A scrap chopper is a machine that cuts up scrap metal into smaller pieces for easier transport, storage and handling.
Scrap chopper machines are commonly used in recycling and manufacturing industries including some scrap metal yards to reduce the volume of the metal and cost of waste disposal.
Scrap choppers can chop materials including metal banding, plastic, bandsaw blades, bailing wire, cable and other shreddable metals.
Scrap yards also use large scrap metal shredders to shred scrap metal into manageable sizes and separate plastic and other non metal materials and aluminum etc from the scrap tin and other scrap metal.
Scrap metal shredders are used to reduce the size of scrap metal into manageable, transportable pieces.
Scrap metal shredders also come in various sizes, from small machines which are capable of shredding tin cans and coins to huge models of scrap metal shredders that can operate at 10,000 horsepower and shred up to 4,000 tons of metal a day.