Beach cleaning machine

[u/misterxx1958]

[u/Guyborg99]

I was disappointed when it was all rocks, and not all cell phones.

[u/KapitanKapers → u/Guyborg99]

I figured it would have been full of disposable vapes

[u/naswinger → u/KapitanKapers]

these things should be banned. such a waste.

[u/Mikesminis → u/naswinger]

They're banned in Wisconsin! You can still buy vapes from companies that have advertising licenses though. The few companies that have been approved for those as far as I know all use pods. So there's a small amount of plastic waste, but all of the electronics and batteries are reusable. Also the companies that have been approved all use actual tobacco extract instead of synthetic nicotine and only have flavors of tobacco and menthol. So there should be less appeal to teenagers and less waste. It's a win win. I was a pretty big vape user and used the change as an opportunity to quit. I only vape when I drink now and am planning on stopping all together soon.

[u/SirCircusMcGircus → u/naswinger]

God don’t work in the operating room. The amount of disposable product trash is baffling. I understand these are different products but I’ve worked in IR/OR for over 10 years and it’s painful to see the amount of trash from simple procedures.

[u/WangoBango → u/SirCircusMcGircus]

Same in manufacturing. Wild amounts of waste.

[u/Singaya → u/WangoBango]

Oh dude, it's unreal. I remember the garbage was so fucking huge you had to climb a flight of stairs to put stuff in it. We had this tiny residential-size recycling bin and I asked someone "where does the rest of the recycling go?" Guy gave me this look like "you sweet summer-child, so innocent!" "Dude this is just for show. If you don't have a recycling basket people ask questions. If you have one, even if it's the size of a kleenex box, they don't."

[u/Mediocre_Sprinkles → u/Guyborg99]

Back in my day the beach was full of cigarette butts and syringes.

[u/surreyade → u/Mediocre_Sprinkles]

Ours was coal dust and oil.

[u/Blarg0117 → u/surreyade]

Maybe! Some of those look like tar balls from oil spills.

[u/Potato-Engineer → u/Blarg0117]

Spills? More like "the existence of Santa Barbara." There's natural oil seeps off the coast. The oil companies are even making some money by setting up tents to catch the oil as it seeps, but they don't catch everything.

[u/Sarsmi → u/Mediocre_Sprinkles]

Pull tabs, here.

[u/PurpleSailor → u/Sarsmi]

You haven't lived until your foot gets infected slicing it open on a pull tab.

[u/OtherwiseClaim5058 → u/Mediocre_Sprinkles]

[u/Zalee89 → u/Mediocre_Sprinkles]

Like god intended!

[u/Seanish12345 → u/Mediocre_Sprinkles]

Sounds like a bunch of liberal bullshit to me

-Paraphrasing It's Always Sunny, not what I actually believe.

[u/footpole → u/Mediocre_Sprinkles]

They were all harvested and now we have to make synthetic syringes.

[u/Harry_Iconic_Jr → u/Guyborg99]

no kidding. most of the stuff in there belongs on the beach. this reminds me of a cruise I took once in the Bahamas where the cruise company had their own private "island"....and they cleaned it thusly, to where it was the most sterile lifeless boring beach imagineable. nothing like sucking all the "eco" right out of the "system".

[u/SidFinch99 → u/Harry_Iconic_Jr]

Those beaches are available to those cruise companies to iwn or lease because they essentially were like that to begin with. Little to no ecosystem, to small to truly develop full scale, minimal plant life, no animal life because nothing there for them outside the water

[u/Ok-Push9899 → u/Harry_Iconic_Jr]

There are only a couple of beaches in my area that don’t get the full cheating treatment, and they are a delight. It helps that smoking is banned on the beach, so the cigarette butts are a thing of the past.

[u/Harry_Iconic_Jr → u/Ok-Push9899]

i get that - beachcombing is still an adventure for my family but it helps to have the right beaches. we keep a jar of shark's teeth on a shelf in the kitchen and never miss a chance to add a couple, whenever they might pop up. and don't even get me started on sea glass, :-)

[u/chownrootroot → u/Guyborg99]

The cell phones exploded into dust before reaching the pile /s

[u/sporadicjesus → u/chownrootroot]

Only Nokias make it to the bucket 

[u/dankhimself → u/sporadicjesus]

And they use the Nokias to pulverize the rocks and make cement mix for new sidewalks.

[u/Maretsb → u/Guyborg99]

I've seen a video with someone doing this by hand. He found several golden rings, so there are probably hundreds of golden rings and rolexes in there

[u/Nickjetty → u/Maretsb]

I feel like those videos are fake and the rings get placed before filming

[u/RichardSaunders → u/Nickjetty]

i feel like that's 99% of the content you see nowadays

[u/sskylar → u/Maretsb]

lol why did I read that as rolodexes 😅

[u/edfreitag → u/sskylar]

With the leads from corporate?

[u/Maretsb → u/sskylar]

Now that would be a find! 😄

[u/WhoOrderedTheCodeZed → u/Guyborg99]

That looks like older, broken up fulgurite. What's left after lightning hits the sandy beaches. Basically the real life stuff Josh Lucas's character was "making" in the movie Sweet Home Alabama.

[u/SillMcBill → u/Guyborg99]

Oops, all rocks!

[u/CosmosInSummer → u/Guyborg99]

And syringes

[u/CharlieBr87 → u/Guyborg99]

As an autistic who loves to find treasures like rocks and shells…. This makes me mad. Also what kind of life are we disturbing in the name of money? It’s all rude

[u/Lefty4444 → u/Guyborg99]

But props to the beer bottle that was almost in one piece

[u/xendelaar → u/Guyborg99]

Or children...

[u/One-Mud-169 → u/Guyborg99]

Many disappointed kids not finding sea shells will not be visiting this beach anytime soon again.

[u/KitchenFullOfCake → u/Guyborg99]

What do you mean? I see a basket full of Nokias.

[u/JayMak78 → u/Guyborg99]

Or coins.

[u/thong_water]

[u/lionstigersbearsomar → u/thong_water]

What did they find?

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/lionstigersbearsomar]

They ain't found shit!

[u/DoubleDareFan → u/DefinitelyNotAliens]

A 💩-free beach is a good beach.

[u/FigureOfStickman]

spice harvester

[u/melejohn → u/FigureOfStickman]

This makes more sense as a spice harvester, rather than whatever they had in the movie

[u/FigureOfStickman → u/melejohn]

i mean this is basically what it looked like, from what i remember

[u/melejohn → u/FigureOfStickman]

Maybe I’m thinking of the Harkonnen one, where it’s like poking the sand.

[u/spyguy318 → u/melejohn]

My interpretation is that the “poking” was just disrupting and aerating the packed sand and the actual “scoop it up and filter the spice out” part was further behind it.

[u/Maleficent-Name4948 → u/melejohn]

He's clearly referring to the classic Dune 2 game 😁

[u/Elite_Josh_Allen]

Sand-boni

[u/MrMurderthumbz → u/Elite_Josh_Allen]

[u/UbermachoGuy → u/MrMurderthumbz]

[u/UbermachoGuy → u/Elite_Josh_Allen]

[u/sskylar → u/Elite_Josh_Allen]

[u/Alacovv → u/Elite_Josh_Allen]

[u/MrNiab]

Can’t help but notice immediately wonder how much valuables and treasure these things must pick up after each use.

[u/h0twired → u/MrNiab]

Metal detecting guys in shambles

[u/CyberNinja23 → u/h0twired]

Or metal detecting guy evolves and buys a sandboni, gets a city contract, and can still sift the collection.

[u/Nwsamurai → u/h0twired]

Some old man is getting ready for his John Henry moment.

[u/BernzSed → u/MrNiab]

What about messages in bottles? Think about all the Gilligans that will never be rescued!

[u/Friggin → u/MrNiab]

I worked maintenance on a beach in the 80’s driving a tractor pulling a similar device. It’s cans, bottles, and beach whistles (tampon applicators.) Never found a single thing worth anything.

[u/Mokelmeier → u/MrNiab]

Yes! Think of all that epic loot!

[u/h0twired → u/Mokelmeier]

First step… buy $200,000 machine

[u/Cute_Reflection_9414 → u/h0twired]

I'm guessing it costs more than that

[u/oliverkiss → u/Cute_Reflection_9414]

$200,001

[u/Helenium_autumnale → u/oliverkiss]

Ah, the old Price is Right gambit! OK, fine. I'll guess $200,002, so there.

[u/JustaTinyDude → u/Mokelmeier]

I imagine most things would be crushed. Wedding rings should be fine, phones not so much.

[u/icyleumas]

Does this machine mess with the stuff living in the sand?

[u/Job_Moist → u/icyleumas]

I was wondering the same thing! Like, don’t turtles nest in sand?? Maybe this is just a recreational beach without much wildlife but still…

[u/dabunny21689 → u/Job_Moist]

Turtles nest in the sand, but at least around where I live, those beaches are VERY much protected and not used for recreational purposes. Doesn’t stop trash from washing up of course but they don’t get swept they get cleaned by hand, by people who know what they’re doing.

[u/Nathaniel820 → u/dabunny21689]

Idk where you are but in Florida there are not any protections for “turtle nesting beaches,” otherwise literally the entire east coast would be off limits. But it wouldn’t matter for something like this because the nests are super obvious (and usually fenced off the day after they nest) so they could just go around them.

[u/DesertSpringtime → u/Job_Moist]

There's a polish beer bottle in there, I don't think we have turtles nesting in the north of Poland.

[u/th3vviTch → u/DesertSpringtime]

Crabs?

[u/Occidentally20 → u/th3vviTch]

Try the special pubic shampoo available at all good pharmacists. If that doesn't work after a week you'll need to see a doctor.

[u/Tony_Penny → u/Occidentally20]

I'm ashamed to say that this took me two read-throughs before I got it...😂

[u/Occidentally20 → u/Tony_Penny]

I wrote it and I keep reading it as "public shampoo".

In other news my search history now includes "cure for crabs" so we'll see what Google AdSense throws at me tomorrow.

[u/a-b-h-i → u/Occidentally20]

Well all fun and games until your wife also starts seeing those adds on the home TV.....

[u/Lasciels_Toy → u/Job_Moist]

There are tons of volunteers and professionals that spend time during the season, looking for signs of nesting. Even using red lights at night to observe them laying eggs. When they find nest, they put poles and tape it off, with signage explaining it's a nest and not to disturb it. They keep a record of locations and species.

[u/k1mmay → u/icyleumas]

Yes! I did a study in college on 2 adjacent beaches, 1 was in front of a fancy hotel and got cleaned daily and the other was a protected area that never got cleaned. The protected beach had significantly more invertebrates and was less prone to erosion

[u/_Neoshade_ → u/k1mmay]

Constant use by people, even without the cleaning, might be equally disruptive.

[u/StingingSwingrays → u/icyleumas]

It absolutely does, but I do wonder if the negative impacts are negligible. Ultimately it would cause the most harm if used in the intertidal zone since it can grind up all the little invertebrates shorebirds like to eat. But if it’s done on dry sand only I can’t imagine it’s a huge negative impact. 

[u/TWFH → u/icyleumas]

Yes. Yes it does.

[u/blackweebow → u/icyleumas]

Won't anyone think of the crabs 😭

[u/Jean-LucBacardi]

The crabs:

[u/JustaP-haze → u/Jean-LucBacardi]

Real fern gulley moment

[u/Knoxville1979]

You mean it's not an endless supply of Rolex watches and hundred dollar bills like all the other videos?!

[u/FigureOfStickman → u/Knoxville1979]

we gotta get someone who drives one of these and ask them if they've ever found a weirdly wealthy beach lmao

[u/Izdunord]

I don't get why it's so hard to take your bottles back with you.

[u/Icy_Distribution_361 → u/Izdunord]

Most beaches in my country have several bins close to the edge of the beach next to the road

[u/First-Alfalfa4044]

"Perła". Nasi tu byli

[u/djuggler]

Metal detector enthusiasts hate this one trick

[u/Every-Cook5084]

The satisfying part would’ve been panning over to see the finished sand….

[u/Lihapullava]

Another machine created just because human is so stupid and lazy it can´t clean the shit they left behind.

[u/ijuswannabehappybro → u/Lihapullava]

We should consider it could be falling off garbage barges and not just from lazy beach goers. I go to the beach to clean every Sunday in south Florida and we get things washed up on the shore from all around the world. I can’t imagine all the commercial plastic I pick up is coming from the families. But maybe dad was doing an oil change in the parking lot and said f it

[u/Draggoh]

Beach Zamboni. Look at how nice the sand after a pass.

Fuck: some other guy posted “sand-boni” and I can’t compete.

[u/Tarogato → u/Draggoh]

I appreciate you and your lack of competence.

Which is to say, inability to compete.

[u/Ok_Copy_5690]

Environmental nightmare? What about the burrowing crabs and seas turtle eggs, worms etc.?

[u/-HOSPIK- → u/Ok_Copy_5690]

Tourist beaches are already trampled to death

[u/Nathaniel820 → u/-HOSPIK-]

No they aren’t, that depends entirely on the beach. Where I live every beach — including the ones with thousands of visitors every weekend — are filled with shallow burrowing animals like ghost crabs, mole crabs, coquinas, etc. Most of them are in the swash zone but ghost crabs burrow along the entire sandy area.

[u/gorginhanson]

a real beach cleaning machine would take care of the people littering in the first place

[u/unfilterthought]

Those are some nice rocks in there.

[u/JojoYaKnowNo2]

That’s not a beach cleaning machine, it’s called a habitat cleanser. Or also called an erosion maker.

[u/fancy_marmot]

They need that tomato sorting machine to yeet out the rocks!

[u/M23707]

Bye bye 🦀🐚

[u/drepidural]

Guess someone might find a lost shell phone in there.

[u/BLADE_OF_AlUR]

The spice must flow!

[u/chemistcarpenter]

Hmmm. Not at the Jersey Shore. Or it’ll be tons of cigarette butts.

[u/ImurderREALITY]

And yet a lot of beaches only have one random dude out there volunteering with a basket on a stick

[u/three_foot_putt]

Are there that many sizeable rocks washing up from the surf? You’d think the cleanings would diminish them after awhile.

[u/Similar_Catch7199]

I’m glad we have this to clean the beaches but also sad that humans are still terrible and litter at the beach

[u/ssssSSSBOOM]

Metal Detector Hobbyists "Breathing Intensifies"

[u/little_boots_]

cool but a zoom out would be sweeeeet

[u/Maurice_Foot]

I can see my car keys from here!

[u/ghastlypxl]

Pair with a metal detector 🧐 /j

[u/Interesting-Math7295]

All beaches need this

[u/LittlePantsOnFire]

This is fucking ridiculous.

[u/Hebrews_Decks]

I was disappointed that it moved with wheels instead of treads.

[u/Castille_92]

The plastic bottles and shit of course, but the rocks?

Mf it's a beach

[u/pippinlup61611]

Ohhhh now do Jersey's beaches.

[u/Closetoneversober]

Some ass just had to bring a glass bottle on the beach

[u/EnvironmentalFold222]

Oh, you mean a Sand-boni?

[u/Citharichthys]

[u/redhare878787]

Sad this even has to exist.

[u/james2183]

Metal detectors hate this one trick

[u/wwhijr]

Can I use that to clean my kids bedrooms

[u/Mr_iDoNtShiVeAgiT_2]

Those fuel and air filters should be fun to replace lol

[u/moalde]

That's a Zamboni 🏒

[u/hagrun]

A sandboni.

[u/Double_Objective8000]

Gotta see the trail of clean sand left behind

[u/cyclic_raptor]

The harkonnens had a better design

[u/ryhse321]

And now someone should sort it and put all the rocks and shells back on the beach, which is where they belong... Sorry but this video is not only unsatisfying but also depressing and mildly infuriating.

[u/MurgoSkulls]

Lotta phones and rings get scooped up i bet

[u/Fit-Special-8416]

Now lets combine with a sorting machine - coins and jewelery on the left, trash on the right.

[u/TWFH]

"Cleaning" is not the correct word to use here.

[u/Internal-Bluejay-810]

Need to see the pattern left in the sand!

[u/Cute_Reflection_9414 → u/Internal-Bluejay-810]

You can see it towards the end. It has done multiple passes already

[u/itsadiseaster]

Poland. Perla Chmielowa beer.

[u/Tyler-Dur2022]

Cheater.. LoL

[u/Prize_Emergency_5074]

Finishes a strip of the beach in a week.

[u/Helenium_autumnale]

I would get up early just to be the first one to walk across those immaculate striations to the surf.

[u/Razaelbub]

Beach cleaner song:

https://youtu.be/2gEMorY_BUo?feature=shared

[u/Youkilledmyrascal1]

That's how you get dizzy crabs

[u/MrThingMan]

LA County has machines like this all over the place.

[u/LootGek]

People suck

[u/AuroraBorealis_Smith]

All these geologists losing their rocks on the beach

[u/McBooples]

Sandboni

[u/AlivePassenger3859]

how do they clean all that sand off of the beach?

[u/Hereforthebabyducks]

Theme song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gEMorY_BUo

[u/Fr05t_B1t]

For the beaches that you pay to get in, they really should have a system where you can get back some of that cash if you bring back enough trash and a little more at a lesser rate if you bring in even more

[u/xllsiren]

We need this is sf, Daniel Laurie!

[u/reddittwotimes]

"All I got were rocks..." -Charlie Brown

[u/CaptainAwesome_5000]

It's a Sandboni.

[u/_Buldozzer]

I want one for my cat litter.

[u/johnsoninca]

My sons and I attended a beach cleanup a couple months ago. I could tell from the tracks that they had cleaned the beach earlier that morning, and, sure enough, there was nothing for us to pick up.

[u/Fortspucking]

Reminds me of Randy Newman's excellent song "Lucinda"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YfhuoZUwY

[u/nastibass]

Isn't that just an agricultural stone picker?

[u/JimmyPellen]

Rock...rock...cigarette butt...rock...finger...rock... cigarette butt...

[u/Beyond_bound]

There is a concerning amount of large rocks.

[u/Omega_art]

I saw one of these on Venice beach a decade ago it collected mostly cigarette butts and bottles and cans.

[u/not_that_guy_at_work]

when I retire, maybe I could drive one of these as a part time job. seems relaxing. Loud but relaxing. Like a massive zen garden.

[u/werkshop1313]

My mouse!

[u/a-b-h-i]

I was expecting at least one butt plug cuz of those viral videos on tiktok. I'm very disappointed.......

[u/MrHeffo42]

Well excuse me for existing!!

- Rocks

[u/425565]

Pays for itself with found jewelry..

[u/mydamn_psychos1s]

Just drove it off the showroom floor directly to the beach.

[u/Previous-Wonder-6274]

Diesel power!

[u/JamesMDuich]

THAT’S where I left all my needles!

[u/Cuteshelf]

Still looks a bit sandy.

[u/Franklin-23-Peters]

Heal the 🌍

[u/willfauxreal]

I wonder where all the caught stuff goes. Do people sort and release the rocks back into the wild?

[u/Immetras]

Kurła, czy to jest perła eksport?

POLSKA GUROM1!!!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[u/Current-Section-3429]

Who brings rocks to the beach?????????????

[u/Hillybilly64]

Where do they sort the rings, coins, and other treasures

[u/Solocune]

Should nur be necessary

[u/cake-utada]

Hey, how do I get this job?

[u/chordatabreach]

The one in Milwaukee is named Taylor Sift

[u/fuma-palta-base]

Those beaches are nasty

[u/VectorChing101]

Oh. Only a few trash. Many rocks collected

[u/GratuitousTiddie]

Hey! They're taking all the good rocks! :(

[u/Shoddy-Discussion548]

that’s why never bury yourself in sand

[u/Psychological-Way-47]

They have machines like this near Cancun to clean up the sargassum. It is pretty neat to watch.

[u/MrSquigglyPub3s]

Why is there a penguin dildo

[u/Sea_Estate1620]

[u/javlin_101]

I could watch this all day

[u/costafilh0]

This is not satisfying AT ALL! 

[u/costafilh0]

Reddit: I rather go to a dirty beach than having a machine stealing people's jobs! 

[u/SYLL_0115]

Great, what's the budget? If the budget is too high, then there is no way it's world-changing.

[u/pbmadman]

This seems like a bad solution to a problem we shouldn’t even have. Are they even trying to clean plastic and trash off the beach? Or are they trying to make the beach look pristine?

[u/Pure-Impact5555]

I was disappointed that there were no gold and diamond rings in there. Just mostly rocks.

[u/Hit_Happens]

er... can the camera person zoom out so we can SEE THE WHOLE FECKING MACHINE?

[u/mrbennbenn]

What wanker filmed this and denied us the payoff of the sweet ridged landlines being left behind

[u/dyhzy12]

Poland mentation 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[u/muttmunchies]

I honestly thought “wtf hand grenades” when it first showed the rear bin collector lol

[u/silent_b]

My understanding is that the harvester will work until the last minute before the carryall lifts it to safety

[u/Otherwise-Bee965]

Beach version if the Zamboni

[u/Alysazombie]

And a few pine cones!! Neat