I make $100,000+ a year with scrap metal

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  • Опубліковано 5 кві 2023
  • Alright everyone I'm back with another video and in this video I show you how I make Over a $100,000 a year Just by picking up scrap metal It's been an amazing journey for the last 25 years And it is a lot of hard work heavy lifting. And sometimes very long days But the juice is worth the squeeze if you're willing to put in the work You can easily make more money in a day than you'd make at most places in a week. So if you like this video and this content remember to like, comment and subscribe. and check out some of my other videos. Thank you. #scrap
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  • @jamesgriffith4159
    @jamesgriffith4159 6 місяців тому +2

    Loading scrap is the worst part of scrapping.
    Keep going. You're doing great!

  • @benbush7149
    @benbush7149 4 місяці тому +5

    I'm 60 and disabled and still putting around

  • @rtoadontheroad
    @rtoadontheroad 7 місяців тому +2

    I stayed to the end and like your shirt.haha

  • @bfg69bug
    @bfg69bug 2 місяці тому +2

    Stayed till the end, love the shirt. (Both shirts ;) ) I'm a scrapper here in Spain, its just a hobby at the moment, too many people do it here, not enough to go round. I save it up all year and take it in at Xmas normally. I did 5 trailers last time, about a ton on steel, plus all the non-ferris I have accumulated

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  2 місяці тому

      Yes, certain areas where there's a lot of competition, it is hard to get metal.. The way you could go about getting more is contacting businesses and other companies that have metal all the time. Remember people always have something they want to get rid of

  • @williamcaron
    @williamcaron 4 місяці тому +1

    Work smarter not harder is what I say! Great video of earning a buck!

  • @user-jh3qb8nn8o
    @user-jh3qb8nn8o 7 місяців тому +1

    You put me in mind of myself the way you scrap i do the same

  • @ryanphillips1388
    @ryanphillips1388 11 місяців тому +1

    Stayed to the end. Your definitely a strong guy, moving all that stuff by yourself.

  • @ScrappingwithGrandpa
    @ScrappingwithGrandpa 10 місяців тому +1

    I watched the entire video. I just got up about 730 sitting here watching videos yours came across my feed. I enjoyed it. Great video keep them coming.

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  10 місяців тому

      I'm usually up at 5:30 in the morning. There will be more videos in the future but this week it's vacation time

  • @talkingcargojunkremoval
    @talkingcargojunkremoval 5 місяців тому +3

    I scrap all the time. I separate everything. I do junk removal in Mobile Alabama. Easy Money 😎👍🤜🤛💲💲💲

  • @alexfriedel
    @alexfriedel 7 місяців тому +2

    I always watch to the very end 👍👍

  • @ssweeps
    @ssweeps Місяць тому +2

    Love that shirt! Steve from California!

  • @jeremymauldin5049
    @jeremymauldin5049 Рік тому +1

    Love the shirt. Love the hustle

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Рік тому +1

      Thanks.. One of the things I didn't say in a video is. I don't pay for scrap metal all this is free..

  • @jm37024
    @jm37024 Рік тому +2

    Love you shirt and the video to

  • @nicejunk666
    @nicejunk666 Рік тому +1

    Love the shirt, I’m 57 with a pacemaker still loading appliance feel your pain I get winded pretty fast tho

  • @scraprodriguez
    @scraprodriguez Рік тому +1

    I admire your hard work! 👏🏻🤙🏼

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Рік тому +1

      Thanks. It's one of the reasons why I started this UA-cam channel. I was posting a lot of stuff on facebook and my customers had seen what I do. So I figured maybe somebody would be interested in watching how I work.

    • @scraprodriguez
      @scraprodriguez Рік тому +1

      @@Adventureswithmike1 Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻

  • @user-md8of9yj1d
    @user-md8of9yj1d 7 місяців тому +3

    Compresors and motors have 💰 value for scrap

  • @peterbosser2049
    @peterbosser2049 Рік тому +1

    scrap on . did a scrap run wed and went to a closer yard and got 10 cents pound for light iron .did good

  • @robinjones533
    @robinjones533 Місяць тому +1

    I stayed until the young and I like your shirt.

  • @ShahKhan-hi7gr
    @ShahKhan-hi7gr Рік тому +3

    Nice video good ❤❤🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

  • @christophertaylor2464
    @christophertaylor2464 3 місяці тому +1

    I liked and subscribed and read all the comments all but that really long one I read half of it and I watched the whole video nice shirt.
    I was picking up soda bottles and returning them to the drug store for the deposit and then buying one cent candy back in the late 70s before I was ten years old I was also mowing yards with my older brother. I am also an hour from the good scrap yard.

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  3 місяці тому +2

      Yes, some people don't mind working. I'm Going Out and hustling to get that money. I was the same way picking up cans when I was younger when I lived in the city.. It was just easy money. Now that i'm older I expanded on that.. I've just never been afraid of a hard day's work

  • @j_slinger9307
    @j_slinger9307 7 місяців тому +1

    Fords theatre😂😂 and red wings had me dead😂

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  7 місяців тому +1

      Jordan, share my videos everywhere, please.

    • @j_slinger9307
      @j_slinger9307 7 місяців тому +1

      @@Adventureswithmike1 will do gotta share the Adventure

  • @phillipperespass4393
    @phillipperespass4393 5 місяців тому +2

    Okay dark humor on the shirt, but I still smiled. Oh so watched to the end. Tread mill would have cleaned. I think it's all a matter of ratio. If a scrapper is getting a lot of bulk then maybe pass on cleaning. But because of competition, then cleaning/separating metals perhaps worthwhile. Keep doing the thing.

  • @wollywop2278
    @wollywop2278 4 місяці тому +1

    What do you do with batteries after removal?

  • @Mongoeatsmeat
    @Mongoeatsmeat Рік тому +1

    I watched to the end

  • @bigcountryscrapper6885
    @bigcountryscrapper6885 11 місяців тому +1

    Awsome new sub here

  • @nickshelley3118
    @nickshelley3118 Рік тому +4

    I hate those tread mills, but I pickem up, yeah, you can sure get injured wrestling with them, they want to fold or unfold at the wrong time.

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Рік тому +1

      Yeah I can't tell you how many times I smashed my fingers... I have permanent ptsd

  • @IanCraft-cc7hc
    @IanCraft-cc7hc 8 місяців тому +1

    Awesome stuffman. Ive been going at it about a year now and love it. Do youeverhave any luck reselling items that you think are worth more? For example a stainless steel ramp?(thats been one of my few sales. Id like to get better at that aspect but lack the marketing skils)

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  8 місяців тому +2

      I have resold some things in the past . It's all easier now. Because I bring the stuff to a friend of mine Who list the stuff online for sale So I don't have to be bothered. I let him make the prices up. And I get a 50 /50 split.

  • @BaldGuyComedy
    @BaldGuyComedy 4 місяці тому +2

    I dropped one of those treadmills out of my truck bed onto my leg and it hurt so bad I threw up lol Never make that mistake again.

  • @sk8terdudee9
    @sk8terdudee9 Рік тому +1

    You need to get your self a mini excavator wit a thumb. I can cramb 3ton on a 8x14 trailer. I live an hour from the scrap yard so weight is money

  • @pushrodtv6623
    @pushrodtv6623 6 місяців тому +1

    Enjoying the content just sub'd 👍🍻🇭🇲

  • @tommymadden9746
    @tommymadden9746 9 місяців тому +1

    Love your videos. The appliances that you receive is staggering. How much do you make on the cords alone. Im small time but i run into cord cutters all the time. Ive learned to dislike them in a funny way.

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  9 місяців тому

      I usually just trim the cord off if I remember.. It's only 60 cents a pounds. But it's an easy upgrade. Yeah, and I absolutely hate people who go around scabbing just cords.

  • @tommymadden9746
    @tommymadden9746 Рік тому +2

    Great video. In order to make a 100.000 a year. You have to be physically fit so you can lift a million pounds. Keep doing the thing.

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Рік тому +1

      You are correct, it is a lot of work and it's very hard on my body... I'm not getting any younger but now that I have a friend helping me. It really makes it easier... Next step is a dump trailer so I can save myself. Time and frustration unloading...

  • @robinjones533
    @robinjones533 Місяць тому +1

    I do scrapping too

  • @alanwilliams2452
    @alanwilliams2452 Місяць тому +1

    Couple great loads Mike very nice early to rise you get more done before 8 then most do all day that's how I was scraping even when I worked my day stared at 4am go check my set net from 4 -5:30 go home shower go work security 6am -2 pm then go check net again go home eat dinner go check net before bed at 11:30 you had to make ends meet. Right. ( I feel ya bud. )

  • @StephenMarks-wo4uk
    @StephenMarks-wo4uk Місяць тому +1

    Damn , try Rocky's next time , nice load

  • @osamajamil428
    @osamajamil428 4 місяці тому

    Can anyone help me get lead battery scrap from USA or Canada. Please comment
    Appreciate

  • @juniorandrade1652
    @juniorandrade1652 11 місяців тому +1

    Bom dia 🤗😉

  • @user-jh3qb8nn8o
    @user-jh3qb8nn8o 7 місяців тому +2

    I scrap the same way you do

  • @jonglewongle3438
    @jonglewongle3438 8 місяців тому +2

    I watched straight on through to the end. Let all the ads run, and they were all short ones. I have wondered about that, what counts for a ' view ', how that is calculated. I do container deposit, bottle and can collecting, but I am doing it in later life. Had it been going earlier in life then I could have done that for a modest living. Not too good now with the exorbitant cost of living. I figure that I am making, on container deposit, what someone doing a crappy inner city factory job was making in the 1970s. I am thus 45 years behind on cost of living - rate of inflation.

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  8 місяців тому +3

      That's actually how I started doing scrap when I lived in the city. Me and my brothers would go around and collect cans and bottles and bring them to the bottle. Or turn place which was only a few blocks from my house.. But it goes with anything the more volume you have to more money you'll make. We would ride around on our bikes and collect them It was easy and it was actually kind of fun.. But nowadays it's not that much money to survive on. But if you're Going to be collecting them if you see any copper wire anything with a chord Ore pieces of aluminum just try to grab the better stuff that pays more.

  • @davidronan1677
    @davidronan1677 7 місяців тому +2

    Red wings 👍 wear like iron

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  7 місяців тому

      They do. they just really hurt my lower back.. I've had boobs that were more comfortable but I wear them out too fast.

  • @markmullins4222
    @markmullins4222 9 місяців тому +1

    How's it going? I used to drive 45 minutes to get rid of my load, At a scrapyard.
    And that was one way just to make 60 bucks.
    When I did it, everything went.
    Even The cords?
    When I come back? I did not have anything in the back of my truck.

    • @Jesus-es5su
      @Jesus-es5su 6 місяців тому

      That's sucks bro . My house is walking distance from the scrap yard . I don't even use a motor vehicle when I scrap. I'm blessed and thankful

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  6 місяців тому

      @Jesus-es5su Yeah I don't mind being Far from the scrap yard. Cause the file lived closer. I wouldn't get nowhere near the amount of scrap that I do.. Don't be way too much competition

  • @jakertheelaborater2573
    @jakertheelaborater2573 Рік тому +1

    Where I'm from we get 10 cents per can

  • @christopherflanagan9626
    @christopherflanagan9626 6 місяців тому

    I heard one of the previous owners of my mom's farmhouse "filled in" a stream on the property using all kinds of scrap mostly metal that he could get his hands on, then buried it all on dirt.... Seems like it would be good for the property to get rid of the buried metal, maybe bring back the stream... thoughts?

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  6 місяців тому +1

      Only a Moron would do something like that. Who knows what he buried and the environmental repercussions. Old farmers are known for barrying stuff

    • @brianf4342
      @brianf4342 2 місяці тому

      They didn't think about that back then. Remember trash pickup was not a thing til after 1950's. Back then they burned and buried stuff.

  • @rassbeary
    @rassbeary 3 місяці тому +1

    Absolutely if you don't your just throwing money away

  • @endgamep
    @endgamep 6 місяців тому +1

    A fruit based diet would help your longevity. What is the typical value per kilo scrap metal ?

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  6 місяців тому +1

      There's different types of metal and they all have different values. Copper would be $6.50 US pre kilo. We're Something like tin shred .22 cents us a kilo.. So as you see it can It varies wildly

  • @WilliamBegenau
    @WilliamBegenau Місяць тому +1

    I scrapped for 10 years. If you're not bleeding at the end of the day, you didn't work!!

  • @markbooth4340
    @markbooth4340 Рік тому +2

    Hi Michael Mark booth like your head there is all shaved where's my head to shave be nice I shaved my face got a little better looking the prices is up a little bit at the Mill at the scrap yard right behind the Spectrum in Harrisburg it's a big yard among his yard check Caldwell and Booth metals go there

  • @rockwoodrecycling8982
    @rockwoodrecycling8982 5 місяців тому +1

    How much you pay in tax and soc

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  5 місяців тому +1

      It changes year to year... Because of expenses and Write offs

  • @jakertheelaborater2573
    @jakertheelaborater2573 Рік тому +1

    Why did you scrap that cool brass crab?

  • @MissMaggie246
    @MissMaggie246 10 місяців тому +1

    Just found you…stayed to the end. Upstate New York Granny here. You should have taken the treadmill apart! But you got mad at it instead! Well, your decision, not mine. How old is your daughter? Take care…

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  10 місяців тому

      Some times it just easier to send it instead of fighting for a little bit..

  • @deanmackley4520
    @deanmackley4520 Рік тому +1

    I would take it apart but I'm greedy lol

  • @speedball23
    @speedball23 9 місяців тому +1

    where do you find your scrap do you go around on garbage day

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  9 місяців тому +4

      No I am not a street scrapper or a dumpster diver.. A lot of people call me to haul away their stuff And I have 18 plumbing and heating companies that feed me scrap. And I also have banks, real estates, insurance companies, construction companies. Contractors that also call me to Holloway there material.. I've been doing this for 25 years. And in the town I live in. I built up a good reputation. I provide friendly and reliable quick up services for them. And in the long run, its paid off.

    • @DarkKnight-mu4gc
      @DarkKnight-mu4gc 9 місяців тому

      he steal scrap metal from the scrapyard and bring it back to them lol

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  9 місяців тому

      @@DarkKnight-mu4gc nope...

  • @jerryrayle8457
    @jerryrayle8457 Рік тому +1

    Scoff the bottom of your boots with some heavy grit sandpaper

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Рік тому +1

      Yeah I'm gonna have to do something. It's funny because on the bottom of the soul it says oil and slip resistant.. 😆😅🤣

  • @garyt4983
    @garyt4983 5 місяців тому +1

    Cant scrap fridges in uk

  • @ARon82
    @ARon82 5 місяців тому +2

    I need a pickup truck 🛻

  • @colerussell1780
    @colerussell1780 4 місяці тому +1

    Who ever keeps saying its not worth the time to separate literally everything are the ones that dont make as much money. Its just "quick" money. Many of us get all of this for free and sometimes they will unexpectedly hand you a twenty.

  • @retiredinbali9565
    @retiredinbali9565 10 місяців тому +1

    Get yourself eye protection.

  • @innanet
    @innanet Рік тому +1

    wtf you make $100k+ / year doing scrapping?!

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Рік тому +1

      Yeah.. I also do house and property clean outs.. That's where the big money is .

  • @quinton3997
    @quinton3997 7 місяців тому +1

    100 thousand a year 😂 good luck

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  7 місяців тому +4

      Well i've been doing it for the last fifteen years.. So thanks for the good luck Dumb ass. But I don't need it.

    • @artaxerxes2363
      @artaxerxes2363 6 місяців тому

      He's a big liar!

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  6 місяців тому

      @artaxerxes2363 thanks for watching

    • @artaxerxes2363
      @artaxerxes2363 6 місяців тому

      @Adventureswithmike1 yeah we'll see what Uncle Sam has to say about this!

    • @Adventureswithmike1
      @Adventureswithmike1  Місяць тому

      You can call me a liar all you want.