Trashing a trash truck #1

Some of our old trucks were destroyed by a scrap company. This is the first ten minutes of a special food waste collection truck. It is... well, WAS a Mercedes-Benz.
The excavator driver had warmed up the last days crushing front loader dumpsters, which I have another vid showing. I'll upload soon...

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• excavator
• truck
• scrap
• trash
• waste
• garbage
• Mercedes-Benz
• Mercedes
• Hitachi
• Zaxis
• Renoflex
• ØFF
• destruction

[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?

[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

[madbiker53]

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

[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.

[EuropeanUK]

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

[angryrecycler67]

try explaining that damage in your defect book

[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.