Witness the Destruction!!! Vintage Aljon 20 Crushing Cars with Ease 

I ran an an Aljon when I worked at fosters auto crushing in Orlando in the 80’s. We called it PAC MAN. It was painted on the side.

That is the most efficient car crusher I have ever seen. Especially in the way that it operates and gets the cars much flatter than other crushers!

That brings back memories. We used an identical crusher as well as 2 different plate crushers in the early 80's. The Aljon was slow and when it got a car stuck in it we'd have to chain it to the ram and try to pull it backwards. But it made the 2nd flatest cars. The dual ram plate crusher was faster and nothing got stuck. It made the 3rd flatest cars, but you could get another car on top of the first crushed car citting down the work of the loader. The fastest, and flattest crusher was homemade. It was nothing more than a steel box made from 3/4" plate with compartments for strength and ridigity. The compartments were filled with chunks of concrete and engine blocks. One end was hinged and the other was lifted with a crane. The loader would put the car in and the crane would drop the plate. I mostly drove the loader and could surgically extract an AC evaporator with one fork. Radiators and condensers were easy. Cars were also huge and heavy compared to today. We'd overload trailers and drive them to Midlothian in the middle of the night to avoid the DOT. Good times.

Old school best school

That wall of steel wheels is pretty awesome!

I used one of those back in the day I crushed at 3 different yards hear in Buffalo brings back alot of ball busting memories great video keep em cumin

Great video, so many cool camera angles. I'm surprised you don't strip the vehicles out more before crushing them. Keep up the great work!

Got to love that steel wheel fence

So ein Crusher ist sehr unwirtschaftlich. Daher so gut wie ausgestorben. Viel zu langsam und zu viel Verbrauch. Die besten sind die die direkt in Würfel machen. Effektiv und vorallem Platz sparend und schnell. Mit den Würfel Crusher kann man auch loses Metall mit rein werfen und die machen daraus einen Würfel für den abtransport.

We had a aljon model 20 before we got a new mac crusher but nothing crushes flatter than the model 20 engines and all it didn't care but made a mess for sure.

Cool fence. Are vans and trucks too tall for this unit, or will the hydraulic pusher force them into the jaws?

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