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The shredder that eats pianos (and fridges, and sofas, and caravans)
Feed the giant shredder with a grapple crane, then sort the bits: steel, copper, plastic, wood and glass, each to its own bin.
Tipper lorries back onto the tipping floor and tip out loads of old junk. Grab things with the crane's grapple and drop them in the shredder, and out come bits. Bigger loads turn up as the business grows: pianos and bathtubs, then cars and caravans.
Chunky things can jam the rotors: hit REVERSE a few times to rock them free. Some things just will not shred and get spat back out.
Then over to the sorting line. The magnet takes the steel, and you drag the copper, plastic, wood and glass off the belt into the right bins. Full bins get squashed into bales, and a flatbed comes round to buy them. Bert Binns finds all of it fascinating.
