Hydraulic Scrap Metal Tube Pipe Alligator Crocodile Shear

An Alligator Shear, historically known as a lever shear and sometimes as a crocodile shear, is a metal-cutting shear with a hinged jaw, powered by a flywheel or hydraulic cylinder. Alligator shears are generally set up as stand-alone shears; however, there are types for excavators. They are generally used to cut ferrous members, such as rebar, pipe, angle iron, or I-beams.

Alligator shears are used for cutting long metal stock or scrap, generally where accuracy is not an important consideration, and the size or shape of the material makes other cutting or shearing options (such as a cutting torch) impractical. Alligator shears are often used in conjunction with large metal shredders in the metal recycling industry, to “clean” or prepare scrap for shredding by removing unwanted fittings and other parts the Shredder will not accept.

Ecohydraulic alligator shear is applied in recycling companies, automobile dismantling plants, smelting & casting industry to cold-shear section steel and metallic structural parts into acceptable furnace charges.