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A Californian firelog company has a huge crisis on their hands. Their old homemade shredder caught on fire, completely shutting down the plant. No product? No customers. No company. The Shred Team has to build a new shredder in just two days, the shortest deadline they've ever dealt with. This is going to be a trial by fire. Meanwhile, Chris and Jon are destroying boats at Shred headquarters: canoes, big skills, sailboats - if it floats on water, they're shredding it.
Lee, Bob, and Rich are working on the shredding problem of the century. In 2011, a tsunami devastated Japan.Now, the Shred boys need to build a machine that can shred a whole city - anything from fishing boats to houses, from motorbikes to cars, and from concrete to metal. But more than just that, the shredder also needs to keep running for twenty years straight without wearing out if the guys are ever going to shred Japan out of its nightmare. Back in Portland, Chris and Jon are shredding a whole Volkswagen Bug, and the little car is tougher than it looks.
Tinsel Town's largest shredding company has a racy problem on their hands: a client wants them to shred a huge amount of porn mags but their vintage shredder is down and out.Lee and Auguie jump on their motorbikes and rip it to Hollywood to fix the shredder. This is one repair job where they don't mind getting their hands dirty. But when it rains it pours, and the company's new shredder has choked up on MGM film reels, so the boys are going to have to run double duty to get the company back on track. Back in Portland, Chris and Jon are making pianos sing with the sweet sound of shredding - but Jon has become a little more attached to the old ebony and ivory keys than he'd like.
A huge junkyard in Portland has everything from cars to trucks, from trailers to tractor parts, from fridges to stoves and even bulldozers - anything that can be sold for scrap metal. But to make scrap metal, they need to travel between their three junkyards to shred the material.They can't afford the time or the money to make a shredder from scratch, so Lee convinces Auguie to make the impossible possible: there's an old mobile shredder sitting in pieces at the shop, and if Auguie can resurrect the old beast it'll shred anything the junkyard throws at it. If they can't get it up and running, the project gets scrapped. Back in Portland, Chris needs to make his mother-in-law a suite at his place, but that means the games room has to go - including his foosball, air hockey, and pool tables. A game challenge is extended between Chris and Jon: whoever loses the tabletop match is on cleanup, and neither of these guys like losing.
In New Jersey, a shred plant is overflowing with Hurricane Sandy fallout - everything from building material to rollercoaster rides and pinball machines. The company has doubled their usual 2.5 tons a day of shredding to meet the demand, causing some serious issues for the shredder. Auguie arrives to assess the damage - the machine's going to need all new parts. But with the facility running twenty-four hours a day, six days a week, he has a small window of opportunity to bring the pit crew in and get the job done. Back in Portland, it's time for a revenge shred. Jon was supposed to fix Chris' tool cabinet, but he's shred it instead! This starts an all out shred war, and they start destroying everything of each other's they find including power washers, skis, fans, and coffeemakers!
The Shred guys don't always shred. Sometimes they crush. Dave is the Crush King, and he's got a massive compactor to build.Not wanting to be outdone, Lee is building a monster machine for a Texas billionaire that can shred 40 tons of scrap metal an hour. Everything really is bigger in Texas. While Lee's Texas monster is shredding up a storm, Dave has a huge design challenge installing the block-long crushing machine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Back in Portland, the boys are shredding up a storm and crushing cars.
The largest urban mining company in the world is looking for brand new shredder. The machine needs to do twice as much work as the one they have now.Lee steps up to the plate and the team gets to work on a one-of-a-kind shredder to deal with the mountains of electronic scrap that the plant receives daily: cell phones, hard drives, photocopiers and circuit boards. This is geek heaven, but it can quickly turn into hell if the team drops the ball and lose their biggest client. Meanwhile, Chris and Jon are back in Portland, playing a little game of "Shredsketball". The winner gets bragging rights, and the loser gets their balls shredded.
