Crushing 1500 sheets of Paper with Hydraulic Press is Really Entertaining to Watch

We never get sick of watching things get crushed on the Hydraulic Press Channel. This week the crazy Finnish host, Lauri Vuohensilta does a paper special, crushing four different paper products.

First up is a paper’s raw material pulp. Looking like a stack of rough parchment, the paper does what often happens when pressed under a massive pressure. It explodes. The pulp leaves behind a ‘core’ of itself pressed beyond recognition into an ice hockey puck sized disc that makes almost a plastic sound when struck. Next up is a stack comprising of 250 paper plates. The paper plates go the way of the pulp and end in an explosion that leaves the factory hosting the press in a cloud of paper smithereens. Next in the firing line, Vuohensilta presses some paper towel. This stack of hand drying material is surprisingly the toughest of the previous paper products. It sort of withstands the pressure to create a compressed version of itself.