No I thought you sent some bar through the chipper some how, how'd you loose the knife? Oh, are you a dealer?
Brand new Vemeer a few years back - ball peen hammer through it. (not mine) and same year couple months later whole tool box through one of municpal units . Can you say "Shrapnel by Snap On" fast many times. Vise grips and Ball peen hammers do a real number on chipper blades and other associated parts.
Hammer was left sitting in feed area rattled in when machine started. About the same for the tool box one of those hip roof type units with an assortment of wrenches and such there in. Both units were controlled feed. Only takes a minute and all h breaks loose ( litterally)
Only one better than that is when they run it long enough to pop the caliper apart after cutting the rotor off happened to a 450 super duty chip truck of my customers a couple of years ago the driver did not hear anything did not realize untill he hit brakes and pedal went to floor best part of story he hit the wall of his own shop
You could almost take that thin part of the rotor and use it in the slicer. Had more than our share of bad calipers and brake issues on some of our cars. It’s almost always the rears on our cars.
I kept a few of those around my shop for show & tell at first, but it seems to be a pretty frequent if preventable issue. Kinda scary though.
It has even better story. Her son had the car for a while while she was laid up from a separate car accident. He took it to someone who “knew what they were doing” for a pad change. One of the caliper guide pins was seized in the mounting bracket. You fix that by adding three washers and a nut as spacers on the other bolt in order to remount the caliper....Right? The pads wore off the entire front edge on a single piston caliper- was scratching my head until I saw the spacers. It took me a good bit of swearing and head scratching but l got the $2.90 guide pine out.
We had one come into the garage I was working in way back in my previous life as an auto mechanic. One side of the rotor was completely gone. Nothing but fins. I did the initial test drive of the car myself and all it did was pull a bit. NO unusual sound to it. I almost fell over when I pulled the wheels. I also had one come in where the guy had slid into a curb and bent the bead lip of the aluminum rim. Yeah, it took a bit of force to do it, but it's not like the rim was completely folded over itself or anything. It wobbled a bit as I was driving around the building but again...no crazy noises from the brakes. When I pulled the wheel off, the brake rotor fell on the floor in 4 pieces. You just never know what you're going to find until you pull something apart.
I'll remember this if somehow I ever let this happen to one of my vehicles so that I might feel a little better about myself. That is quite surprising that there is no major pull or noise, I'd a never thunk it.
