[–] RedBullTrooper [S] ago 

I’m wondering if this machine will work on rocks?

[–] Psalm19_1 ago 

Looks like industrial washing machine or dryer to me.

[–] RedBullTrooper [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It might accidentally crush bones.

[–] WhyNoDonuts 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This machine is similar to what placer miners use to sort gravel to find gold. No “crusher” visible.

[–] RedBullTrooper [S] ago 

Is this why they look like they are wearing miners clothes, and not striped prison pajamas?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_1005

[–] WhyNoDonuts ago 

I read up a bit more of what this machine supposedly does, and it had big ball bearings or rocks inside the tumbler - that would make it crush things, but very inefficiently. More like those rock polishers.

[–] clamhurt_legbeard ago 

They do use bone crushing machines, yes. Are you asking about some specific aspect of that machine in particular?

[–] RedBullTrooper [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I’m seriously curious. I thought cremation takes care of everything.

[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No, bones don't burn. Neither do teeth. That all has to be crushed in a grinder, after the cremation, to make them into unrecognizably small fragments.

Teeth are basically very hard rocks, and bones aren't much softer. Take a chicken bone and cook it in your oven as high as the heat goes for as long as you can stand... It won't go anywhere.

[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Here's a deluxe model. There are other, cheaper ones on that same site, as well.

[–] Talc 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Cremulator is the name of the machine. Hard to say if the pic is one, hard to say it isn't one tho, crushing machines all look alike and work alike, you could rip the cremulator out of your local crematorium and put it to work doing limestone if you really wanted.

[–] RedBullTrooper [S] ago 

Thanks. I learn something every day.

Do you know if a Cremulator could crush 6,000 Jews a day? Do they break down often, how much maintenance do they require?

The numbers don’t seem to be adding up.

[–] Talc ago 

They're generally used one creature at a time so the bereaved get 100% pure their loved-one in the casket. I'm told the machines used for bulk grinding the bones from livestock work different to a cremulator, probably designed more for bulk and less for being cleaned down after every run.

There's video I saw somewhere online of a machine which chops up an entire car, literally tears it into shreds in about 20 seconds.

[–] Drkadrka ago 

Looks like an old hammermill to me.