I worked In Portsmouth dockyard in 2009 and they asked me to clear out a compound. I noticed 27 solid copper bars which were about 5 foot long and weighed 105kgs each.i got £9450.thst was my best one especially for a freebie
I remember stripping out an entire Data centre UPS system and lead batteries. There was 550 40kg batteries, and miles of 1200mm2 single armoured cable, UPS systems and transformers that was about 10 years ago, and we got 48k, split it equally between all my staff, even the admin staff that never helped, as we are all one team
@@thescraphunter6811 just seen the beach cable find vid.scales shithot,door knocker shithot(I'd pay 15),bench ends I pay 20,cast iron fire places I pay 30 but I just live so far from ya unless you can drop on your next trip fishing to Hants/Dorset way!oh and by the way any cast iron benches,tables,seats or fireplaces check for foundary mark.if you find the name Colbrookdale your laughing,top foundry antique buyers/reclaimation yards love it,propa money bruv.
@@thescraphunter6811 my bro had a plaice and two bream at Ferrybridge end yesterday afternoon,early or what?+the usual dog and straps!!I need to get on your fishing channel I've been binge watching your steptoe videos.hope there's some sea fishing.im not a big lake/freshwater fan.im a steptoer too so I ain't taking piss by saying that fella.Dorset Dean
i worked at a small family printers many years ago, they changed over from photographic film to digital so all the pipework was ripped out as they did not need chemical processing. The boss knew there was money in the copper, so he got a crew in to rip it all out, the tanks and pipes were heavy guage copper. I took the lot in the company truck to the scrap yard owned by his brother. He didnt want to pay copper price because most of the pipe was filled with 30 years of deposits which was heavier than the copper. He asked me to hand around while they tested the deposits and came back laughing, he said the money was not in the copper it was in the deposits inside. It was oxidised silver bromide which needed to be processed but was basically solid silver, my boss was straight on the phone when i got back to work to his brother. Never knew how much it was but it was a good staff cash bonus and great company Christmas party that year!!!
Good haul. Reminds me of the time I did an electrical job for a government owned enterprise, we had to use tinned copper multicore cables, the only available source for the cable was themselves from deep storage, so we wrote them a cheque for 20,000 which we had allowed for in the tender. The cheque never got processed, when we enquired they informed us that they were not permitted to accept revenue from hidden assets and that the 20, 000 was ours. Boy did we have a party.
Mate I’ve subscribe to your video and love them all…I like your honesty eg you dispose of the waste correctly and equally and you show all your receipts…you deserve this good fortune more of it pal…Naveed from Bradford
Oh man I miss those days, my dad was a scrapoligist , we did a job in fort McMurray alberta Canada, oil company abandoned a plant and built a new one a few miles away, my dad picked up the job for a song , they took all the moters etc...but left miles of #1 copper in the ground, we hook up a loader and pulled and pulled, 22tons of wire that was in the eighties so we got about 75cents a pound not burned....in today's world wow...I literally burned 100's of tons of copper back in the day.
Love watching folks hustling making a dollar (Pound) the honest way. Subscribing to your channel amigo … It’s 7:30pm over here so …Cheers !!! (while taking down a few shots of whiskey) … P.S. Much luck with your UA-cam channel …
Mega score scrap hunter! It would be nice to see you guys strip the wires out ! That's the fun part of it and watching you pole it into the van. Congrats!
Nice one, I stripped out all the old telephone exchanges in the late 70s 80s loads of platinum points the metal that tap with each other when people was dailing there phone at home, hundreds of hours smashing copper out of old phones, but now the old phones are worth more, great old days I was only a teenager at the time but my friend dad was scrapping and we took all the old led window sashes waits out of the old houses in shoreditch were we live best days of my teens.
A tip for you, is old switchgear, its all coppar bars and the heavier the ampere is the heavier the bars is. To change those old is gold, for the one who do that waste thing, When we use to replace those old bigger switchgears we always told keep the cooper, and they did that for free, and earned the dollars anyway, I used to pay anyway in the day but the cooppar is youres, see the oppertonity Now because everything needs to be modernized, cool to see that and good job , best wishes! Rock on
That’s a good day at the office …nice one ..my wife asked me what I was watching I said Rhys’s big load …that got her attention …she even walked over ..well waddled over ..she had a look …not what she expected …then went back to the couch to eat wotsits
Holy shit. My man you give me some inspiration lol there’s money to be made just about everywhere.. working a dead end job at a grocery store trying to get through school right now I’ve been having to get creative lmao this is just the inspiration I need good shit lads!!
Cuz people like the way it looks? HAHA its cuz copper is the cheapest and best conducting material for electrical, and the supply isnt infinite... Sheesh . Sheesh
Your ex boss if watching this might be saying ,,,hmmm next time I’ll take it to the scrap yard myself. I don’t think I’ll be advertising how much I made if I’m in the business of buying the copper. But anyways well done 👍
I did this with my neighbors cans when aluminium was doing all kinds of funny business in the covid lockdown. Easiest 200 quid I ever made. Gave everyone who helped me out free eggs.
When a did scrap back in the day always kept the little stuff like your eye lets huge big fuses motors and stripped them at a later date seen at stuff as rainny day money when it was worth the time cause nothing else lying around sort of thing lol
When I first started working in recycling depot in Kendle the guys there did not share with new recruits They took all the scrap to Morecombe metals ,I reckon they pulled in a couple grand a month ,And the months before Christmas when people done up kitchens and bathrooms there loads and loads of copper piping ,,, Yeah nice little earner
I do take stripping job's on recently closed factories a lot with my building company but's its more a side thing where i put some other workers on, i always strip the cables you get a much higher price but i bet you know that already, i do own a very expensive automatic cable stripping machine, oh men back in the day, i did this all by hand, never again lol way to much work so after a while i just sell it not stripped and did keep all that money on the side to buy a custom build machine for that best purchase i ever did, after 2 jobs it did pay its self already back, its insane what i was spending on employee working hours before the machine... its a good business but a lot of people do not know how much hours of work there going in to this, to make a good profit on it.. nice amount you got there my friend keep up the good work...
YEAH , AN IRISH GUY WENT LOOKING FOR COPPER WITH A METAL DETECTOR AND WAS 7 FEET DOWN IN A BIG HOLE BEFORE HE REALISED HE WAS WEARING STEEL TOECAP BOOTS.
I was a cable puller for eighteen years, that’s peanuts to what we were given as the Engineers on site didn’t want their superiors to know they’d overestimated what was needed. 630mm2 single core was the best.
how much was you getting length wise a foot length weighs like 5kg on its own ive got some where im working as well as some 400mm and 300mm earth plus 300/240mm 4 core
@@kingdavid414 It was years ago and we got whatever price copper was per ton with a deduction if the pvc, swa, pvc was left on. We’d sometimes strip it ourselves to get a better price.
Ahh tin plated copper ive been had a few times on the especially when it has the thick rubber xouting in between if you have a good razor you can cut all of that off,then you have like a but of 0 guage barw bright otherwise its a pain in the aas,but damn nice haul inseed 👍
Money well spent. What a job that must have been. Might want to buy a few silver melt coins with some of your money for the future just in case things go crazy mate.
Nice mate tatting is best job u can have I love it I wish I still was at it Havant got driveling license so wud so I’m trying save up to get van and driver lol
I’m new to the copper thing. How do I get loads of it? Can someone tell me the best places to go? And also what has copper in it I bet my roof and drain pipes has copper in it I’m going to strip my own house
There was a cable stripper lying on a pallet just recently at the local tip shop here in north east NSW Oz for about a month & probably still usable as broken stuff usually gets taken to the scrap metal dealers nearby . . got into a little bit of copper scrapping decades before up in Darwin NT , where just nearby the Berrimah boat ramp was an very small island that I used to legal beach net to great success for dog mackerel in main . . point being that island had been a part of the WW2 Z force commando base (Singapore raids etc) that was on the mainland mangrove shore a few hundred meters away (remains of base still seen not far left of Berrimah boat ramp) . . anyway a heavy copper insulated power cable had been pulled from the mainland & just left curled up on the island , a few short hours later one sunny day & back in dingy to the vehicle & then metal scrap yard not far off for an OK sum to buy some beer . . fishing & scrapping all rolled into one happy bundle
I worked In Portsmouth dockyard in 2009 and they asked me to clear out a compound. I noticed 27 solid copper bars which were about 5 foot long and weighed 105kgs each.i got £9450.thst was my best one especially for a freebie
Mate that's a lovely little touch
🤔😲😯😮👍👍👍
Imagine that now… you’d of got 18k!!
@@martypegg6711 this was 3 weeks ago mate it's gone down since then it's about 5900 a ton we got 6100
the real question is wtf did they need that much coper for lmao
I remember stripping out an entire Data centre UPS system and lead batteries. There was 550 40kg batteries, and miles of 1200mm2 single armoured cable, UPS systems and transformers that was about 10 years ago, and we got 48k, split it equally between all my staff, even the admin staff that never helped, as we are all one team
Nice
love that
@@thescraphunter6811 just seen the beach cable find vid.scales shithot,door knocker shithot(I'd pay 15),bench ends I pay 20,cast iron fire places I pay 30 but I just live so far from ya unless you can drop on your next trip fishing to Hants/Dorset way!oh and by the way any cast iron benches,tables,seats or fireplaces check for foundary mark.if you find the name Colbrookdale your laughing,top foundry antique buyers/reclaimation yards love it,propa money bruv.
@DeanMosley-gr4zf cheers dude ill keep an eye out
@@thescraphunter6811 my bro had a plaice and two bream at Ferrybridge end yesterday afternoon,early or what?+the usual dog and straps!!I need to get on your fishing channel I've been binge watching your steptoe videos.hope there's some sea fishing.im not a big lake/freshwater fan.im a steptoer too so I ain't taking piss by saying that fella.Dorset Dean
I have no idea why I enjoyed this video so much.
I suggest you invest in a decent pair of steel toe cap working boots, Rhys. That brass fitting you dropped was a near miss and a wake up call.
I had a brass drop on me hard and took my entire load and it was a costly mistake and a wakeup call
You don’t need toes
I once stayed in a hotel..and got a…wake-up….call.
I am here to do a wake up call for someone..
I used to have an aunt that would help me come too in the mornings, she would scream "wake up paul"
i worked at a small family printers many years ago, they changed over from photographic film to digital so all the pipework was ripped out as they did not need chemical processing. The boss knew there was money in the copper, so he got a crew in to rip it all out, the tanks and pipes were heavy guage copper. I took the lot in the company truck to the scrap yard owned by his brother. He didnt want to pay copper price because most of the pipe was filled with 30 years of deposits which was heavier than the copper. He asked me to hand around while they tested the deposits and came back laughing, he said the money was not in the copper it was in the deposits inside. It was oxidised silver bromide which needed to be processed but was basically solid silver, my boss was straight on the phone when i got back to work to his brother. Never knew how much it was but it was a good staff cash bonus and great company Christmas party that year!!!
Great score mate. Had me mouth watering whilst watching. Holy grail of copper wire scores!!
Thankyou for not clickbaiting and showing the return you received. Keep scraping. 👍🏾from Toronto 🇨🇦
Thanks dude
Please, it's "scrapping" not scraping.
@@howardchambers9679 o.c.d.? Who cares I'm just typing quickly. It's just youtube not an essay.
@@SMOOVKILL1 well slow down then.
No I don't have OCD but I think you might suffer from stupidity. You have a spell checker, use it
@@howardchambers9679 Stupidity? That's what spell checking is for. Lmfao. Do you need a calculator to do your math for you too?
Good haul. Reminds me of the time I did an electrical job for a government owned enterprise, we had to use tinned copper multicore cables, the only available source for the cable was themselves from deep storage, so we wrote them a cheque for 20,000 which we had allowed for in the tender. The cheque never got processed, when we enquired they informed us that they were not permitted to accept revenue from hidden assets and that the 20, 000 was ours. Boy did we have a party.
What a lovely load , you hit the jack pot there , all the very best 👍
The bloke who sold you that must be shaking he’s head watching this video 🤣
Holy cow what a haul!! Lot of folks would be hyped to get a heap like that, myself included! Definitely pays for a cable stripper at the very least 😁
Nice one bud thank you buzzing to see a comment from you I love your channel its taught me to strip a lot more scrap out than what I did before
Thub sure a nice haul EH
probably gone on pepper
Mate I’ve subscribe to your video and love them all…I like your honesty eg you dispose of the waste correctly and equally and you show all your receipts…you deserve this good fortune more of it pal…Naveed from Bradford
Oh man I miss those days, my dad was a scrapoligist , we did a job in fort McMurray alberta Canada, oil company abandoned a plant and built a new one a few miles away, my dad picked up the job for a song , they took all the moters etc...but left miles of #1 copper in the ground, we hook up a loader and pulled and pulled, 22tons of wire that was in the eighties so we got about 75cents a pound not burned....in today's world wow...I literally burned 100's of tons of copper back in the day.
Got any job openings amigo? ... LOL... you made a killing ..... well done ... Javier from Houston, Texas , USA
Lol nice one thank you Javier but I think your morning commute might be a long one 😉
19:05 thank you for the metric conversion for us yanks! 🇺🇸
I never knew it was that easy!
Yes, it's roughly 2lb = 1kg
2.2 lb to a kilo
Amazing haul was the best part of the month when I served my time as a service engineer getting the left over copper scrap in your wage packet.
Congrats! Absolutely INSANE score!! What a dream.
Love watching folks hustling making a dollar (Pound) the honest way. Subscribing to your channel amigo … It’s 7:30pm over here so …Cheers !!! (while taking down a few shots of whiskey) … P.S. Much luck with your UA-cam channel …
Thank you buddy means a lot
Mega score scrap hunter! It would be nice to see you guys strip the wires out ! That's the fun part of it and watching you pole it into the van. Congrats!
Nice one, I stripped out all the old telephone exchanges in the late 70s 80s loads of platinum points the metal that tap with each other when people was dailing there phone at home, hundreds of hours smashing copper out of old phones, but now the old phones are worth more, great old days I was only a teenager at the time but my friend dad was scrapping and we took all the old led window sashes waits out of the old houses in shoreditch were we live best days of my teens.
I did Battersea mate 👍🍀🇬🇧
Love the story thanks for sharing
to brighten copper thats burnt like that put it in a cement mixer with some sand. shines right up
Yes I watch that guys video also that’s in Florida too he’s awesome set up
Over the moon for yous been watching the channel for a few weeks now nd it's one of the best av come across keep the video coming
Arthur Daley would be proud 😂😂😂
A tip for you, is old switchgear, its all coppar bars and the heavier the ampere is the heavier the bars is. To change those old is gold, for the one who do that waste thing, When we use to replace those old bigger switchgears we always told keep the cooper, and they did that for free, and earned the dollars anyway, I used to pay anyway in the day but the cooppar is youres, see the oppertonity Now because everything needs to be modernized, cool to see that and good job , best wishes! Rock on
Probably one of the best scrap videos Ive seen by fare on UA-cam keep up the good work mate👍
Thanks dude
That’s a good day at the office …nice one ..my wife asked me what I was watching I said Rhys’s big load …that got her attention …she even walked over ..well waddled over ..she had a look …not what she expected …then went back to the couch to eat wotsits
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 they all love my big load 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao!!! Waddled.
Holy shit. My man you give me some inspiration lol there’s money to be made just about everywhere.. working a dead end job at a grocery store trying to get through school right now I’ve been having to get creative lmao this is just the inspiration I need good shit lads!!
Nice one lads
Lovely lil early Christmas present 👏 now a nice earned weeks fishing trip!
Fair play lads probably the most i have ever seen at once in one haul definitely
Legend -- fantastic score! Well done!
WOW Glad you shared this video that's not just a payday that's payday&vacation..!i!
If your gonna start doing shed/garage clearance hit me up with any vintage tools you get. Im based kent.
Blimey, I had to knock one out when I saw the amount of bright copper there.
Them 4 cores remind me when we took down 4 sets of high rise flats and i wont disclose what we got but it got split between 2-3 people!!!
There’s something about copper, one of most beautiful metals out there, worth a lot think that’s why people like itb
Cuz people like the way it looks? HAHA its cuz copper is the cheapest and best conducting material for electrical, and the supply isnt infinite... Sheesh
. Sheesh
Would you pick up from Allington, Maidstone ? Cast iron metal work lathe( in pieces) and stand, some Aluminium and light stuff?
Yes bud can do that today if it helps mate
rhysanglercaleno@gmail.com send me an email bud ill send you my number
I remember back in the getting a carrier bag full....burning it off...smoking the fuckin neighborhood out...an getting 15 notes...lol 🤣🤣👌
Mate that's a pile and a half ...Good for you.
Great stuff. Big brucey
Less hassle going shoplifting 🤣🏴
Awesome finds!! Hello from montana and good luck finding more.
You will never get that ever again … unbelievable well done 👍🏻
That's a good haul, a lot of work to process but good never the less.
Now I see why craclheads in my area are tweakin for some copper scrap.
Your ex boss if watching this might be saying ,,,hmmm next time I’ll take it to the scrap yard myself. I don’t think
I’ll be advertising how much I made if I’m in the business of buying the copper. But anyways well done 👍
I did this with my neighbors cans when aluminium was doing all kinds of funny business in the covid lockdown. Easiest 200 quid I ever made. Gave everyone who helped me out free eggs.
When a did scrap back in the day always kept the little stuff like your eye lets huge big fuses motors and stripped them at a later date seen at stuff as rainny day money when it was worth the time cause nothing else lying around sort of thing lol
Gypsies gold, well done keeping it under wraps
Can't fault ya boys, Nice profit there !!
Looks like you'll be having Turkey again this Christmas
LOL USE TO STRIP THIS IN THE BARRL SCRAP SHOP BACK IN THE DAY
When I first started working in recycling depot in Kendle the guys there did not share with new recruits They took all the scrap to Morecombe metals ,I reckon they pulled in a couple grand a month ,And the months before Christmas when people done up kitchens and bathrooms there loads and loads of copper piping ,,, Yeah nice little earner
I do take stripping job's on recently closed factories a lot with my building company but's its more a side thing where i put some other workers on, i always strip the cables you get a much higher price but i bet you know that already, i do own a very expensive automatic cable stripping machine, oh men back in the day, i did this all by hand, never again lol way to much work so after a while i just sell it not stripped and did keep all that money on the side to buy a custom build machine for that best purchase i ever did, after 2 jobs it did pay its self already back, its insane what i was spending on employee working hours before the machine... its a good business but a lot of people do not know how much hours of work there going in to this, to make a good profit on it.. nice amount you got there my friend keep up the good work...
Proper job love the copper
Nice, wouldn’t mind a few loads like that!
Ahha!! Now i see where my tax money has been
Project shop is awesome mate cheers mate!!!! Have a pint for me
I’m not getting the train to work tomorrow!
Keep up the good work lad 👊
Pretty ace mate , keep it up
Quality, to you Americans it's alot! . Good vid fellas.
My local scrapyard is paying £5k a ton rn for copper
I just got a nice couple of hundred quid trading in all the crap from mine and my old mans sheds
Thats a fat profit! Best of luck lads 👌♻️💷
....to some people that's just a pile of "metal" but to people like me/us, see dollar signs all day long, its a beautiful thing man scrap on!
and its better to recycle them then throw them out to rust.
There’s me slamming the brakes on for a couple batteries on the side of the road but fair play mate
Mocopper momoney.
Awesome score
Great vid Rhys. No wonder you have not been fishing. Well done!!!
YEAH , AN IRISH GUY WENT LOOKING FOR COPPER WITH A METAL DETECTOR AND WAS 7 FEET DOWN IN A BIG HOLE BEFORE HE REALISED HE WAS WEARING STEEL TOECAP BOOTS.
Congrats! Absolutely insane score, once in a lifetime! Now get down the pub and spend it before the tax man gets ya 😉 🤣
Fuck the tax man, he didn’t offer to strip the cables.
We luv a bit of Rory delap
That's always been my dream, to get a ton of copper. One day maybe...
Copper gold
best deal ever keep it going not every day is a payday like that
Damn. I need to get into scrapping
Very nice! I like a bargain too 👍❤️💛💚
I was a cable puller for eighteen years, that’s peanuts to what we were given as the Engineers on site didn’t want their superiors to know they’d overestimated what was needed.
630mm2 single core was the best.
That dose sound amazing that lol
how much was you getting length wise a foot length weighs like 5kg on its own ive got some where im working as well as some 400mm and 300mm earth plus 300/240mm 4 core
@@kingdavid414 It was years ago and we got whatever price copper was per ton with a deduction if the pvc, swa, pvc was left on. We’d sometimes strip it ourselves to get a better price.
Ahh tin plated copper ive been had a few times on the especially when it has the thick rubber xouting in between if you have a good razor you can cut all of that off,then you have like a but of 0 guage barw bright otherwise its a pain in the aas,but damn nice haul inseed 👍
Like finding a literal gold mine!
Nice score! Thanks for the shoutout. You should show it being stripped
I was trying to keep it a little bit secret bud i didn't want to give my location away if I could thanks for commenting made my day
@@thescraphunter6811 I got you, I always work with the doors closed so people don't see all the copper. lol
Nice touch lads there’s a nice bit of cash there,
What was your fishing channel I couldn’t find it mate
Copper, copper, copper ♻️💪🏻
In Alberta Canada they steal copper wire from job sites too
Nice touch rhys
Omg
Bless ya,,,,what a payday,,,av a good hol mate
Congradulatins great score.
Great job
I wouldn't be taking all that, to just one scrappy. Word gets around and they be on you.
thats what i call honey my man.
Amazing payday there.
Great video 👍👍
Money well spent. What a job that must have been. Might want to buy a few silver melt coins with some of your money for the future just in case things go crazy mate.
good stuff lad the misses will be happy
Nice mate tatting is best job u can have I love it I wish I still was at it Havant got driveling license so wud so I’m trying save up to get van and driver lol
Boom my boy!🎉
WoW that's a nice haul thanks for putting it in pounds for us Americans who watch 👍
Found a skip with £1000 quids worth of chunky copper pipes & brass bits!
I’m new to the copper thing. How do I get loads of it? Can someone tell me the best places to go? And also what has copper in it I bet my roof and drain pipes has copper in it I’m going to strip my own house
When you get dark wire try cleaning with CLR brass cleaner or silver cleaner cause it's worth a try to get the better orice
There was a cable stripper lying on a pallet just recently at the local tip shop here in north east NSW Oz for about a month & probably still usable as broken stuff usually gets taken to the scrap metal dealers nearby . . got into a little bit of copper scrapping decades before up in Darwin NT , where just nearby the Berrimah boat ramp was an very small island that I used to legal beach net to great success for dog mackerel in main . . point being that island had been a part of the WW2 Z force commando base (Singapore raids etc) that was on the mainland mangrove shore a few hundred meters away (remains of base still seen not far left of Berrimah boat ramp) . . anyway a heavy copper insulated power cable had been pulled from the mainland & just left curled up on the island , a few short hours later one sunny day & back in dingy to the vehicle & then metal scrap yard not far off for an OK sum to buy some beer . . fishing & scrapping all rolled into one happy bundle
Nice dude 👌 living the dream
What he give him for it’ a token ?
Mental. Get yourself a decent pair of clean shoes with that mate😆
Good on you