I have been watching your videos for several years now and just subscribed. I have cruised to Florida three times on the USS Piedmont (AD 17) Destroyer Tender, now decommissioned as a machinist in the 80's. I have been scrapping all of my adult life; dismantling everything but, not to your extent, I still do a little and am now disabled retired and unable to ever drive again. The one thing that no one may ever take from us is our knowledge and you have outstanding knowledge in the field of processing scrap metals. You are the ultimate king of scrap!
Hi ,love the copper piles...I have been skip diving and found 6 signs that the supermarket used during the peak of the pandemic. Each signs were Hugh and all made out of exdruded aluminium. Took me half a day to take all the screws out and all the little steel bits out. Total weight was 245kgs not bad as they were free. All paint free too exdruded aluminium. Love your videos each time I watch your videos make me want to go out and find more scrap. I think your way of removing the insulation was the most cost & time effective way to do it.
At one point I used to renovate hotels and grocery stores as a plumber, the amount of cargo vans full of copper and brass I’ve hauled away would basically be unimaginable to anyone if I told the amount.
I can relate, In 1986 I was a teenager on school vacation and worked for this air conditioning company for $25 a day as an assistant to help the senior technician carry or fetch his tools equipment and we would drive around in his van to attend to various service calls at convenience stores supermarkets so a few weeks later my partner says we going to "moonlight" on another job to earn some side money to clear out a big supermarket at a mall that had moved out and together with 4 other people that were in on it. We got there they told us to remove the underground plumbing that were these long copper water pipes wrapped in thick fiberglass insulation stacked 3 or 4 together we had to climb down into a manhole underground use a pipe cutter or hacksaw to cut the pipes and pull it out in sections then someone at the top would remove the insulation, it was heavy back breaking hot cramped work and the insulation was soaked with a lot of moisture that attracted dust which made it "muddy" and slippery to handle but I was young kid with a lot of energy and it was like an adventure, we spent 3 days on it and I remember the scrap dealer came with his big truck and loaded up close to 2000 kilograms of copper pipes there were also a huge load of unstripped copper wire some steel tubing some aluminium I forget how much copper was priced in 1986 all in I remember we got close to six thousand dollars in total but they only gave me a couple of hundred dollars but for a teenager in 1986 with $200 in his pocket that's huge money.
Awesome full on scrap processing. I think you got it all sorted. Like a kid in a candy store, shopping at the scrap yard. You got so much going on, looking forward to the next video. 👍👍
Been scrapping for 16 years and I didn’t think to buy unprocessed scrap from other contractors (I’m a carpenter by trade and I manage a 42 unit apartment complex, so I do come across a decent bit of scrap in those regards) to process/clean up and re-sell myself until I came across your videos 🥲. I haven’t had a heaping ton of luck thus far over the past year, but I did get an electrician (who just so happens to live nearby to boot!) to sell me his left over wire @ 90% of market rate/what our local yards paying for insulated at the time, lets me keep a big bin at his house and I’ve been picking it up once every other month for the past 9 months. Definitely helps!! Had an hvac company tell me that they’ve had a scrap guy for 35 years but that they’ll call me when they lose him lol. Thanks for the idea! Love your stuff!
Straight gold 🤟🏻 brother I can’t wait to get to your level one day. Currently I run a junk removal company. So scrap is just a bonus on top of already being paid for the job. Currently pulling an extra 4 to 6 k off free scrap. If you would like a decent little side hustle with low work to add on grab a bin truck and some bins. It’s like free money. I buy a lot of scrap cars to process. But since watching your channel I have taken the plunge and began to start purchasing scrap to break down. My pay days are no where near yours but I will get there one day. Keep up the good work and keep this content coming. It’s always a slow start with channels like this but your gonna blow up one of these days and I’m glad I’m along for the ride ✊🏼
Please put a board up next run my friend. Coworker wrecked with rods in back and they all shot through windshield. They got lucky. Love your videos, I'd work with you all day and agree with your methods for speed and recovery : money. 👍🤘
@@ProjectShopFl yeah bud, no problem. Just something I never thought of until I saw the work blazer with pointed survey rods sticking out the windshield we said "Oh Sh1te!". Then we all turned them around backwards or made sure our boxes had a back cap. Course everything's dangerous nowadays.
Hey, Sir. love your vids. You inspired me to make some investments in tooling to process scrap myself. Having hard times with scrapping now here in Ukraine, but i hope for the best when war is over... My kindest regards!
@@xpred558 Nope, its illegal , VERY dangerous (live ammunition all around, traps everywhere). And i dont have heavy equipment even if it was safe to operate.
Incredible numbers man. I really like how go over the paperwork at the end of the vid, breaking down all the costs and expenses. Even down to the food. (McDonalds?? LoL). But seriously, I enjoy the full transparency and It's a blast to watch your vids. Very interesting and great job. Looking forward to the next episode.
The broken down costs is a "coaster"-calculation and does not provide a serious business calulation. Not included: - rent for shop - stranded costs like electricity, water costs etc. - disposal costs - depreciation/repair costs for using tools/machines in the shop - proportional costs for investments into the shop, which will be used directly or indirectly during a long period of time and over more projects.... - (fixed) costs for using the company truck (these costs do not contain costs for fuel....) and its repair costs. - ... - ... So it is far, far away from true transparency costs. But due to the fact that the huge marge or big buffer between buying/selling the recycling material AND the fact that he only pays 15$/hour to an employee it is clear that this is still big/good business....
@@53-herbie39 Dude, you're reading into and taking my reference of the word "transparency" way out of context. It was referring to the job for the pipes. Not all the cost accounting with the shop. And it was full transparency for the job.
Gosh it would have been nice if you could just throw a blow torch down the end of the pipe for 5 min then they would just slip out. Love your dedication and effort to put out good content for us. Thank you for reading all our comments!
Some times them brass pieces come out pretty easy with a good wack from a solid hammer hit from the side and some of them ballast have small electric motors in them I know it’s tedious but adds up quickly wen doing large loads like that … love the videos mate keep ‘em coming
If you had a consistent supply of this scrap, it might be worth building a custom machine to strip it, maybe something similar to a hydraulic log splitter with a blade like an apple slicer.
Great work! Anything you can do to optimize or streamline this would help. I bet you could build some kind of simple device to hold three wire wheels and drive them with one big motor and just shove the pipe through it
hey buddy! all i can say is WOW!!!!!! you put the word work in a whole new meaning lol you are good my friend i wish i was there watching you live instead of on you tube. God Bless my friend and happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
First of all! We are all jealous of your find!!!! As far as reclaiming it? I'm questioning if it was in longer lengths is it would have been more valuable for someone rather than buying new? Depending on grades, wall thickness etc? As far as clamping? Rather than just a vice? 2 timber or steel rails held to the bench about 1/2 diameter/ thickness, with even packers in the bottom as sizes decrease? The other thought I had was a heated wire element drawn through? Again, recovery of scrap is rarely the same! My best wishes to all of you!
Awesome process. I think your doing great. I can't wait for you to set up The Sluce. I definitely want to see the copper recovery from floor debris. I've been looking through my floor sweeping for copper by hand but a sluce would be awesome.
Good profit for you - and probably an OK one for the guys that removed it and passed to you. I've got a copper cylinder here in UK. I'll deffo take the sprayed lagging off and empty out the limescale before the scrap yard gets it.
WHEN YOU SAID THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT I FELT PROUD WITH YOU. IF YOU WHERE DOING IT WITH GASOLINE OR SOME SOLVENT, ITS MORE WWASTE PRODUCTS AND UNNECESERRY POLUTION TO THE WORLD. YOU ARE RECYCLING AT ITS FINEST !
on holding the free end of the stock while you cut - it's hollow - make a clamp to the table that has a cone on it so you can use it on various sized stock - could be hard rubber or metal
Keep up the great work buddy and I’ll keep watching, I like the videos and you’re doing what I was always going to do but never done it. I worked in the electrical industry my whole life and never really had time to scrap but always wanted too, anyway good job👍
I been scrapping for 30 years but piddly stuff compared to what your doing bro. The Old Saying Takes Money to make money is spot on. But the hard work ethic is key to success! And you got that going on big time
One suggestion for cutting the insulation. Rather than using the tooth side of the blade, use the non-tooth side. Better yet, grind a knife edge on that side and you’ll be able to cut through the foam. I did that 20 years ago when i was building R/C airplanes. The knife edge would not cut the copper. To be clear, this is after you’ve cut away the PVC pipe. Who knows, another project may come along when you have to remove just insulation.
next time you should try local green house or plant growers , they would use the fiberglass housing for grow tray for seedlings, quick pop with map gas torch and pliers for those brass inserts.
Nice. I didn't the electrical work on a motel 6 and had to disconnect power to a building being tore down and i burnt up 2 new Milwaukee saw all cutting 6 runs 300ft long of 4 inch and 6inch copper pipe man that was a lick anyway nice job
I buy wire at local market prices, the pipes I cut 1 foot of each size, counted how many of each size there was and came up with a price with lots of play in my favor.
Hey I do scrapping as well how did you get the pipes? And where to look or what to call for to get this? I usually do centrifugal chillers and get the copper tubes out of them
@@ProjectShopFl WOAH!!!!!!! With as much time and energy you spend doing this and all the vids I thought this would have been a main gig. lol Thats awesome that this is just a side hustle for ya.
45 years ago we put wire in 55gal barrels and use some napa to burn insulation off have about 10 or 15 going at a time. It would be cool if you could heat pipe up and pull it out.
Have an idea. Take a 2’ length of scrap steel and weld two pins the size of material the size of that will fit the Inside dia and you clamp to the bench that ought to keep one side from movingmoving
not sure how well it would work, but maybe 2 grinders with wire wheel brushes in them inset in the table somehow, then maybe you could push the dirty copper over those like a table saw set up but for cleaning the glue off the copper. Unfortunately you would still have to use the sawzall for the first part but might be able to make that second step a little faster next time you get a chance to run that stuff.
I don't know how much of this you actually do but if you look into it they have pole Sanders which is a belt sander that goes around a pole. I believe that they are about 500 bucks. Maybe helpful? I use them for repainting light poles.
With all the new construction going on and the need for green solutions, wouldn't you be best placed to sell it on, I am assuming it's old stock that's never been used.
One of these days you ought to go in there with a couple of trailers and big old giant trash bins and sort out all your medals and all your types of copper and bring them to the scrap yard basically clean out your shop make more room and buy a bigger trailer or a bigger building you should also look into scrapping aluminum cans if that does anything as well
I wonder how a wire would work on say a 5hp electric motor. Instead of using the belt replace the belt with a cutting wire and size so it fit around the pipe. Then manually push it threw the wire? Im not sure but I would have maybe looked into that. Looked like you guess did a good job anyway
Back in 2018 I broke down a huge electrical cabinet for a huge industrial park and I pulled out around 40 solid copper bus bars that weighed like 40 to 50 pounds each, the pay I got at the scrap yard, was amazing. Also I used an Excavator to pull out all the underground high voltage cables from the man holes, turned into a 40,000 dollar pay check. But I almost died, the city said that all the electricity coming to this vacant lot was all disconnected and this place was huge. It had its own helipad. But anyways, there was about a 200 foot section that wasn't on the original build plans from back in the 80s, which was connected to a feed than ran all the way into town at the clock tower and old mills which were converted into apartments. The helper I had jumped into the man hole and tied a pull rope around the cables like all the rest and when I started to pull with the boom there was some tension, when I started pulling a bit harder and the helper had just gotten out of the way when the cables snapped, there was a huge explosion and the Excavator was shut down. I called the electric company and had them come down and screamed at them because of what happened, especially since they said that all power was disconnected. They told me that all of us should have been dead. I told him, "NO SHIT." It was crazy.
Since you're paying competitively are your customers wanting what the scrap yards pay? I'm doing the same but need to stretch these margains they are way to compressed where I am.
@@ProjectShopFl same, then where do you sell the material if you're matching or just barely beating the yard prices? Wouldn't make any sense if you're just breaking even or retaining a 10% margain. Anyways keep up the good content bro!
Clever way to remove that foam / pipe. What was that used for in that configuration ? Underground ? Or that's considered insulation ? I've never seen anything like that up here in Philly..
What about heat from the inside? Maybe a big propane burner and having the pipes straight up like chimneys, might just melt the foam from the inside enough to easy the removal. Or make it worse, haha idk :)
10:05 A Better way to clap down the pipe. Well, it has a Hole in the middle, You can clamp down the ends of the pipe with a standard c-clamp, Insert it into the bottom end of the pipe (you're cutting the top) and clamp it down to the table. Easy peasy. 15:15, as for the Shaking of the smaller pipes when you cut them, the solution is pretty simple. You can get a wooden block (or metal if you prefer) and clamp to the table in the middle. It will act as a Backstop. . The pipe will rest against it as you're pushing the saw through.
@@ProjectShopFl Well, A block of wood on the end with a round dowel in it (to fit inside the pipe) would have also worked. A different sized dowel for each size of pipe. Just slip the pipe into the dowel, and whoa-la! instant pipe holder. You could rotate the pipe with no problem. when Done, just pull the pipe out. Did you buy ALL the pipes from where you bought those pipes? I seem to remember there were a LOT of them left.
@@ProjectShopFl well if you look at the spot price on precious metals you can see the increase in value slowly climbing. There's money to be made in scrap recycling the numbers proven just involves a lot of work but if you willing to roll up your sleeves and get into it you will succeed
Not a productive comment but if you had a slow speed shredder It would have been a lot of fun running the PVC and the fiberglass into it then to a dumpster lol. Not productive just fun. Sorry I've been laying low. I've been super busy. can't even take care of the house. Chemical would have been a total waste of money. I just built a solar powered refrigerated box truck with battery backup and can't even make a video for it. That editing is a huge time killer. Many thanks for the videos!
I have been watching your videos for several years now and just subscribed. I have cruised to Florida three times on the USS Piedmont (AD 17) Destroyer Tender, now decommissioned as a machinist in the 80's. I have been scrapping all of my adult life; dismantling everything but, not to your extent, I still do a little and am now disabled retired and unable to ever drive again. The one thing that no one may ever take from us is our knowledge and you have outstanding knowledge in the field of processing scrap metals. You are the ultimate king of scrap!
Thank you.
thank you for your service 🙏🏼 & U ARE RIGHT HE IS KING OF SCRAPPING
Hi ,love the copper piles...I have been skip diving and found 6 signs that the supermarket used during the peak of the pandemic. Each signs were Hugh and all made out of exdruded aluminium. Took me half a day to take all the screws out and all the little steel bits out. Total weight was 245kgs not bad as they were free. All paint free too exdruded aluminium. Love your videos each time I watch your videos make me want to go out and find more scrap. I think your way of removing the insulation was the most cost & time effective way to do it.
Thanks, free scrap is the best scrap. lol
This is the scrap recycling king. Good to see the involvement. Workshop getting set up good.
Thanks
At one point I used to renovate hotels and grocery stores as a plumber, the amount of cargo vans full of copper and brass I’ve hauled away would basically be unimaginable to anyone if I told the amount.
Haha, nice!
I can relate, In 1986 I was a teenager on school vacation and worked for this air conditioning company for $25 a day as an assistant to help the senior technician carry or fetch his tools equipment and we would drive around in his van to attend to various service calls at convenience stores supermarkets so a few weeks later my partner says we going to "moonlight" on another job to earn some side money to clear out a big supermarket at a mall that had moved out and together with 4 other people that were in on it. We got there they told us to remove the underground plumbing that were these long copper water pipes wrapped in thick fiberglass insulation stacked 3 or 4 together we had to climb down into a manhole underground use a pipe cutter or hacksaw to cut the pipes and pull it out in sections then someone at the top would remove the insulation, it was heavy back breaking hot cramped work and the insulation was soaked with a lot of moisture that attracted dust which made it "muddy" and slippery to handle but I was young kid with a lot of energy and it was like an adventure, we spent 3 days on it and I remember the scrap dealer came with his big truck and loaded up close to 2000 kilograms of copper pipes there were also a huge load of unstripped copper wire some steel tubing some aluminium I forget how much copper was priced in 1986 all in I remember we got close to six thousand dollars in total but they only gave me a couple of hundred dollars but for a teenager in 1986 with $200 in his pocket that's huge money.
Awesome full on scrap processing. I think you got it all sorted. Like a kid in a candy store, shopping at the scrap yard. You got so much going on, looking forward to the next video. 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Been scrapping for 16 years and I didn’t think to buy unprocessed scrap from other contractors (I’m a carpenter by trade and I manage a 42 unit apartment complex, so I do come across a decent bit of scrap in those regards) to process/clean up and re-sell myself until I came across your videos 🥲.
I haven’t had a heaping ton of luck thus far over the past year, but I did get an electrician (who just so happens to live nearby to boot!) to sell me his left over wire @ 90% of market rate/what our local yards paying for insulated at the time, lets me keep a big bin at his house and I’ve been picking it up once every other month for the past 9 months. Definitely helps!! Had an hvac company tell me that they’ve had a scrap guy for 35 years but that they’ll call me when they lose him lol. Thanks for the idea! Love your stuff!
Glad the videos help
Nice. Very enjoyable. Keep it pure and no ads please.
OK
Straight gold 🤟🏻 brother I can’t wait to get to your level one day. Currently I run a junk removal company. So scrap is just a bonus on top of already being paid for the job. Currently pulling an extra 4 to 6 k off free scrap. If you would like a decent little side hustle with low work to add on grab a bin truck and some bins. It’s like free money. I buy a lot of scrap cars to process. But since watching your channel I have taken the plunge and began to start purchasing scrap to break down. My pay days are no where near yours but I will get there one day. Keep up the good work and keep this content coming. It’s always a slow start with channels like this but your gonna blow up one of these days and I’m glad I’m along for the ride ✊🏼
Thanks, I'm hoping all my hard work pays off somewhere. lol
This looks like a dream job
It was. lol Love your name. lol
Please put a board up next run my friend. Coworker wrecked with rods in back and they all shot through windshield. They got lucky. Love your videos, I'd work with you all day and agree with your methods for speed and recovery : money. 👍🤘
Thanks for the suggestion and the concern. I did have it wrapped with a heavy tarp but a board would definitely be a better choice.
@@ProjectShopFl yeah bud, no problem. Just something I never thought of until I saw the work blazer with pointed survey rods sticking out the windshield we said "Oh Sh1te!".
Then we all turned them around backwards or made sure our boxes had a back cap. Course everything's dangerous nowadays.
@@generalconsumer9520 Pretty soon going out is going to be considered dangerous. lol
Hey, Sir. love your vids. You inspired me to make some investments in tooling to process scrap myself. Having hard times with scrapping now here in Ukraine, but i hope for the best when war is over... My kindest regards!
Is there anyway for you to get in on scrapping some of the burnt up Russian military equipment?
Thanks, good luck and hope you and your family stay safe.
@@xpred558 Nope, its illegal , VERY dangerous (live ammunition all around, traps everywhere). And i dont have heavy equipment even if it was safe to operate.
@@xpred558 Haha, I don't think its gonna make its way to south Florida
@@volodimirkun So what are the farmers we see towing Russia military equipment doing with the them?
I believe you have a fast way to do them copper pipes. What a shop and scrap pile to clean up! 👍👍
Thanks
After 1st cut on insulation wrap fine wire around copper and pull through. Works like a charm
Possibly, but that was some tough stuff.
Incredible numbers man. I really like how go over the paperwork at the end of the vid, breaking down all the costs and expenses. Even down to the food. (McDonalds?? LoL). But seriously, I enjoy the full transparency and It's a blast to watch your vids. Very interesting and great job. Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks
The broken down costs is a "coaster"-calculation and does not provide a serious business calulation.
Not included:
- rent for shop
- stranded costs like electricity, water costs etc.
- disposal costs
- depreciation/repair costs for using tools/machines in the shop
- proportional costs for investments into the shop, which will be used directly or indirectly during a long period of time and over more projects....
- (fixed) costs for using the company truck (these costs do not contain costs for fuel....) and its repair costs.
- ...
- ...
So it is far, far away from true transparency costs.
But due to the fact that the huge marge or big buffer between buying/selling the recycling material AND the fact that he only pays 15$/hour to an employee it is clear that this is still big/good business....
@@53-herbie39 Dude, you're reading into and taking my reference of the word "transparency" way out of context. It was referring to the job for the pipes. Not all the cost accounting with the shop. And it was full transparency for the job.
Gosh it would have been nice if you could just throw a blow torch down the end of the pipe for 5 min then they would just slip out. Love your dedication and effort to put out good content for us. Thank you for reading all our comments!
I was trying to stay away from anything that could set the shop on fire. lol
Some times them brass pieces come out pretty easy with a good wack from a solid hammer hit from the side and some of them ballast have small electric motors in them I know it’s tedious but adds up quickly wen doing large loads like that … love the videos mate keep ‘em coming
Thanks for the suggestion
@@ProjectShopFl not a drama mate love the channel keep it up
I wish I could get some 2 to 4 in copper pipe no one ever uses anything that large
Keep up the good work buddy I never quit I'm loving all copper pipes and copper motors and copper wires and copper leads
Thanks I will certainly try.
I am a Brand New Subscriber, I am impressed with your work and how you do it, and I am in my 60s and I have around this type of work all my life.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment.
If you had a consistent supply of this scrap, it might be worth building a custom machine to strip it, maybe something similar to a hydraulic log splitter with a blade like an apple slicer.
In 12 years of scrapping this was the first time coming across this stuff.
Man you got the best kind of help you can get right there hang on to them
Haha, Thanks
Great work! Anything you can do to optimize or streamline this would help. I bet you could build some kind of simple device to hold three wire wheels and drive them with one big motor and just shove the pipe through it
If I had more I would make something but I will probably never see this many pipes again. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching.
hey buddy! all i can say is WOW!!!!!! you put the word work in a whole new meaning lol you are good my friend i wish i was there watching you live instead of on you tube. God Bless my friend and happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
Thank you. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving
Great video. 👍 Glad you basically paid for your move in a fortnight. Onwards and Upwards! 👍👊
Thanks 👍. Those pipes were a blessing.
Absolutely AWESOME video!! Looking for a new, bigger shop myself. In all your "busyness", don't forget to take some time for yourself!! 👍👊
Thanks, I finally too a hole day off Sunday. lol
Oohh yeah
Thats BIG money 💰 the shop is almost paid 😉
And it's a real demolition factory 👌.
I like it.
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thank you from south Florida USA
First of all! We are all jealous of your find!!!! As far as reclaiming it? I'm questioning if it was in longer lengths is it would have been more valuable for someone rather than buying new? Depending on grades, wall thickness etc? As far as clamping? Rather than just a vice? 2 timber or steel rails held to the bench about 1/2 diameter/ thickness, with even packers in the bottom as sizes decrease? The other thought I had was a heated wire element drawn through? Again, recovery of scrap is rarely the same! My best wishes to all of you!
Thanks, The people I got it from tried to sell it as is for years before I got my hands on it.
Awesome operation. You are one fine hard working smart young man.
Thanks you.
I've been scrapping at work and I've been filling 55 gallon drums with clean brass and copper locomotive electrical stuff.
Nice, Hope you get a good pay day.
WD-40 does a great job dissolving glue for me.
Great job on those pipes guys👍
Thanks
Glad you got your shop up and running.
Thanks Its still a work in progress.
Awesome process. I think your doing great. I can't wait for you to set up The Sluce. I definitely want to see the copper recovery from floor debris. I've been looking through my floor sweeping for copper by hand but a sluce would be awesome.
Thanks I can't wait for the sluice to be set up too.
I'm ready to see that to. Hopefully it saves time and easier to
Love your channel pal ,good luck with your new shop from Scotland
Thanks from South Florida USA
Gotta love a project shop video
Thanks
Ready to watch whatever you can video with processing your scrap.
Thanks Judy
Good profit for you - and probably an OK one for the guys that removed it and passed to you. I've got a copper cylinder here in UK. I'll deffo take the sprayed lagging off and empty out the limescale before the scrap yard gets it.
Thanks
It's me ( copper eye joe) I subbed you from my woodworking channel as well.
Thank you! 👍
WHEN YOU SAID THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT I FELT PROUD WITH YOU.
IF YOU WHERE DOING IT WITH GASOLINE OR SOME SOLVENT, ITS MORE WWASTE PRODUCTS AND UNNECESERRY POLUTION TO THE WORLD.
YOU ARE RECYCLING AT ITS FINEST !
Thanks
Love your channel. It’s very interesting and so different. Keep them coming. Thanks 👍🏻😊🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks
on holding the free end of the stock while you cut - it's hollow - make a clamp to the table that has a cone on it so you can use it on various sized stock - could be hard rubber or metal
Thanks for suggestion
Really enjoyed this video. So much processing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Man I've been waiting for pt2 for weeks lol great video my dude
Thanks
great vid man! you are killing it!. I've had zero luck buying anything from anyone.
Thanks, If it's something you really want to do stay positive and keep pushing it. Good luck and thanks for watching.
Super cool man what kind of piping is this exactly?? I see it's insulated but for what exactly??
It was gonna be for a AC system in a big house on the beach. The plans got changed and they never used them. lol
Keep up the great work buddy and I’ll keep watching, I like the videos and you’re doing what I was always going to do but never done it. I worked in the electrical industry my whole life and never really had time to scrap but always wanted too, anyway good job👍
Thanks
I been scrapping for 30 years but piddly stuff compared to what your doing bro. The Old Saying Takes Money to make money is spot on. But the hard work ethic is key to success! And you got that going on big time
Thanks
One suggestion for cutting the insulation. Rather than using the tooth side of the blade, use the non-tooth side. Better yet, grind a knife edge on that side and you’ll be able to cut through the foam. I did that 20 years ago when i was building R/C airplanes. The knife edge would not cut the copper. To be clear, this is after you’ve cut away the PVC pipe. Who knows, another project may come along when you have to remove just insulation.
Thanks for the suggestion
@@ProjectShopFl sale the pipe, mor money is in pipe than in coper
next time you should try local green house or plant growers , they would use the fiberglass housing for grow tray for seedlings, quick pop with map gas torch and pliers for those brass inserts.
Thanks for the suggestion, on the brass inserts I tried that at first but it was breaking off.
I'm not sure but seeing as you have a respirator did you try using a hot wire/ knife? I think that might work fairly well
No, I don't think it would have cut as fast.
I gotta say your laborer is pretty good he’s keeping up !
He has a good teacher. lol Thanks for watching
Nice. I didn't the electrical work on a motel 6 and had to disconnect power to a building being tore down and i burnt up 2 new Milwaukee saw all cutting 6 runs 300ft long of 4 inch and 6inch copper pipe man that was a lick anyway nice job
Awesome score. When I was in demo I had no idea how much copper was worth.
How did you go about paying your customers for these big pipes and big amounts of wire in general ?
I buy wire at local market prices, the pipes I cut 1 foot of each size, counted how many of each size there was and came up with a price with lots of play in my favor.
You got it...just get it done with keeping your mess picked as you go
The mess was the worst part. lol
Recycling rules 👍👍👍
Greetz from Holland (europe)🇳🇱
Thanks 👍
Was a nice lil investment and great seems like you where very fair and still made lil money for you honest hard work
Thanks
Great team, fast and efficient, NICE
Thanks!
Hey I do scrapping as well how did you get the pipes? And where to look or what to call for to get this? I usually do centrifugal chillers and get the copper tubes out of them
They were for a giant AC system that was never installed. I've only gotten them once from an electrical contractor.
is this your side hustle or main source. Hear ya talking about CNC's and lathes and all. So, just curious to what you do besides the scrap.
This is a hobby of mine. lol I am setting up a welding and machine shop.
@@ProjectShopFl WOAH!!!!!!! With as much time and energy you spend doing this and all the vids I thought this would have been a main gig. lol
Thats awesome that this is just a side hustle for ya.
45 years ago we put wire in 55gal barrels and use some napa to burn insulation off have about 10 or 15 going at a time. It would be cool if you could heat pipe up and pull it out.
I don't think the neighbors would have liked that. lol
@@ProjectShopFl this yard was out side city limits LOL
Have an idea. Take a 2’ length of scrap steel and weld two pins the size of material the size of that will fit the Inside dia and you clamp to the bench that ought to keep one side from movingmoving
Thanks for the suggestion
Nicely done!
Thanks!
Great Videos Derek lo love watching your channel and awesome content.
I appreciate that!
Quiestion, How Much Copper Goes For It Now Where You Live?
In My Country Its 6.50 For A Metric Kilogram !
$3.05 per LB
not sure how well it would work, but maybe 2 grinders with wire wheel brushes in them inset in the table somehow, then maybe you could push the dirty copper over those like a table saw set up but for cleaning the glue off the copper. Unfortunately you would still have to use the sawzall for the first part but might be able to make that second step a little faster next time you get a chance to run that stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion, I don't think I will ever get that stuff again.
We’ll I’m hooked man. Pretty cool to how all this scrapping goes down. Where would you start lookin to find stuff to scrap living in a rural area?
Thanks, Thats tough but I'd start looking for electricians, plumbers and AC contractors.
Who cares if you loosing copper dust you’ve got an absolute ton of copper pipe keep on going man
Haha, Thanks
I don't know how much of this you actually do but if you look into it they have pole Sanders which is a belt sander that goes around a pole. I believe that they are about 500 bucks. Maybe helpful? I use them for repainting light poles.
Thanks for the suggestion but this was a one time deal. In 10 years of scrapping this is the first time I've come across this stuff.
@@ProjectShopFl I assume that's an unusual haul lol but it was interesting to see and think about a possible solution
With all the new construction going on and the need for green solutions, wouldn't you be best placed to sell it on, I am assuming it's old stock that's never been used.
It was new and special order bought for a specific job that got changed. They stored them and tried to sell them for 5 years before I got them.
@@ProjectShopFl Make hay whilst the sun shines then, I agree with the way you're stripping it all down, man power and no chemicals. Good luck bro.
Why aren't you using one of the handheld millwauke band saws we use in tractor trailer manufacturing? That'd be the fastest.
I get that suggestion a lot. I will look in to getting one. Thanks
One of these days you ought to go in there with a couple of trailers and big old giant trash bins and sort out all your medals and all your types of copper and bring them to the scrap yard basically clean out your shop make more room and buy a bigger trailer or a bigger building you should also look into scrapping aluminum cans if that does anything as well
Thanks for the suggestion
I wonder how a wire would work on say a 5hp electric motor. Instead of using the belt replace the belt with a cutting wire and size so it fit around the pipe. Then manually push it threw the wire? Im not sure but I would have maybe looked into that. Looked like you guess did a good job anyway
Interesting idea.
Have you tried acetone on the pipes? It disolves foam insulation.
Cheers
I did not want to use chemicals
Well done and thanks for the video.
Thanks
Back in 2018 I broke down a huge electrical cabinet for a huge industrial park and I pulled out around 40 solid copper bus bars that weighed like 40 to 50 pounds each, the pay I got at the scrap yard, was amazing. Also I used an Excavator to pull out all the underground high voltage cables from the man holes, turned into a 40,000 dollar pay check. But I almost died, the city said that all the electricity coming to this vacant lot was all disconnected and this place was huge. It had its own helipad. But anyways, there was about a 200 foot section that wasn't on the original build plans from back in the 80s, which was connected to a feed than ran all the way into town at the clock tower and old mills which were converted into apartments. The helper I had jumped into the man hole and tied a pull rope around the cables like all the rest and when I started to pull with the boom there was some tension, when I started pulling a bit harder and the helper had just gotten out of the way when the cables snapped, there was a huge explosion and the Excavator was shut down. I called the electric company and had them come down and screamed at them because of what happened, especially since they said that all power was disconnected. They told me that all of us should have been dead. I told him, "NO SHIT." It was crazy.
Wow glad you are ok. Thanks for sharing that's a perfect example of why you should not always trust peoples word and double check for your self. .
will acetone melt that insulation coating - you could chuck your sweep-up into a bucket of that to isolate the copper
Possibly but I did not want to use chemicals
gotta say... pretty smart way to apprach scrapping...
Thanks
Me thinking outside the box. I wonder if you were to modify one of the blades to have a knife edge on the saws all, how would it cut in comparison?
I don't know if it would cut the plastic pipe.
@Project Shop FL I have been thinking about that lol. But you get no where without a little innovation now and again. Love your channel
Since you're paying competitively are your customers wanting what the scrap yards pay? I'm doing the same but need to stretch these margains they are way to compressed where I am.
Yes, some people call around. So do I to make sure I matching or beating the local prices.
@@ProjectShopFl same, then where do you sell the material if you're matching or just barely beating the yard prices? Wouldn't make any sense if you're just breaking even or retaining a 10% margain. Anyways keep up the good content bro!
@@CuSTACKS I sell to an exporter (basically the same place as the local yards.) Also I make most of my money upgrading with my equipment.
@@ProjectShopFl I'll be in FL sometime this summer would love to come visit introduce myself and see your operation we can share some tips as well.
acetone would get it for sure but thats a mess right?
I did not want to use a chemical
@@ProjectShopFl hey I totally get it. I wouldn't want to either. I could think of much better ways
It would appear to me that they are worth more as what they are.. Insulated pipes. Wtf are you thinking? Did you price what one of those costs?
They sat for 5 years and they tried selling them many times before they came to me. They were special order and no one wanted them.
Have you tried V blocks with a stop block on the end to hold the copper pipe with Ghirardelli’s ?
This was a one time deal so I used what I had on hand.
Great work man! Love the ambition!
Thanks
Would wetting the material first have helped control the dust?
That probably would have helped. lol Thanks for the idea.
Clever way to remove that foam / pipe.
What was that used for in that configuration ? Underground ? Or that's considered insulation ?
I've never seen anything like that up here in Philly..
I was gonna be used for a massive air conditioning system but they went in a different direction.
Cool....Just a thought...You may not want to take more than $9999 worth in at a time..Flying just under Uncle Sam's radar..Lol...
Thanks, I never have. lol
Did you try using wire with electrical power hooked up to both ends and will melt the foam it mite melt the plastic pipe as well
No, I did not want to have to deal with melted plastic. The process I had worked really good.
You're like a modern day samurai with that Sawzall 😅😅😅😅😅😅
😂😂😂
Did you have to buy the copper pipe or get it out of a skip w e good find
I paid for it.
wow the shop is over flowing
It got out of hand fast. lol
What about heat from the inside? Maybe a big propane burner and having the pipes straight up like chimneys, might just melt the foam from the inside enough to easy the removal. Or make it worse, haha idk :)
Haha, Thanks for the suggestion
10:05 A Better way to clap down the pipe. Well, it has a Hole in the middle, You can clamp down the ends of the pipe with a standard c-clamp, Insert it into the bottom end of the pipe (you're cutting the top) and clamp it down to the table. Easy peasy. 15:15, as for the Shaking of the smaller pipes when you cut them, the solution is pretty simple. You can get a wooden block (or metal if you prefer) and clamp to the table in the middle. It will act as a Backstop. . The pipe will rest against it as you're pushing the saw through.
Thanks for the suggestion, I like the block idea but a clamp in the end would have worked but slowed the process.
@@ProjectShopFl Well, A block of wood on the end with a round dowel in it (to fit inside the pipe) would have also worked. A different sized dowel for each size of pipe. Just slip the pipe into the dowel, and whoa-la! instant pipe holder. You could rotate the pipe with no problem. when Done, just pull the pipe out.
Did you buy ALL the pipes from where you bought those pipes? I seem to remember there were a LOT of them left.
@@scrapman502 Yes I bought all the pipes they had. There was a lot of PVC left they are trying to sell.
I would melt that copper into large bars for resale to collectors or buyers of industries.
I hope to be doing something similar to that soon.
@@ProjectShopFl well if you look at the spot price on precious metals you can see the increase in value slowly climbing. There's money to be made in scrap recycling the numbers proven just involves a lot of work but if you willing to roll up your sleeves and get into it you will succeed
@@NYRM1974 Thanks for the info. 👊
Did you make a bed frame out of that pipe? Or something else? I agree, the chemicals were not the right way.
No I have so much going on I just scraped it all. lol
Would a hot wire pulled down the length of it be worth a try?
Possibly, might smell a bit though. lol Thanks for the suggestion
an inverted L sticking inside the pipe may help you hold them in place?
Thanks for the suggestion
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Thanks from sunny south Florida USA.
Not a productive comment but if you had a slow speed shredder It would have been a lot of fun running the PVC and the fiberglass into it then to a dumpster lol. Not productive just fun. Sorry I've been laying low. I've been super busy. can't even take care of the house.
Chemical would have been a total waste of money. I just built a solar powered refrigerated box truck with battery backup and can't even make a video for it. That editing is a huge time killer. Many thanks for the videos!
Thanks, That sounds like a cool project you got.
did you include the cost of labour for the guys that worked with you?
yes
Did you eventually about disposing those bulbs?
Yes, The local dump takes them and I have a 2nd method of recycling them.
Finally! It has arrived! I’m Tha is for the upload!
Thanks
just asking cant sell as its for someone who needs copper pipes ,coz win win situation for both parties
It's hard because unless some one has a job or need for them it's a hard sell.