Wondering what it pays to the person who recycled it and all the acetylene to cut it and labor is it still good profit for you new subscriber here from missouri
exactly this... the ground around 300 meters around this scrapjard won't be able to grow grass for the next 200 years with the amount of iron getting into the soil
@@paulsawczyc5019 Not cost effective and would break blades which would not be cheap. Saw cutting is also SLOW. Logs are soft and easy but metal breaks blades. That's why the tree huggers used to sabotage trees by spiking them until sawmills got metal detectors, then the tree huggers switched to ceramic cones.
Where I live, scrapyards won.t buy counterwieghts because they are made from slag and the mills say it is worthless. I used to hide it in a load of engine blocks and go to a yard I never go to. Always suspected I was getting ripped off. Good video thanks.
I bought a 4000 pound tractor counter weight once ($110.00). I had no tractor big enough to pick it up. Sold at auction to a man who wanted it for a draw bridge counter weight.
@@CheeseMiser Dang good question. Thought I had a buyer but he backed out. Bought the monster weight and 82 96 pound suitcase weights at same auction (Kubota corporate in Dallas). Paid $14.00 per for the suitcase weights and sold all but a few for $70.00 per. The few I kept I modified to go on a couple of JD front weight bars and welded 6 onto the rear counter weight on an old 6000# capacity Clark forklift I had.
That expensive stack of LOX Dewars is why I haven't ops checked my Oxweld scarfing torch with cutting tips. It's rated to torch cut over 20 inches but I didn't get the job I bought it for though at least it was cheap. They're so thirsty they take C-sized oxygen hose and Victor 700 series regulators. Might have to buy a spider and some Western whips to try it out.
Not worth ruining your health... Watching this and seeing the smoke, I can't help remembering a scrap yard dude from when I worked on an ambulance - he was leaving the hospital in our rig after being diagnosed and informed he needed a bi-lateral lung transplant. A guy in is early 20's, with two ruined lungs... from torching scrap metal (and god knows what else on the metal - paints, solvents, oils, etc). Poor kid
With all the fuel used to cut them up and to pay someone to do so, is it even very profitable? And is there a cheap way like a plasma cutter or something?
Why not use some sort of hammer? Cast iron not hard to break apart a blunt object like that. I mean.. I've cracked an engine block with 20 pound hammer for fun once lol
That’s what I thought as well. Maybe lift one of the biggest counterweights and drop it on the smaller ones to break one or both. Rinse and repeat. If one still won’t break, then torch.
Obviously youre in that business to make money. I was just wondering, that complete forklift (without the battery), how much difference in price would it be if someone brought it as is, versus having it cut up into 'prepared' as you are having to do?
By the time equipment ends up in the scrap yard most people have already tried (and failed) to sell it whole. Auctions are even getting picky and some won't allow consignments on "junk".
You're in for a lot of disappointment in a few years, a lot of modern fork trucks and excavators have sheet metal counterweights filled with concrete. Cost saving.
Lots of stuff that gets wreck cycled could probably have been repaired and put to good use helping the good poor people. It's sad and unfair that wealthy people would sooner wreck items rather then to sell it to the good poor people at scrap prices or lower.
Wondering what it pays to the person who recycled it and all the acetylene to cut it and labor is it still good profit for you new subscriber here from missouri
Missouri here also
When I was working in a uk scrapyard they used to drop a steel demolition ball on the cast iron,used break it up no problem.
Or - I would get (or make my own) big band saw. That's how they cut logs.
exactly this... the ground around 300 meters around this scrapjard won't be able to grow grass for the next 200 years with the amount of iron getting into the soil
@@paulsawczyc5019 Not cost effective and would break blades which would not be cheap. Saw cutting is also SLOW. Logs are soft and easy but metal breaks blades. That's why the tree huggers used to sabotage trees by spiking them until sawmills got metal detectors, then the tree huggers switched to ceramic cones.
Chances are he mispoke and they are ductile iron not cast iron.
Liked watching that keep up the good videos
Where I live, scrapyards won.t buy counterwieghts because they are made from slag and the mills say it is worthless. I used to hide it in a load of engine blocks and go to a yard I never go to. Always suspected I was getting ripped off. Good video thanks.
Carbon/Air Lance rods worked pretty well for me on cast iron and manganese steel.
Oxy lance could also ise old brake line for the reaction
I bought a 4000 pound tractor counter weight once ($110.00). I had no tractor big enough to pick it up. Sold at auction to a man who wanted it for a draw bridge counter weight.
Whyd you buy something like that
@@CheeseMiser Dang good question. Thought I had a buyer but he backed out. Bought the monster weight and 82 96 pound suitcase weights at same auction (Kubota corporate in Dallas). Paid $14.00 per for the suitcase weights and sold all but a few for $70.00 per. The few I kept I modified to go on a couple of JD front weight bars and welded 6 onto the rear counter weight on an old 6000# capacity Clark forklift I had.
Do bigger yards have shears, big enough to cut through those?
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What brand torch and what size torch tip are you using?
Is the chrome on the cylinder okay in HMS #1?
Just a question : Is there a way to just break them up without cutting? The Cast iron?
That expensive stack of LOX Dewars is why I haven't ops checked my Oxweld scarfing torch with cutting tips. It's rated to torch cut over 20 inches but I didn't get the job I bought it for though at least it was cheap. They're so thirsty they take C-sized oxygen hose and Victor 700 series regulators. Might have to buy a spider and some Western whips to try it out.
Not worth ruining your health... Watching this and seeing the smoke, I can't help remembering a scrap yard dude from when I worked on an ambulance - he was leaving the hospital in our rig after being diagnosed and informed he needed a bi-lateral lung transplant. A guy in is early 20's, with two ruined lungs... from torching scrap metal (and god knows what else on the metal - paints, solvents, oils, etc). Poor kid
Neat! I was wondering what other things might trip you up, like is there a specific rebar that drives you nuts or an I beam that trashes the shears?
i could come by for a few hours a week and just cut those for ya. seems like a bit of catharsis with some good music in my headphones.
prepared iron can three foot by four foot in size, the mill likes the big chunks.
Do you sell them for export or domestic?
How long does it take to cut one
With all the fuel used to cut them up and to pay someone to do so, is it even very profitable? And is there a cheap way like a plasma cutter or something?
Mike Seems Like a Smart Business Man. Based on How He Describes the Process, This Ain't His First Rodeo. He Wouldn't do it if He Wasn't Making Money..
man I'm in need of a Mitsubishi counter weight
That's a nice paycheck! lol
Why not use some sort of hammer? Cast iron not hard to break apart a blunt object like that. I mean.. I've cracked an engine block with 20 pound hammer for fun once lol
Might cut it with a grinder a hammer a wetch in
I use to sell all the big parts to a mill they would put stuff ur cutting in whole big furances
Do you guys use liquid oxygen or just regular?
Depends on the thickness of the steel
It wouldn't take much to build them so that forklifts could be disassembled.
Bring out the marshmallows!!!
Where in Nc are you. I’m in Se Southport nc
Can I bid on the Superfund cleanup project?
Scrapping steel doesn't generate that kind of pollution.
Would a high pressure water jet work
as a waterjet owner, no - well yes but in a real application no
Given the price paid for scrap, the cost of the cutting materials and gas, plus the labor involved, seems to make this a revenue negative job!
That’s what I thought as well. Maybe lift one of the biggest counterweights and drop it on the smaller ones to break one or both. Rinse and repeat. If one still won’t break, then torch.
Wow what a pita. There's gotta be a better way than that.
This is the better way
Obviously youre in that business to make money. I was just wondering, that complete forklift (without the battery), how much difference in price would it be if someone brought it as is, versus having it cut up into 'prepared' as you are having to do?
By the time equipment ends up in the scrap yard most people have already tried (and failed) to sell it whole. Auctions are even getting picky and some won't allow consignments on "junk".
You're in for a lot of disappointment in a few years, a lot of modern fork trucks and excavators have sheet metal counterweights filled with concrete. Cost saving.
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Get a oxygen Lance cutter
His torch is not like my torch
You would think that the weights could be used on another forklift! Seems like a waste of energy to cut them up to make a new one.
How many forklifts have you seen that need a new counterweight?
It's a forklift concentration camp
Nobody crying for a womens quota in this job... huh?
Lots of stuff that gets wreck cycled could probably have been repaired and put to good use helping the good poor people. It's sad and unfair that wealthy people would sooner wreck items rather then to sell it to the good poor people at scrap prices or lower.