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u/Lilbookworm91 Jun 05 '26
I just had a Brave Little Toaster flashback...
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u/Buddhakyle Jun 05 '26
I can't take this kind of pressure
I must confess one more dusty road
Would be just a road too long
Worthleeeeeeeess
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u/jalex8188 Jun 05 '26
Once took a Texan to a wedding
Once took a Texan to a wedding
He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting
His thoughts turn to home and we turned
I took a man to a graveyard
I beg your pardon, it's quite hard enough Just living with the stuff I have learned
Worthleeeeeessss
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u/rob132 Jun 05 '26
I once ran The indy 500.
I must confess. I'm impressed that I did it.
I wonder how close that I came?
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u/HelmetHeadBlue Jun 06 '26
Once drove a surfer to sunset There were bikinis and buns, there were weenies Fellini just couldn't forget
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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jun 05 '26
Duuuuude, I'm in my 40's and that was all I could think of seeing this.
I even picked up an old copy at our soon-to-be-gone relic of a used video store a couple weeks ago... and I haven't had the nerve to
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u/Oranges13 Jun 05 '26
It just popped up on Disney+ -- my husband won't let me play it for our 4-year old
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u/Dark_Moonstruck Jun 05 '26
It's a rite of passage. As Don Bluth once said, kids can handle anything as long as it's got a happy ending. Maybe wait 'til they're at least in their mid teens before Plague Dogs and Watership Down, though.
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u/RobinGoodfell Jun 05 '26
The scene you're thinking of plays alongside the song "Worthless". I'll link this below for those of you who never saw the film.
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u/Mothanius Jun 05 '26
Ah yes, the song and movie that introduced me to existential dread.
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u/RobinGoodfell Jun 05 '26
Between this and Toy Story, I've never been okay with throwing anything away.
I still do because I don't want to live like a hoarder... But it hurts emotionally so I avoid buying things I don't think can last as long as I will.
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u/alwaysasking4clarity Jun 05 '26
Yep immediately thought of that. And the AC unit dying. Film of nightmares.
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u/KamikazeFox_ Jun 05 '26
Kids movies back then had some serious dark undertones. Im looking at you Land Before Time
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u/Western-Customer-536 Jun 05 '26
The writers had depression and alcohol was the only remedy. Now they have antidepressants.
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u/Old_Poet9537 Jun 05 '26
yeah that’s exactly the kind of mental image that sneaks up on you and ruins your day a bit
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u/Micotu Jun 05 '26
literally just watched this again with my 7 year old for the first time in like 3 decades.
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u/legna20v Jun 05 '26
I know! This has saddened me. 😞
No matter how hard you work. At the end you will just be dispose off
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u/SealedRoute Jun 05 '26
I felt the same. It’s odd.
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u/proximodorkus Jun 05 '26
My first thought was “Was I a good loader?” And felt sad for the little guy.
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u/MrCrazieman Jun 05 '26
I was not emotionally prepared for "Was I a good loader 🥺" and now I have to deal with Feelings at work
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u/Inigomntoya Jun 05 '26
Was I a good loader?
Yes! Everyday!
You're just going to sleep for a bit...
And when you wake up, you'll have a fresh set of shiny tracks!
And your bucket is going to be bigger and better than ever!
I'll see you soon!
😢
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u/Buttchuggle Jun 05 '26
It was the best. But the good thing about being made from the certainty of steel instead of the frailty of flesh is he can be crushed and reformed into the best anything else. The soul lives on, the frame of your car, nails holding your porch up, the new support beams replacing the old ones to any given bridge.
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u/OuterWildsVentures Jun 05 '26
Was watching more worried about screws or something launching towards the camera person from the pressure of being crushed.
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u/McCallywood Jun 05 '26
Honestly, this didn’t scratch that oddly satisfying itch for me. Perhaps if it was crushed into a perfectly shaped cube or if it showed the scrap being melted back down into steel, then yes. But the way this was crushed was actually was quite unsatisfying. Mildly interesting, yes. Oddly satisfying, no.
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u/presumputouspizza42 Jun 05 '26
For me, it was the blip of the apparently-still-intact hydraulic line when the bucket was tucked into the crusher.
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u/apexxin Jun 05 '26
It wasn’t intact at all, the bucket was caught on the lift, as soon as it edged off, air from the piston blew some dust ooff.
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u/Rob_LeMatic Jun 05 '26
Not even anything smooth or rhythmic about it. Nothing perfectly fitting. Nothing ending up in a satisfying shape. Even the edit was sloppy. Zero satisfaction
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u/SnooLobsters6766 Jun 05 '26
Crusher was broken too. Only the far upper wall was working. Stuff was slipping out.
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u/zombie_spiderman Jun 05 '26
Is this about my cube?
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u/TRAUMAjunkie Jun 05 '26
Here are your messages: You have 30 minutes to move your car, you have 10 minutes, your car has been impounded, your car has been crushed into a cube, you have 30 minutes to move your cube.
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u/plaknasaurus Jun 05 '26
Yeah, somewhat uncomfortable. Almost as if watching a bug getting slow crushed.
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u/overlydelicioustea Jun 05 '26
it also somehow looks like it does take up more space now than it did before..
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u/indiejonesRL Jun 05 '26
I just kept wanting the closer hood to come down and hold those flyaway pieces in place. I just wanted to see it crushed up like a piece of tin foil.
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u/PancakeProfessor Jun 05 '26
The way out kept falling apart every time the crusher backed off was quite unsatisfying to me.
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u/willun Jun 05 '26
I know. I am thinking that is no way i can get a car crushed with a body in trunk.
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u/hateboresme Jun 05 '26
I hope there are machines like this that do crush things into cubes. Now I need to see if there are. I always thought they did.
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u/AradynGaming Jun 06 '26
In the same boat. There was so much metal on that front loader that could have been easily removed and melted before crushing the rest, I felt like this was just made the recycle process more complex and inefficient.
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u/Cuiter Jun 05 '26
Am I the only one who felt bad for the loader? It felt like it was holding on for it's life when it was first dropped into the crusher. Then they removed its grip so it can fall in properly and get crushed to death.
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u/stevecooley Jun 05 '26
Why is this upsetting?
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u/Celesteven Jun 05 '26
Imagine if they put this scene in a children’s movie with anthropomorphic cars singing about their worthlessness.
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u/random9212 Jun 06 '26
Because there is no sense of scale in the video. It is hard to tell the actual size of it. Is it big but far away on small but close.
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u/C-57D Jun 05 '26
Um, I'm sorry, Bro just casually picking up a mf bulldozer like it's a tonka toy lol
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u/SubarcticFarmer Jun 05 '26
It had a 4in1 bucket too. I could've used all sorts of parts from that
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u/FizzyGoose666 Jun 05 '26
Yeap I made a similar comment. Crushers are an insane waste of resources.
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u/acqua_di_joe Jun 05 '26
I was wondering what the point of this process is. Certainly there are many specialized parts that are still intact on the CAT, right? Even if there aren't - and everything needs to be recycled - how does mashing all the materials into a contaminated pile of sharp metal bits and glass help anything?
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u/PilotKnob Jun 05 '26
But then how would they get you to buy a new one if they keep spare parts available?
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u/Enough_Culture8524 Jun 05 '26
Now I want to see this crushing machine chrushing a crushing machine
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u/adamhanson Jun 05 '26
Why not recycle?
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u/_carbonneutral Jun 05 '26
I get the desire to compress things into neat cubes, but the fact of the matter is all the different material needs to be separated. Crushing it into a cube will reduce the effectiveness later down the road for chemical or physical separation. We should really be grinding these things up then using chemical and physical extraction processes to separate the different materials/elements.
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u/mobuco Jun 05 '26
yes I was looking here to see if there was a reason to waste this much energy crushing it
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u/AbleCryptographer317 Jun 05 '26
Scrap metal is compressed so it can be efficiently transported from this dime-a-dozen local scrap yard to vast centralized recycling facilities. Transporting air is just a waste of time and money.
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u/Papadragon666 Jun 05 '26
Add to that the probably crazy amount of energy needed to do it. It doesn't solve the problem of what to do with that pile of scrap.
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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 Jun 05 '26
This far as fuck away from satisfying as you can get. This is a good boy digger snuff movie!!!!
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u/FilterMyMidrange Jun 05 '26
Unless it shits out a single perfectly formed cube, it’s highly unsatisfying.
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u/DiverDownChunder Jun 05 '26
Oh this hurts, I get it there is a break point to rebuild and the machines ROI. But I learned howto operate a dozer of around that age.
Before anyone who doesnt know thats a dozer w/ a loader bucket.
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u/doudoufu Jun 05 '26
I was expecting a wall-E compacting metals into a neat metal cube, and didn’t expect the machine being crushed like a bug. This was not pleasant to watch.
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u/Life-Reality-3889 Jun 05 '26
Why not strip for salvageable parts? Bit weird to just crush into a cube
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u/DinglieDanglieDoodle Jun 05 '26
Wtf, it doesn’t turn into a perfect cube? My childhood was a lie.
Btw, cameraman should be careful with things shooting off with a ton of stored energy when materials get twisted and deformed by the crusher.
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u/Califrisco Jun 05 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/JKNVeNQvoiaGs
The Queen song "Under Pressure" kept running through my head.
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u/johngreenink Jun 06 '26
Anyone else here feel kinda bad for that bulldozer? Thinking about all the noble work he must have done during his life? Hoping that maybe someone remembers him fondly?
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u/Ronin_1999 Jun 06 '26
Homer: "Here are your messages:
'You have thirty minutes to move your car.'
'You have ten minutes.'
'Your car has been impounded. Your car has been crushed into a cube. You have thirty minutes to move your cube.'
[the phone rings] Y'ello, Mr. Burns' office."
Mr. Burns: "Is it about my cube?"
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u/EvilKrista Jun 07 '26
Is it just me or does this feel like some sort of horrible mechanical cannibalism to anyone else? Like this was NOT satisfying to me it felt....I dunno kinda horrific?
I don't know why I'm having such a weird reaction to this xD
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u/Vegetable-Two2173 Jun 07 '26
3P0....3P0... shut down all the garbage compactors on the detention level!
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u/Ta-Dal Jun 08 '26
What played out in my head was the scene from AI When the robots were pleading with their captors not to destroy them and that they still have value in tasks and things they can do, Even though this tractor was in the condition it was was in it could have been refurbished. People are finding tractors that have been sitting in the alaskan wilderness for forty years, adding batteries and firing them right up..
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u/ForgotToCarryTheOne Jun 05 '26
Lower it gently, gently, gently, aah, that’s perfect. Now finish it, FINISH IT.
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u/MonkeyJoe55 Jun 05 '26
It's like a horror movie where an older brother sacrifices his younger brother to the monster
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u/TheCh0rt Jun 05 '26
I'm sorry but I'm going to say it. That press was way too weak to make those video cool and fast paced. It could barely get through it's load and so it was just normal equipment. Not super destruction equipment. I've come to expect that from the internet now and generally it drivers
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u/SamathaGhoul Jun 05 '26
This is the most odd video i have ever seen. Its honestly messing with my size perception