Soon I as get a truck me and my four year old daughter will start out recycling cans to scrapping. We enjoy your videos. We seen a guy that looks like you at Walmart she yelled out daddy it’s thub!!! Lol
I am fairly new to the hobby, but have wanted to do it since I was a kid. Just got a late start driving. One thing I have found that makes for great versatile storage for less dense/heavy stuff is those big blue Ikea bags. Great for motherboards, wire, and just about anything that takes up a lotta weird space but is not way to heavy. and they fold down nicely too when you don't need that bin anymore for a bit.
Scrapping is a little money making hobby for me, it pays for drum lessons too. As a dentist it helps me decompress as I listen to music and scrap. I used to do construction so I don’t mind using tools and getting dirty. Dental scrap is the best with Au, Pd, Pt, Ag. Then I started scrapping the old computers/eWaste from my old office mining for precious metal, then that expanded into scrapping everything. Lots of RUclipsrs helped me go from there. Gas ain’t cheap, so I pick up most scrap or run to the scrapyards coming from and going to work or I’ll bring a bin of eWaste and microscrap during a long lunch or whenever. It all adds up!👍
Sounds like you know exactly where your scrap goals are! I’m yet to set up anything for properly extracting precious metals. Are you at that stage yet or are you just stacking the bits up still?
@@thubprint just stacking the good stuff like you. Gold fingers, gold pins, silver contacts, MLCCs, tantalum, RAM, CPUs. I started on some silver contacts a while back and it’s sitting in solution waiting for me to continue and refine it properly. It’s always a work in progress, sorting, organizing, consolidating, cleaning up, microscrapping….Just when I clear out space, I find more junk!😅
Great video! Very informative and I'm glad to see im not the only one stashing e-waste that I can't even sell 😂👌 My scrap yard loves how well my bins are always sorted and I always credit "the guy who taught me" which is you ! thanks for all the awesome content!
The two most important things for scrappers; regularly hunt and gather, and sort. Great video Thub. Might I recommend old dishwashers for bins? They can be stacked when full and stored for times like winter when hunting and gathering materials is less feasible. One day, I'd like to show you my little empire; it takes up half my basement, and yard!
Excellent lesson. Do not ignore inventory management people. Last month I had to be hospitalized for several days because a hoard of scrap fell on me and I kept having seizures from my subsequent concussion. Don’t let crap stack up. It causes stress and can literally harm you.
I've got a bucket for small extruded, larger extruded gets stacked outside. Weather won't hurt it, I have die cast, cast, and a rather large 30 gallon for sheet which is whatever isn't cast or extruded. My yard won't take keys as yellow brass, so I have a bucket for keys, a bucket(s) for yellow brass. brass shells (one for those I need to decap (remove the primers) or pull the bullets from and decap and one for ready to go to yard) and bucket for red brass. Technically there's another class of brass, but the yard just throws it in as yellow brass so I stopped sorting it out. Buckets for #1 stripped & stuff yet to be stripped. It's my bread and butter so I usually have bins, buckets & boxes of stuff to strip. Once stripped I take it down to the yard that week. The longer it's exposed to air the less pretty it looks and with some stuff I risk it getting tossed into the #2 pile as it's already a bit old to start with and sitting around a few weeks would make it look even less pretty. My yard won't pay bright bare unfortunately. I sort the unstripped by gauge as best I can. With #2 I sort little stuff into bucket(s) and larger unstranded wire into another. Little stuff tends to get lost when being weighed if I don't. Blows out , falls out, etc. I also have buckets/boxes/bins for wire yet to strip, and for #2 that's too small for me to strip. I take that in as unstripped. My yard only takes 1 grade of stainless so just one bucket(s). I put the small stuff (screws, small parts, etc) of shred/loose tin in bucket(s). Take it down when the buckets fill up. I do this because a lot of that stuff gets left in trailer bed when the big magnet hits it, or falls out, blows out before it gets to the yard. Big stuff goes into outside piles. My yard only pays loose tin and unprepared steel which for most yards would be prepared steel. So those are my piles. I wait until I get something close to a ton before I bring it in. With current prices it's just not worth stripping aluminum wire. I'd make maybe 5 cents an hour doing it. I have bins for low grade electronic boards, mid grade, high grade generic, laptop MBs, American made MBs, Chinese MBs (there's a price difference in most places), HD controlers, floppy & CD ROM controllers, telcom boards (at least what one buyer specifies as such), HDs, CDRoms, Floppies yet to be taken apart, low grade boards yet to depopulate, stuff I need to pull silver contacts off of & silver coated pieces, different parts off electronics that need to be processed, bucket(s) each as I like to process them in large batches,. Buckets for stuff to hammer, stuff I'll need angle grinder to process, Lead acid batteries, surprising how many I find in dumpsters and allies. I also pull them out of things like ancient scooters and such as well as APSs. lithium batteries, cell phones, 50 gallon trash cans for aluminum cans (they aint worth much right now, but only takes half a second to grab them while I'm grabbing other stuff and some of them are cans I drank, so I'm taking cans down anyway. There were times I was literally patrolling the side of the highway for them but they were going a buck a pound then. I was making $30 an hour picking up cans while that lasted. Anytime I found several cans together I'd stop. I'd usually find 30 or 40 after the 5 or 6 I saw from the road. I'd pick up $70-100 USD a day doing that and spend around $20 in gas hunting them. Right now at 30 cents a pound and insane gas prices I could pick up cans for a week and not recoup the gas used to pick them up. So I only pick them up if I'm stopping for some other reason or generate them at home or are given them. I also have buckets with various useful things like screws, bolts, nuts, etc that I pull out of scrap or from dumpsters that I use eventually. Nails especially. I have buckets/bins/stacks for various types of building supplies I encounter until I use them. Piles for alum radiators. Piles for alum/copper radiators. AC radiators. Piles of large extruded yet to clean. Odd junk that might be useful to me. Odd working junk that I take out to flea market a few times a year to sell or give to friends. I can't find #1 copper every day. Some days little to no copper at all. What God brings and the dumpsters give is what they give. If I get too picky about what I scrap there are weeks I go hungry. So I pick up anything of value unless it's going to take up so much space I don't ever find the good stuff. Bulk steel for example. Just not worth the time and effort to load it up and take it down a pickup load at a time. I'm traveling 20-30 miles 1 way most of the time. I LOSE money by taking it home in large amounts. So I just pick up a little here and there to fill up a load of more valuable stuff. It's free money that way. I was already picking up the other stuff and I just tossed the steel in as an extra. I already get a lot taking apart appliances, electronics, etc. So grabbing a bit of pipe, rebar I can't use, etc while I'm grabbing the other stuff helps pay for the gas to get to the yard. Used to actually pay for the gas, but last few years gas prices have been wiping me out. I can't drive less. I have to go where the scrap is, drive until I get a good load. Whether that's 4 hours and 50 miles or it's 10 hours and 100 miles. I also need reserves. Some weeks I just don't find anything of value. Or like the last month I've been on crutches and couldn't go scrapping. So I take in what I need and leave the rest for when I need a bit extra. So if I need $100 for a vet bill, I'll take in my normal load and $100 worth of stuff I have sitting around ready to go to cover the vet bill. Scrapping is my main source of income right now.. I literally don't eat if I don't scrap that week.
I agree with you about scrapping metal being a hobby. Scrapping metal is my favorite hobby because I earn money from it. But all and all, I think that if someone is going to be scrapping metal as a hobby, they should have a part or full time job first. Like me. I work at Walmart as a Cart Attendant making $12 an hour. I scrap metal, not only as a hobby, but as like a little side job making a little extra spending cash. But all and all, keep up the great work with these videos. And scrapping metal. 😉
Good work Thub! 👍😊 I use buckets a lot because there's a bakery over the road from me and they are always throwing them out! They stack well and are waterproof with lids so can be stored outside to free up my workspace! I also use old milkcrates for large brass items, electric motors and other chunky scrap. 30kg of brass in a milk crate = around $200 AUD at the moment! 😁
I have 13 bins to store my scrap metal in. As of right now, I have 2 bins for #2 insulated copper, 1 for #1 insulated copper, 1 for electric motors, 1 for christmas lights, 1 bin for copper, 1 bin for a mix of aluminum pieces (I think it's all aluminum oil sheet), 1 bin for another grade of aluminum, 3 medium to large bins for aluminum cans, 1 bin for e-waste, and 1 small bin for tiny/small pieces of steel/iron, like screws and bolts and stuff like that. Now the bigger pieces of steel and iron I have that can't fit into bins, I just keep those outside.
On my last run I got a couple of pallet jacks in a dumpster. They are incredibly awkward and will fall down on your foot or pinch your finger on the edge trying to get them out of the dumpster. They weigh anywhere from 140 to about 170 pounds( American) each. They retail about 800 to $1000 bucks new so there might be a resale market for them if you can find a buyer used. But @8.50 a 100weight....I got like 25 or 28 bucks for 2 pallet jacks.
Free buckets and bins from dumpsters is key! They cost more new than the scrap! One of my scrap yards even has a pile of free buckets they get from people. Or free sturdy cardboard boxes will do. The more you sort, the better, i.e. wire, brass, copper, aluminum, etc. like you showed.
I use the larger baby formula cans with the lids from my babies (I had triplets summer 2021) for screws, bolts, washers etc. not huge but still takes a while to fill and the cans themselves are turned in on recycle. two birds one stone!
I just use totes and medium-sized buckets to store my aluminum cans, bare bright copper, and different kinds of insulated copper wires in. Occasionally I might have to buy another tote or 2 from Family Dollar or Dollar General, but that rarely happen. As Thub says, "leave it better than you found it."
good video, someone's been cleaning... you're absolutely right about taking in stuff and not processing anything out. my neighbor noted another truck full of stuff going in. i'm like "yep, looks like my input is far exceeding my output". realizing i need good tools to get thru everything quickly. i've worked as a household mover so knowing how to pack is a specialty of mine, i will know when i must absolutely start getting stuff out, probably starting with the big item things like steel and tin. i think a key too is learning how to find items that maximize weight, like a plumber dumpster getting me 10 lbs of copper and brass in one night, i mean how many t.v.'s and flat screens do you have to scrap to get that much copper? and the amount of labor involved, that's when you start realizing letting things go out dirty save you a bunch in labor.
I get told off whenever I sell some dirty metal here but it’s true, you don’t have the time to get everything bare and clean or you’ll never get through it all
Thub, I just wanted to say thank you for the help man, if i EVER have any questions i always come to youtube and search your channel for answers and i have NEVER been let down!!! I did have a question, Does an engine from say, a lawnmower, go straight to alu breakage without having to do any prep? Or is there anything I should do before i take them in, I come across all kinds of riding mowers and push mowers!
So glad to hear that, and happy to be a part of it! If you mean as far as what the scrapyard wants, you need a hole in the gas tank if it’s still attached but you can just leave the cap off and pour it out. (At least I can, yours may want a bottom hole). If you mean to make more money, frick no those are awful. Sell it as breakage with as much steel as you can get away with! 🤘
I also throw a little trash plastic in if it's got a cord and a tiny motor like a vacuum I cut off cord cause it evens out to motor weight as steel for me at least when factor time in on either side and toss it in dust bag and all
Aaawwww those laptops look delicious. In new zealand,we have different grading for our metals. Heavy steel to light gauge steel,not tin,that's an old saying. #1 copper #2 then to domestic copper. Anyway I've got more of your vids to watch,hurry up and make another one. Lol
white and yellow brass may not pay the same prices sometimes it is better to ask how much per lb if white brass is lower you will get the lower price, try to take your multiples of materials at different times, the same with all of your materials, a vise, and cutting materials will separate anything. none of this is free if you look at the time, labor, gas, and more i have been scrapping for over 55 years and learn more every day. i do not take my scrap to one place and here in ohio they try to weigh your scrap and you have to know poundage. but they do not tell you how much, unless you go to the front office and look at the chart but it does not have current prices.they say it updates by the minute, know your tares, selling at over a 100 lbs you grta little more and so on. but it is super fun.
You have been at this awhile! 😆 I certainly don’t go to one yard either, I have my favourites but I still call around to make sure my price comparisons are up to date
You are losing money keeping copper on brass. Granted, brass is about (ABOUT) 90% copper but the addition of the zinc is what pulls down its value vs clean copper. A small pipe cutter for short stubs, or a pair of pliers and work it back and forth to break it off. Granted if you are doing high volume scrapping with sustainable sources, those few extra bucks may not be worth the time, but as a hobby scrapper, I maximize the money I get. Gas will not be getting cheaper any time soon, so I get as much back into my tank as I can.
@@kevinraines4318 I get that point. In the same token, you are giving away money doing it that way. Separate the pure/clean pieces of copper and get paid more.
For the ballasts if you freeze them then smack them with a hammer, there will be a transformer in there. Nice amount of copper.. the black tar in there will fall apart
Maybe you can explain this to me my yard used to give the lowest prices for any type of painted aluminum now clean aluminum is lower than all painted but 10 to 15 cents a pound it boggles the mind why that is
engine ,transmission, starters alts and so on in ohio they have companies that buy those things for big monies, last time i was there a guy had a 10 ton dump truck full of motors complete and got a check for over 20000 dollars, or you can take just a starter in there, they rebuild it all
I’d love to find one of those! I know starters are pricy and the flat scrap value is pretty poor. I imagine my scrapyard does have a starter motor buyer who does exactly that
It would probably be well worth your time to find a local ammo reloader near you to sell your bullet brass cases to. Depending on which caliber, and which ammo manufacturer, some of them can go for $1/piece. Even pistol cases go for well over scrap prices. Looked like your bag had mostly rifle cases, if those are Norma brass, you're sitting on a gold mine. But again, even if they're common brands, like Winchester or Remington, they're worth sorting and reselling.
Been slowly building on my scrapping knowledge and collection for about a year now. I've sorted some, but definitely started to realize I would probably have to separate some of the piles before taking it to the yard. This is a great general guide. On another note, does anyone know where to get tubs like the white ones at 3:40? The ones with a small, inclined opening on the front? I would LOVE to pick up a stack of those for organization.
I'd tell ya to put all the wheels down flat on a pile of thin small steel with more small steel inside or something to that effect have a friend or spouse with you. Here you weigh drop all metal and weigh out have friend either unload or watch the non ferrous next to that dock and keep adding. The 5g buckets will fit in the center of wheel add nons amd a lid and can be secured with fine steel smalls. Just an idea to max your haul on 1st load my friend your yard may be set way off from mine as well so not trying to argue or micromanage or any of that just giving ideas like your giving us
Oooh, I got chu! ruclips.net/video/l3bdZrjMXMc/видео.html This vid is from awhile back so I’m probably going to make a shorter version of it, but this is my method still to this day
They call it different things but at my yard ‘shred’ is ‘tin shred’ otherwise known as light iron. ‘Breakage’ is aluminium breakage, otherwise known as heavy dirty aluminium, meaning a large percentage of non-aluminum contaminants
I'm just outside los angeles and I cant find any scrap yard near me that takes circuit boards or e waste for money. plenty of places will recycle it for me, but no one takes it as scrap.
which wires are you talking about. if your talking about bx don't cut them to long for me it 6-10foot and or else it hard to pull out especially with the paper insulation. there's also a direction to pull it out that is easier and jams less just trial and error it. for number 1 wire a knife works well my preferred knife is a dull de boning knife. if its to sharp it cuts into the copper, i also strip #2 with it which is a bit trickier but when you get the feel for it works well. For romex a knife also works extremely well slide the knife between the ground and either positive or negative. for any wire with 3wires +ground i use a snap of utility knife to remove outer insulation again 6-10foot pieces since they are twisted and its a pain to separate the wires after.
Yeah, I don’t strip #2 for the sheer fact I cut the fine strands of the braid and poke myself way too much. Looks like I got in a fist-fight with a porcupine.
I put alot of my stuff in those Recyclable grocery bags. Ive collected them. Wire goes in clear bags. Why? Because it doesnt take up space and to be efficient. At the yard they have to dump items and come back weigh the bucket or whatever and deduct it. Thats 10 minutes!!!!
I do not have a storage area....or any bin or box/ bucket system. Whatever goes into the truck has to be hauled immediately. A "hand-to -mouth existence" of scrapping. I cannot stockpile and try to time the market for the best price....OR take this type metal here....and then that type metal there to a different place....whomever pays the best for which ever particular metal. It all goes to the same place on the same day....and whatever price they are doing that day.....that is what I get. I cant hold it...and wait for the price to be right.
Where I live it's barely worth scraping. Just took a 5gal bucket stuffed full with insulated wire. About 6 electric motors. 10 clean aluminum pans. And a pickup bed full of steel. Total 35$ apx 4hrs spent and 5$ fuel. I found everything in one stop. Doing it as a hobby sure. As a living in the Hampton Roads USA area you'll starve if you have a family.
Why don't you melt metals like copper and aluminum to get the highest grade possible. I know it takes time and money but you would get the highest return
For copper, I melt it all. It gets rid of the soldering and the coated shellac. For aluminum, if its clean I would melt it right away and for things like black heat sinks I would remove the paint first. If you melt it down to it's purest form it will ultimately sell for more
You need to be shouting! Inventory Control! Over and Over and over, I need to hear it as I wander through the little lanes in what my kids call "Dad's Storage Unit" but what I call my shop. Sigh, inventory control, inventory control, ongoing.....
Soon I as get a truck me and my four year old daughter will start out recycling cans to scrapping. We enjoy your videos. We seen a guy that looks like you at Walmart she yelled out daddy it’s thub!!! Lol
I am fairly new to the hobby, but have wanted to do it since I was a kid. Just got a late start driving. One thing I have found that makes for great versatile storage for less dense/heavy stuff is those big blue Ikea bags. Great for motherboards, wire, and just about anything that takes up a lotta weird space but is not way to heavy. and they fold down nicely too when you don't need that bin anymore for a bit.
Scrapping is a little money making hobby for me, it pays for drum lessons too. As a dentist it helps me decompress as I listen to music and scrap. I used to do construction so I don’t mind using tools and getting dirty.
Dental scrap is the best with Au, Pd, Pt, Ag. Then I started scrapping the old computers/eWaste from my old office mining for precious metal, then that expanded into scrapping everything.
Lots of RUclipsrs helped me go from there. Gas ain’t cheap, so I pick up most scrap or run to the scrapyards coming from and going to work or I’ll bring a bin of eWaste and microscrap during a long lunch or whenever.
It all adds up!👍
Sounds like you know exactly where your scrap goals are! I’m yet to set up anything for properly extracting precious metals. Are you at that stage yet or are you just stacking the bits up still?
@@thubprint just stacking the good stuff like you. Gold fingers, gold pins, silver contacts, MLCCs, tantalum, RAM, CPUs. I started on some silver contacts a while back and it’s sitting in solution waiting for me to continue and refine it properly.
It’s always a work in progress, sorting, organizing, consolidating, cleaning up, microscrapping….Just when I clear out space, I find more junk!😅
Really great vid and helpful. Might I suggest making a similar type video with pics of more examples. Would be very helpful for the newbs like me 👍
Thank you. Im new to serious scrapping so your videos are helpful. 👍👍👍👍
Nice! All the best out there 💙
This is literally what I needed to hear today
Its crazy that the bins are worth more then the stuff in it. Great video as always!
Love it bro. Have a great day
transformers put them in the freezer and then bust them with a 4lb hammer, how many can you do depends on how fast you can move. and it is fun.
Nice! Gonna write that one down 😉 although half the time in my part of the world they’re all frozen anyway lol
Nice, gonna try that as well
Did my first scrap run today, Thub! Your guides helped me start so much. Thank you for the help and the motivation your vids provide!
That’s so cool to hear, congrats! Hope you did well, and left everything better than you found it 😁
Great video! Very informative and I'm glad to see im not the only one stashing e-waste that I can't even sell 😂👌
My scrap yard loves how well my bins are always sorted and I always credit "the guy who taught me" which is you ! thanks for all the awesome content!
The two most important things for scrappers; regularly hunt and gather, and sort. Great video Thub. Might I recommend old dishwashers for bins? They can be stacked when full and stored for times like winter when hunting and gathering materials is less feasible. One day, I'd like to show you my little empire; it takes up half my basement, and yard!
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! I need to do this, and will be this week.
1:58 "less focused" You nailed it. I'm divinely wired less focused than the neurotypical. And I'm okay with that. 😃
😆 it’s all about knowing yourself, isn’t that right S&P! Always a pleasure to see ya 👍
Excellent lesson.
Do not ignore inventory management people. Last month I had to be hospitalized for several days because a hoard of scrap fell on me and I kept having seizures from my subsequent concussion.
Don’t let crap stack up. It causes stress and can literally harm you.
I've got a bucket for small extruded, larger extruded gets stacked outside. Weather won't hurt it, I have die cast, cast, and a rather large 30 gallon for sheet which is whatever isn't cast or extruded.
My yard won't take keys as yellow brass, so I have a bucket for keys, a bucket(s) for yellow brass. brass shells (one for those I need to decap (remove the primers) or pull the bullets from and decap and one for ready to go to yard) and bucket for red brass. Technically there's another class of brass, but the yard just throws it in as yellow brass so I stopped sorting it out.
Buckets for #1 stripped & stuff yet to be stripped. It's my bread and butter so I usually have bins, buckets & boxes of stuff to strip. Once stripped I take it down to the yard that week. The longer it's exposed to air the less pretty it looks and with some stuff I risk it getting tossed into the #2 pile as it's already a bit old to start with and sitting around a few weeks would make it look even less pretty. My yard won't pay bright bare unfortunately. I sort the unstripped by gauge as best I can.
With #2 I sort little stuff into bucket(s) and larger unstranded wire into another. Little stuff tends to get lost when being weighed if I don't. Blows out , falls out, etc. I also have buckets/boxes/bins for wire yet to strip, and for #2 that's too small for me to strip. I take that in as unstripped.
My yard only takes 1 grade of stainless so just one bucket(s).
I put the small stuff (screws, small parts, etc) of shred/loose tin in bucket(s). Take it down when the buckets fill up. I do this because a lot of that stuff gets left in trailer bed when the big magnet hits it, or falls out, blows out before it gets to the yard. Big stuff goes into outside piles. My yard only pays loose tin and unprepared steel which for most yards would be prepared steel. So those are my piles. I wait until I get something close to a ton before I bring it in.
With current prices it's just not worth stripping aluminum wire. I'd make maybe 5 cents an hour doing it.
I have bins for low grade electronic boards, mid grade, high grade generic, laptop MBs, American made MBs, Chinese MBs (there's a price difference in most places), HD controlers, floppy & CD ROM controllers, telcom boards (at least what one buyer specifies as such), HDs, CDRoms, Floppies yet to be taken apart, low grade boards yet to depopulate, stuff I need to pull silver contacts off of & silver coated pieces, different parts off electronics that need to be processed, bucket(s) each as I like to process them in large batches,.
Buckets for stuff to hammer, stuff I'll need angle grinder to process,
Lead acid batteries, surprising how many I find in dumpsters and allies. I also pull them out of things like ancient scooters and such as well as APSs.
lithium batteries, cell phones,
50 gallon trash cans for aluminum cans (they aint worth much right now, but only takes half a second to grab them while I'm grabbing other stuff and some of them are cans I drank, so I'm taking cans down anyway. There were times I was literally patrolling the side of the highway for them but they were going a buck a pound then. I was making $30 an hour picking up cans while that lasted. Anytime I found several cans together I'd stop. I'd usually find 30 or 40 after the 5 or 6 I saw from the road. I'd pick up $70-100 USD a day doing that and spend around $20 in gas hunting them. Right now at 30 cents a pound and insane gas prices I could pick up cans for a week and not recoup the gas used to pick them up. So I only pick them up if I'm stopping for some other reason or generate them at home or are given them.
I also have buckets with various useful things like screws, bolts, nuts, etc that I pull out of scrap or from dumpsters that I use eventually. Nails especially.
I have buckets/bins/stacks for various types of building supplies I encounter until I use them.
Piles for alum radiators. Piles for alum/copper radiators. AC radiators.
Piles of large extruded yet to clean.
Odd junk that might be useful to me. Odd working junk that I take out to flea market a few times a year to sell or give to friends.
I can't find #1 copper every day. Some days little to no copper at all. What God brings and the dumpsters give is what they give. If I get too picky about what I scrap there are weeks I go hungry. So I pick up anything of value unless it's going to take up so much space I don't ever find the good stuff. Bulk steel for example. Just not worth the time and effort to load it up and take it down a pickup load at a time. I'm traveling 20-30 miles 1 way most of the time. I LOSE money by taking it home in large amounts. So I just pick up a little here and there to fill up a load of more valuable stuff. It's free money that way. I was already picking up the other stuff and I just tossed the steel in as an extra. I already get a lot taking apart appliances, electronics, etc. So grabbing a bit of pipe, rebar I can't use, etc while I'm grabbing the other stuff helps pay for the gas to get to the yard. Used to actually pay for the gas, but last few years gas prices have been wiping me out. I can't drive less. I have to go where the scrap is, drive until I get a good load. Whether that's 4 hours and 50 miles or it's 10 hours and 100 miles.
I also need reserves. Some weeks I just don't find anything of value. Or like the last month I've been on crutches and couldn't go scrapping. So I take in what I need and leave the rest for when I need a bit extra. So if I need $100 for a vet bill, I'll take in my normal load and $100 worth of stuff I have sitting around ready to go to cover the vet bill. Scrapping is my main source of income right now.. I literally don't eat if I don't scrap that week.
I agree with you about scrapping metal being a hobby. Scrapping metal is my favorite hobby because I earn money from it. But all and all, I think that if someone is going to be scrapping metal as a hobby, they should have a part or full time job first. Like me. I work at Walmart as a Cart Attendant making $12 an hour. I scrap metal, not only as a hobby, but as like a little side job making a little extra spending cash. But all and all, keep up the great work with these videos. And scrapping metal. 😉
Good work Thub! 👍😊 I use buckets a lot because there's a bakery over the road from me and they are always throwing them out! They stack well and are waterproof with lids so can be stored outside to free up my workspace! I also use old milkcrates for large brass items, electric motors and other chunky scrap. 30kg of brass in a milk crate = around $200 AUD at the moment! 😁
I have 13 bins to store my scrap metal in. As of right now, I have 2 bins for #2 insulated copper, 1 for #1 insulated copper, 1 for electric motors, 1 for christmas lights, 1 bin for copper, 1 bin for a mix of aluminum pieces (I think it's all aluminum oil sheet), 1 bin for another grade of aluminum, 3 medium to large bins for aluminum cans, 1 bin for e-waste, and 1 small bin for tiny/small pieces of steel/iron, like screws and bolts and stuff like that. Now the bigger pieces of steel and iron I have that can't fit into bins, I just keep those outside.
sitting on 400 lbs of copper love this guy found 19 ps3 games this year
That looks like a good way to do it.
You can likely sell the ammo brass to reloaders for more than scrap, if you sort by caliber
Oh and you might want to try to sell ammo brass to a reloader. Not sure the market in Syrupland but in the US, there are serious shortages
Awesome video buddy that was great I enjoyed it he did a good job breaking it down my pile does not look like yours
Wow that was helpful thanks!
Super helpful ,thank you
jealous of your garage i persso freacking need one
awesome organisation skill
On my last run I got a couple of pallet jacks in a dumpster. They are incredibly awkward and will fall down on your foot or pinch your finger on the edge trying to get them out of the dumpster. They weigh anywhere from 140 to about 170 pounds( American) each. They retail about 800 to $1000 bucks new so there might be a resale market for them if you can find a buyer used. But @8.50 a 100weight....I got like 25 or 28 bucks for 2 pallet jacks.
Great video as always
Hope you are doing ok in the new ccpcanada. Prayers for you brother .
Soon I pray we will be free again.
enjoyed the video .very heapfull .
Free buckets and bins from dumpsters is key! They cost more new than the scrap! One of my scrap yards even has a pile of free buckets they get from people. Or free sturdy cardboard boxes will do.
The more you sort, the better, i.e. wire, brass, copper, aluminum, etc. like you showed.
I use the larger baby formula cans with the lids from my babies (I had triplets summer 2021) for screws, bolts, washers etc. not huge but still takes a while to fill and the cans themselves are turned in on recycle. two birds one stone!
I like poly woven sacks. Takes up Minimum space and are light allowing for higher value loads meaning more money!
I just use totes and medium-sized buckets to store my aluminum cans, bare bright copper, and different kinds of insulated copper wires in. Occasionally I might have to buy another tote or 2 from Family Dollar or Dollar General, but that rarely happen. As Thub says, "leave it better than you found it."
good video, someone's been cleaning... you're absolutely right about taking in stuff and not processing anything out. my neighbor noted another truck full of stuff going in. i'm like "yep, looks like my input is far exceeding my output". realizing i need good tools to get thru everything quickly. i've worked as a household mover so knowing how to pack is a specialty of mine, i will know when i must absolutely start getting stuff out, probably starting with the big item things like steel and tin.
i think a key too is learning how to find items that maximize weight, like a plumber dumpster getting me 10 lbs of copper and brass in one night, i mean how many t.v.'s and flat screens do you have to scrap to get that much copper? and the amount of labor involved, that's when you start realizing letting things go out dirty save you a bunch in labor.
I get told off whenever I sell some dirty metal here but it’s true, you don’t have the time to get everything bare and clean or you’ll never get through it all
I scrap at school all of the time ;)
Thub, I just wanted to say thank you for the help man, if i EVER have any questions i always come to youtube and search your channel for answers and i have NEVER been let down!!!
I did have a question, Does an engine from say, a lawnmower, go straight to alu breakage without having to do any prep? Or is there anything I should do before i take them in, I come across all kinds of riding mowers and push mowers!
So glad to hear that, and happy to be a part of it! If you mean as far as what the scrapyard wants, you need a hole in the gas tank if it’s still attached but you can just leave the cap off and pour it out. (At least I can, yours may want a bottom hole). If you mean to make more money, frick no those are awful. Sell it as breakage with as much steel as you can get away with! 🤘
Great video! Thanks
Great video
the traceys tavern of crack heads, hustlers and preppers lol great vids :)
I also throw a little trash plastic in if it's got a cord and a tiny motor like a vacuum I cut off cord cause it evens out to motor weight as steel for me at least when factor time in on either side and toss it in dust bag and all
Great video thub
Aaawwww those laptops look delicious. In new zealand,we have different grading for our metals. Heavy steel to light gauge steel,not tin,that's an old saying. #1 copper #2 then to domestic copper. Anyway I've got more of your vids to watch,hurry up and make another one. Lol
Great tips, Thanks Thub
Doin my best!
Thx thub..u the man
white and yellow brass may not pay the same prices sometimes it is better to ask how much per lb if white brass is lower you will get the lower price, try to take your multiples of materials at different times, the same with all of your materials, a vise, and cutting materials will separate anything. none of this is free if you look at the time, labor, gas, and more i have been scrapping for over 55 years and learn more every day. i do not take my scrap to one place and here in ohio they try to weigh your scrap and you have to know poundage. but they do not tell you how much, unless you go to the front office and look at the chart but it does not have current prices.they say it updates by the minute, know your tares, selling at over a 100 lbs you grta little more and so on. but it is super fun.
You have been at this awhile! 😆 I certainly don’t go to one yard either, I have my favourites but I still call around to make sure my price comparisons are up to date
Hey Thub, you mentioned cleaning some of the wire to number one. How is that done?
your brass can have as much copper as you want on it the scrap yard will love you
You are losing money keeping copper on brass. Granted, brass is about (ABOUT) 90% copper but the addition of the zinc is what pulls down its value vs clean copper. A small pipe cutter for short stubs, or a pair of pliers and work it back and forth to break it off.
Granted if you are doing high volume scrapping with sustainable sources, those few extra bucks may not be worth the time, but as a hobby scrapper, I maximize the money I get. Gas will not be getting cheaper any time soon, so I get as much back into my tank as I can.
@@NeverEvil1 wot am saying you cart make brass dirty by leaving cooper on it
@@kevinraines4318 I get that point. In the same token, you are giving away money doing it that way.
Separate the pure/clean pieces of copper and get paid more.
For the ballasts if you freeze them then smack them with a hammer, there will be a transformer in there. Nice amount of copper.. the black tar in there will fall apart
My place takes lighting ballasts as sealed units, so I just haul those in at the same time.
Maybe you can explain this to me my yard used to give the lowest prices for any type of painted aluminum now clean aluminum is lower than all painted but 10 to 15 cents a pound it boggles the mind why that is
engine ,transmission, starters alts and so on in ohio they have companies that buy those things for big monies, last time i was there a guy had a 10 ton dump truck full of motors complete and got a check for over 20000 dollars, or you can take just a starter in there, they rebuild it all
I’d love to find one of those! I know starters are pricy and the flat scrap value is pretty poor. I imagine my scrapyard does have a starter motor buyer who does exactly that
Bro how do you get you #1 tube out of the radiators?
It would probably be well worth your time to find a local ammo reloader near you to sell your bullet brass cases to. Depending on which caliber, and which ammo manufacturer, some of them can go for $1/piece. Even pistol cases go for well over scrap prices. Looked like your bag had mostly rifle cases, if those are Norma brass, you're sitting on a gold mine. But again, even if they're common brands, like Winchester or Remington, they're worth sorting and reselling.
Been slowly building on my scrapping knowledge and collection for about a year now. I've sorted some, but definitely started to realize I would probably have to separate some of the piles before taking it to the yard. This is a great general guide.
On another note, does anyone know where to get tubs like the white ones at 3:40? The ones with a small, inclined opening on the front? I would LOVE to pick up a stack of those for organization.
I wish I could tell ya where they sell them, I found them in a bin 😆
I'd tell ya to put all the wheels down flat on a pile of thin small steel with more small steel inside or something to that effect have a friend or spouse with you. Here you weigh drop all metal and weigh out have friend either unload or watch the non ferrous next to that dock and keep adding. The 5g buckets will fit in the center of wheel add nons amd a lid and can be secured with fine steel smalls. Just an idea to max your haul on 1st load my friend your yard may be set way off from mine as well so not trying to argue or micromanage or any of that just giving ideas like your giving us
In three months I have two barrels of copper wire, jumping on it kind of packed down, lol.
Sell the brass bullet shells to people that reload, you will get more than scrap value especially since supply is low
😜👍sort dat stash🤗
What is the best way to remove the tire from the rim? I found two wheels dumped in a ditch but was unsure how to get the tires off.
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This vid is from awhile back so I’m probably going to make a shorter version of it, but this is my method still to this day
What's shred and breakage?
They call it different things but at my yard ‘shred’ is ‘tin shred’ otherwise known as light iron. ‘Breakage’ is aluminium breakage, otherwise known as heavy dirty aluminium, meaning a large percentage of non-aluminum contaminants
I'm just outside los angeles and I cant find any scrap yard near me that takes circuit boards or e waste for money. plenty of places will recycle it for me, but no one takes it as scrap.
Is it possible and worth melting the tin off the copper, or desoldering the copper from the brass?
Frick no! Just cut it and separate, your time is worth way more than that
@@thubprint Thanks, I’ve only just started recently so your content is really helpful, I’m sure you get that a lot but its no less true!
I get 6 cents per pound on tin shred yet I get 5 cents per pound on adapters. It's much easier for me to save adapters vs tin shred.
My yard pays more for red brass than yellow brass, I always make sure to take a file to it to be sure what I have
final episode??:-(
How much red brass do you run into
Honestly not much at all, I think I’ve gotten three or four pieces in my life
I ain't no panda, I'm a Grizzley, and I'm not a scrap master. I'm a scrap BASTARD ... BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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also didnt touch on quantity bonus. like if you have over 100lbs of any type of copper the yard may pay more. They do where i live
What is the best way to cut wire casings?
which wires are you talking about. if your talking about bx don't cut them to long for me it 6-10foot and or else it hard to pull out especially with the paper insulation. there's also a direction to pull it out that is easier and jams less just trial and error it. for number 1 wire a knife works well my preferred knife is a dull de boning knife. if its to sharp it cuts into the copper, i also strip #2 with it which is a bit trickier but when you get the feel for it works well. For romex a knife also works extremely well slide the knife between the ground and either positive or negative. for any wire with 3wires +ground i use a snap of utility knife to remove outer insulation again 6-10foot pieces since they are twisted and its a pain to separate the wires after.
@@gargalash9191 very informative my good human thank you(I was having a problem with gouging the copper so I just need a duller knife)
Yeah, I don’t strip #2 for the sheer fact I cut the fine strands of the braid and poke myself way too much. Looks like I got in a fist-fight with a porcupine.
@@vincedibona4687 understandable my dad refuses to admit he needs a wire stripper...yet that happend alot
@@nullsnaggle5198 Oh, FTR, I use dull razor blades in a razor knife. I only occaisonally need a bandage. *LOL*
I put alot of my stuff in those Recyclable grocery bags. Ive collected them. Wire goes in clear bags. Why? Because it doesnt take up space and to be efficient. At the yard they have to dump items and come back weigh the bucket or whatever and deduct it. Thats 10 minutes!!!!
How do you dismantle your door knobs
I usually skip them tbh but I’ll slice them in half like an apple with the angle grinder and they just fall apart
@@thubprint okay
@@thubprint I gotta eventually get an angle grinder. So many uses….
I do not have a storage area....or any bin or box/ bucket system. Whatever goes into the truck has to be hauled immediately. A "hand-to -mouth existence" of scrapping. I cannot stockpile and try to time the market for the best price....OR take this type metal here....and then that type metal there to a different place....whomever pays the best for which ever particular metal. It all goes to the same place on the same day....and whatever price they are doing that day.....that is what I get. I cant hold it...and wait for the price to be right.
I'm telling you man, mercury is the way to go to extract gold. A little dab'll do ya
Where I live it's barely worth scraping. Just took a 5gal bucket stuffed full with insulated wire. About 6 electric motors.
10 clean aluminum pans. And a pickup bed full of steel. Total 35$ apx 4hrs spent and 5$ fuel. I found everything in one stop. Doing it as a hobby sure. As a living in the Hampton Roads USA area you'll starve if you have a family.
My go to scrap yard doesn't like to take ballasts.
I use 5 gallon buckets.
the length of your material can reduce your scrap price, make sure your scrap is under 4 foot and do not fold it for more monies.
I’ve been hit by the oversized fee a few times, such a disappointment!
To much for me but thanks
Why don't you melt metals like copper and aluminum to get the highest grade possible. I know it takes time and money but you would get the highest return
For copper, I melt it all. It gets rid of the soldering and the coated shellac. For aluminum, if its clean I would melt it right away and for things like black heat sinks I would remove the paint first. If you melt it down to it's purest form it will ultimately sell for more
Some yards won't take metal you've melted since they can't easily check that it is what you say it is
Iron is worth more rebar
You need to be shouting! Inventory Control! Over and Over and over, I need to hear it as I wander through the little lanes in what my kids call "Dad's Storage Unit" but what I call my shop. Sigh, inventory control, inventory control, ongoing.....
at least you can use the microwaves to chuck your small pieces of steel into, dual purpose :P
That’s what I do, rip the door off and treat it like a bucket.
Hey Honey, Why did you put so much crap in the garage?!
It’s not crap! It’s *treasure* 😁
If you ever want help identifying precious metal objects, you can reach me at my Facebook page Precious Metal ID. I teach pickers what to look for.