Industrial shredder videos

SSI is just down the road from me and I often see their machines waiting to be shipped to customers. They make quite a range of equipment.

The video of one of their machines shreading car engine blocks gives you some idea of how large and how powerful these machines can be.
 
I especially like the medical waste one, especially when some dumbass grabs the used needles, syringes, bandages and sanitary products and shows how fine it was ground into one smelly heap of desease spreading mulch!

simulated my ass!
 
I used to date a gal who worked for one of SSI's compeditors. She started as receptionist and worked her way up to director of sales support. Today, she's basically in charge of tradeshows for them. Several years ago, two men came to their offices with three badges. Two of the badges identified the men as federal agents. The third badge was the "badge" from one of their machines. This is the nameplate that includes the unit's model number and serial number. The agents wanted to know all about the history of this machine. A quick check of computer records found no record. So, my friend was called to help with the investigation because she's one of the longest-serving employees and knows the files well. She was able to quickly locate the paper file for the machine in question. Computer records for older machines were being created only when parts were ordered. When she scanned the paper file, she quickly remembered the whole thing. This had been the first international order that she'd handled when she was promoted to order entry. The unit was sold to the interior ministry of the nation of Iraq. The machine in question was the smallest model they ever offered. It didn't prove popular and was discontinued some years later. It was primarily intended to crush rock to make agrigate for road construction on-site. The expectation was that it would always be sold for portable use since it would be used on construction sites. But, this particular one had been ordered for fixed-mounting... the only one of this model ever sold that way. Instead of a diesel engine to power it, it had been ordered with an electric motor... the only one of this model ever sold that way. She remembered the difficulties of making sure that the motor was correct for Iraqi power. This unit was sold without on-site, post-installation, factory inspection. Most buyers of these shredder machines contract the factory to send an engineer to inspect the actual installation of the machine before beginning to use it. In America, the insurance people will always require that. But, foreign sometimes doesn't. This particular machine hadn't been entered into their computer database because no spare parts had ever been ordered. That is odd because some of the parts in such machines are basically considered "consumable." They are expected to wear out and require replacement.

Finally, the investigators told her the story. The nameplate had been removed from a machine found installed with a pully above it at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The reason no spare parts had ever been required is that this machine had never shred anything except people, and people are fairly soft.

After watching cars and refrigerators and stuff go down those machines, can you imagine being suspended from a pully and slowly lowered into that machine? And people complain about the CIA forcing people to stand in "stress positions" or subjecting them to loud music...
 
I was watching Cold Case files on Court TV years ago and one guy had killed his wife and run her body through a wood chipper into a river. They caught him because somebody saw him there, and when they checked out the scene, found enough DNA evidence to also check the chipper and got him.

That gave me the creeps, although he killed her before he shredded her, I still can't imagine.
 
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