We just brought our bottles back from a year of 4 families saving them and we had 7750 bottles and cans for $387.50 in returnable so we had a pig roast!
that's nice to be able to save something like that and do something like that, makes it all worth it, I took the wife out to a few yard sales today. she had fun
I collect cans almost everyday to some degree sometimes morning to night if Its my days off from my warehouse job at Amazon, I found a place in Indiana that gives 86 cents a pound which is better than what Ohio pays (roughly 47 cents a pound) so i take them over there....I'm at 400 lbs again and about to turn them in, the key is having a lot of places that are a consistent source of cans for example the 5 apartment complexes within walking distance of me for a total of 47 dumpsters plus my brother works at the Ford plant and brings me bags and bags of cans that workers throw away which helps....I also run an ebay business and on occasion a flea market stand...America is truly the land of opportunity if you're not lazy and willing to work hard....
sounds like you have it going on. 400 lbs. that's a lot of cans. I need to get motivated and start running an add for metal. but trying to make room at this time. and not enough hours in a day
Pro tip. If you take that piece of metal off your tailgate make sure you lubricate all the linkages for opening the gate. You could always try to get a plastic piece that was originally there also. I don't know how much it would cost. If you tip the barrel down and put it on the ground sideways they will pick up much quicker because you do not have to move them as far.
@@Okiescrapper starting to used 330gal totes that our spray chem comes in to store can and wire in. Prob put every thing on ebay to sell instead of messing with scrap yard.
@@MrsBuddevil Might sell my whole stash. I been hoarding on cans and alumn and copper for over 25+ yrs. Hell two 550gal spray tanks holds a shit load of smash cans.
In Norway we get 23cent per can or plastic bottle when we return them to the store. When you buy an soda the 23cent is charged on top of the price of the soda. So basically you get your 23cent back when you return the cans or plastic bottles.
trash bags go bad and break apart, and I have open top cages but the wind would scatter them all over the yard so I built this, this is the second time that I have dumped it, I do need to make some kind of door latch on the left door so I don't have to hold it
@@Okiescrapper yeah they do plus my oldest dog thinks thier hers to lay in so she ripped all the bag's open and made herself a can play/sleep area good thing I keep them in my spare car garage lol
Surprised you don't crush the cans so they take up less space. As a kid when we collected cans, we always Crushed them.... after adding a generous handfull of Dirt to each one....... :0)
takes time and more work I used to crush them, I don't think that I could lift the cage if they were all crushed, I would have to mount the cage to a trailer and it may take 5 to 10 years to fill it
I put in a fair amount of effort into recycling these cans as well, I crush mine, a good big garbage can full gets me like $5... Doesn't seem worth it, I find it hard to believe you got that much out of that cage, especially uncrushed, but hey good deal.
I live in Duncan Oklahoma. Our recycling center closed a few yrs ago. I have many many many pop cans. No offense but way more than what you just did. Mine are all crushed and put into 55 gallon heavy duty bags. I enjoyed this video because it gave me an idea of the going price. Not long ago it was 48 cents a pound in Lawton. I dont have a truck big enough to take all of my bags lol I dont even have a car lol
other yards may be paying more, not sure, keep saving the price should go up, about 18 months ago they were down to 20 cents, they will need a lot of aluminum to build all the electric cars they want to build in the next few years
yeah I thought I would add that, I don't think that I could have gotten a good angle with the camera, I was in the way or the other guy, but it got the idea out there. I need to make a latch on the left door so I don't have to hold it
The place I take my cans to here in san diego, if you have a ton of them like that, they bring over a giant bin, and if they can help dump them out with their machine they do. I seen people fill up the bin twice, and end up with a ton of money. Without a commercial account, we are limited to 100 lbs of cans a day.
I'm a big fan. Nice! can cage I wish we would get paid more here in NY. I still end up with plenty that don't have deposit on them. Standard has been .30 cents a pound. Most scrap yards here turn their nose up at them, or try to give you dirty aluminum. Finally found one that would pay more, but even then it's not that much more. 🙄
nice price I need to check around and find out who else buy's cans and what kind of price the pay, where I took them is close to home about 15 miles, but they lack in the paying area they are low on price most of the time
I used to put them in bags and the sun would dry them out. so I started putting the bags into the semi trailer and they still dried out and rotted, so I went to wire cages with no tops and can's would be all over the yard every time the wind got up, so I built this
I have a good size pile of lawnmower motors to melt so any aluminum that I can clean I do and sell it that way for now, that may change when I get aluminum ingot sales going
Wooow good load of those cans :) you may make a wall around your house from them :) i too collecting alu cans sometimes i melting them into "medals' on my channel sometimes i get them in $crap yard! (Last weight alu cans was 28kg) Greetings from CZECH Scrapping channel!!!
I hope to get more time to do some melting soon, my add runs one more month then things should slow down and I can do some projects around here, and I have some vacation time to use, I need to clean the tip on my waste oil burner, I just subbed to you I will check out some of your videos, have a big load to go after this am. take care and happy scrapping
Honestly it would have been easier on you if they would have brought you 2 yellow dump hoppers to the right of your truck. By the looks of it you could have backed right over it and opened your door pouring cans right into it. Great video either way #happyscrapping
over here in spain the last time i took my cans in they were only paying 30c a kilo.. much less than the USA :( I´ve got a trailer load saved up to make it worth my time.
@@Okiescrapper OK. I crush mine as I collect them, save them in wheelie bins then take them to the scrap yard in the trailer, they tip them out for me. 60 pence a kilo here in England. Thanks .
you don't get more money if they are crushed, they pay by weight, by crushing you may get more weight in the same space but 30 cents a lb. is 30 cents a lb. no matter how you slice it
yeah I know they take can's, I am not sure who else takes them, I don't think Metal Check takes them any more, I will have to check around before I get it filled again
I like the cage idea. You ever thought about saving the tabs from the cans and melting them in one of your furnaces? I just bought a ToAuto furnace and thinking about melting the tabs and make small ingots out of them.
I may start saving the tabs it would make a good video, but I have a lot of lawnmower motors that I can melt and a bunch still on the mower, I plan to start going through them when I get retired, that will be soon,
Here in New Brunswick CANADA we pay 10 cents a can or plastic bottle and get 5 cents back and the other 5 cents are divided up to the redemption center 3 cents and 2 cents to the trucking ..looking at the amount you had I estimate you would have had around $200.00 here .
Container deposit here. But the year before that came in I got a load in, all crushed, which filled 3 wool bags and then some [ those generally white bags and they clip the flappy tops with a metal clip to close them ], and the scrap yard guy was going, " Crikey that's a lot of cans " as they just kept coming out of the shopping bags into the wool bags. They did not bale or briquette them, but just as is in the wool bags for big rig transport. I did not see that but I know that was the modus.
I used bed frame angle iron, I made it wide enough to fit between the wheel well's on my Colorado pickup truck, and just over 6 feet long, and the height of a cattle panel, made a small door on the top to dump can's in and made double doors on the end for emptying, I welded the cattle panels onto the angle and zip tied chicken wire onto the cattle panels
some states have .5 or .10 cent deposit on can's but not Oklahoma, I remember when I was a kid in Washington State, there was a deposit on bottles and we would gather them up for candy money
I started saving cans (I'm anti-liter) when I first got with my partner 5 years ago. I had a couple 50gal trash barrels, big black trash bags, and more than I can count of little grocery sacks full. He said I wouldn't even get enough to cover the gas it took to drive there and back to turn them in. (For some reason, He didn't seem to comprehend that I wasn't saving his beer cans to make money but because I'm Pro-Healthy Environment) He started complaining that my little collection was starting to make our yard look trashy, plus from time to time I had the issue with the wind blowing them EVERYWHERE so, I made a little round cage (approx 3' x 7.5"H) from some spare fencing we had laying around. I barely got through transferring my mess of little grocery bags before I realized this is not going to be big enough to store all my cans plus who knows how many more I would collect or how long I'd be collecting them. So I decided to crush them. I bought a cheap little crusher from HB but it broke less than 100cans so I threw them on the ground and started crushing them with my foot. Boy, that was hard work and would have taken me atleast a year straight so I had this bright idea to use his truck 😂 but I thought uh-oh if it would have injured one of his gigantic 20in tires... So I threw them onto 1/2 side of a big tarp then covered it up with the other half and then went to town running the cans over. Hehe.. it took just a few hours to crush all of them like that. I did have to make a second little cage if I planned to continue to collect, but I got them all in the first one. Now, I make sure to crush them as I go or I toss them in a 5 gal bucket and stick with my personal rule to crush them before going over 5gals.
Btw.. about a month ago he asked if I wanted to ride with him to the scrap yard(it's almost a hour there so I assume he wasn't wanting to ride solo) I said, sure but only under 1 condition. If you let me bring the cans. (Lol) I'll even pay for the gas. He agreed (not happily though). It took the both of us plus mustering up strength we didn't know we had to get that first cage loaded into the back of the truck. (It was cute.. his little mad attitude he had.. now that I think back on that moment I was giggling so hard on the inside for 1. Because after 5 years he was driving me to turn in the cans that he had always said was pointless plus watching him have to work harder than he had planned too) I ended up earning 56 bucks off my 5 years of trying to make the World a better place(OKAY... I'll admit I did get some sort of (unhealthy) satisfaction from seeing how irritated it made him every time I'd rob cans from friends' trash, or yell out, " wait stop the truck" so I could pick up cans I seen on the side of the road.). I even filled the tank up being the nice gal that I am. But little did he know I probably used close to a tank almost 5 years prior on my crushing project. (But he gave half of what he made on those car converter things. I forgot what they are called. So now that I think of it.. I made a WIN-WIN plus a WIN on that deal. ✔️Save Earth ✔️Turned in collection ✔️A good guy that will put up with my silliness.
yeah the last time I took them in they were paying .20 a lb. and I had 120 lbs. and got $30.00. I need to check a few yards that I have never been to and see if they take cans and what they pay
I wonder if they took a hole saw and punched a bunch of holes out of those drums the yard was catching the cans in I never seen a barrel look like that
I think that is what they did. makes them lighter and they can see what is in the barrel, most people bring them in trash bags, so they dump them into the barrels
no they sell good as is, I have a pile of cast aluminum that has steel bolts or sleeves in them that are impossible to get clean, like lawnmower motors weed eater motors stuff like that. so no shortage of stuff to melt,
If you could flatten those they would fit in a couple big garbage bags.... that's what I do, way easier tk store and transport, I run em over with the riding lawn mower and crush em lol we get 10cents a can for alcoholic cans so I gotta seperate
Yea, I get that smashing them after the fact would take a while, but Smashing them right after you drink them would be a good idea. I got a 50 pound can smasher (a solid steel rod welded to a steel pate I used to use for smashing cans. Every morning I would hear a "Thump, Thump" that was my dad smashing the empty cans of Mt. Dew I drank the night before. This went on for years, until I stopped drinking soda. I now invert it and use it for Compacting copper wire into a PVC Pipe to make copper "Nuggets" for melting in my furnace. Works very well.
time smashing cans or the same time cleaning copper, one has to be done for a better price, the cage full of smashed cans would be to heavy to lift into the truck as it would weigh over 1000 lbs.
takes time and more work I used to crush them, I don't think that I could lift the cage if they were all crushed, I would have to mount the cage to a trailer and it may take 5 to 10 years to fill it
That's y I don't do cans look at all them cans you got 50 dollars just works few hours that's crazy that's nothing today not even pay for the gas to take it.
most of my can come from our own use, and the yard I took them to is 15 miles away so came out a little ahead, yards in the city may have paid better. but not a lot of money in aluminum
40 cent a pound is not worth it, here in California its $1.75 a pound for cans and $1.20 a pound for plastic bottles, however selling shred the prices suck compared on what you all are getting.
that is great if you can get them free, if you buy soda in them you are paying it up front, but then How much do I pay of the can when I buy some soda, but a guy may make a killing if you had a good place to trash pick them
132 lbs is 2112 ounces, is 59,126 grams, divided by 14.9 gms. /can avg. is 3,969 cans times 5 cents/can is ~$198.40 if returned instead of recycled. hmmmmmmmm
@@Okiescrapper I'm betting you've got that figured out to the mile already, boss. My comment was more for those who live near a deposit state, where they could take the wife over the border to do some shopping, and have the savings pay for it, including the costs of driving.
@@johnrice4307 some states dont have have a crv deposit. If you take them to a state that offer crv, but the cans you bring are not originated from that states it's considered fraud and you can go to jail for it.
and if you had bought all them beverages you would break even, and how is it a waste of time?, are you saying that I should have just tossed them into the trash? at least this way I made a few bucks
some of them were crushed but not many, crushing them takes time and more work I used to crush them, I don't think that I could lift the cage if they were all crushed, I would have to mount the cage to a trailer and it may take 5 to 10 years to fill it and would be a bit harder to unload,
We just brought our bottles back from a year of 4 families saving them and we had 7750 bottles and cans for $387.50 in returnable so we had a pig roast!
Container deposit of 5 cents per container.
that's nice to be able to save something like that and do something like that, makes it all worth it, I took the wife out to a few yard sales today. she had fun
@@jonglewongle3438 yes my kids were surprised we collected that many
thats a great idea Tina. cheers
Same here Michigan
You are the only scrapper l have seen in a video who saves cans. Enjoyed the video
it all adds up took over a year to fill the cage. but easy money
That’s what I was thinking when I was watching.
The can cage is a great idea! Beats plastic bags.
that's for sure, the sun will dry out a bag in a hurry, and even if you keep them in a shady place they will rot away
I use plastic I hat plastic. I need to make a bin like this1
Thanks for your time you take for making these videos.
My pleasure! thought you might like to see how my cage worked
I collect cans almost everyday to some degree sometimes morning to night if Its my days off from my warehouse job at Amazon, I found a place in Indiana that gives 86 cents a pound which is better than what Ohio pays (roughly 47 cents a pound) so i take them over there....I'm at 400 lbs again and about to turn them in, the key is having a lot of places that are a consistent source of cans for example the 5 apartment complexes within walking distance of me for a total of 47 dumpsters plus my brother works at the Ford plant and brings me bags and bags of cans that workers throw away which helps....I also run an ebay business and on occasion a flea market stand...America is truly the land of opportunity if you're not lazy and willing to work hard....
sounds like you have it going on. 400 lbs. that's a lot of cans. I need to get motivated and start running an add for metal. but trying to make room at this time. and not enough hours in a day
I think I will build me a fancy can basket.
I needed something with a top on it as the wind would get up here and I would have can's all over the yard, so I built this
Pro tip. If you take that piece of metal off your tailgate make sure you lubricate all the linkages for opening the gate. You could always try to get a plastic piece that was originally there also. I don't know how much it would cost. If you tip the barrel down and put it on the ground sideways they will pick up much quicker because you do not have to move them as far.
I really like the Cac Cage. Sure gets em unloaded fast. Just open and dump. Awesome video.
it is fast to unload, I need to tie a rope or a chain around the left door so when I open the first door to unload I don't have to hold the other door
@@Okiescrapper that's a good idea
I been holding cans for yrs. Got two old 550 gal spray tanks full of smash cans, along with 4 50 gal barrels full also, Can price here in IL is .50
sounds like you will have a good payday when you cash in but until then pile it higher and deeper
@@Okiescrapper starting to used 330gal totes that our spray chem comes in to store can and wire in. Prob put every thing on ebay to sell instead of messing with scrap yard.
We get 50 cents a pound in Carbondale, Il.
@@hunterbiden001 selling your aluminum cans on ebay?
@@MrsBuddevil Might sell my whole stash. I been hoarding on cans and alumn and copper for over 25+ yrs. Hell two 550gal spray tanks holds a shit load of smash cans.
In Norway we get 23cent per can or plastic bottle when we return them to the store. When you buy an soda the 23cent is charged on top of the price of the soda. So basically you get your 23cent back when you return the cans or plastic bottles.
I can remember a deposit on bottles when I was a kid in Washington State, here in Oklahoma they don't have a deposit on can's or bottles
Nice little haul like the can cage I gotta get my can's together for turn in lol
trash bags go bad and break apart, and I have open top cages but the wind would scatter them all over the yard so I built this, this is the second time that I have dumped it, I do need to make some kind of door latch on the left door so I don't have to hold it
@@Okiescrapper yeah they do plus my oldest dog thinks thier hers to lay in so she ripped all the bag's open and made herself a can play/sleep area good thing I keep them in my spare car garage lol
In NY that a lot of money 🤑
where did you get all the cans
most of them came from our own use. I did bring some in from a call
It takes 2000cans for hundred dollars here in USA
My scrap yard likes bags easy to handle
yeah but they just don't hold up for long time storage
Surprised you don't crush the cans so they take up less space. As a kid when we collected cans, we always Crushed them.... after adding a generous handfull of Dirt to each one....... :0)
takes time and more work I used to crush them, I don't think that I could lift the cage if they were all crushed, I would have to mount the cage to a trailer and it may take 5 to 10 years to fill it
With that many I figured about 60$ that's what I get for thinking good video two thumbs
yeah you guessed close, you may have been spot on if I took them to a better yard where they pay better
Nice cash-in. Best to you from Cincinnati.
thank you
I put in a fair amount of effort into recycling these cans as well, I crush mine, a good big garbage can full gets me like $5... Doesn't seem worth it, I find it hard to believe you got that much out of that cage, especially uncrushed, but hey good deal.
trash bags just don't hold up for the long haul. they rot out, and fast if left in the sun
I live in Duncan Oklahoma. Our recycling center closed a few yrs ago. I have many many many pop cans. No offense but way more than what you just did. Mine are all crushed and put into 55 gallon heavy duty bags. I enjoyed this video because it gave me an idea of the going price. Not long ago it was 48 cents a pound in Lawton. I dont have a truck big enough to take all of my bags lol I dont even have a car lol
other yards may be paying more, not sure, keep saving the price should go up, about 18 months ago they were down to 20 cents, they will need a lot of aluminum to build all the electric cars they want to build in the next few years
That was cool! I always wondered what the process was for unloading that cage. Thanks, Allen!
yeah I thought I would add that, I don't think that I could have gotten a good angle with the camera, I was in the way or the other guy, but it got the idea out there. I need to make a latch on the left door so I don't have to hold it
Here in Maine each of those cans are worth $0.05 each
that would have been nice, but I would hate to sit and have to count them all out, but I guess that would be their job
@@Okiescrapper 10 cents a can in British Columbia Canada
love it
thanks for watching
great video okie
Glad you enjoyed it.
Why did they pay you 3 different times? Those truck scales round to the nearest 20 pounds
The place I take my cans to here in san diego, if you have a ton of them like that, they bring over a giant bin, and if they can help dump them out with their machine they do. I seen people fill up the bin twice, and end up with a ton of money. Without a commercial account, we are limited to 100 lbs of cans a day.
takes some work to pick up a 100 lbs. of can's in a day
Not if your on the beaches begging and stealing the cans!
Nice video
Thank you
Where I live we get 10 cents per can to take them to the bottle depot. that was a lot of cans.
that would be nice if they did the can deposit here, I remember as a kid in Washington State, collecting bottles for the deposit money
For me the best method to fill one of those up is to drink about ten cans worth of Pepsi in the morning and 15 in the afternoon. Works great!
that would fill it up fast, most of those cans are from our own use
I'm a big fan. Nice! can cage I wish we would get paid more here in NY. I still end up with plenty that don't have deposit on them. Standard has been .30 cents a pound. Most scrap yards here turn their nose up at them, or try to give you dirty aluminum. Finally found one that would pay more, but even then it's not that much more. 🙄
that is a shame, they should go for at least 40 cents a lb.
Here in hillsdale MI I just took in 75 pounds of cans and got 63 cents per pound.
nice price I need to check around and find out who else buy's cans and what kind of price the pay, where I took them is close to home about 15 miles, but they lack in the paying area they are low on price most of the time
@@Okiescrapper yes helps to shop around and see if it's worth the extra travel time.
WOW I GUESS PUTTING THEM IN BAGS ITS NUTS KEEP CRACKEN
I used to put them in bags and the sun would dry them out. so I started putting the bags into the semi trailer and they still dried out and rotted, so I went to wire cages with no tops and can's would be all over the yard every time the wind got up, so I built this
Wow not bad at all! I melt mine into a brick!
I have a good size pile of lawnmower motors to melt so any aluminum that I can clean I do and sell it that way for now, that may change when I get aluminum ingot sales going
Wow big money
thanks for watching, the cage is half full again, I will call around for a better price next time
Wooow good load of those cans :) you may make a wall around your house from them :) i too collecting alu cans sometimes i melting them into "medals' on my channel sometimes i get them in $crap yard! (Last weight alu cans was 28kg) Greetings from CZECH Scrapping channel!!!
I hope to get more time to do some melting soon, my add runs one more month then things should slow down and I can do some projects around here, and I have some vacation time to use, I need to clean the tip on my waste oil burner, I just subbed to you I will check out some of your videos, have a big load to go after this am. take care and happy scrapping
Honestly it would have been easier on you if they would have brought you 2 yellow dump hoppers to the right of your truck. By the looks of it you could have backed right over it and opened your door pouring cans right into it. Great video either way #happyscrapping
I don't think they have any yellow dump hoppers
over here in spain the last time i took my cans in they were only paying 30c a kilo.. much less than the USA :( I´ve got a trailer load saved up to make it worth my time.
it's good to save up a bunch if you have the space, and take it all in at once for a good payday
52 dollars for that much is just stage coach robbery 😂 you deserved 5 times that amount
yeah, can prices are not what they used to be. the cage is getting full again. I will have to start calling around for prices
Can I ask why you don't crush your cans?
it takes extra time and work and it would be very hard to lift the cage up if it was full of crushed cans
@@Okiescrapper OK. I crush mine as I collect them, save them in wheelie bins then take them to the scrap yard in the trailer, they tip them out for me. 60 pence a kilo here in England. Thanks .
you should have put the garden sprinkler on the cans the day before /? good video Thx Ed Loretto Ontario Canada
a lot of them had water in them from the rain, had a lot of water in the bed of the truck at the scrap yard and a puddle under the truck
i hope them can kids was wearing ear protection holy cow that sounded like grasshoppers eating glass
they are most likely used to it, they do it all the time
I sold some cans this past week and got .50 cents a pound, I have been getting .55 cents but it has gone down as of the first of the month.
yeah this yard pay's low dollar I need to check around and see who all takes can's and what they pay
What I do with the cans and bottles is I crush them up to get more money
you don't get more money if they are crushed, they pay by weight, by crushing you may get more weight in the same space but 30 cents a lb. is 30 cents a lb. no matter how you slice it
W P & S, in Chickasha? Yup, seen it on the ticket.
yeah I know they take can's, I am not sure who else takes them, I don't think Metal Check takes them any more, I will have to check around before I get it filled again
Wow you must have been thirsty 😊
it took over a year to get that load, mostly from the house but I have some from pickups
I like the cage idea. You ever thought about saving the tabs from the cans and melting them in one of your furnaces? I just bought a ToAuto furnace and thinking about melting the tabs and make small ingots out of them.
I may start saving the tabs it would make a good video, but I have a lot of lawnmower motors that I can melt and a bunch still on the mower, I plan to start going through them when I get retired, that will be soon,
What are ignots?
I made a few in my first videos
@@MrsBuddevil an ingot is a block or brick of metal that can be used at a later time to make something from it
@@Okiescrapper thank you
Here in New Brunswick CANADA we pay 10 cents a can or plastic bottle and get 5 cents back and the other 5 cents are divided up to the redemption center 3 cents and 2 cents to the trucking ..looking at the amount you had I estimate you would have had around $200.00 here .
5 cents here and 5 cents there it would add up quick. I guess on the go a guy would get fountain drinks to avoid paying for the bottle or can
Container deposit here. But the year before that came in I got a load in, all crushed, which filled 3 wool bags and then some [ those generally white bags and they clip the flappy tops with a metal clip to close them ], and the scrap yard guy was going, " Crikey that's a lot of cans " as they just kept coming out of the shopping bags into the wool bags. They did not bale or briquette them, but just as is in the wool bags for big rig transport. I did not see that but I know that was the modus.
would have liked to see a video of that. lol
Would like to see more bout your can cage
I used bed frame angle iron, I made it wide enough to fit between the wheel well's on my Colorado pickup truck, and just over 6 feet long, and the height of a cattle panel, made a small door on the top to dump can's in and made double doors on the end for emptying, I welded the cattle panels onto the angle and zip tied chicken wire onto the cattle panels
i took in 600 once,2 years worth!
they just don't pay like they used to
okie we get 10cents a can over here way better than the scrap yard there price over here is 1.00dollar a kgi live in Morwell Victoria Australia
some states have .5 or .10 cent deposit on can's but not Oklahoma, I remember when I was a kid in Washington State, there was a deposit on bottles and we would gather them up for candy money
Where did you get all those cans?
most of them came from the store full of coke, I did pick up a few trash bags full from other metal pickups, took over a year to fill the cage
So you don’t smash them first? We just started saving them since we found out most of our recycling goes to the dump
no I don't smash them, takes time and extra work, and the cage would be too heavy to pick up
I started saving cans (I'm anti-liter) when I first got with my partner 5 years ago. I had a couple 50gal trash barrels, big black trash bags, and more than I can count of little grocery sacks full.
He said I wouldn't even get enough to cover the gas it took to drive there and back to turn them in. (For some reason, He didn't seem to comprehend that I wasn't saving his beer cans to make money but because I'm Pro-Healthy Environment) He started complaining that my little collection was starting to make our yard look trashy, plus from time to time I had the issue with the wind blowing them EVERYWHERE so, I made a little round cage (approx 3' x 7.5"H) from some spare fencing we had laying around. I barely got through transferring my mess of little grocery bags before I realized this is not going to be big enough to store all my cans plus who knows how many more I would collect or how long I'd be collecting them. So I decided to crush them. I bought a cheap little crusher from HB but it broke less than 100cans so I threw them on the ground and started crushing them with my foot. Boy, that was hard work and would have taken me atleast a year straight so I had this bright idea to use his truck 😂 but I thought uh-oh if it would have injured one of his gigantic 20in tires... So I threw them onto 1/2 side of a big tarp then covered it up with the other half and then went to town running the cans over. Hehe.. it took just a few hours to crush all of them like that. I did have to make a second little cage if I planned to continue to collect, but I got them all in the first one. Now, I make sure to crush them as I go or I toss them in a 5 gal bucket and stick with my personal rule to crush them before going over 5gals.
Btw.. about a month ago he asked if I wanted to ride with him to the scrap yard(it's almost a hour there so I assume he wasn't wanting to ride solo) I said, sure but only under 1 condition. If you let me bring the cans. (Lol) I'll even pay for the gas. He agreed (not happily though). It took the both of us plus mustering up strength we didn't know we had to get that first cage loaded into the back of the truck. (It was cute.. his little mad attitude he had.. now that I think back on that moment I was giggling so hard on the inside for 1. Because after 5 years he was driving me to turn in the cans that he had always said was pointless plus watching him have to work harder than he had planned too)
I ended up earning 56 bucks off my 5 years of trying to make the World a better place(OKAY... I'll admit I did get some sort of (unhealthy) satisfaction from seeing how irritated it made him every time I'd rob cans from friends' trash, or yell out, " wait stop the truck" so I could pick up cans I seen on the side of the road.).
I even filled the tank up being the nice gal that I am. But little did he know I probably used close to a tank almost 5 years prior on my crushing project. (But he gave half of what he made on those car converter things. I forgot what they are called. So now that I think of it.. I made a WIN-WIN plus a WIN on that deal.
✔️Save Earth
✔️Turned in collection
✔️A good guy that will put up with my silliness.
that was a lot of cans for just a small about of money
yeah the last time I took them in they were paying .20 a lb. and I had 120 lbs. and got $30.00. I need to check a few yards that I have never been to and see if they take cans and what they pay
Thats a lot of cans man
I wonder if they took a hole saw and punched a bunch of holes out of those drums the yard was catching the cans in I never seen a barrel look like that
I think that is what they did. makes them lighter and they can see what is in the barrel, most people bring them in trash bags, so they dump them into the barrels
Wouldnt you get more just returning them for .5 or .10??
what state would I have to haul them too? no deposit here in Oklahoma
@@Okiescrapper im in vermont
have you thought about smelting them all down and make bars instead?
no they sell good as is, I have a pile of cast aluminum that has steel bolts or sleeves in them that are impossible to get clean, like lawnmower motors weed eater motors stuff like that. so no shortage of stuff to melt,
@@Okiescrapper oh ok just thinking of the size and if it would be easier to just smash and then smelt
And maybe put them in some kind of paint stripper before the smashing didn't know that the paint was such a pain
Good lord, where I live all those cans would be a few hundred bucks
no deposit here in Oklahoma so have to sell them by the pound
@@Okiescrapper Right, I guessed as much. I just think it's crazy how much of a difference there is for alluminum cans between different areas
In Iowa they pay 5¢ per can
too far to drive, that is great if you find the cans it would add up quick, you could go well trash picking, no deposit here in Oklahoma
Rivets may work on that lip on your tailgate
If you could flatten those they would fit in a couple big garbage bags.... that's what I do, way easier tk store and transport, I run em over with the riding lawn mower and crush em lol we get 10cents a can for alcoholic cans so I gotta seperate
I just took over 4000 cans at 5 cents each $218 am working on a 5 gallon pall of tabs
nice I don't get a lot of can's from the jobs I get but I get a few, got a bunch of aluminum cat food cans the other day
I don't get why you don't crush them that way you can save more and earn more per trip
Yea, I get that smashing them after the fact would take a while, but Smashing them right after you drink them would be a good idea.
I got a 50 pound can smasher (a solid steel rod welded to a steel pate I used to use for smashing cans. Every morning I would hear a "Thump, Thump" that was my dad smashing the empty cans of Mt. Dew I drank the night before. This went on for years, until I stopped drinking soda. I now invert it and use it for Compacting copper wire into a PVC Pipe to make copper "Nuggets" for melting in my furnace. Works very well.
time smashing cans or the same time cleaning copper, one has to be done for a better price, the cage full of smashed cans would be to heavy to lift into the truck as it would weigh over 1000 lbs.
Why don't you squash them down before putting in cage you would get a lot more in
takes time and more work I used to crush them, I don't think that I could lift the cage if they were all crushed, I would have to mount the cage to a trailer and it may take 5 to 10 years to fill it
That was worth drive melt them
I have more then enough stuff to melt that won't pay much as is
@@Okiescrapper price of fuel .it cost you at least 18- 23 dollars get there and back and your time .im sure its content for veiws
That's y I don't do cans look at all them cans you got 50 dollars just works few hours that's crazy that's nothing today not even pay for the gas to take it.
most of my can come from our own use, and the yard I took them to is 15 miles away so came out a little ahead, yards in the city may have paid better. but not a lot of money in aluminum
U in Oklahoma cool I in Oklahoma
I am south of OKC about 25 miles in Blanchard
40 cent a pound is not worth it, here in California its $1.75 a pound for cans and $1.20 a pound for plastic bottles, however selling shred the prices suck compared on what you all are getting.
.40 is still better then tossing them out with the trash, and it's gas money. gas is still at $3.00 a gallon here
We get $2.00 a lb here with a coupon
prices have come up, I don't think I have ever seen $2.00 a lb. here in Oklahoma
I give mine to the homeless.
Can I help?
it's all done now, lol I mowed where the cage sits so I still have to put it back in place, I put it on top of 2 4x4's to keep it off the ground
@@Okiescrapper Sent you a "Hello" in the description of the video that just loaded. My way of saying tHanks for all your videos! Have a super week!
10 cent can deposit here
that is great if you can get them free, if you buy soda in them you are paying it up front, but then How much do I pay of the can when I buy some soda, but a guy may make a killing if you had a good place to trash pick them
My yard pays 50 cents a pound. Plus I crush mine, they weight more that way.
LOL
not many yards take cans here any more, I need to check around next time this yard always pay's low dollar
132 lbs is 2112 ounces, is 59,126 grams, divided by 14.9 gms. /can avg. is 3,969 cans times 5 cents/can is ~$198.40 if returned instead of recycled. hmmmmmmmm
and what state would I have to drive them too to get the 5 cents per can? no deposit here in Oklahoma
@@Okiescrapper I'm betting you've got that figured out to the mile already, boss. My comment was more for those who live near a deposit state, where they could take the wife over the border to do some shopping, and have the savings pay for it, including the costs of driving.
@@johnrice4307 some states dont have have a crv deposit. If you take them to a state that offer crv, but the cans you bring are not originated from that states it's considered fraud and you can go to jail for it.
Cans aren't worth much with all the paint etc on them
and a thin plastic lining in them too.
Bahahaha......i get 10 cents per can or bottles...at 7750 returns that's 775 bucks...have fun wasting your time.
and if you had bought all them beverages you would break even, and how is it a waste of time?, are you saying that I should have just tossed them into the trash? at least this way I made a few bucks
i've been wondering why aren't they taking crushed cans, it isn't like the aluminum become less when you compress it
That location does take crushed cans. I took almost 300 pounds there myself in August.
@@jeremyowens7560 did they paid you differently than if they weren't crushed?
@@oreesama22 No I got the same price, $0.40 per pound.
@@oreesama22 around here, they used to want them untrusted to ensure no extras were added to get more weight.
some of them were crushed but not many, crushing them takes time and more work I used to crush them, I don't think that I could lift the cage if they were all crushed, I would have to mount the cage to a trailer and it may take 5 to 10 years to fill it and would be a bit harder to unload,