Sure it’s only July, but the Hydraulic Press Channel has already released a video of their best hydraulic press metal crushings of 2025. *shrug* I guess it’s just like the saying goes, the best is yet to have already happened.

This is a video of fun-loving Finnish crushers Lauri and Hanna of the Hydraulic Press Channel pitting a 10,000 brick LEGO block against their 300-ton press. Obviously, hydraulic press has quickly moved to the #1 spot on my Christmas list this year. Will Santa be able to fit it down

While we may have previously seen an uncurated compilation of dancer smacmccreanor’s impressions of a hydraulic press crushing various objects, this is her top 15 hydraulic press fashion moments. And let me tell you, they are some REAL GOODIES in there. Like, imagine the best goody bag you’ve ever gotten,

This is a video of Australian performance artist and avante-garde dancer Smac McCreanor performing an interpretive dance for each of 100 different random objects being crushed by a hydraulic press. She really does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of each’s destruction. Of course the matching outfits don’t hurt

This is some footage of a large tree effortlessly lifting the sidewalk and resting its trunk on the hood of the owner’s Kia during a hail storm. I was surprised how little the car’s owner (who was filming) reacts. OH NO — DON’T DO IT, DON’T DO IT! SON OF

This is a video highlighting the work of JEM FX, a visual effects company that specializes in the destruction of vehicles in movies. A lot of their work involves structurally weakening vehicles (e.g. cutting the support pillars of a car’s roof) so that they get damaged the way they want

How much stronger does duct tape make everyday objects? INFINITELY. And to test the tape’s strength-adding properties, the fun-loving Youtubers behind the Hydraulic Press Channel have created a video of everyday objects (including cans and plastic bottles, footballs, and a stack of Post-Its) getting crushed both in their natural state,

This is a video of the crew behind Youtube channel Hacksmith dropping a massive 2-ton Thor’s hammer they constructed on a bunch of stuff from 100-feet to completely obliterate it. They crush all sorts of things: a fridge, clothes dresser, kiddy pool, piano, truck, minivan, cinder block castle — super