It kind of makes me sad. Like I know it sounds dumb but you almost feel like the car has feelings. I felt like this when I got rid of my old car that I’d had for ages but it was getting to the point where fixing anything wrong with it cost more than car itself so I got rid of it and I felt really sad about leaving at the scrap yard. All the good memories that had been had in that car would be reduced to nothing but a pile of shredded metal.
These crushers are babies compared to some we work on, I have seen 2” thick 10ft wide steel plates fall into them and the crushers didn’t even slow down, just punched holes in it all the way through.
@@truth901 All cars have significance and value. They have their own strengths and weaknesses and are priced accordingly. Even if they aren't priced properly, when new, the used market will price them properly 99% of the time.
Cars ain’t that strong, especially from these eras. If someone is still driving around in a 90s Camry today and gets into an accident their fault or not, it won’t be pretty.
Essentially a disposable item most cars are with very few exceptions, your money going down the drain while the sales person on the glossy showroom is enjoying every cent of your money.
Considering modern cars are designed to be a bit soft, it's not too suprising. A car should be able to be squished so an impact has time to diperce the force of a crash. Going from 80mph to 50 then to 0 over the cource of 0.1 second, rather than 80mph to 0 in 0.001 seconds, pushing all of that impact force in such a short timeframe. The longer you can make an impact last from initial crash to full stop, the less harmfull it will become. (Unless things are pushed directly into the passengers, and even then it might still be benefical.)
Saved my car from a scrapyard - it horrifies me she was so close to ending up like this. Think I'm going to go into the garage now and give her a polish. Love your cars, people.
@@antoniomontana5778 My 1986 Trans-Am was definitely female, right from jump. I called her Christine in honor of the one in the movie. My Christine had something of a will of her own---I'd be driving along and SUDDENLY she would pull the pedal from under my foot and accelerate. Lotta laughs, that one. 😲
Wow!!!! This thing jaws are a trillions times powerful to just chew metal so effortlessly. It's amazing!! Thanks for posting this video. Unfortunately this is the hidden end of someone's pride and joy.
I remember that I first saw this type of machine in a cartoon, the Mask cartoon. The villain Walter was swallowed by it, but the machine couldn't swallow him because he was indestructible, it threw him out, almost breaking. In real life, a person needs to be very careful, an injury, the loss of an arm, is possible. I've seen a man get sucked into a lathe, let alone a machine like that.
Each and every one of those cars has had it's fair share of memories making people smile, having taken them to new places and helping them live their daily lives. In the end though they were merely tools and nothing more, reduced to rubble.. Extremely sad indeed.
I worked in a steel mill that used shredded scrap. coins seem to pass thru shredder. If you get scrap that has a cloud of flies and stinks. Really bad. Keep going. Seat belts. Glass all parts show up. 😮😮😮😮
just picturing various politicians being sat inside that car.... - makes it a very exiting video to watch ...it must feel wonderful being fixed up by that machine...
