@@KevinRagsdale-wu3vr false. Any business is allowed to make rules on recording on their property. You can stand on the sidewalk or any public easement and record from that vantage point. They have the right to send him away and he has the right to go elsewhere. They agreed and moved on but he shouldn't act entitled to it.
Bro, I gotta say. 321 comments and you replied to every single one. Kudos. That's how you build a cult following! Awesome Logo designs. Keep up the hard work, Help is hard to find, and A hard-working boss man is even harder!
Dave: your doing something for mankind by exposing the scrap business. I'm thinking that only "60 minutes" could go beyond your efforts. There are certainly people barely making it, off of the streets picking at curbs and alleys. And the honest ones are still struggling.
@@removeitprosdemolition if it wasn't such a p.i.t.a i would have loaded it back up and said seeya your not gonna screw me over like that when i bring you so much material and if they can match the other yard price wise they for sure been screwing you over and making huge $ off you. they sell it for 2x more than they pay you or more and seems they were probably selling at 4x what they were paying if the other yard was offering 2x what they were
Having large lots gives you more negotiating powers. I drove 120 miles once when I had a big load of non-ferrous. And they treated me so well trying to get me to make it a regular thing.
We used that to our advantage this last load. Wonder if we are going to have to go to another yard? Videoing our activities is part of our business model.
I have helped a friend that his old uncle pass away in early 2000 , he was collecting all scrap value like copper , aluminum, catalytic converter ( not stolen, he was stopping at every garage to collect donated catalytic converters, brakes rotor etc …) the guy was doing it for at least 40 years and storing that material in the 3 barn on his property and in several shipping containers he bought over many years and in about 40 wagon box train , from time to time he was going to the scrap yard selling few hundred pounds to get money for the next couple months, my friend was his only designed inheritance person , there was over 6500 ton of copper , aluminum, something like 150 ton of catalytic converters, something like 1200 ton of electric motors , some electric motors was as large as a freezer, yep those 300 hp motor and up , we filled 8 30 foots scrap containers full of rotor , drum brakes and caliper, and I forget so many other things, several hundred rolls of fences , some of them was there from so long that 12 inches trees was growing literally through to rolls of fence , he never told anyone how much he get for all this but I guess it’s in the couple million.
Sir although I am no longer in the scrap business because of disability! I'm one of those people who learned how many of the scrap yards operates. I know that this was a lot of work and saving for a while. I just wanted to say that this was the type of haul that probably made the true scrappers salivate the more of these types of videos will surely help your channel grow. Very good episode.
Another good reason for filming everything when you're getting all the different grades of recyclables weighed up is that you have a record on video of everything as it's being weighed up on the companies scales you are selling to. Then if there is ever any dispute over items that company has missed you have video proof of said missing items being weighed on their scales with the weight shown of that item as well. I'm new to your channel, and I like what I see of your operation, I have worked in the demolition scrap metal game for decades, you guys are on to it, you have a great bunch of switched on guys, look after them because at the end of the day they're a massive part of the engine that drives your business. Cheers for the reel...deal...
One of the disgruntled employee let us know some stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Not sure if he is telling the truth. It really sad if he is. We don't want to go there we just want to recycle and get paid fair and film it for fun and entertainment.
I have the same business model as you, I do clean outs and save everything metal from the landfill. My volume is significantly smaller though, but you are correct in that getting paid going in is good and getting paid going out is better.
This is just one of our profit centers. The money just goes into the hopper with everything else that we do our guys are paid very well and they are paid bonuses for production.
Their bonus is having a job. The owners take all the risks, pay all the transportation, insurance, and rent/utilities. I'm not trying to bash your comment, just giving a perspective from a fellow owners side of the equation.
Right bluing can go as #1 so can new shiny sheet copper. It's the solder and paint that makes it #2. Just have an employee go around and show you their prepared stuff so you can see what separates it for yourself. 😉✌
Dave, I love how you guys bring order to chaos! Great to see how much stuff you’re keeping out of the landfills. 😁 (By the way, well done on getting right in there and sweating along with your guys. There’s no better way to build respect among your ranks! 👏👏)
Damn. Y'all really got ur sorting together quick... I'm still learning, but ur videos are helping so thank you. One thing I noticed is with that big motor, it may have been worth it to tear that apart depending how much copper is in it. But great recycling and thank u!
@removeitprosdemolition - The general rule is about 10-15% total weight of motors is gonna be copper. Speaking of, what or how do u ensure that what motors you’re scrapping, are in fact copper windings, and not aluminum? Do you folks come across transformers very often too? Those can also be copper, aluminum, or both in one housing.
This is the first video of yours I've watched and I must say Kudos to employee Dave, what a heck of a worker, can see what needs done and jumps right in
Those buss bars are made of C11000 copper, which is 99.99% pure copper to achieve the conductivity level required to meet NEC requirements. Run a wire wheel over it and it will clean the 3-7 micron tin coating right off the copper. Downgrading 99.99% pure copper to a #2 because it has 3-7 millionths of an inch of tin sprayed over it to prevent the copper from corroding is sketchy as hell.
A sidequest that might pan out is a shake table for metal shop amd mechanics floor sweepings. Its like panning for some shine but instead of a river its your towns and cities industrial and repair shop floors sweepings. If you are handy with making things you can make a dialed in shake table that will fill up barrels of metals when you feed it floor sweepings to harvest the overlooked and often tossed metals.
On that copper you were told to sand or wire brush clean. All you need to do is get a gallon of cheap white vinegar and heat it add as much salt as you can while hot till it stops melting the salt. Then that can soak or brush on and bam 💥 bright copper
instead of doing all this, you should bypass the middle man. Just start you a small yard and get you a big truck to haul it or hire a truck. Most these places sell this stuff to steel mills, places that have smelters.
@@removeitprosdemolition I work for Nucor which makes rebar, they have a scrapyard and buy metals like Shredded stuff, cast that has been crushed, turnings, bundles of metal. Some of these places use all types of metals for different recipes for the smelter like cooking food almost, but they buy bulk truck loads of metal from these scrapyards and we also get train cars full of metal. You should invest in a shredder and shred a lot of your stuff and also a machine to make bundles and get you a tractor trailer and just sell it in bulk. I worked for a small scrapyard and the owner would also make deals and tear cars apart and use a shear to cut hard steel at 3 to 5ft to sell at higher prices.. Also US pipe buys bulk scrap to make pipe man there are 100s of places that use recycled metals. You can even take all the computer boards and get the gold from them using acids.
He isn’t in the scrap business….. if he wanted to then yes he can become a scrapper…. For now he is just capitalizing on the waste from his business…. Owning a scrap yard is a whole nother business… I’m actually looking at investing in 1 myself this year … scrap yard is the perfect business model
@@russiachinanorthkoreastatetv tbh he had more scrap than my local yard gets in a couple months and we now have 4 different yards for a SUPER small town in alabama and even some where people do it at home with just a scale, so it would make more sense just to open your own and not have to worry about getting screwed over and the stress of watching each load get weighed up. Instead of tearing apart a lot of that stuff just get the main stuff out and shred it the rest and its not the hard to have a scrap yard, the small one i worked for was owned by a complete idiot and its been going for 30 years. Only real issue would be EPA and OSHA stuff but you can learn about all that pretty easy. I mean it does not have to be that big. 3 of us ran everything
Y'all are helping people learn to get the most out of scrapping. And the scrapping yard makes more when the scrap is clean and separated properly. If they want people that don't know better to benefit the company, then the company is shady! The company I go to most always give the benefit of the doubt to me. If it's a toss up decision, I say give me your price!
I’ve never been to a scrap yard where I felt I wasn’t being screwed. When I have a bunch which is nothing like this, I take it in in separate trips. When you don’t have it all organized already and in that quantity it’s so easy for them to screw you
Maybe invest in some of those blue carts for your company. I have seen Ben in Melbourne Australia who uses orange carts. He uses multiple carts for scrapping circuit boards. 😊
@@6980869 I wish I had access to be able to bid to scrap out some big commercial buildings now days. 500 MCM the Good stuff.😃 I had feet of MCM in my two car Garage. Bring it outside,Nice stripping it after 10 minutes in the sun. Aunt Lillian didn’t like it there for a few months but she was loaded with cash didn’t understand that’s was Big money . I totaled out at $6,100 bucks but it did take a while to strip the smaller stuff. No taxes paid either. 😃 Have a good day and scrap On.
I spent a week stripping an aluminum refrigerated beer trailer, every piece of steel was removed on a 3,000 pound aluminum trailer except one piece, an 8x8x.25 inch steel plate I missed on the gooseneck hitch. They looked at the trailer while it was still loaded on the lowboy and said it was good to unload, they got it off the deck, threw it on top of the stack gave me my ticket to get paid. It was then I realized I didn’t get what they said I would at the gate, because I missed a 10 pound piece of steal I could have unbolted if the inspector had pointed it out.
@@cuddy9215 I guess you missed the part it was checked by them at the scale, then once it was on the stack they reclassified it and refused to place back on trailer. They are crooks.
I remember back in the 90’s Number 1 Copper Bright Scrap price was $6.97 per pound. I worked for an Electrical Company and my job was Warehouse Manager and we saved every copper cable, wire, etc. I made annual trips to recycle ♻️ center with a Semi-tractor trailer full of the bright copper. The biggest check I’ve ever had in hand was $3.2 Million dollars. The company scrapping program gave an even split of the scrapping funds to its employees as a Christmas bonus every year. This is reason why we never lost any employees because of this annual bonus at Christmas time.
@@removeitprosdemolition We had our own steel bins with tare weights that stored the clean bright copper, the employees made sure 👍 the jobs were clean and cleared of all scrap, they bring it back in their vans and put them in certain bins, we had clean & dirty bins. Employees would either stay over or come in on off days to help strip cables for bright copper. We had a Flatbed Trailer and if we had more than one load, I’d make a special trip to scrap yard if too many bins were full. My electrical company had a separate bank account setup for funds from scrap. Come December, we would have a Christmas 🎄 party for the entire company, catering and gift exchanges, and everyone received a Bonus Check of equal value that came from the Scrap Program. I somewhat remember our Bonuses hovering around $15K to $30K for each employee, it changed every year. But it kept everyone onboard and everyone happy, our families were invited to the party 🎈 I do miss the company, it folded after the owners passed away in 2007.
These types of incentives for employees used to be far more commonplace. Now they are all but non-existent. Shame because these types of incentives would make a company great for all parties involved. Incentivized happy employees equal higher productivity.
Great video Fellas It is good to see you all working so hard and making good money Change your money to gold and silver because dollars will soon be worth nothing Maybe in days You might be able to buy a house for 1 oz gold or 7 ozs silver Metals will buy anything, food, petrol, rent, anything
Those bus bars you can clean up and recover silver from pretty easily, but you need a very careful person doing it. 4 parts sulfuric acid to 1 part nitric acid. HAS to be done outside because it makes a lot of nitrogen dioxide that is very toxic. Submerge the piece and keep an eye on it until you start seeing copper. Rinse it in a bath of clean water and you’ve got quite an upgrade. Once you’re done with the stripping solution put some salt in (water softener sodium chloride or potassium chloride) and silver chloride will drop out looking like cottage cheese. Rinse it through a strainer with a coffee filter in it, and put it in a stainless steel pot. Add lye and stir until it turns black. Once it’s all black, add table sugar slowly as it’s going to get real hot, and that is how you reclaim silver metal from plated copper bus bars. There are lot of videos on of that show the proper steps, don’t follow mine - I just wanted to tell you it was possible so you don’t waste any time sanding it off like the guy at the yard said
Great job guys!! I see you're in paradise, I sure do miss the Cape and FT Myers Beach!!! Lives there for 10 years, miss it every minute of everyday!! I use to work at the Lani Kai upstairs on the roof top restaurant. Nothing like making money watching the beautiful sunsets every night.
another great vid turn the majority of your #2 copper into #1 by a bath of acid could be vinegar and salt worth some experimental work all the best Paul
Hi ,I'm new to your channel I just subscribed,love this video can't wait to watch all of them,I just started scrapping,how do you get all this,do you have any tips,thank you
My first time seeing your channel! Really enjoyed it! You should hire the guy that was weighing all of your scrap,if it's possible. With that much scrap,you need a real expert,in my opinion.
Glad to see you greatly improved on scrap day activities. Once again, money for the books and not the pocket. Now annual profits is a different story. Never been a big scrapper, but most of the yards I've been to. Have always done people dirty. So it goes hand in hand while people do them dirty. They don't want recording of it so nobody has evidence of where they ripped anyone off.
They really didn't seem to mind , its funny we asked three people about number 3 copper. That person was wrong they took in lots of copper at a reduced price. And now people are saying the copper with bluing is number 2 thinking we will go somewhere else next time.
@@removeitprosdemolition thank you for the time and response. I don't blame you. It's a business. I'm glad you never made the reference or comment. But most people scrap for beer (or other addiction) money. With the amount you are hauling in. You should get every penny you can. Won't promise it but some companies should be competing for your business and asking what they are paying so they can add a couple cents
What a load of scrap ! stuff I dream about, You guys are big enough for them to come and pick up from you they need to supply you with some dumpsters and collect once a week once a month whatever is required. but then you need to build trust and make a contract deal with them each party says what you will and won't do. they cannot change the price on you and you will make sure they get what they are paying you for, good luck. I am just a little guy doing my thing in the land down under but I've been scrapping metals for nearly 20 years. Now i am starting off on a new venture making Jewellery
I've been turning in scrap for over a year and after the learning curve of how to grade copper, didn't really have an issue. A couple of weeks ago i brought in 21 lbs of bare bright, it was written down as 12. I disputed it, but it had already been dumped in with the shops. The next time i brought in 22lbs, they wrote off 5 lbs as tear. Normally that's 1 lbs for the bin i use, but they said the braded copper that was as thick as #1 wasn't "of quality for #1". Never had that before with them, figured it was because they shorted me and i called them out. This scrap yard i go to does record everything and we reviewed the disputed purchase, They shorted me it was error on their part, and I should have disputed it then, but it was their closing time that Saturday and we all wanted to get gone. So we settled up, they gave me my $40.00, I quit stripping anything that isn't #1.
Not sure they are coached to cheat - BUT - their goal IS definitely to justify a "mark down in quality" to pay you a lower price. Been there many times - and they specifically do this as a matter of course.
@@removeitprosdemolitionthe first time I recycled plastic bottles and aluminum cans they tried to rip me off for $125. After they weighed everything they wrote me a ticket for $28 when I pointed out it seems a little bit low play redo my ticket at 151.00. I've heard similar stories from people who recycled frequently, if you don't watch them they will rip you off
Remember brother. Yards are real strict because when you give someone an inch they take a mile. And get real comfortable. Not saying its not screwed up how they complain about a single pipe with solder but if they let it go. Everything gets out of control. Great video though.
Also keep in mind you arent being treated any different in that regard then they are. When I go to sell a gaylord box full of #1 I get docked on the whole box if there is contamination. Reason being is that screwing up a refiners melt is very costly. So they make sure to keep their supply stock clean and to spec and the penalties get passed all the way down the line.
They can call it whatever they want so long as I’m getting the correct price. Since they get what they don’t pay you the incentive to low ball you is there.
@@removeitprosdemolition a business does have the right to stop a person from filming with in their property , but not view their property from public area,unless you film the interior non public area of the building, basically the same as you have for your drone licence same criteria , in Canada it called reasonable expatiation to right of privacy, now the unloading bay may fall under public access thus you could film , im sure if you google Florida law regarding filming , it would list what you can do legally ,some people put a stink,as a power trip because they do not know the laws, they just believe they can enforce imaginary laws , like kayak fishing, if you fishing from water and not on the shore , then they cant stop you from fishing unless FFG have posted restrictions for that body of water , eg, marina ,boat ramps swimming locations ,so many feet from dams or bridges ect,, 🥸🤓 Canada
I think that if you're trying to record within the building of a private establishment, you'll need to honor their choices about recording. Recording from the vantage point of public area's, are different. All that said, if they were to be buying scrap legitimately..., why wouldn't they want to have the free exposure for their business?!?
@@removeitprosdemolitionRecording on private property can be restricted by the owner of the property/business. You need to be careful, because the company could file a privacy complaint and have your video taken down.
Really very good job! much appreciated! It would be great if you make video a step behind the scrap yard i.e how you collect all these scrap materials.
There is 3 different scrap yards within 5 miles of where I live. I am just a dude that will stop and grab scrap metal and appliances on the curb while I'm out, break it down if I know its got enough copper or wire in it to be worth it. I throw the scrap steel in my back yard and will haul a load of it off as soon as I have enough to fill the truck up. I have a 3 card sized garage and use one part of it to store all wire, copper, aluminum so on. All my non ferris. I only take that stuff in when I really have a lot of something and the price is great. I will just hoard it when the price is low. The funny thing is of the 3 scrap yards so close to me. The one that is probably the easiest to get in and out of and moves the quickest also happens to be the one that pays the least amount always. Because of that I will only go there under certain circumstances because I hate getting 4 cents a pound for scrap shred steel when I can get double that few miles away. The scrap yard that pays the best happens to be the one that I would say is the hardest to get in and out of. They pay more but they have less room and everyone knows they pay more so they are always covered up it seems and a trip there can lead to a long wait time just to get to the scales. The one that is in the middle on price kinda also happens to be the closest to my house so I end up there a lot. The only thing I hate about them is they are really bad to try and screw you in every little way. If you dont watch they will charge you for the lowest grade copper on ever bare bright. I mean you better pay attention to what they are typing in their computer at the scale because I have had them throw clean aluminum down on their scales and instantly type in dirty aluminum. If you catch it and say something its a quick oh sorry about that and they change it but if you dont watch them and say something they will screw you in a second and they dont care how much you bring them or how often your bringing it they will screw anyone. Because of that I really hate it. All 3 scrap yards close to me have good points and bad points. Sadly all have a good reason I would say to never go back but I gotta go somewhere. There is a few much nicer ones if I wanted to drive another hour out of my way that honestly are much cleaner and have better reputations and pay about the same but when you start driving farther out of your way hauling a load of scrap you begin running up your fuel costs and that cuts into your profit even more. So I end up just taking what I can get close to home. The scrap steel at times is like a burden to me as it piles up so fast for a scrapper. It pays the least and I haul probably 30 truck loads of scrap steel for every one load of non ferris. But while its time consuming, its worth it to me as each year I been doing it the last decade it really has helped with the bills. My advice is if you can keep the copper, aluminum somewhere for awhile. Call ahead before you go, prices on copper so on go up and down just like gas. I mean seriously I have taken a load of wire in before only to see the price jump a dollar a pound a week later. But I also have seen the price bottom out plenty also. Commodities just always go up and down. But you for sure want the best price you can get. No one wants to get screwed and yes all scrap yards are bad to try and screw you. They train their employees often to do that very thing. I have even seen workers at some scrap yards trying to cheat little senior citizens out of a few dollars on their crushed soda cans they bring in by saying that since a few of the cans looked wet that they had to deduct money off the price because the cans were wet and it added weight to them, which is bull. Every soda or beer can might have just a drop of dried up soda so on inside the can but these scrap yards will use stuff like that often to screw people as much as they can especially seniors or women!
Yup a wire granulating machine would probably pay out in two trips for the volume your running. On the other side of the spectrum 2500 ft rolls of #12 solid is over $500 with tax at the local box stores.
As much scrapping that you guys do an automated wire stripping machine might be prudent if you can get it at a cost-effective rate also notice not only are you a legal operator but you're also a ethical operator and kudos to you for that
Maybe you guys could get something like a sand/media blaster cabinet w/conveyer belt to clean up those copper pipes. Clean copper gets you more $$. It might even work for those copper bus bars. Powder coating businesses have media blasters, take a piece of bus bar to them to see if it will remove the coating.
You can't galvanize copper. I don't blame the guy for not knowing. You always need to be educated on what you are dealing with so you can't be taken advantage of.
i worked up north in red dog and the conditions were raw as ever in the wildlife with dirt roads and reused pallets that got shipped up because of limited barges and limited planes bringing pallets all the time.
If you're going to do a lot of that dirty copper, get you a pipe cap it on one end and and have the other end where you can remove it have it to where you can put electric motor in rotate this horizontally. Place your copper in the tube put some sand in it and rotate it for a while it'll come out bright copper.
Also I forgot to mention if you'll do the same thing with insulated wire, build you a good wood fire and rotate this over the fire not letting any oxygen into the tank and it will charcoal the plastic.
@@removeitprosdemolition Probably a good choice. It sucks that it’ll cost you more but they obviously don’t want you you to video because you’ll have proof of how bad they are at their jobs. It’s crazy how they didn’t know what you had to pay you the right money for your stuff! I understand that you had a lot of different copper but they should ask for help instead of assume you don’t have a clue
Thats not how it works. There is no process employed by the copper refiners to remove the sliver when they refine the copper. So when you sell it as copper scrap the coating is just a contaminant regardless of what it is. Hence the #2 designation.
Buzz bars are #2 copper that silver color is silver plating, Great payday also give it your hard working crew, stripping copper #1 14 gauge is not worth it 12 Gauge is a bit better but labor adds up fast
ya i would not put up with thati would go some where els .IFTHEALL ALUMINUM RADS IMELT THEM IN TO BARS I WOULD LET SOME BUY IT . I WOULD STRIP ALL THE COPPER MYSELF ICOULD BRAKTHE COPPER DOWN WHEREIWOULD HAVE! THESAMEweightand less continers wire,pipe,tubeing thanks i like your channel✌👍🤟
my first boss Martin was amazing we did HVAC he would give us bonuses for demolition if we hit our target and he divided up all the scrap and split among the employees between the massive HVAC units we replaced and serviced at all the colleges in Rhode Island we use to get 1000 to 1500 cash bonus per month
Yes, I understand people's business. Philosophies are different with different companies.Though and yeah, I agree with you and kind of disagree with you.
I was Foreman of a scrapyard for 10 years 95-05. Yes that's how it goes if your aluminum has steel on it then it gets priced as dirty aluminum. Steel is way heavier than aluminum. You want top dollar then clean it otherwise we clean it and have to pay employees labor to do it. They aren't gonna pay you aluminum prices for steel that's how you lose money. You want top dollar then clean your stuff people!
We need a waste recycling and refining plant (we have small ones in unconventional places) in Florida and other states so we can keep our money and metals in us too be used again
Scrapping is such a game...took #1and #2 copper last week after they weighed the #2 they told me just to dump the #1 on top ....that tells me they sell it all together. The different grades are for them to down grade it
There are people in the hotel room next to your room, clapping👏🏻! Haha they are clapping alright! Clapping but cheeks is what they are doing!! Just make it clap! 😂
i dont know what state your in but im in north carolina. i used to work at a scrap yard the only copper you have that should be #2 is soulder joints the copper with green on it is #1 copper this place is ripping you off !!!!!!
@removeitprosdemolition I used to scrap occasionally to help a friend, and I found a local guy who scrapped for a living to go with me. That's really the only thing that kept me from being taken advantage of. He taught me a lot, and I couldn't believe how much the yard was taking advantage of me before I gained a little knowledge. Now, when I go, I don't take any crap and the yard knows it, so they don't really try to underpay me.
I was gonna comment this same thing on another one of your videos! I’m also in NC and a lot of that stuff they’re claiming is #2 would easily be #1 around here. Also, “#3 copper” isn’t even a category. Sorry you guys have to deal with yards that are so dang picky. You shouldn’t have to argue with the guys this much to get the prices you should be getting. Great video though regardless
@@removeitprosdemolition Off course, its like selling a used car, you want as much as possible and they want to pay as less as possible. Busbares are often coated with silver for better conduction, so it should be more worth than copper, if not you should get at least the best copper price as possible.
If a scrap yard is concerned about filming, its a sure sign they are doing shady shizzit! Love your videos, keep them coming.
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It's still their property they decide what goes on in their building. You can't make your own rules ....just because
@@jcbuckeyeno but you can take your business else where
@@jcbuckeye it is still public open to all they just have to stay within the safety factors the only place you cannot record is in the office aria.
@@KevinRagsdale-wu3vr false. Any business is allowed to make rules on recording on their property. You can stand on the sidewalk or any public easement and record from that vantage point. They have the right to send him away and he has the right to go elsewhere. They agreed and moved on but he shouldn't act entitled to it.
This is what makes America work! This is how you help the environment, make money, and employ a lot of people! I'm glad Dave is part of our community!
Wow now that's a compliment thanks for watching.
Helping the environment, lol their the biggest polluters like china ha
Right!
@@removeitprosdemolition Will see snow in no time... , be nice to see yourt vlogs than...
Thanks for being a part of the community!!
Bro, I gotta say. 321 comments and you replied to every single one. Kudos. That's how you build a cult following! Awesome Logo designs. Keep up the hard work, Help is hard to find, and A hard-working boss man is even harder!
Thank you that's quite a compliment.
Y’all need to take your scrap to another yard. Cheers guys from Texas
We are moving into a new market, with Remove It Pros, our favorite yard is there, we will haul it up there soon.
Dave: your doing something for mankind by exposing the scrap business. I'm thinking that only "60 minutes" could go beyond your efforts. There are certainly people barely making it, off of the streets picking at curbs and alleys. And the honest ones are still struggling.
Yep the #2 for the #1 copper is a crock.
@@removeitprosdemolition if it wasn't such a p.i.t.a i would have loaded it back up and said seeya your not gonna screw me over like that when i bring you so much material and if they can match the other yard price wise they for sure been screwing you over and making huge $ off you. they sell it for 2x more than they pay you or more and seems they were probably selling at 4x what they were paying if the other yard was offering 2x what they were
Having large lots gives you more negotiating powers. I drove 120 miles once when I had a big load of non-ferrous. And they treated me so well trying to get me to make it a regular thing.
We used that to our advantage this last load. Wonder if we are going to have to go to another yard? Videoing our activities is part of our business model.
Way to go guys I’ve been scraping for years made good money doing it love it
Very nice scrap run. Thanks for taking us along
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
Great video really enjoyed this one. With the volume you’re bringing it’s nice to hear they’re starting to work with you a little more.
It makes the payday much better!!
These are always interesting to watch thanks for the content and time spent creating these
Thanks for the positive words!!
I have helped a friend that his old uncle pass away in early 2000 , he was collecting all scrap value like copper , aluminum, catalytic converter ( not stolen, he was stopping at every garage to collect donated catalytic converters, brakes rotor etc …) the guy was doing it for at least 40 years and storing that material in the 3 barn on his property and in several shipping containers he bought over many years and in about 40 wagon box train , from time to time he was going to the scrap yard selling few hundred pounds to get money for the next couple months, my friend was his only designed inheritance person , there was over 6500 ton of copper , aluminum, something like 150 ton of catalytic converters, something like 1200 ton of electric motors , some electric motors was as large as a freezer, yep those 300 hp motor and up , we filled 8 30 foots scrap containers full of rotor , drum brakes and caliper, and I forget so many other things, several hundred rolls of fences , some of them was there from so long that 12 inches trees was growing literally through to rolls of fence , he never told anyone how much he get for all this but I guess it’s in the couple million.
What a story, that would be a fun story to tell if they have pictures. Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Very nie job
Sir although I am no longer in the scrap business because of disability! I'm one of those people who learned how many of the scrap yards operates. I know that this was a lot of work and saving for a while. I just wanted to say that this was the type of haul that probably made the true scrappers salivate the more of these types of videos will surely help your channel grow. Very good episode.
Thanks for the encouragement, we love bringing this content.
Another good reason for filming everything when you're getting all the different grades of recyclables weighed up is that you have a record on video of everything as it's being weighed up on the companies scales you are selling to.
Then if there is ever any dispute over items that company has missed you have video proof of said missing items being weighed on their scales with the weight shown of that item as well.
I'm new to your channel, and I like what I see of your operation, I have worked in the demolition scrap metal game for decades, you guys are on to it, you have a great bunch of switched on guys, look after them because at the end of the day they're a massive part of the engine that drives your business.
Cheers for the reel...deal...
One of the disgruntled employee let us know some stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Not sure if he is telling the truth. It really sad if he is. We don't want to go there we just want to recycle and get paid fair and film it for fun and entertainment.
Who doesn’t love a nice scrap yard video
Well, thanks for watching. We have a new scrap metal video.That'll be up tonight at nine o'clock
I have the same business model as you, I do clean outs and save everything metal from the landfill. My volume is significantly smaller though, but you are correct in that getting paid going in is good and getting paid going out is better.
I have a book coming out soon on our different way of doing Junk Removal, it talks all about the little details that make it mor profitable.
Anyone that scraps occasionally should be watching these videos to see how to maximize profit
Thanks for the complement.
Oh I hope your guys got in on this 30.000 thousand plus take, like a bonus or something, thanks BigAl California.
This is just one of our profit centers. The money just goes into the hopper with everything else that we do our guys are paid very well and they are paid bonuses for production.
Their bonus is having a job. The owners take all the risks, pay all the transportation, insurance, and rent/utilities. I'm not trying to bash your comment, just giving a perspective from a fellow owners side of the equation.
I sell to a few yards in NC, #2 copper is with solder or paint, they will grade it #1 copper even if its blued or a little dingy.
Thanks good to know.
Right bluing can go as #1 so can new shiny sheet copper. It's the solder and paint that makes it #2. Just have an employee go around and show you their prepared stuff so you can see what separates it for yourself. 😉✌
Same in Ohio
Dave, I love how you guys bring order to chaos! Great to see how much stuff you’re keeping out of the landfills. 😁 (By the way, well done on getting right in there and sweating along with your guys. There’s no better way to build respect among your ranks! 👏👏)
Thanks 👍Appreciate the positive vibes!!
Damn. Y'all really got ur sorting together quick... I'm still learning, but ur videos are helping so thank you. One thing I noticed is with that big motor, it may have been worth it to tear that apart depending how much copper is in it. But great recycling and thank u!
Thanks for the tip on the motors. We will check it out the next time we get one. Also, thanks for watching!!
@removeitprosdemolition - The general rule is about 10-15% total weight of motors is gonna be copper. Speaking of, what or how do u ensure that what motors you’re scrapping, are in fact copper windings, and not aluminum? Do you folks come across transformers very often too? Those can also be copper, aluminum, or both in one housing.
That video was awesome! Thanks for showing us what you do..Looking forward to watching more
Thanks for watching. We appreciate it.
This is the first video of yours I've watched and I must say Kudos to employee Dave, what a heck of a worker, can see what needs done and jumps right in
Yes dave is very good
Those buss bars are made of C11000 copper, which is 99.99% pure copper to achieve the conductivity level required to meet NEC requirements. Run a wire wheel over it and it will clean the 3-7 micron tin coating right off the copper. Downgrading 99.99% pure copper to a #2 because it has 3-7 millionths of an inch of tin sprayed over it to prevent the copper from corroding is sketchy as hell.
Thanks for the advice.Thanks for joining the community.
A sidequest that might pan out is a shake table for metal shop amd mechanics floor sweepings. Its like panning for some shine but instead of a river its your towns and cities industrial and repair shop floors sweepings. If you are handy with making things you can make a dialed in shake table that will fill up barrels of metals when you feed it floor sweepings to harvest the overlooked and often tossed metals.
Wow that would be a scavengers dream to get every piece.
Another great and VERY informative video from the Remove It Pros Demolition team !
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Thank you for the compliment.Thank you for watching
Its good to see you are replying to all these comments actually a rarity on yt these days, keep up the good work
Thanks for noticing and thanks for watching.And thanks for being part of the community
On that copper you were told to sand or wire brush clean. All you need to do is get a gallon of cheap white vinegar and heat it add as much salt as you can while hot till it stops melting the salt. Then that can soak or brush on and bam 💥 bright copper
Thanks for the tip
instead of doing all this, you should bypass the middle man. Just start you a small yard and get you a big truck to haul it or hire a truck. Most these places sell this stuff to steel mills, places that have smelters.
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@@removeitprosdemolition I work for Nucor which makes rebar, they have a scrapyard and buy metals like Shredded stuff, cast that has been crushed, turnings, bundles of metal. Some of these places use all types of metals for different recipes for the smelter like cooking food almost, but they buy bulk truck loads of metal from these scrapyards and we also get train cars full of metal. You should invest in a shredder and shred a lot of your stuff and also a machine to make bundles and get you a tractor trailer and just sell it in bulk. I worked for a small scrapyard and the owner would also make deals and tear cars apart and use a shear to cut hard steel at 3 to 5ft to sell at higher prices.. Also US pipe buys bulk scrap to make pipe man there are 100s of places that use recycled metals. You can even take all the computer boards and get the gold from them using acids.
He isn’t in the scrap business….. if he wanted to then yes he can become a scrapper…. For now he is just capitalizing on the waste from his business…. Owning a scrap yard is a whole nother business… I’m actually looking at investing in 1 myself this year … scrap yard is the perfect business model
@@russiachinanorthkoreastatetv tbh he had more scrap than my local yard gets in a couple months and we now have 4 different yards for a SUPER small town in alabama and even some where people do it at home with just a scale, so it would make more sense just to open your own and not have to worry about getting screwed over and the stress of watching each load get weighed up. Instead of tearing apart a lot of that stuff just get the main stuff out and shred it the rest and its not the hard to have a scrap yard, the small one i worked for was owned by a complete idiot and its been going for 30 years. Only real issue would be EPA and OSHA stuff but you can learn about all that pretty easy. I mean it does not have to be that big. 3 of us ran everything
Y'all are helping people learn to get the most out of scrapping. And the scrapping yard makes more when the scrap is clean and separated properly. If they want people that don't know better to benefit the company, then the company is shady! The company I go to most always give the benefit of the doubt to me. If it's a toss up decision, I say give me your price!
Thanks for watching
I’ve never been to a scrap yard where I felt I wasn’t being screwed. When I have a bunch which is nothing like this, I take it in in separate trips. When you don’t have it all organized already and in that quantity it’s so easy for them to screw you
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Maybe invest in some of those blue carts for your company. I have seen Ben in Melbourne Australia who uses orange carts. He uses multiple carts for scrapping circuit boards. 😊
The problem I have is the space and the equipment to move that stuff around
Good haul, my best was $4,100 in one over loaded Chevy pick up. That was at $1.00 a pound. 30 years ago.
Very nice!!! Thanks for watching
That’d be over $16k at my yard i go to nowadays!
@@6980869 I wish I had access to be able to bid to scrap out some big commercial buildings now days. 500 MCM the Good stuff.😃 I had feet of MCM in my two car Garage. Bring it outside,Nice stripping it after 10 minutes in the sun. Aunt Lillian didn’t like it there for a few months but she was loaded with cash didn’t understand that’s was Big money . I totaled out at $6,100 bucks but it did take a while to strip the smaller stuff. No taxes paid either. 😃 Have a good day and scrap On.
I spent a week stripping an aluminum refrigerated beer trailer, every piece of steel was removed on a 3,000 pound aluminum trailer except one piece, an 8x8x.25 inch steel plate I missed on the gooseneck hitch. They looked at the trailer while it was still loaded on the lowboy and said it was good to unload, they got it off the deck, threw it on top of the stack gave me my ticket to get paid. It was then I realized I didn’t get what they said I would at the gate, because I missed a 10 pound piece of steal I could have unbolted if the inspector had pointed it out.
That's bucks. So sorry
Its up to you to notice that stuff.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Get yourself a magnet my guy. Your responsibility
@@cuddy9215 I guess you missed the part it was checked by them at the scale, then once it was on the stack they reclassified it and refused to place back on trailer. They are crooks.
I feel the bunch of these things with water one time because I knew they weren't checking them and got it about an extra $500
Goodness gracious! That’s a lot of copper! Great video! I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen so much copper from one place!
Thanks for watching hope you joined our community.
I remember back in the 90’s Number 1 Copper Bright Scrap price was $6.97 per pound. I worked for an Electrical Company and my job was Warehouse Manager and we saved every copper cable, wire, etc. I made annual trips to recycle ♻️ center with a Semi-tractor trailer full of the bright copper. The biggest check I’ve ever had in hand was $3.2 Million dollars. The company scrapping program gave an even split of the scrapping funds to its employees as a Christmas bonus every year. This is reason why we never lost any employees because of this annual bonus at Christmas time.
Holy cow. That's so cool.
@@removeitprosdemolition We had our own steel bins with tare weights that stored the clean bright copper, the employees made sure 👍 the jobs were clean and cleared of all scrap, they bring it back in their vans and put them in certain bins, we had clean & dirty bins. Employees would either stay over or come in on off days to help strip cables for bright copper. We had a Flatbed Trailer and if we had more than one load, I’d make a special trip to scrap yard if too many bins were full. My electrical company had a separate bank account setup for funds from scrap. Come December, we would have a Christmas 🎄 party for the entire company, catering and gift exchanges, and everyone received a Bonus Check of equal value that came from the Scrap Program. I somewhat remember our Bonuses hovering around $15K to $30K for each employee, it changed every year. But it kept everyone onboard and everyone happy, our families were invited to the party 🎈 I do miss the company, it folded after the owners passed away in 2007.
These types of incentives for employees used to be far more commonplace. Now they are all but non-existent. Shame because these types of incentives would make a company great for all parties involved. Incentivized happy employees equal higher productivity.
@@brothazoot the owners passed away in 2010 and the company was liquidated. I sure miss them, they were the employers to work for.
Great video Fellas
It is good to see you all working so hard and making good money
Change your money to gold and silver because dollars will soon be worth nothing
Maybe in days
You might be able to buy a house for 1 oz gold or 7 ozs silver
Metals will buy anything, food, petrol, rent, anything
That's excellent information
Those bus bars you can clean up and recover silver from pretty easily, but you need a very careful person doing it. 4 parts sulfuric acid to 1 part nitric acid. HAS to be done outside because it makes a lot of nitrogen dioxide that is very toxic. Submerge the piece and keep an eye on it until you start seeing copper. Rinse it in a bath of clean water and you’ve got quite an upgrade. Once you’re done with the stripping solution put some salt in (water softener sodium chloride or potassium chloride) and silver chloride will drop out looking like cottage cheese. Rinse it through a strainer with a coffee filter in it, and put it in a stainless steel pot. Add lye and stir until it turns black. Once it’s all black, add table sugar slowly as it’s going to get real hot, and that is how you reclaim silver metal from plated copper bus bars. There are lot of videos on of that show the proper steps, don’t follow mine - I just wanted to tell you it was possible so you don’t waste any time sanding it off like the guy at the yard said
Cool process something to consider for the future.....
Good job buddy ❤ you guys are killing it biggest scrap video to exsist now break your record next time score 50 k
Really you think this is the biggest scrap video that exists?
@@removeitprosdemolition i dont think . I know because you guys are showing living proof
Amazing! Thanks : )
Great job guys!! I see you're in paradise, I sure do miss the Cape and FT Myers Beach!!! Lives there for 10 years, miss it every minute of everyday!! I use to work at the Lani Kai upstairs on the roof top restaurant. Nothing like making money watching the beautiful sunsets every night.
Thanks for watching!
another great vid turn the majority of your #2 copper into #1 by a bath of acid could be vinegar and salt worth some experimental work all the best Paul
Thanks for the input hopefully you subscribe
Dave you are a nice guy talking to some younger lads around you.👊🤝🤝
Thanks for the compliment.
Hi ,I'm new to your channel I just subscribed,love this video can't wait to watch all of them,I just started scrapping,how do you get all this,do you have any tips,thank you
My first time seeing your channel! Really enjoyed it! You should hire the guy that was weighing all of your scrap,if it's possible. With that much scrap,you need a real expert,in my opinion.
I like that idea.
Scrap yards will rip you off as fast as they can. The new guy especially. I laughed when you guys told them what's what.
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Glad to see you greatly improved on scrap day activities. Once again, money for the books and not the pocket. Now annual profits is a different story.
Never been a big scrapper, but most of the yards I've been to. Have always done people dirty. So it goes hand in hand while people do them dirty.
They don't want recording of it so nobody has evidence of where they ripped anyone off.
They really didn't seem to mind , its funny we asked three people about number 3 copper. That person was wrong they took in lots of copper at a reduced price. And now people are saying the copper with bluing is number 2 thinking we will go somewhere else next time.
@@removeitprosdemolition thank you for the time and response.
I don't blame you. It's a business. I'm glad you never made the reference or comment. But most people scrap for beer (or other addiction) money.
With the amount you are hauling in. You should get every penny you can. Won't promise it but some companies should be competing for your business and asking what they are paying so they can add a couple cents
Competing? You're probably 100% correct. We need to make more calls
What a load of scrap ! stuff I dream about, You guys are big enough for them to come and pick up from you they need to supply you with some dumpsters and collect once a week once a month whatever is required. but then you need to build trust and make a contract deal with them each party says what you will and won't do. they cannot change the price on you and you will make sure they get what they are paying you for, good luck. I am just a little guy doing my thing in the land down under but I've been scrapping metals for nearly 20 years. Now i am starting off on a new venture making Jewellery
The problem is the trust. We want to be there while they weigh it because we don't trust them.
I just found you guys the other day, and I must say, I love your videos & how you explain everything!
Glad you enjoy, see you on the next video. Dave
Agreed! I’m enjoying these scrap haul videos as well
Awesome, thank you so much!!
I've been turning in scrap for over a year and after the learning curve of how to grade copper, didn't really have an issue. A couple of weeks ago i brought in 21 lbs of bare bright, it was written down as 12. I disputed it, but it had already been dumped in with the shops. The next time i brought in 22lbs, they wrote off 5 lbs as tear. Normally that's 1 lbs for the bin i use, but they said the braded copper that was as thick as #1 wasn't "of quality for #1". Never had that before with them, figured it was because they shorted me and i called them out. This scrap yard i go to does record everything and we reviewed the disputed purchase, They shorted me it was error on their part, and I should have disputed it then, but it was their closing time that Saturday and we all wanted to get gone. So we settled up, they gave me my $40.00, I quit stripping anything that isn't #1.
Glad you called them out on trying to get one by you.
You and your guy's are class act. love your videos, hope to run into you as I vacation in Bonita twice a year
I hope so too!
Not sure they are coached to cheat - BUT - their goal IS definitely to justify a "mark down in quality" to pay you a lower price.
Been there many times - and they specifically do this as a matter of course.
It's kind of interesting to me. I don't believe that lying, cheating and stealing should be rewarded, but I don't know what to think.
@@removeitprosdemolitionthe first time I recycled plastic bottles and aluminum cans they tried to rip me off for $125. After they weighed everything they wrote me a ticket for $28 when I pointed out it seems a little bit low play redo my ticket at 151.00. I've heard similar stories from people who recycled frequently, if you don't watch them they will rip you off
Sad, isn't it?
I scrapped for 50 years. Most of the time I was treated very fairly. I'd love to work with you when I'm in Florida this winter.
Sounds great!
Sounds great!
They don’t like the employees helping the customers make more on the scrap.
That is true.But bad business is bad business.
Wow, that was great.
Thanks for watching hope you are a subscriber now!!
I learn a lot from watching your videos.
Thanks, I have lots of joy bringing them. We all have fun.
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Remember brother. Yards are real strict because when you give someone an inch they take a mile. And get real comfortable. Not saying its not screwed up how they complain about a single pipe with solder but if they let it go. Everything gets out of control. Great video though.
Yeah that's true with most things.
Also keep in mind you arent being treated any different in that regard then they are. When I go to sell a gaylord box full of #1 I get docked on the whole box if there is contamination. Reason being is that screwing up a refiners melt is very costly. So they make sure to keep their supply stock clean and to spec and the penalties get passed all the way down the line.
The scrap pard I go to is amazing, I’ll bring in huge transformers and they take it as no2 at 4.40 per pound
My yard says due to insurance - no filming. But they are a very good yard!
Insurance?
@@removeitprosdemolition That's a cop out, they just don't want it to get out if they are operating in a unsafe manner if that's the case.
They can call it whatever they want so long as I’m getting the correct price.
Since they get what they don’t pay you the incentive to low ball you is there.
@@danrossell6375 not to mention its private property lmao, so whatever they say goes
Great job guys!
Thanks 😊
Great job and a hell of a payday
Thanks for watching
I was plumbing for a company during the 1980's, I scraped enough copper and brass to pay my rent in Newport Beach, Ca. every month.
Nice!!!!
You have the right to film in Public no matter what.
What if they put up signs?
@@removeitprosdemolition a business does have the right to stop a person from filming with in their property , but not view their property from public area,unless you film the interior non public area of the building, basically the same as you have for your drone licence same criteria , in Canada it called reasonable expatiation to right of privacy, now the unloading bay may fall under public access thus you could film , im sure if you google Florida law regarding filming , it would list what you can do legally ,some people put a stink,as a power trip because they do not know the laws, they just believe they can enforce imaginary laws , like kayak fishing, if you fishing from water and not on the shore , then they cant stop you from fishing unless FFG have posted restrictions for that body of water , eg, marina ,boat ramps swimming locations ,so many feet from dams or bridges ect,, 🥸🤓 Canada
Thank you for all of that information, we will definitely look up the laws. Thanks for watching
I think that if you're trying to record within the building of a private establishment, you'll need to honor their choices about recording. Recording from the vantage point of public area's, are different.
All that said, if they were to be buying scrap legitimately..., why wouldn't they want to have the free exposure for their business?!?
@@removeitprosdemolitionRecording on private property can be restricted by the owner of the property/business. You need to be careful, because the company could file a privacy complaint and have your video taken down.
Really very good job! much appreciated!
It would be great if you make video a step behind the scrap yard i.e how you collect all these scrap materials.
I will keep that in mind sir
The big dude with tattoos is a beast!
Yes he is.....lol
You guys sure had a lot of copper glad you got a better price for it.
I am hearing form our community we got ripped off.
There is 3 different scrap yards within 5 miles of where I live. I am just a dude that will stop and grab scrap metal and appliances on the curb while I'm out, break it down if I know its got enough copper or wire in it to be worth it. I throw the scrap steel in my back yard and will haul a load of it off as soon as I have enough to fill the truck up. I have a 3 card sized garage and use one part of it to store all wire, copper, aluminum so on. All my non ferris. I only take that stuff in when I really have a lot of something and the price is great. I will just hoard it when the price is low. The funny thing is of the 3 scrap yards so close to me. The one that is probably the easiest to get in and out of and moves the quickest also happens to be the one that pays the least amount always. Because of that I will only go there under certain circumstances because I hate getting 4 cents a pound for scrap shred steel when I can get double that few miles away. The scrap yard that pays the best happens to be the one that I would say is the hardest to get in and out of. They pay more but they have less room and everyone knows they pay more so they are always covered up it seems and a trip there can lead to a long wait time just to get to the scales. The one that is in the middle on price kinda also happens to be the closest to my house so I end up there a lot. The only thing I hate about them is they are really bad to try and screw you in every little way. If you dont watch they will charge you for the lowest grade copper on ever bare bright. I mean you better pay attention to what they are typing in their computer at the scale because I have had them throw clean aluminum down on their scales and instantly type in dirty aluminum. If you catch it and say something its a quick oh sorry about that and they change it but if you dont watch them and say something they will screw you in a second and they dont care how much you bring them or how often your bringing it they will screw anyone. Because of that I really hate it. All 3 scrap yards close to me have good points and bad points. Sadly all have a good reason I would say to never go back but I gotta go somewhere. There is a few much nicer ones if I wanted to drive another hour out of my way that honestly are much cleaner and have better reputations and pay about the same but when you start driving farther out of your way hauling a load of scrap you begin running up your fuel costs and that cuts into your profit even more. So I end up just taking what I can get close to home. The scrap steel at times is like a burden to me as it piles up so fast for a scrapper. It pays the least and I haul probably 30 truck loads of scrap steel for every one load of non ferris. But while its time consuming, its worth it to me as each year I been doing it the last decade it really has helped with the bills. My advice is if you can keep the copper, aluminum somewhere for awhile. Call ahead before you go, prices on copper so on go up and down just like gas. I mean seriously I have taken a load of wire in before only to see the price jump a dollar a pound a week later. But I also have seen the price bottom out plenty also. Commodities just always go up and down. But you for sure want the best price you can get. No one wants to get screwed and yes all scrap yards are bad to try and screw you. They train their employees often to do that very thing. I have even seen workers at some scrap yards trying to cheat little senior citizens out of a few dollars on their crushed soda cans they bring in by saying that since a few of the cans looked wet that they had to deduct money off the price because the cans were wet and it added weight to them, which is bull. Every soda or beer can might have just a drop of dried up soda so on inside the can but these scrap yards will use stuff like that often to screw people as much as they can especially seniors or women!
I agree with all that!
Thanks for watching I understand.
Yup a wire granulating machine would probably pay out in two trips for the volume your running.
On the other side of the spectrum 2500 ft rolls of #12 solid is over $500 with tax at the local box stores.
I thought about taking these longer pieces and putting them into something, and then selling them from our shop.
As much scrapping that you guys do an automated wire stripping machine might be prudent if you can get it at a cost-effective rate also notice not only are you a legal operator but you're also a ethical operator and kudos to you for that
Thanks for the accolade
Maybe you guys could get something like a sand/media blaster cabinet w/conveyer belt to clean up those copper pipes. Clean copper gets you more $$. It might even work for those copper bus bars. Powder coating businesses have media blasters, take a piece of bus bar to them to see if it will remove the coating.
This place we took our last metal are taking all in as number one. New video Friday 9 PM
BUS BAR DOES NOT GET GALVANIZED, IT IS SILVER PLATED TO INCREASE CONDUCTIVITY
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You can't galvanize copper. I don't blame the guy for not knowing. You always need to be educated on what you are dealing with so you can't be taken advantage of.
i worked up north in red dog and the conditions were raw as ever in the wildlife with dirt roads and reused pallets that got shipped up because of limited barges and limited planes bringing pallets all the time.
Where is Red Dog?
I would say I’ve been in the scrap business for a good while y’all had about $150,000 worth of stuff on them trucks
Really ....Help who do we get paid that? What will they make on this haul?
I would invest in a baler for the aluminum. 😊
What is that?
@@removeitprosdemolition its like a trash compactor in the kitchen. it smashes it down to a fat cube
@@koaasst You think they will trust you that there ain't a lead bar in the middle of the bail?
We scrap at my job. I’m the store manager at a car audio store. Lots and lots of extra and used wire coming out of installs. Lunch money.
Good Deal!!
If you're going to do a lot of that dirty copper, get you a pipe cap it on one end and and have the other end where you can remove it have it to where you can put electric motor in rotate this horizontally. Place your copper in the tube put some sand in it and rotate it for a while it'll come out bright copper.
Also I forgot to mention if you'll do the same thing with insulated wire, build you a good wood fire and rotate this over the fire not letting any oxygen into the tank and it will charcoal the plastic.
Wait thanks for watching
What a way to stand up for yourself on videoing. I totally understand time/ money on videos
We go somewhere else now.
@@removeitprosdemolition Probably a good choice. It sucks that it’ll cost you more but they obviously don’t want you you to video because you’ll have proof of how bad they are at their jobs. It’s crazy how they didn’t know what you had to pay you the right money for your stuff! I understand that you had a lot of different copper but they should ask for help instead of assume you don’t have a clue
You treat your employees great
We have a great culture.
Bus bars are silver plated - they should be paying you even more.
Interesting how they see things, said they are going to have us trespassed if we film again. might have to go do that to get it on film.
Thats not how it works. There is no process employed by the copper refiners to remove the sliver when they refine the copper. So when you sell it as copper scrap the coating is just a contaminant regardless of what it is. Hence the #2 designation.
You should open your own yard! Or make them come to you!
That's a thought.
Buzz bars are #2 copper that silver color is silver plating, Great payday also give it your hard working crew, stripping copper #1 14 gauge is not worth it 12 Gauge is a bit better but labor adds up fast
With you on the labor portion!!
Nope I will not go to a place like this, thanks BigAl California
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ya i would not put up with thati would go some where els .IFTHEALL ALUMINUM RADS IMELT THEM IN TO BARS I WOULD LET SOME BUY IT . I WOULD STRIP ALL THE COPPER MYSELF ICOULD BRAKTHE COPPER DOWN WHEREIWOULD HAVE! THESAMEweightand less continers wire,pipe,tubeing thanks i like your channel✌👍🤟
WE are listening and learning!!
We use those buss bars at our electric motor factory. We silverplate the ends. I don't know what he meant by galvanized.!
Yes I thought it was silver too!
Impressive haul!
Yes it was thanks for watching
my first boss Martin was amazing we did HVAC he would give us bonuses for demolition if we hit our target and he divided up all the scrap and split among the employees
between the massive HVAC units we replaced and serviced at all the colleges in Rhode Island we use to get 1000 to 1500 cash bonus per month
Nice
@removeitprosdemolition best boss I ever had the crash of 08 he had to downsize unfortunately
#1 $3.35 #2 $3.25 cabell county wv, # 1 being pencil lead size or bigger and # 2 smaller than pencil lead
Thanks for watching!!
Here in Texas that's no 1 the copper pipe that is 1/2 or 1 it's no 1 if you would smash all the pipe it's no 1 flat
Did you say smash it?
Yes if flat them it's no ,,1do all the time
Thanks for the tip!!
Any scrap yard will take advantage of you if you give them the opportunity, it dosen’t matter how loyal you are to them.
Yes, I understand people's business. Philosophies are different with different companies.Though and yeah, I agree with you and kind of disagree with you.
Orange Kool-Aid packets cleans the copper oxidation off if you soak it like overnight just a gal that knows that it worked for me
I don't know man! Might be close to 20k 😁
We shall see
I was Foreman of a scrapyard for 10 years 95-05. Yes that's how it goes if your aluminum has steel on it then it gets priced as dirty aluminum. Steel is way heavier than aluminum. You want top dollar then clean it otherwise we clean it and have to pay employees labor to do it. They aren't gonna pay you aluminum prices for steel that's how you lose money. You want top dollar then clean your stuff people!
A lot of contractors get paid 40 bucks an hour so it isn't worth their time to clean stuff so they don't care. They're just happy to get rid of it.
Sawzall blades are expensive why should they have to pay for them to clean your stuff. Think about it. 😉✌
Got it!!
When you guys were loading up in the beginning I said to myself looks like about 30k to me. Haha I still got it lol. Nice haul! 😊✌
They don't call me King of scrap metal for nothing. 😁
Great haul fellas.
Thanks
How long did it take you Dave to collect and sort all scrap materials?
great question
6 weeks huge projects.
We need a waste recycling and refining plant (we have small ones in unconventional places) in Florida and other states so we can keep our money and metals in us too be used again
Scrapping is a good thing for everybody
Stripped bright is £6000 a ton here in the UK . About $8000 .
Holy cow.
Ever consider opening your own recycling ( scrap Yard ) ?
No I haven't, but that might not be a bad idea, huh
Scrapping is such a game...took #1and #2 copper last week after they weighed the #2 they told me just to dump the #1 on top ....that tells me they sell it all together. The different grades are for them to down grade it
I am so confused. why would they do that?
@@removeitprosdemolition no clue
There are people in the hotel room next to your room, clapping👏🏻! Haha they are clapping alright! Clapping but cheeks is what they are doing!! Just make it clap! 😂
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i dont know what state your in but im in north carolina. i used to work at a scrap yard the only copper you have that should be #2 is soulder joints
the copper with green on it is #1 copper this place is ripping you off !!!!!!
That what we are hearing from all over the country. They don't want us filming any more, probably going somewhere else.
@removeitprosdemolition I used to scrap occasionally to help a friend, and I found a local guy who scrapped for a living to go with me. That's really the only thing that kept me from being taken advantage of. He taught me a lot, and I couldn't believe how much the yard was taking advantage of me before I gained a little knowledge. Now, when I go, I don't take any crap and the yard knows it, so they don't really try to underpay me.
I was gonna comment this same thing on another one of your videos! I’m also in NC and a lot of that stuff they’re claiming is #2 would easily be #1 around here. Also, “#3 copper” isn’t even a category. Sorry you guys have to deal with yards that are so dang picky. You shouldn’t have to argue with the guys this much to get the prices you should be getting. Great video though regardless
@@tannerwest6823 Thanks for watching and your comments.
Correct, number3 copper? What's that Super Brass 😂?@@tannerwest6823
These busbars may be silver plated, they should test it quick and pay a good price for it !
Yeah, these guys are not really on our side.They're on their side.They don't much care about us.
@@removeitprosdemolition Off course, its like selling a used car, you want as much as possible and they want to pay as less as possible. Busbares are often coated with silver for better conduction, so it should be more worth than copper, if not you should get at least the best copper price as possible.
Great video!!!!! He lied at the end paint on copper pipe is #2 not #3 !!!! #3 is copper flashing or copper shower pans
Yep there is debate with them on this.
CMC in Dallas gives $3.76 #1, $3.83 bare Bright their prices are a lot more than what you got.
Last time we went it was all in the four dollar range but we had to negotiate it.