Yard Tour: Crushing Area
Our crushing area, where the hulk of the car goes through the final processing, is well organized and surprisingly clean, considering the type and amount of activity that goes on there. Our scrap manager and 3 full-time employees have the task of crushing what remains of each parted-out vehicle. |
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By the time a vehicle makes it to the crushing area, all usable car parts, all saleable “cores”, and all fluids, including gasoline, antifreeze, and transmission fluid, have been removed. Only certain items need to be removed for their scrap value before the hulk is placed into the crusher, such as:
- aluminum bumpers
- a/c condensers
- copper wire
The last task is to crush the hulk. Our Volvo L90 loaders easily handle the vehicles, some still with engines and transmissions. The vehicle goes into our EZ Crusher where the loader operator then activates the crushing program remotely from his seat in the loader. Up to three vehicles are crushed into a “bundle”.
The bundle is then removed from the crusher and stacked. Eventually the car bundles will be loaded onto a flatbed truck and hauled off to the shredder mill. Then the crushed bodies are literally “shredded” into golf ball-sized chunks. Next they will be separated by metal type and sent to steel mills, aluminum smelters and other processors. The material retrieved from these crushed cars will be converted into hundreds of useful products, preserving valuable natural resources and reducing the need for landfill space.
