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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Giant Scrap Car Grinder ... Thx Ralph H!
Subject: Giant Scrap CAR Grinder, Like The Bimford 8000
Thanks Ralph!
The City of Columbus was ahead of most other US cities with their trash burning power plant and three large Jeffrey grinders. One problem was that the propane cylinders and other explodeable type devices would cause explosions. The Jeffrey Mining Hammers were approx. 8" by 12" by 24" of steel. As a sales metallurgist for Eutectic, I sold the hard-facing alloy rods for the welders at each plant to build up the worn edges of the hammers to keep them working like new.
Bad press and politics got the so-called "Trash-burning power plant to be shut down. I am not sure it was not the lobbying of the electric power companies that killed the project and it has been gone for several years now. There is wealth in trash and God knows the US wastes a lot!
I COULD BELIEVE THE CAR, BUT THE ENGINES???
http://devour.com/video/car-grinder
Sam
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