page_title: Car crusher
hierarchical_section_title: Car crusher
caption_attribution_description: This photo shows a Ford van in the process of being crushed, November 6, 2005, in St. Louis, MO.
context_page_description: A car crusher is an industrial device used to reduce the dimensions of derelict cars prior to transport for recycling.
  Car crushers are compactors and can be of several types: one is a "pancake", where a scrap automobile is flattened by a huge descending hydraulically powered plate, or a baling press type, with which the automobile is compressed from several directions until it resembles a large cube. A third type is a mobile crusher. It is small enough that it can be moved from location to location with a semi truck. This machine utilizes a much smaller plate that crushes the vehicle in sections, as it is slowly fed through the machine.
context_section_description: A car crusher is an industrial device used to reduce the dimensions of derelict (depreciated) cars prior to transport for recycling. 
  Car crushers are compactors and can be of several types: one is a "pancake", where a scrap automobile is flattened by a huge descending hydraulically powered plate, or a baling press type, with which the automobile is compressed from several directions until it resembles a large cube. A third type is a mobile crusher. It is small enough that it can be moved from location to location with a semi truck. This machine utilizes a much smaller plate that crushes the vehicle in sections, as it is slowly fed through the machine.
caption: A Ford van being crushed in St. Louis MO
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