SilliamWhale
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Did i read that is what some people do?
Does it have to be a really good shredder to work?
Does it have to be a really good shredder to work?
Shredding chemical cans
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Hartwig
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- Scheggerott, Germany
Had heard years back that someone did it easily through his combine chopper : run the combine with the back in the shed, throw the cans on the walkers and then later you can shovel it up in the shed and have saved a lot of volume bringing it to a recycling point.
These days are long gone here, we have to bring the clean cans back one day a year when they collect them for recycling.
These days are long gone here, we have to bring the clean cans back one day a year when they collect them for recycling.
No recycler I have worked with has ever wanted shredded cans. They only want crushed ones. Shredding certainly makes better use of space.
How about an old precision chop forager with a big safety cage around the pickup & a chute for the cans to go straight into the auger on the pickup? Put a bag underneath the spout to catch the chopped up bits
How about an old precision chop forager with a big safety cage around the pickup & a chute for the cans to go straight into the auger on the pickup? Put a bag underneath the spout to catch the chopped up bits
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
@Thick Farmer will 'shred' them for you
SilliamWhale
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I would think a can bag full of chip would be too heavy to handle manually, bad enough with whole unsquashed cans.
Rarely have any spare, they get recycled on farm. They get used for holding nuts , bolts nails, or anything else loose floating around the workshop. As paint pots, scoops for cleaning water troughs. Waste oil containers. Spare bits of plastic for patching holes in something else.
Lost a tractor diesol tank fuel cap once. Found a spray container lid was the right size and thread.
They're too valuable to pay someone else to take them away.
Occasionally have had to hunt the yard hard, to track an empty one down, in an emergency.
Lost a tractor diesol tank fuel cap once. Found a spray container lid was the right size and thread.
They're too valuable to pay someone else to take them away.
Occasionally have had to hunt the yard hard, to track an empty one down, in an emergency.
SilliamWhale
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Was thinking chip them up. Pop them into spud big bag and put into trailer with forks to save a bit of space. Doesnt sound like many do it
SilliamWhale
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Rarely have any spare, they get recycled on farm. They get used for holding nuts , bolts nails, or anything else loose floating around the workshop. As paint pots, scoops for cleaning water troughs. Waste oil containers. Spare bits of plastic for patching holes in something else.
Lost a tractor diesol tank fuel cap once. Found a spray container lid was the right size and thread.
They're too valuable to pay someone else to take them away.
Occasionally have had to hunt the yard hard, to track an empty one down, in an emergency.
Do you want mine?
Nearly
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- North of York
Rarely have any spare, they get recycled on farm. They get used for holding nuts , bolts nails, or anything else loose floating around the workshop. As paint pots, scoops for cleaning water troughs. Waste oil containers. Spare bits of plastic for patching holes in something else.
Lost a tractor diesol tank fuel cap once. Found a spray container lid was the right size and thread.
They're too valuable to pay someone else to take them away.
Occasionally have had to hunt the yard hard, to track an empty one down, in an emergency.
I recycle the wetter and trace element cans etc.
The caps from 15l cans fit on IBC's.Local recycler has a few 'free days' when farmers can take in cans, fert bags etc and they go straight onto a wagon and away. It costs more to store the cans than they can charge, so this all gets done on one specific day.
I just fill a couple of spud seed bags and away they go.
Used to be free, now they charge £10 "administration fee". Still best way to get rid mind.I recycle the wetter and trace element cans etc.
Local recycler has a few 'free days' when farmers can take in cans, fert bags etc and they go straight onto a wagon and away. It costs more to store the cans than they can charge, so this all gets done on one specific day.
I just fill a couple of spud seed bags and away they go.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Todds in Thirsk?
Was free in June.
If anybody really wants to go down the shredding route, I've got a fosse straw chopper for sale.
Chuck cans in the hopper, and discharged underneath, could then be scooped up with bucket into bulk bags/ trailers etc.
Safer than throwing them in the back of a combine.
Chuck cans in the hopper, and discharged underneath, could then be scooped up with bucket into bulk bags/ trailers etc.
Safer than throwing them in the back of a combine.
Was free last march, got a letter about the next "free" day in the small print £10 admin fee
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Don't you chaps need an annual plastics recycling receipt for Farm Assurance then?
Nearly
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- North of York
That's what the admin fee covers.
They print a pretty certificate with your name and farm address on. I'm not farm arsed anyway.
One man turned up with 3 grain trailers full last time I was there.
What's farm assurance
