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Baling aluminum cans
by /u/Prolapse_to_Brolapse | 98 comments | 2026-06-15T13:14:50+00:00 Central
Comments
| /u/Zander0416 Why on earth is the second compression taking so long... Ohhhhh |
| /u/presticus I was thinking "this is neat, but a cube would be more satisfying." 10/10 satisfying ending. |
| /u/DenRay4 https://giphy.com/gifs/piFELWpvdJBJCP2hxz |
| /u/1001og https://giphy.com/gifs/11sBLVxNs7v6WA |
| /u/strangecloudss I thought my wifi died lol |
| /u/Ninja_Prolapse I read 'I thought my wife died' and it threw me for a good few seconds... |
| /u/Deancrypt I thought the video ended too soon |
| /u/Kangar The machine was preparing by chanting to itself: "I think I can, I think I can..." |
| /u/Immediate_Song4279 Squishing it along the other axis. |
| /u/Zander0416 https://preview.redd.it/2vgeptj68g7h1.png?width=896&form at=png&auto=webp&s=4c30204a2f9083fabd6c0e1a921b94ac1c1eb 56e |
| /u/Altruistic-Regret473 https://giphy.com/gifs/j603eyZWRPsYjifS7k |
| /u/awkgem Literally. I went from wow that didn't compress that much to what the FUCK real quick Edit: nevermind. I thought it made a perfect aluminum roll using some sort of witchcraft. Turns out I was just looking at the machinery... Still a cool cube though... |
| /u/Entire_Dog_5874 I thought the same. "Wow... look at that thing! Oh wait."😂 |
| /u/ResolveLeather Yup. High torque usually means low speed. |
| /u/Morgasm42 There was a second where I thought you were trying to convince me it crushed them into a shiny rod. |
| /u/Ok-Lawyer6864 I did the classic old man move the phone to my eyes "no effing way" until I saw it lol |
| /u/Treethulhu Me out here with my crappy eyesight isn't alone. I'm not old, but the 40s have made me see some obvious decline lol |
| /u/UB3R__ Same, "wow it's so shiny".... until I saw the cube. |
| /u/Kerblaaahhh You have one hour to pick up your cube. |
| /u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Your cube has been towed |
| /u/Dartmouthest Is it about my cube? |
| /u/StrugglingSoul I had one of those WHAT moments and then I saw it |
| /u/frostygrin Where did it go? ...Whoa! |
| /u/Legitimate_Let_5641 I was like why did they disappear. |
| /u/Future-Original-2902 Im glad im not the only one lol |
| /u/Mr_Right1998 https://giphy.com/gifs/Ym6JIFcTc3V5geNX7A |
| /u/Teeaak Me too. Went: No way! That's Al. |
| /u/TheLive4Ever Oh man, we were about to see a close-up of the rod |
| /u/martialar https://preview.redd.it/ihnwhwhntg7h1.jpeg?width=615&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2caccd85fec5ba22a908ad8fbcbbe24d4e2 e42e3 |
| /u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- Is it about my cube? |
| /u/Nippon-Gakki Same. I was really impressed. |
| /u/willpower88 You have 30 minutes to move your cube. |
| /u/EmperorSexy 📞 Is it about my cube? |
| /u/the_vault-technician Man I couldn't remember if this was a Futurama or Simpsons joke. I can see both the Professor and Burns being in the scene in my head. |
| /u/Throwawayforapppp Simpsons, when Homer was Mr Burns's assistant |
| /u/the_vault-technician Excellent thank you. |
| /u/littlejumpyrobots Came here expressly for this comment |
| /u/scottygras https://giphy.com/gifs/8fen5LSZcHQ5O |
| /u/Turgid_Donkey I'll have a crab juice. |
| /u/cda91 Mah cans, mah precious antique cans! |
| /u/JGoodberry This is how Wall-E works |
| /u/Old-Confidence6971 What do you think that cube is worth in aluminum? |
| /u/Immediate_Song4279 like, $150. Assuming the stated weight is correct. |
| /u/oxwof On average, about $200. Maybe a little less at that quality |
| /u/Revolutionary-Put766 In California you get about $1.15-$1.65 per lb. So this would be around $575. |
| /u/caboosetp Is that for aluminum itself or is that for the deposit refund? |
| /u/Revolutionary-Put766 Just the aluminum as far as I know. 🤷♂️ |
| /u/Background-Cream-285 is the value the same in every state? if not, where was this located? |
| /u/ragzilla Aluminum Cans Scrap Price USD/LB in USA and Canada Scrap Yards Today - Aluminum Scrap | ScrapMonster has reported prices by location. The US nationwide average is 0.61/lb. Some places have higher prices (like California, which was at $1.67 on the most recent submitted prices). |
| /u/Yara__Flor At a nickel a can, $800 |
| /u/jimmy_three_shoes In Michigan it's 10 cents a can! $1600! |
| /u/Smat-8 I sell 10 truck loads of cans a month. Mill price is around $1.18 per lb right now. |
| /u/noafro1991 Red cola can compressed against the left side as it finishes lol |
| /u/fragmental Oh, haha, bottom of the screen. The reddit text was obscuring it. |
| /u/scrotumscab Take one down, pass it around. 15,998 cans... |
| /u/Locketship This is soda pressing |
| /u/HumbleWalrus1072 Your gift to humanity is buried at the bottom of Reddit. This is a quality joke. |
| /u/Horror_Rub8609 It's the 6th comment on a popular post. lol "the bottom of reddit" |
| /u/ConfessSomeMeow Its upside is limited because it is a common joke to make when this video is posted - so it'll probably only be upvoted by people who have seen the joke fewer than 2 or 3 times. |
| /u/British_Rover https://giphy.com/gifs/111ebonMs90YLu |
| /u/Saxavarius_ https://i.redd.it/2eu7nq1kfg7h1.gif |
| /u/Jeff-Uh-Uh-Goldblum Strax: Madam Vastra wondered if you were needing any grenades. The Doctor: Grenades? Strax: She might have said 'help'. |
| /u/Immediate_Song4279 It's like the walls are closing in. |
| /u/PhalanX4012 What a Candid observation. |
| /u/HustlinInTheHall I read this. Hit a bookmark. Finally got the joke. Ran back here for your upvote. |
| /u/SophonParticle I find it soda lightful. |
| /u/Darkwireman https://giphy.com/gifs/s3qCaXmFQqJsQ |
| /u/MilecyhigH My immediate thought after seeing the final cube |
| /u/rodflanders19 https://preview.redd.it/3tx1v5h0bg7h1.jpeg?width=720&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6eb489f7bdef85ee6cd9f1e215fb13df8a5 20136 |
| /u/rattrod17 📞 Is it about my cube? |
| /u/buttered_sausage11 https://preview.redd.it/vqy9hqtu7g7h1.jpeg?width=1200&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79ff7f8b4fdc611f8843e5aeea161e98b4 aab1dc |
| /u/anthroposer https://preview.redd.it/66olzxwueg7h1.jpeg?width=494&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7b1555e64b3e03a9914d4c54ba6ac99e5c ca026 |
| /u/DanR5224 https://preview.redd.it/hy8d4obyfg7h1.jpeg?width=952&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30e33542a2afe9cf6620eafa07f71b56a03 76502 |
| /u/BearsIsPain My uncle in Colorado had one of these when I was a kid except it was for one can at a time and it was mounted on his kitchen wall |
| /u/Jay__Riemenschneider My buddy had one of these instead of a trashcan and it was built into a cabinet. That's how I learned they were WAY richer than I thought. |
| /u/gcalig My rich aunt had one too, fifty years later I still think, why? My only conclusion is maybe their garbage collection was restricted or priced by cubic feet ... |
| /u/Jay__Riemenschneider It's one of those things that at a certain income level is just like "Why not?" That house had a few things that are still like "What the fuck?" But it didn't faze them. While we all felt like Richie Rich's friends. |
| /u/Following-Complete The smell of that machine must be infernal with all the sodas mixing together and sitting in the sun allday. |
| /u/justaride80 And beer and Yoo-Hoo. |
| /u/Sploobert_74 I worked for a beer distributor. They would take the out of code beer out back and crush the cans, while full, and the smell of old beer was nauseating. |
| /u/justaride80 Same. In the early 2000s, I destroyed pallets of beer one summer. Bottles and cans. Had to break the bottles with a hammer and slice the side of the cans with a knife without opening the tops. Caught shards of glass with my face and arms. Good times back then |
| /u/Chance_Stay7361 Usually by the time the cans get to this point they're bone dry with no smell ... and unless this is some unusual situation where this is truly all soda cans, it would smell like beer if anything. |
| /u/bangbangracer I remember as a kid, I loved the annual trip to the recycler. We never recycled any of our various drink cans over the year, and we'd take them to the waste facility to sell them. My sister and I got to split the money. The weirdest part of the whole process was the smell of the waste facility. It was a mix of pop and oil. Plus, it was next to trash being processed, so there was that added smell. |
| /u/No_Election_3206 Baler? I hardly know her |
| /u/VelociTopher https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiTnEyADQdbVNi5lS |
| /u/j01101111sh Dammit Michael this is important |
| /u/JRDN7 Darrell told me I could use the baler. No he didn't Michael. |
| /u/DantifA Well you let Pudge use it. |
| /u/naterpotater246 https://giphy.com/gifs/cXblnKXr2BQOaYnTni |
| /u/Wozar Ok. That was WAY more compressed than I was expecting! |
| /u/dalgeek Aluminum cans take up about 15 68 times more space than the blocks of aluminum used to make them. EDIT: Yeah it's 64-74 times. Aluminum is 2.7x dense as water, so a 355mL can full of aluminum would have a mass of 958.5g, but the can is made from 13-15g of aluminum. |
| /u/apexxin Looks a bit more than that. |
| /u/ConfessSomeMeow I see 14 grams as a typical empty 355ml can weight. Aluminum is 2.70 g/cm³, which means it is 5.2ml of aluminum. So that means the can takes up 68 times more aluminum than the space it contains (to say nothing of the additional space around them, since they don't pack perfectly) I would find it difficult to believe that the compressed block of aluminum cans is 78% air, so I think you are right. |
| /u/Vanscoten I used to love doing this to cars in GTA 3 when I was younger. |
| /u/Vanscoten Car compactors in the junkyard. |
| /u/viral_virus Yeah really, I missed out. |
| /u/fragmental One time I wrecked my car and it flipped up in the air and landed in the trash compactor and I couldn't get out and then the trash compactor compacted me. |
| /u/ZIGMEGA https://giphy.com/gifs/kd9BlRovbPOykLBMqX |