"Leave it better than you found it" is really the best piece of advice you give in these videos, and I think it's a bit of knowledge that alot of scrappers at least in my area could use. Keep doing the thing Thub 👍
Your "leave it better then you found it!" message is awesome, your entire ethos is encouraging, im not much of a "scrap pander" but i recon you can apply your rules to almost everyday thinking. Fair play to ya.
Yesss!! I was just eyeballing all the copper, and steel I have that's from parts and cars Flipped just to get up and running but a common item I have taken 2 of you make 1 operational again most commonly-alternators. Self explanatory how that is easily done. And much like he says, though, that I prefer saying: take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints. If ever in doubt, and wanting something fun, stick to Hazing Bigfoot/Bigfeet/Bigfeets/Bigfeeties (🤷🏼♀️ no idea what Bigfoot is plural), & there's also always hijacking Aliens UFOs for kicks n shits!!!
I’ve been following your channel for quite some time now and have gotten into collecting aluminum and copper to melt. I’ve picked up appliances from people posting on Facebook - in fact I’m picking up 2 dryers this afternoon. But yesterday was the first day I went looking in dumpsters and would have never done that if it wasn’t for your videos. I only got a few vacuums and fans, but knowing this is something I can do was victory in itself. Thanks for the Inspiration.
I’m new. Going on 3 month of novice scrapping in the states. Thank you for being upfront about the steel and volume. I’ve been watching your previous videos the last 2 months. I actually have my first dryer in my vehicle right now, only bc the owner helped me load it. I always will remove the motor in what I find. Side note It’s 20% of the time but they’re are a lot of very nice people who remove motors for you. I never appreciated it until now. When I see the owner outside I always ask before I take and always leave it nicer than I found it. Thank you. I’m still learning how to rule out fiberglass mistaking it for aluminum. In due time.
Good for you I’m 62 years old and I have been doing this for at least 40 years it’s a great saving account One year sold all my scrap and moved to Alaska from the $10,000 I made from my scrap yard Don’t forget to clean your scrap you make way more much money if you take that little bit of time so proud of you girl friend 💪💪😄 💪💪YOU GO GIRL And thanks for cleaning up the environment 🌎
@@susanhafner6906 Thank you, I just learned how to clean copper! I look back at all my “should have dones” and I wish I did it differently. I’m learning and have an appreciation for all scrappers. Over here they are definitely frowned upon unfortunately. I loved to hear your story and I’m happy for you!
@@TuliTuli_ The difference when you realise, it just kills the money you could have were it not for that tiny bit of plastic or brass. Gutting, but good knowledge once known
@@AnthonyCarey that is so true!definitely not all the motors I found come from driers. I still have a grocery bag of change I found from all the driers in my garage! Thank you for pointing that out
I started about a month ago, after speaking to a lot of the guys that do this daily I learned a lot! I was throwing everything in the bailing tin, now i separate all my metals and make about $200 a day after gas
Steel or tin is the bread and butter. But I enjoy processing things on a cold winter day in the shop to get the more precious metals. It can be calming and I get to learn how things are made and how they work. And it's a nice little bonus at the end of the year when you've built up enough of those metals to actually bring in and not get laughed at. I've actually made a significant amount of money on insulated wire! Love your videos Thub!
@@Chris-em2qc I do just because it's easy and stuff I already paid for. Not gonna see any real money out of it but it keeps it out of the landfill and is a few more pennies back in my pocket.
You are a True Godsend my friend!!👌🏽 Scrapping was my first hustle/job, as a kid I started collecting cans at 3 years old and copper around 7. I've been landscaping and just recently started picking up odds and ends on the road to rekindle my love for scrapping only as a small side hustle/hobby. After watching your videos religiously this past week, I'm most definitely rethinking my whole angle of attack with re-entry to this field, Indubitably Inspired by your content, wisdom, insight and overall Good Vibes you operate with. Thank You So Very Much!! You are the type of person making the world a better place... Utmost Respect & Most Deepest Appreciation 💯🏆🎯♻️👑
Leave it better than you found it, do not cherry pick, provide a garbage free product to your yard and general respect for personal property…these are things that some of the other RUclips scrappers need to learn, your channel should be a must watch for them! Keep up the good work!👍
I made about 800 last week! I offloaded about 100 pounds of copper before the price took a nosedived . Almost a ton of steel . 2 transmissions and 40 rotors! Ready to get back out for more.
@RuckusBernal light and sign companies . Heating and air, auto mechanics, and medical companies . Specifically mobile MRI companies. Making 1500-2000 a week now!
Great videos! I have broadened my scrap metal knowledge off these and have actually made it where each truck load is now $150+ per trip rather than $60-80 that I used to average
That's great, it highlights how knowledge is power and how you can use it to you benefit yourself and your family.... Peace, power and freedom to you and yours.
I think scrapping is different for everyone. I’m retired and love scrapping for fun money. I never take labor into my equation. It is pure entertainment
The most overlooked thing scrapping is dryers. I take them completely apart and get over a hundred dollars a year in change, sometimes paper money, and lots of gold and silver jewlery.
Liked your explanation on steel being so important, I came about things differently. I started magnet fishing last summer and getting only steel of course. Then started seeing stuff dumped on shore and picked that up. Eventually, I start picking up along side roads and now dumpsters and I’m now sorting things and getting more cash for my effort. Come spring my bread and butter with be steel from magnet fishing. There is so much steel in the waterways
Very well done sir. Nice that you touched on the proper way to do thing out there. I scored a few 800 Volt fuses, silver plated copper bars. 3 of them weighed 10.3lbs. Not making me rich but a nice treasure.
I don't think I've ever actually scrapped a bed frame, to me they're a useful resource, and thicker sheet steel. I work a fulltime job and make several thousand dollars a year scrapping, always learning new ways to maximize my profits. I've learned a lot from you, thanks! The steel is my bread and butter, all the non-ferrous just collects in buckets until I have a substantial load.
New subscriber..... although I'm knowledgeable on some of this all ready, it's great to here other peoples take on things and how they do things..... Peace, power and freedom to you and yours brother.
I like how you share information to teach others. I know the scrap metal business well. I made a living hauling scrap for several years. I started off with no knowledge of the business at all. Before long I knew all I needed to know to turn my loads into huge profit. My scrap yard would call me to ask if I could help them fill their quotas each week. I never took anything to sell without fully processing and separating the grades and types. Sometimes a load would pay before I ever made it to the yard. Once I found a huge pile of coin op washers and dryers dumped in the woods. While loading them I noticed one still had some coins in it. At this point I decided to inspect each unit. Lucky for me I did. Nearly $400 in change before the load hit the scales.
@@randybobandy9828 the yard I sell my scrap to pays good for just about any metal. Shred mix is what I make most of my money from. Shred is just a mix of all types of metals in general. I've been paid up to $10.50 per 100 pounds for shred.
Thank you! I try to keep the total screen time down and focus on what value I’m creating for the viewer. Not to say I always nail it but that’s what I’m hoping for haha
Totally agree on volume, if I’m not making 1k a week from picking up steel the trailer isn’t full. That’s the bread and butter, pays the bills. Non ferrous metals are my “play money”, holidays, new tools, night out etc. Great content, keep it up! Cheers from Down Under 👍😎🇦🇺
Well, another vijayo from my fave Canadian scrapper on one of the two nights I still run my route - I saved on this for an hour or so, gonna watch it now, hope I learn something, and then go hit the trash myself. Will comment again after watching. Thubs up! 👍🏻
Been doing this stuff for a while. I got into it around 07 on the side just like you copper etc then got to looking for more ways to cash in and ran across a steel yard that was paying for it. So what I did from then out was educate and collect more. Still Collecting if you stay steady at it, it pays as good as as a full time job with less hours and hassle
In Winnipeg one plant offers 35 cents on stove elements before the current copper increase. They have steel rollers that break the wire off. Very good clip with a 25% thumbs up.
Bedframes can be great for fabbing, angle is stout. When TSHTF happens all the scrap will be a lot more important and valuable. Notice I said "when", not If. I love the phrase "Leave it better than you found it" .
Yeah man I have stacks of those bed frame rails, definitely great material for fab projects. Forgive me though, what is it that you are referring to in the abbreviation?
I loved washers with stainless tubs. Especially at luandry mats. Then i made a simple stand from bed frames with my little harbor freight welder and cut off tool from recycling copper wiring. Mostly all my power tools were bought from scrapping, and made my tear down time fast!
From St. Louis, Missouri, USA here an new at this scrapping thing and i just wanted to say thanks to u and your videos, only just started watching them but we are learning some great advice!! So thank you again!! Oh an i love your hair!! 😁
The only exception I find there is dishwashers. The motors are much more time consuming to remove from them so I consider them not worth the effort to separate.
@@keithhaycraft3765 i just smack them with a hammer, pops right off, my yard wont take the washers themselves if theyre plastic so its worth ny time just grabbing the motor
I hope you know you are the best scrap RUclipsr, period. You make great content and the formula of your videos is perfect, also every video has stuff for beginners and advanced scrappers, please never stop making videos. Even if you get really busy or something, just occasionally post a video. Love ya
I get your point about cherry picking scrap and I am well aware that the real money is in the steel. Now as I am better off financially and own a vehicle as well as a trailer scrapping steel isnt a impossiblity nor is collecting the cherries. However, if your honest as a scrapper most of us didn't exactly get into it because we liked it better than being a doctor. Usually people start scraping for lack of a better option and if they hoof it long enough tying shopping carts together, talking and helping other scrapers they soon learn the ins and outs finding in the interm that there can be real money in it. However, when said scrapper lives on the streets or is poor with no vehicle, living hand to mouth just trying to stay out of trouble I say chery pick away, when you ain't got nothing what the heck else can you do? If your lucky and you work hard and save perhaps you can get to the point where you just bid on scrap piles at demos, cleanups etc.. hire yourself a couple cash hands sit ass and collect the cheddar.
If you look it up..a lot of heating elements in Water heaters and other things have a decent amount of Iridium in them and sometimes a whole wire of it. And last i check Iridium was over a couple hundred dollars for just a little bit.
I immediately liked the guy [no homo] and everything about him really sets this shoe apart. The authenticity of a scrap yard experience was a wonderful finish. My experience was similar, ssns the cheerful and accepting attitude that followed. Thanks for all, man!
I so agree with you. I am a woman and it has came so easy to me. Others they have truck loads and get nothing. I have made 3hundred in a car . I wish I knew you I'm still learning and people give the wrong information. I'll keep watching
Great content, looking over my spreadsheets, I may have a good payday with copper etc but it happens only every couple of months, but the steel is repetitive and constant
I've always profited from aluminum scrap. Imo, copper, aluminum, brass, car batteries and a couple catalytic converters along with your steel scrap imo really boost cash flow. Appliances, I stripped the copper out and the electric motors out of Appliances to make more cash, hot water tanks have brass and wire to separate from the tank and earn more cash.
Hello Thub. You are right about steel, not much for the lbs but it does add up in a hurry. I use microwaves and cumputer chassi as buckets and they do get heavy. When I go to the scrapyard I take off the steel money for fuel. I think it was Paul that coined the phrase,,, Steel is Real.
I use to scrap an I picked up everything you talked about. I'm disable in a wheelchair and I haven't scrapped in awhile. I have picked up some bed frames over time an I drilled out the rivets and piled up the angle iron next to my work bench. I use to scrap them. I keep them for angle iron now
I know exactly what you mean I used to collect scrap to weight in but keep now for fear that if I scrap it I'll definitely need it for something or other next week
I mean, collecting the precious metals to extract them is more of a hobby that could pay off in time. Using a heat gun helps in separating the board. Im getting ready to try my first extraction with vinegar just to see how difficult it is or isnt. Thanks for the video.
I'm the guy that told you transformer iron was worth a lot more. I could've sworn scrap yards in town used to measure them differently. Oh well, good to have that confirmed that they are a much higher grade, just not locally. A shame.
furniture. specifically recliners. once you are familiar with how to remove the steel unit about six to ten screws usually the larger number three robertson and phillips, with a couple lag type hex heads. a drill and bit with long extensions, socket adapters, 3lb hammer, snips or the original vice grips. the first time it might take several minutes and feel like a pain in the butt but once you know the basic points of connection it might take two minutes. it helps to bring a rope to tie it shut because it will want to spring open all the time, get hung up on other pieces and take up a lot of room. everyone tends to leave these tasty morsels because they feel its complicated. lots of work or never even thought about it, i feel you have to try and your counting in pennies and nickels and dimes anyways. figure theyre about 50-70 lbs of steel for the good ones. me i save a lot of the bolts, nuts, screws, washers, tubing, and springs to use in other projects. welp just thought id add that. keep up the good work!
Hey man! Thanks for another great and informative video! It sucks that different scrap yards are different. I brought a bunch of double insulated wire in today separated from a bunch cat 7 cables thinking I’d get a higher price for the car 7…. Nope all went as insulated wire on receipt for .96 usd
In the uk the majority the scrap yards will not take the refrigerators as they contain CFC’s and they have to have the gas professionally evacuated. Thanks for showing us this great information. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧….phil
Always leave it better than u found it. Great prospective. Us army teaches u that day one thru retirement. If more people did, the world would be a perfect place.
I can really relate. My local council cancelled their annual cleanups because people would ferret through cleanup piles on the sidewalk and leave a disasterous mess. These stupid people not only spoiled it for themselves but for all the responsible pickers. It literally takes 30 seconds to return a cleanup pile to a neat, ordered state so why not do it to insure your own ongoing ability to collect items of value? Though it's not usually enforced, It is also technically illegal here to collect from council cleanups (despite the entirety going straight to landfill through the offical collectors). You can ask permission of the home owner but that's not always an easy thing to do when people are still asleep or not home so it is even more important not to anger the people who put out the things you make money from. The cord-cutters, too, were infuriating. I know a guy who collects washers and dryers for repair. A lot of the machines have minor issues which he easily fixed. A cord-cutter was doing the rounds, making my friend's job near impossible. For the sake of a few cents of copper, entire appliances were going to landfill since rewiring the cord often pushed the machines from profitable to not. Scrappers get a bad reputation from the minority who are shooting themselves, and everyone else, in the foot. I totally agree with you, my friend. "Leave it better than you found it."
I see so many people put tvs out so that people can take the TV and some a hole comes around, cuts the cord off, and then smashes the screen and takes the boards. Just leaves a smashed tv and glass at the end of someones driveway.
I take anything metal. I'll take the handle off a mop, lol. I'm doing $300-400/month just on steel. Got a pile of wires and brass building up. It's a fun little hobby
Nice! I’m an 18 year vet of non ferrous at EMR and two years ago became a buyer at another yard in Houston. I’ve also been the “alloy guy” the whole time. The elements you want are from heaters. They’re called HW6015. They look like springs, are non magnetic and you’re going to need three barrels of them with no wires or insulators to get decent money. I’m just saying you’re correct that heavy lifting, separating, and cleaning items make you more money than yanking an a/c or catalytic converter (don’t do either).
Well I wasn’t gonna come out and SAY IT say it, but yes lol 😂 ripping someone off is pigeon behaviour, but there’s decent money to be made if you can get the weight. Thanks for the inside scoop on the heater wires! It would definitely take a long long time to save up enough to move the scales with those
I was kinda hoping to find out what that wire running through the stove top elements is. I have a handful and they're relatively soft for the amount of heat they handle. I have a nearby yard that can scan it but just haven't remembered to bring them in.
I’m glad you looked it up and shared that it’s nichrome, I missed an opportunity to make a dedicated video on them but at the same time I’m not sure it would change much for most scrappers
I was born in Holmewood, Bradford, England. It has a reputation for scrapping. They is even a film about teenage scrappers one of the actors is from Holmewood. I have always gone around everywhere with my snippers. I do work another day job. I used to live in a block of flats and I would go around the flats in the morning and after work and also in the evening. It paid for our family holiday.
When I was a about 12-13 long time ago we went to the military shooting range and cleaned up years worth of brass shells and raked the sand slope at the end of the range for the copper/lead bulletheads. Got around $150 for a hard days work, wich was good money. Would have gotten way more if melted the copper and lead into separate piles. 100pounds of copper at least. That alone would have given me around $390 with todays prizes. Great channel dude. I havent really considered scrapping for ages and have probably given away several hundred dollars woth of scrap my self. But considering it as a side hustle. Do a little metal detecting as a hobby and morally obliged to take with me junk metal I find. So I practice that "Leave it better than you found it" advice. Greatest, silent and boomer generations just dug down or left their broken stuff in nature for it to rust away I guess.
I used to remanufacture Laser toner Cartridges and the drums the laser rights on are aluminum and the mag sleeves are to. Some of the drums are solid alluminum. Usually around 2 inches wide and 10 to 12 inches long so they can add up and the cartridges are usually pretty easy to take apart especially if you are not wanting to reuse them . In fact just to give yal another income venue ....most toner cartridges in laser printers and copiers are worth something to someone because many remanufactures are looking yo buy the used ones. If they are OEM then you can get anywhere from 8 bucks to as much as 50 bucks each abd some places will have hundreds of printers. Its worth looking into. When I did it i was making about 5 to 600 extra a year on the drums and then just on the cartridges that we didnt remanufacture and that was usually because we would only have 1 or 2 customers using certain printers so we just sold them new ones as getting all the stuff to remanufacture then just wasnt cost effective. We might only selk a few of them a year but out there somewhere is a place with a 100 of those printers and they need the empties.Some cartridges can only be remaned 2 or 3 times do to there design. Id make a couple thousand twice a year selling them off. Paid for xmas and a nice vacation!
I'm feeling the wet hair down, dry hair up lol. I do it every day. I use my car vents to act like a blow dryer on my way to work everyday and I just toss it up when I get there. That was interesting. I didn't even think about heating elements as potential scrap. Frankly I didn't realize they were metal. I always thought they were some type of ceramic or something like that. Another really informative one. Thanks Thub for leaving my day better than you found it!!!
Omg! Yes! Yes! Yes! This is soooooo true! It took me a while learning eaven after seeing this video, but im finally figureing it out. This IS a fact and all need to see this vid. I wish i listned sooner. Maybe you could do somewhat of a remake to help get this word out. 👍
Finally, an answer to "cord cutters". Your answer expresses my reaction to this practice. For a nickle or a dime, a cord cutter makes the whole item unattractive to anyone except the garbage man. As you say, if someone doesn't really want the whole item, leave looking good for someone else. Also, give yourself a lot of praise for running things with an eye to business returns, and for having dedication to what you do.
Thank you! Just trying to be a positive influence. I’m actually surprised these days at how little the bins of wire are worth compared to the rest of the work
i hugely disagree with this ive been scrapping for years and cord cutting is only frowned on by people that dont get there first thats the reality of it if you leave the stuff neat after there is no issue with it and stacking it up in a bin in the back is worth it if you dont have the space to rip things apart dont need the garbage deduction
The best way of making money scrapping is to take all you can get. If you have the space and area to strip things down. Move the tin and light steel as soon as possible. Stock pile your brake rotors and drums, copper wiring and pipes, brass anything, and car batteries. Any appliance you get take the time to strip down. Just pull the easy copper, motors, and compressors off of them and stock pile them and move out the tin and lighter metals asap. Haul in your stock piles when you reach about a ton in weight ( for heavy steel and batteries) and a couple hundred pounds of the none ferrous metals. II never haul in a load that isn't worth $500+ It has to be worth you time, and fuel to do it.
Yeah Tin would be weird, unless the guy meant "tin" as in sheet steel. Nichrome wire or tungsten is a good bet, and either one is worth a good amount. Nichrome heating elements are like 65% Nickel. If you bust up those coils and calrods, be careful of the dust from the ceramic in them, it's probably super bad for lungs.
Fun exercise: blow heaters have Ni-Cr wire coiled inside as their heating elements. If you take an old one apart and pull the wire straight, you can connect it to a 12volt supply and use it to cut polystyrene sheets.
Very good video! I did the same with all types av heating elemnts. Saved up a box and took it to the boss of chred here in Sweden. His explanation to the price was, yes good stuff, but its mixed up so it still will be the mixed steel price. Just lika a bike or so. Not the lowest grade but for me they now go in the iron/mix paper box. And YES collect all you find when scrappjng. Its a big value making good while you earn good money. Nature is what we came from. Always pay back. Have a nice day, Sir!
Great video brother. Some salvage I never thought of. I really like appliances to tear down and sperate the different metals. I like the way you think brother.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Some of your high-end heating elements like from your laboratory furnaces and foundries are an alloy called Kanthal ( that may be misspelled). The lower end ones are often copper nickel.
I do a little scrapping and if you take these appliances apart and take your time and scrap it right you make alot more in my opinion but it does take longer but depending on what your scrapping weight might be the best way to go but it depends on how much and what you have in my opinion
Thanks for the chat Thub and I do agree with the sentiment regarding cherry picking. Still, there are some who have no way of handling or transporting larger quantities and so are limited to carrying cutters and clipping cords..
Absolutely. I didn’t want to come off as judgemental or unfair, but I did want to share how much of a difference it makes when going after the whole piece
Hey man I love watching your videos but those funky shaped heating elements that you had, the u-shaped thingy and the circular thingy, I believe came off of an induction forge.
Yes I used to do windows and siding and keep all the scrap and I actually had a little over a ton and got 1000 and some change when I finally took it in
"Leave it better than you found it" is really the best piece of advice you give in these videos, and I think it's a bit of knowledge that alot of scrappers at least in my area could use.
Keep doing the thing Thub 👍
Your "leave it better then you found it!" message is awesome, your entire ethos is encouraging, im not much of a "scrap pander" but i recon you can apply your rules to almost everyday thinking. Fair play to ya.
Yesss!! I was just eyeballing all the copper, and steel I have that's from parts and cars Flipped just to get up and running but a common item I have taken 2 of you make 1 operational again most commonly-alternators. Self explanatory how that is easily done.
And much like he says, though, that I prefer saying: take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints. If ever in doubt, and wanting something fun, stick to Hazing Bigfoot/Bigfeet/Bigfeets/Bigfeeties (🤷🏼♀️ no idea what Bigfoot is plural), & there's also always hijacking Aliens UFOs for kicks n shits!!!
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I’ve been following your channel for quite some time now and have gotten into collecting aluminum and copper to melt. I’ve picked up appliances from people posting on Facebook - in fact I’m picking up 2 dryers this afternoon. But yesterday was the first day I went looking in dumpsters and would have never done that if it wasn’t for your videos. I only got a few vacuums and fans, but knowing this is something I can do was victory in itself.
Thanks for the Inspiration.
Thank you, and decent start! I can’t help but have a peek when I see one lol
I’m new. Going on 3 month of novice scrapping in the states. Thank you for being upfront about the steel and volume. I’ve been watching your previous videos the last 2 months. I actually have my first dryer in my vehicle right now, only bc the owner helped me load it. I always will remove the motor in what I find. Side note It’s 20% of the time but they’re are a lot of very nice people who remove motors for you. I never appreciated it until now. When I see the owner outside I always ask before I take and always leave it nicer than I found it. Thank you. I’m still learning how to rule out fiberglass mistaking it for aluminum. In due time.
Good for you I’m 62 years old and I have been doing this for at least 40 years it’s a great saving account
One year sold all my scrap and moved to Alaska from the $10,000 I made from my scrap yard
Don’t forget to clean your scrap you make way more much money if you take that little bit of time so proud of you girl friend 💪💪😄
💪💪YOU GO GIRL
And thanks for cleaning up the environment 🌎
@@susanhafner6906 Thank you, I just learned how to clean copper! I look back at all my “should have dones” and I wish I did it differently. I’m learning and have an appreciation for all scrappers. Over here they are definitely frowned upon unfortunately. I loved to hear your story and I’m happy for you!
@@TuliTuli_ The difference when you realise, it just kills the money you could have were it not for that tiny bit of plastic or brass. Gutting, but good knowledge once known
@@AnthonyCarey that is so true!definitely not all the motors I found come from driers. I still have a grocery bag of change I found from all the driers in my garage! Thank you for pointing that out
@@AnthonyCarey aah I’m picking up what your putting down. Lol still a novice. I really do appreciate your time to share this with me
I started about a month ago, after speaking to a lot of the guys that do this daily I learned a lot! I was throwing everything in the bailing tin, now i separate all my metals and make about $200 a day after gas
Quick update, prices for all metals have dropped close to 40% at my local yard, now my $60 trips have turned into $30 trips
@@speakingfacts5332that's because free America wants us broke.
Im not a scrapper or anything, I just find the content super interesting and youve got a great personality so I thoroughly enjoy your show!
Thank you so much for being here, you’ve been checking in for basically as long as I have! 💙
Steel or tin is the bread and butter. But I enjoy processing things on a cold winter day in the shop to get the more precious metals. It can be calming and I get to learn how things are made and how they work. And it's a nice little bonus at the end of the year when you've built up enough of those metals to actually bring in and not get laughed at. I've actually made a significant amount of money on insulated wire! Love your videos Thub!
For sure, nothing wrong with taking things apart just for the fun of it! The money is nice too 😆
So should we save all our tuna cans, etc??
@@Chris-em2qc I do just because it's easy and stuff I already paid for. Not gonna see any real money out of it but it keeps it out of the landfill and is a few more pennies back in my pocket.
@@Chris-em2qcdo your best to see them recycled properly, but storing that stuff seems crazy to me
I’m in my mid 50’s and retired and I just started scrapping. Subscribed. Thanks.
You are a True Godsend my friend!!👌🏽 Scrapping was my first hustle/job, as a kid I started collecting cans at 3 years old and copper around 7. I've been landscaping and just recently started picking up odds and ends on the road to rekindle my love for scrapping only as a small side hustle/hobby. After watching your videos religiously this past week, I'm most definitely rethinking my whole angle of attack with re-entry to this field, Indubitably Inspired by your content, wisdom, insight and overall Good Vibes you operate with. Thank You So Very Much!! You are the type of person making the world a better place... Utmost Respect & Most Deepest Appreciation 💯🏆🎯♻️👑
Leave it better than you found it, do not cherry pick, provide a garbage free product to your yard and general respect for personal property…these are things that some of the other RUclips scrappers need to learn, your channel should be a must watch for them! Keep up the good work!👍
Thanks so much! I don’t want to come across as telling people what to do, just trying to be a positive influence to the industry
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Yup the cleaner the better. ❤
I made about 800 last week! I offloaded about 100 pounds of copper before the price took a nosedived . Almost a ton of steel . 2 transmissions and 40 rotors! Ready to get back out for more.
Yeah the price did soften a bit didn’t it.. shoulda sold some of mine earlier lol
@RuckusBernal light and sign companies . Heating and air, auto mechanics, and medical companies . Specifically mobile MRI companies. Making 1500-2000 a week now!
Great videos! I have broadened my scrap metal knowledge off these and have actually made it where each truck load is now $150+ per trip rather than $60-80 that I used to average
Beauty 😊
That's great, it highlights how knowledge is power and how you can use it to you benefit yourself and your family....
Peace, power and freedom to you and yours.
How often do you do trips?
I think scrapping is different for everyone. I’m retired and love scrapping for fun money. I never take labor into my equation. It is pure entertainment
The most overlooked thing scrapping is dryers. I take them completely apart and get over a hundred dollars a year in change, sometimes paper money, and lots of gold and silver jewlery.
Liked your explanation on steel being so important, I came about things differently. I started magnet fishing last summer and getting only steel of course. Then started seeing stuff dumped on shore and picked that up. Eventually, I start picking up along side roads and now dumpsters and I’m now sorting things and getting more cash for my effort. Come spring my bread and butter with be steel from magnet fishing. There is so much steel in the waterways
I'm 61, I have been a scrapper since gradeschool, this video is spot on. Keep doing the thing.
Very well done sir. Nice that you touched on the proper way to do thing out there. I scored a few 800 Volt fuses, silver plated copper bars. 3 of them weighed 10.3lbs. Not making me rich but a nice treasure.
Those are decent for sure! I just got a couple big fuses too, I think those are just simple bits of brass though
One of the best scrapping channels on youtube.
I appreciate your Spirit and Personality. Thanks for sharing your passion and your knowledge. You are genuine and the real thing with Good Heart.
I don't think I've ever actually scrapped a bed frame, to me they're a useful resource, and thicker sheet steel. I work a fulltime job and make several thousand dollars a year scrapping, always learning new ways to maximize my profits. I've learned a lot from you, thanks!
The steel is my bread and butter, all the non-ferrous just collects in buckets until I have a substantial load.
New subscriber..... although I'm knowledgeable on some of this all ready, it's great to here other peoples take on things and how they do things.....
Peace, power and freedom to you and yours brother.
I like how you share information to teach others. I know the scrap metal business well. I made a living hauling scrap for several years. I started off with no knowledge of the business at all. Before long I knew all I needed to know to turn my loads into huge profit. My scrap yard would call me to ask if I could help them fill their quotas each week. I never took anything to sell without fully processing and separating the grades and types. Sometimes a load would pay before I ever made it to the yard. Once I found a huge pile of coin op washers and dryers dumped in the woods. While loading them I noticed one still had some coins in it. At this point I decided to inspect each unit. Lucky for me I did. Nearly $400 in change before the load hit the scales.
So is steel worth scrapping? I figured the fuel it takes to haul it would cost as much as the steel you're scrapping.
@@randybobandy9828 the yard I sell my scrap to pays good for just about any metal. Shred mix is what I make most of my money from. Shred is just a mix of all types of metals in general. I've been paid up to $10.50 per 100 pounds for shred.
Thank you for making these videos. I've learned how to make so much more on my scrap runs since I found your channel.
I’m so glad to hear that! I was hoping they were helping 😄
That thing is mint. I got the same one from the dump. Changed the diaphram and it sounds just like that. 👍
I am subscribing to your Channel after about 45 seconds. You start off with number one. You're actually trying to help people.
Thank you! I try to keep the total screen time down and focus on what value I’m creating for the viewer. Not to say I always nail it but that’s what I’m hoping for haha
Totally agree on volume, if I’m not making 1k a week from picking up steel the trailer isn’t full. That’s the bread and butter, pays the bills. Non ferrous metals are my “play money”, holidays, new tools, night out etc. Great content, keep it up!
Cheers from Down Under 👍😎🇦🇺
Took me a long time to understand how the volumes flow but it’s pretty consistent. Nice to have a consistent form of play money though!
Check the Dryers out if they sound like they have make noise. I found seven dollars in change and a gold necklaces in one.
For knife makers - most bed frames are very high carbon steel
In Ontario and just started this week. Got 2 days in and ready to go to scrap yard Monday. Vids are awesome. Thanks
Well, another vijayo from my fave Canadian scrapper on one of the two nights I still run my route - I saved on this for an hour or so, gonna watch it now, hope I learn something, and then go hit the trash myself. Will comment again after watching. Thubs up! 👍🏻
#4 silica steel -I did not know that, but I have just started busting motors apart for the copper so I haven’t wasted too much money. Thanks Drake!
Hope you had a good run Vince! Yeah it was an interesting thing to learn, but I haven’t found a buyer around me that has a price listed for it
@@thubprint Friday nights are usually better than this one, is all I will say. : |
Been doing this stuff for a while. I got into it around 07 on the side just like you copper etc then got to looking for more ways to cash in and ran across a steel yard that was paying for it. So what I did from then out was educate and collect more. Still Collecting if you stay steady at it, it pays as good as as a full time job with less hours and hassle
In Winnipeg one plant offers 35 cents on stove elements before the current copper increase. They have steel rollers that break the wire off. Very good clip with a 25% thumbs up.
Bedframes can be great for fabbing, angle is stout. When TSHTF happens all the scrap will be a lot more important and valuable. Notice I said "when", not If. I love the phrase "Leave it better than you found it" .
Yeah man I have stacks of those bed frame rails, definitely great material for fab projects. Forgive me though, what is it that you are referring to in the abbreviation?
The Sh*t hits the fan duh.. got it.. directly after...lol.. shouldn't have smoked my breakfast
I loved washers with stainless tubs. Especially at luandry mats. Then i made a simple stand from bed frames with my little harbor freight welder and cut off tool from recycling copper wiring. Mostly all my power tools were bought from scrapping, and made my tear down time fast!
The attractive thing about cast iron is the density, and the coil inside the elements is usually nichrome, at 80% nickel and 20% chrome.
From St. Louis, Missouri, USA here an new at this scrapping thing and i just wanted to say thanks to u and your videos, only just started watching them but we are learning some great advice!! So thank you again!! Oh an i love your hair!! 😁
Thanks I'm learning and super glad there's others that love being recyclers.
Came looking for quality information on scrapping and this is goes above and beyond
My brother is an awesome scrapper..... you are 100% correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS 13 WHEN I HAULED MY FIRST LOAD 6 CHEVY V8s
IN A TRAILER MY DAD TOOK ME DOWN 1966 ABD I STILL HAVE THE TRAILER TO THIS DAY
That’s a well built trailer 😁
I appreciate your honesty and what you say is definitely the truth 😊
appliances are always my favorite, usually easy to get into and pull the wire out along with motors/transformers
The only exception I find there is dishwashers. The motors are much more time consuming to remove from them so I consider them not worth the effort to separate.
@@keithhaycraft3765 i just smack them with a hammer, pops right off, my yard wont take the washers themselves if theyre plastic so its worth ny time just grabbing the motor
I hope you know you are the best scrap RUclipsr, period. You make great content and the formula of your videos is perfect, also every video has stuff for beginners and advanced scrappers, please never stop making videos. Even if you get really busy or something, just occasionally post a video. Love ya
☺️thank you so much! I’ll be here for as long as I can put together videos haha
Not sure about advanced "scrappers" but certainly for beginners etc. and puts out good video's.
I like Tom, from iscrap, here on RUclips. Direct from his scrap yard in New Jersey.
I’ve got a few jiffy lubes and other car repair places that sit them by the dumpster for scrappers to pick up
Your right about the brake rotors , I found over 30 , but didn’t know to separate them and just dumped them smh
In my humble opinion, this video is one of your top 5. Thank you, keep up the good work.....I'm
Thank you!
I get your point about cherry picking scrap and I am well aware that the real money is in the steel. Now as I am better off financially and own a vehicle as well as a trailer scrapping steel isnt a impossiblity nor is collecting the cherries. However, if your honest as a scrapper most of us didn't exactly get into it because we liked it better than being a doctor. Usually people start scraping for lack of a better option and if they hoof it long enough tying shopping carts together, talking and helping other scrapers they soon learn the ins and outs finding in the interm that there can be real money in it. However, when said scrapper lives on the streets or is poor with no vehicle, living hand to mouth just trying to stay out of trouble I say chery pick away, when you ain't got nothing what the heck else can you do? If your lucky and you work hard and save perhaps you can get to the point where you just bid on scrap piles at demos, cleanups etc.. hire yourself a couple cash hands sit ass and collect the cheddar.
If you look it up..a lot of heating elements in Water heaters and other things have a decent amount of Iridium in them and sometimes a whole wire of it. And last i check Iridium was over a couple hundred dollars for just a little bit.
I immediately liked the guy
[no homo]
and everything about him really sets this shoe apart.
The authenticity of a scrap yard experience was a wonderful finish.
My experience was similar, ssns the cheerful and accepting attitude that followed.
Thanks for all, man!
You're advice is very wise. The Tao of Scrapping: Leave it Better than When You Found It
I so agree with you. I am a woman and it has came so easy to me. Others they have truck loads and get nothing. I have made 3hundred in a car . I wish I knew you I'm still learning and people give the wrong information. I'll keep watching
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ITS BEST TO DO STUFF FOR BEGINNERS AS REGULAR SCRAPPERS WILL BE SET IN THEIR WAYS
You are much much fun to watch. I love this channel ❤
Great content, looking over my spreadsheets, I may have a good payday with copper etc but it happens only every couple of months, but the steel is repetitive and constant
You keep spreadsheets? I bet that’s neat to look over and compare
I've always profited from aluminum scrap. Imo, copper, aluminum, brass, car batteries and a couple catalytic converters along with your steel scrap imo really boost cash flow. Appliances, I stripped the copper out and the electric motors out of Appliances to make more cash, hot water tanks have brass and wire to separate from the tank and earn more cash.
Hard drive magnets are a nice touch!
Aluminum siding was the first thing I ever scrapped!! My brother was a siding mechanic!
Steel is the most prevalent product on the curb! Spot on sir!
It’s definitely where most of my scrap money comes from for sure
Cheers thub, really appreciate you taking one for the team! 😁
Hello Thub.
You are right about steel, not much for the lbs but it does add up in a hurry. I use microwaves and cumputer chassi as buckets and they do get heavy. When I go to the scrapyard I take off the steel money for fuel.
I think it was Paul that coined the phrase,,, Steel is Real.
I use to scrap an I picked up everything you talked about. I'm disable in a wheelchair and I haven't scrapped in awhile. I have picked up some bed frames over time an I drilled out the rivets and piled up the angle iron next to my work bench. I use to scrap them.
I keep them for angle iron now
I’ve seen a number of people who’ve done cool things with bed frames! It’s nice to find a really common source for such a useful material
I know exactly what you mean I used to collect scrap to weight in but keep now for fear that if I scrap it I'll definitely need it for something or other next week
I mean, collecting the precious metals to extract them is more of a hobby that could pay off in time. Using a heat gun helps in separating the board. Im getting ready to try my first extraction with vinegar just to see how difficult it is or isnt. Thanks for the video.
I'm the guy that told you transformer iron was worth a lot more. I could've sworn scrap yards in town used to measure them differently. Oh well, good to have that confirmed that they are a much higher grade, just not locally. A shame.
I don't think scrap yards want us to know about it.
I’m really glad you pointed it out! I do wish I’d been able to get the higher price, but it’s unlikely I’ll fill many bins with the stuff anyhow
furniture. specifically recliners. once you are familiar with how to remove the steel unit about six to ten screws usually the larger number three robertson and phillips, with a couple lag type hex heads. a drill and bit with long extensions, socket adapters, 3lb hammer, snips or the original vice grips. the first time it might take several minutes and feel like a pain in the butt but once you know the basic points of connection it might take two minutes. it helps to bring a rope to tie it shut because it will want to spring open all the time, get hung up on other pieces and take up a lot of room.
everyone tends to leave these tasty morsels because they feel its complicated. lots of work or never even thought about it, i feel you have to try and your counting in pennies and nickels and dimes anyways. figure theyre about 50-70 lbs of steel for the good ones. me i save a lot of the bolts, nuts, screws, washers, tubing, and springs to use in other projects.
welp just thought id add that. keep up the good work!
Great video bro, I use a Honda accord to do my scrapping so I keep things under 5 feet long and heavy metal.
I like how you referenced food! Classic!
Hey man! Thanks for another great and informative video! It sucks that different scrap yards are different. I brought a bunch of double insulated wire in today separated from a bunch cat 7 cables thinking I’d get a higher price for the car 7…. Nope all went as insulated wire on receipt for .96 usd
Yeah I don’t bother separating the cat5 anymore, I used to get #2 for everything but now it’s all #3 so it’s not worth the effort
In the uk the majority the scrap yards will not take the refrigerators as they contain CFC’s and they have to have the gas professionally evacuated. Thanks for showing us this great information. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧….phil
Thanks for saying hi! You’re absolutely right about the refrigerants, scrapping things gets tricky when environmental laws are involved
Always leave it better than u found it. Great prospective. Us army teaches u that day one thru retirement. If more people did, the world would be a perfect place.
Kool, it's good to know I been scrapping right 😊, I scrap all he's mentioned and more
6:40 Thank you for saying this. I'm new & needed to hear this!
Just sharing my experience! It’s still a personal journey, not out to judge people
Great video and the shared the information. I always enjoy. Thank you for sharing 👍
The stove elements are nickel-chromium(Nichrome) rods coated with a few different materials depending on manufacturer and purpose.
I can really relate. My local council cancelled their annual cleanups because people would ferret through cleanup piles on the sidewalk and leave a disasterous mess. These stupid people not only spoiled it for themselves but for all the responsible pickers. It literally takes 30 seconds to return a cleanup pile to a neat, ordered state so why not do it to insure your own ongoing ability to collect items of value?
Though it's not usually enforced, It is also technically illegal here to collect from council cleanups (despite the entirety going straight to landfill through the offical collectors). You can ask permission of the home owner but that's not always an easy thing to do when people are still asleep or not home so it is even more important not to anger the people who put out the things you make money from.
The cord-cutters, too, were infuriating. I know a guy who collects washers and dryers for repair. A lot of the machines have minor issues which he easily fixed. A cord-cutter was doing the rounds, making my friend's job near impossible. For the sake of a few cents of copper, entire appliances were going to landfill since rewiring the cord often pushed the machines from profitable to not.
Scrappers get a bad reputation from the minority who are shooting themselves, and everyone else, in the foot. I totally agree with you, my friend. "Leave it better than you found it."
I see so many people put tvs out so that people can take the TV and some a hole comes around, cuts the cord off, and then smashes the screen and takes the boards. Just leaves a smashed tv and glass at the end of someones driveway.
You stay outa my siding bins lol! That’s my bonus after I dump them haha
I take anything metal. I'll take the handle off a mop, lol.
I'm doing $300-400/month just on steel. Got a pile of wires and brass building up. It's a fun little hobby
Love in it thub!! U da man bro! Very nice vids lately!! Pittsburgh pa here!!u said it right VOLUME!!
Nice! I’m an 18 year vet of non ferrous at EMR and two years ago became a buyer at another yard in Houston. I’ve also been the “alloy guy” the whole time.
The elements you want are from heaters. They’re called HW6015. They look like springs, are non magnetic and you’re going to need three barrels of them with no wires or insulators to get decent money.
I’m just saying you’re correct that heavy lifting, separating, and cleaning items make you more money than yanking an a/c or catalytic converter (don’t do either).
Well I wasn’t gonna come out and SAY IT say it, but yes lol 😂 ripping someone off is pigeon behaviour, but there’s decent money to be made if you can get the weight. Thanks for the inside scoop on the heater wires! It would definitely take a long long time to save up enough to move the scales with those
I was kinda hoping to find out what that wire running through the stove top elements is. I have a handful and they're relatively soft for the amount of heat they handle. I have a nearby yard that can scan it but just haven't remembered to bring them in.
I’m glad you looked it up and shared that it’s nichrome, I missed an opportunity to make a dedicated video on them but at the same time I’m not sure it would change much for most scrappers
I was born in Holmewood, Bradford, England. It has a reputation for scrapping. They is even a film about teenage scrappers one of the actors is from Holmewood. I have always gone around everywhere with my snippers. I do work another day job. I used to live in a block of flats and I would go around the flats in the morning and after work and also in the evening. It paid for our family holiday.
When I was a about 12-13 long time ago we went to the military shooting range and cleaned up years worth of brass shells and raked the sand slope at the end of the range for the copper/lead bulletheads. Got around $150 for a hard days work, wich was good money. Would have gotten way more if melted the copper and lead into separate piles. 100pounds of copper at least. That alone would have given me around $390 with todays prizes.
Great channel dude. I havent really considered scrapping for ages and have probably given away several hundred dollars woth of scrap my self. But considering it as a side hustle. Do a little metal detecting as a hobby and morally obliged to take with me junk metal I find. So I practice that "Leave it better than you found it" advice. Greatest, silent and boomer generations just dug down or left their broken stuff in nature for it to rust away I guess.
I used to remanufacture Laser toner Cartridges and the drums the laser rights on are aluminum and the mag sleeves are to. Some of the drums are solid alluminum. Usually around 2 inches wide and 10 to 12 inches long so they can add up and the cartridges are usually pretty easy to take apart especially if you are not wanting to reuse them . In fact just to give yal another income venue ....most toner cartridges in laser printers and copiers are worth something to someone because many remanufactures are looking yo buy the used ones. If they are OEM then you can get anywhere from 8 bucks to as much as 50 bucks each abd some places will have hundreds of printers. Its worth looking into. When I did it i was making about 5 to 600 extra a year on the drums and then just on the cartridges that we didnt remanufacture and that was usually because we would only have 1 or 2 customers using certain printers so we just sold them new ones as getting all the stuff to remanufacture then just wasnt cost effective. We might only selk a few of them a year but out there somewhere is a place with a 100 of those printers and they need the empties.Some cartridges can only be remaned 2 or 3 times do to there design. Id make a couple thousand twice a year selling them off. Paid for xmas and a nice vacation!
I'm feeling the wet hair down, dry hair up lol. I do it every day. I use my car vents to act like a blow dryer on my way to work everyday and I just toss it up when I get there. That was interesting. I didn't even think about heating elements as potential scrap. Frankly I didn't realize they were metal. I always thought they were some type of ceramic or something like that. Another really informative one. Thanks Thub for leaving my day better than you found it!!!
Always a pleasure 😊
Omg! Yes! Yes! Yes! This is soooooo true! It took me a while learning eaven after seeing this video, but im finally figureing it out. This IS a fact and all need to see this vid. I wish i listned sooner. Maybe you could do somewhat of a remake to help get this word out. 👍
Finally, an answer to "cord cutters". Your answer expresses my reaction to this practice. For a nickle or a dime, a cord cutter makes the whole item unattractive to anyone except the garbage man. As you say, if someone doesn't really want the whole item, leave looking good for someone else. Also, give yourself a lot of praise for running things with an eye to business returns, and for having dedication to what you do.
Thank you! Just trying to be a positive influence. I’m actually surprised these days at how little the bins of wire are worth compared to the rest of the work
i hugely disagree with this ive been scrapping for years and cord cutting is only frowned on by people that dont get there first thats the reality of it if you leave the stuff neat after there is no issue with it and stacking it up in a bin in the back is worth it if you dont have the space to rip things apart dont need the garbage deduction
The best way of making money scrapping is to take all you can get. If you have the space and area to strip things down. Move the tin and light steel as soon as possible. Stock pile your brake rotors and drums, copper wiring and pipes, brass anything, and car batteries. Any appliance you get take the time to strip down. Just pull the easy copper, motors, and compressors off of them and stock pile them and move out the tin and lighter metals asap. Haul in your stock piles when you reach about a ton in weight ( for heavy steel and batteries) and a couple hundred pounds of the none ferrous metals. II never haul in a load that isn't worth $500+ It has to be worth you time, and fuel to do it.
I sure appreciate these knowledgable (dang getting the dictionary, ah yes) knowledgeable videos!
Tin has a melting point of 232°C, so I seriously doubt it would be used in a heating element. Tungsten perhaps.
That’s an excellent point.. I really wish he’d just grabbed the xrf
Heating elements are made from Nichrome a very resistive wire.
Yeah Tin would be weird, unless the guy meant "tin" as in sheet steel. Nichrome wire or tungsten is a good bet, and either one is worth a good amount. Nichrome heating elements are like 65% Nickel. If you bust up those coils and calrods, be careful of the dust from the ceramic in them, it's probably super bad for lungs.
Nichrome is also used as the main type of heating element in atomizers in ecigs.
Fun exercise: blow heaters have Ni-Cr wire coiled inside as their heating elements. If you take an old one apart and pull the wire straight, you can connect it to a 12volt supply and use it to cut polystyrene sheets.
Very good video! I did the same with all types av heating elemnts. Saved up a box and took it to the boss of chred here in Sweden. His explanation to the price was, yes good stuff, but its mixed up so it still will be the mixed steel price. Just lika a bike or so. Not the lowest grade but for me they now go in the iron/mix paper box. And YES collect all you find when scrappjng. Its a big value making good while you earn good money. Nature is what we came from. Always pay back. Have a nice day, Sir!
Nice pointing those things out !!!; )
Excellent list!!! Thanks! I definitely learn tons of information from you, and I really appreciate it! Thank you!!!
Great video brother. Some salvage I never thought of. I really like appliances to tear down and sperate the different metals. I like the way you think brother.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Some of your high-end heating elements like from your laboratory furnaces and foundries are an alloy called Kanthal ( that may be misspelled). The lower end ones are often copper nickel.
Thank you so much 💝💝💝💝
I do a little scrapping and if you take these appliances apart and take your time and scrap it right you make alot more in my opinion but it does take longer but depending on what your scrapping weight might be the best way to go but it depends on how much and what you have in my opinion
In my area automotive cast like rotors and drums are $30 over prepared, and prepared is $50 over unprepared
Thanks for the chat Thub and I do agree with the sentiment regarding cherry picking. Still, there are some who have no way of handling or transporting larger quantities and so are limited to carrying cutters and clipping cords..
Absolutely. I didn’t want to come off as judgemental or unfair, but I did want to share how much of a difference it makes when going after the whole piece
Hey man I love watching your videos but those funky shaped heating elements that you had, the u-shaped thingy and the circular thingy, I believe came off of an induction forge.
You do good young fawn. I appreciate you 😊
Iv literally taken a month and a half off just to scrap and made 7000. Steel is everywhere and people are happy your taking stuff away
That’s a great turnout, nicely done!!
Yes I used to do windows and siding and keep all the scrap and I actually had a little over a ton and got 1000 and some change when I finally took it in