believe this ground was toxic even before we rented it.

[georgewuzheer]

Sunflower oil?

[Griffencph]

No, not sunflower, but I'll pick up the dictionary this time... hmmm... "rapsolie"...

It translates: "rape(seed) oil, colza oil".

[tlapere]

Before you kill another one like that, i need an air seat, tank and compressor, lemme know and ill come get it!

[Griffencph]

I guess you can get it cheaper at your side of the Atlantic than having me ship it :-)

Besides I think those 3 trucks we did were from before the airseat was invented...

[SquishDoll]

WOW, awesome video!

[Griffencph]

Try say "awesome machine"...

I surely want one for my next birthday...!