When I was a little kid back in the 60s down of Houston there are a lot of neighborhoods that used oyster shells on all the neighborhood roads because there was such an abundance of them.
Love it. There is a guy running a shred machine on lake Michigan. The invasive "zebra mussels" are destroying the beaches and general environment along the lake. The guy rips them down to sand grain and spreads them out on the same beach. It leaves some perfect white sand behind. People pay well to get the service.
If you roast the shells without grinding them, they convert to lime and crumble into a fine lime powder that is great for brick mortar and concrete mix.
The 1/4 inch and smaller stuff can be used as a chicken food suppliment to be both a gizzard stone and calcium suppliment for egg laying. The dust can be used foe general animal feed suppliment for cows, pigs, humans, goats... But it can also be used to make quick lime, which in a round about way can be used in the process of smelting. So theres a good number of commercial applications for crushed shells and their derivitives.
I have seen crushed mussel shells used as a path material where I am, it's quite interesting. I guess they replenish it as necessary but it seems quite hard wearing and a way of using the waste material, see it at coastal historical sites.
Excellent. The biggest surprise for me, was the output when there was no screen in the hammer mill - I really thought that with no screen, it would achieve virtually nothing. However, for relatively brittle material, I guess you kind of only need to hit it once or twice to get the result needed.
I know that Calcium works great with Tomatoes because it prevents Blossom End Rot. I had an experimental small plot in 2024 that crushed egg shells were used and I never had any blossom end rot. People who live along the coastal area probably could find the 1/8 inch minus Oyster shell fairly cheap. But the Interior of the USA for me is hard to find at a reasonable price.
@@scuss2you can probably go to a feed store and use the chicken feed calcium supplement, literally just oyster shells. However since this stuff is so slow release, I don't think the size of the crush would matter a whole lot. You could probably get away with poorer quality crawfish shells, but that would likely be even more difficult find if you're not near the southern coast.
@@nunyabisnass1141 Thanks for the information. I have a feed store a couple of blocks from my rural home, I can call and see if they have a calcium product. I never knew about chickens being fed oyster shells for extra calcium until I watched Jason's video. Chickens in my neighborhood forage all day long. I like how they find our hibernating garden bugs in the soil.
The powder could be made into pellets. Its all economics compared to other sources. There used to be oyster shell that had to be tested for lead in the 80s and early 90s for chicken feed.
If you washed the shells prior to crushing, then calcined them into CaO, it would be lab grade. To use in cement, you have to hydrate the lime first to Ca(OH)2, after burning. Otherwise it would make really poor mortar, and you would heat burn everything.
Hi,I'm a new subscriber dude you and your crew are amazing. Found your ebay stuff and I'm planning on buying some just have to get some stuff cleared up first . Rock on guys.
Excellent. Would it make a good shot blast medium? I know they use walnut shells, but the products look fantastic Jason, well built and functional...best wishes
My thoughts…..those baggy chips you showed appeared to be ‘slaked’ by heating the shells and cooling quickly with steam or misted water..over and over. I would , if I was involved, try heating your processed chips and see how they turn out after cooling.
I don't know anything about this ,but I know if you wanted to maybe find a supplier for shells it's a lot closer to home for you Jason. There's loads and loads of them on the beaches and lakes in Manitoba Canada. If it's a matter of cost, maybe that could be better for you. Thank for the video.
He's in Washington I believe or maybe Oregon, so he personally wouldn't have any trouble sourcing spent shellfish shells being directly in the west coast. This channel is basically he making commercials for his products, which all of us love. The man is a genius for finding a way for us to enjoy watching a 30 minute commercial, lol.
Hi Jason, do you know if there is any gold in Estonia? I watch a RUclipsr (antspants) and in his latest video he was digging dirt that looked like perfect paydirt. I’m guessing it was an ancient river bed because Al of the stones were round, it looked really good. The dirt was about 50% rocks ranging in sizes from 1” all the way up to 2’ around. One area where the stone is, is located on top of a clay bed. Thanks for your help, now I will watch your video. 😊
What's next hemp oil? Today we're going to be processing 4k lbs of the finest hemp to see just how much oil we can squeeze out. When we're done we will weigh the oil and the "wasted" hemp and see if we lost any...Due to the nature of the product no smoking is allowed. lol
The shells are way too light for landscape mulch and potentially sharp. Maybe some industrial uses for bigger size but the fines is going to be your CaCO3 gold
Evil industry. Oysters grow on old oysters shells. When you remove the shells from costal waters, you forever damage the productivity of the of the resource. Sustainability of oysters depends on returning the oyster shells to the waters from whence they came.
Yerseke harbour is the mussel center in the Netherlands, lots of the pathways around the house are laid with shells that make a great gravel walkway. There also import mussels from other countries and sink them in the bay, so they become Dutch mussels. Now if I was to swim around in the bay I wonder if I would become Dutch and not need a visa, but then again I'd hate to be eaten.
This video isn't an advertisement, you aren't really paying attention to the camera and explaining it, you arent really describing the different equipment, so Im really confused by this vid. My guess is you have a couple different crushers, and you're trying each one. I am interested in the content, and hope you make some good money crushing shells, but this video is all over the place.
David, They are not trying to make money on shells. They sell the equipment. This video is a compilation of three or four videos where he ran different tests on shells. He is only showing what the equipment can do, and an interested business can get more info. He has other videos showing crushing and sorting of stone, electronics, batteries and so on.
Malithion, All you are telling me is you have not raised chickens. This is not their main source of nutrition. "Fed" is a bit of a misnomer. They have their feed and water. But they also need grit (tiny rocks) to help their stomachs grind up the food and a source of calcium to replace the calcium they use creating the egg shells. That last bit is where the oyster shells come in. I used to keep grit and calcium on the side and the chickens would consume it at will. If you don't give them the calcium then the eggs start coming out thin shelled and even rubbery shelled.
No growing up in New Mexico we had our own chickens and never had issues. My understanding is they got the calcium through the water and of course eating grit off the ground. Im wondering about the digestibility of this calcium source vs something else. Also higher heavy metal concentrations in seafoods I'm assuming its the same with the shellfish. 🤷🏻♂
@@Malithion2001 Interesting about what's needed in different locations. My well water is very soft (few minerals) so neither the chickens or me get our calcium from it. But I hadn't thought about how that might differ somewhere else. But digestibility is fine. My chickens were healthy. And they did free range. The grit I provided was just backup in case they didn't find enough in my driveway. As for heavy metal - not much of a problem I think (not sure). Tuna is known for some mercury because they swim deep and mercury tends to sink. Some tuna are down around 3,000 feet. The oysters are farmed in shallows close to shore. I've actually seen the oyster beds the shells in this video probably came from. They are local for me.
@@davidbwa Also free range i figure they eat more insects that are good in calcium. Just crazy there needs to be industrial processing for one nutrient for one industry. Kinda just thinking out loud about the heavy metals but i looked it up and it seems shellfish are on the lower side of things. But he did say it burns up the hammers every 50 to 60 tons, or 100 or so of the blue bins. So that chrome heavy steel going in there regardless. But its recycling so I'm not mad at it just pondering. Sounds like a really cool area!
It sounds like you think that mine is what pays his bills. I believe he said something about that years ago. It's the machines that pays for the bread and butter, but the mining and exploring is his dream and passion. Or something too that effect as far as I recall it.
I don't think he can be much more honest about what's in the bags. If anyone buys one it's likely they'll be sorely disappointed if they expect to get their money back. If the ore was averaging at or above the price of a bag he'd be doing it himself because it would likely be easier than bagging them and shipping them. I'm pretty sure that most buy them because it's fun.
Jason, with all due respect stick with ore processing.the other stff is not interesting Sorry but true. Processing and smelting gold is your strong suit. Mining and blasting is really interesting but oyster shells and cell phone parts are not.
When I was a little kid back in the 60s down of Houston there are a lot of neighborhoods that used oyster shells on all the neighborhood roads because there was such an abundance of them.
Love it. There is a guy running a shred machine on lake Michigan. The invasive "zebra mussels" are destroying the beaches and general environment along the lake. The guy rips them down to sand grain and spreads them out on the same beach. It leaves some perfect white sand behind. People pay well to get the service.
If you roast the shells without grinding them, they convert to lime and crumble into a fine lime powder that is great for brick mortar and concrete mix.
Mix them dry into stiff cement and the cement will be self-healing for cracks. Roman Cement
Thanks for the update. Do you actually burn them in the flames or in a cast iron pot? Asking because I need pure lime for a different project.
That was really cool to see so many different experiments.
I’d be interested in seeing your west cost growers whole operation next time you are delivering something. It seems pretty fascinating
The 1/4 inch and smaller stuff can be used as a chicken food suppliment to be both a gizzard stone and calcium suppliment for egg laying. The dust can be used foe general animal feed suppliment for cows, pigs, humans, goats...
But it can also be used to make quick lime, which in a round about way can be used in the process of smelting. So theres a good number of commercial applications for crushed shells and their derivitives.
thats a nice start, so next would be more automation and for example a air suction unit to catch and collect the superfine powder
You can screen your poultry grit size out then sell the fines as soil improver
How much gold is in them?
Only pearls
@yoyoyohihihidude gold pearls. Wow
Turn them into money and buy gold with the money! 🫡
@@williamscoggin1509 sounds like a lot of clams
He’d probably send you a 25lb bag if you want to pan it out and let us know…
I have seen crushed mussel shells used as a path material where I am, it's quite interesting. I guess they replenish it as necessary but it seems quite hard wearing and a way of using the waste material, see it at coastal historical sites.
Excellent. The biggest surprise for me, was the output when there was no screen in the hammer mill - I really thought that with no screen, it would achieve virtually nothing. However, for relatively brittle material, I guess you kind of only need to hit it once or twice to get the result needed.
The man is hustlin hustlin!!
I would use a roller mill for consistency
Great machines you got there
The finer crush powder would work well for fertilizer for tomato.
I know that Calcium works great with Tomatoes because it prevents Blossom End Rot. I had an experimental small plot in 2024 that crushed egg shells were used and I never had any blossom end rot.
People who live along the coastal area probably could find the 1/8 inch minus Oyster shell fairly cheap. But the Interior of the USA for me is hard to find at a reasonable price.
@@scuss2you can probably go to a feed store and use the chicken feed calcium supplement, literally just oyster shells. However since this stuff is so slow release, I don't think the size of the crush would matter a whole lot. You could probably get away with poorer quality crawfish shells, but that would likely be even more difficult find if you're not near the southern coast.
@@nunyabisnass1141 Thanks for the information. I have a feed store a couple of blocks from my rural home, I can call and see if they have a calcium product. I never knew about chickens being fed oyster shells for extra calcium until I watched Jason's video. Chickens in my neighborhood forage all day long. I like how they find our hibernating garden bugs in the soil.
The finest to be marketed for wild birds, chicken feed, next largest for larger birds, like turkeys, geese etc.
Roasting the finest stuff makes for a fine chalk mortar. That's how they built brick houses in the middle ages :)
That should be good material for making cupels
The powder could be made into pellets. Its all economics compared to other sources. There used to be oyster shell that had to be tested for lead in the 80s and early 90s for chicken feed.
Jason, crushed oyster shells are good for chickens mixed in feed
The dust can also sprinkled on other animal feed for cows, goats, ppl, pigs...
You should collaborate with my X. The Ex has been developing a Soul Crusher that’s ready for the prototype phase.
Lmfao
Any way to purchase some of that fine shell powder? That's great with tomato plants.
I bet if you could find a way to run the hammer mill slower that you would get more course than fine.
Thanks for sharing from Australia
If you washed the shells prior to crushing, then calcined them into CaO, it would be lab grade. To use in cement, you have to hydrate the lime first to Ca(OH)2, after burning. Otherwise it would make really poor mortar, and you would heat burn everything.
Hi,I'm a new subscriber dude you and your crew are amazing. Found your ebay stuff and I'm planning on buying some just have to get some stuff cleared up first . Rock on guys.
Gold miners can use crushed shell products i belive to use as a coagulant/ flocculant to drop sediment out of there tailings ponds
Volume by weight would be helpful I think. ❤ pretty interesting actually
Ca you smelt the oyster shell?
A difficult, necessary, imperfect process.
Excellent. Would it make a good shot blast medium? I know they use walnut shells, but the products look fantastic Jason, well built and functional...best wishes
Is this a family business Jason?
My thoughts…..those baggy chips you showed appeared to be ‘slaked’ by heating the shells and cooling quickly with steam or misted water..over and over. I would , if I was involved, try heating your processed chips and see how they turn out after cooling.
I don't know anything about this ,but I know if you wanted to maybe find a supplier for shells it's a lot closer to home for you Jason. There's loads and loads of them on the beaches and lakes in Manitoba Canada. If it's a matter of cost, maybe that could be better for you. Thank for the video.
He's in Washington I believe or maybe Oregon, so he personally wouldn't have any trouble sourcing spent shellfish shells being directly in the west coast.
This channel is basically he making commercials for his products, which all of us love. The man is a genius for finding a way for us to enjoy watching a 30 minute commercial, lol.
Need to put the shells in a furnace and make some cement out of it
your gonna have to add another m to your name now. "materials"
good job!
My chickens love the oyster shell! They won't eat any of the rock type calcium.
Very cool
Hi Jason, do you know if there is any gold in Estonia? I watch a RUclipsr (antspants) and in his latest video he was digging dirt that looked like perfect paydirt. I’m guessing it was an ancient river bed because Al of the stones were round, it looked really good. The dirt was about 50% rocks ranging in sizes from 1” all the way up to 2’ around. One area where the stone is, is located on top of a clay bed. Thanks for your help, now I will watch your video. 😊
How re seed if crush❤❤
What's next hemp oil? Today we're going to be processing 4k lbs of the finest hemp to see just how much oil we can squeeze out. When we're done we will weigh the oil and the "wasted" hemp and see if we lost any...Due to the nature of the product no smoking is allowed. lol
thanks
Imagine the smell.
Who in Western WA is selling the clean oyster crush? Looking for clean 1/4 - 1/8” , and less (small quantities for woodworking).
Did I hear "Gold ore"?
8 inch minus would go in chicken feed no problems.
Takes a big chicken to eat an 8 inch shell.
The shells are way too light for landscape mulch and potentially sharp. Maybe some industrial uses for bigger size but the fines is going to be your CaCO3 gold
I wonder if that could be used as a feed material for cement production? Although It's probably not pure enough with the included mud and debris.
It's really hard to see the Gold in the Oyster Shells. XD
Why dont you make those cone style crushers
Here we use them in our bays for renourishing oyster beds
Fla northwest
Evil industry. Oysters grow on old oysters shells. When you remove the shells from costal waters, you forever damage the productivity of the of the resource. Sustainability of oysters depends on returning the oyster shells to the waters from whence they came.
Good work Jason now run some gold ore and smelt thanks
Thank goodness we dont have smell o vision
Yerseke harbour is the mussel center in the Netherlands, lots of the pathways around the house are laid with shells that make a great gravel walkway.
There also import mussels from other countries and sink them in the bay, so they become Dutch mussels. Now if I was to swim around in the bay I wonder if I would become Dutch and not need a visa, but then again I'd hate to be eaten.
This video isn't an advertisement, you aren't really paying attention to the camera and explaining it, you arent really describing the different equipment, so Im really confused by this vid. My guess is you have a couple different crushers, and you're trying each one. I am interested in the content, and hope you make some good money crushing shells, but this video is all over the place.
David, They are not trying to make money on shells. They sell the equipment. This video is a compilation of three or four videos where he ran different tests on shells. He is only showing what the equipment can do, and an interested business can get more info. He has other videos showing crushing and sorting of stone, electronics, batteries and so on.
Cool machines. Completely useless for me though. But I'll give you $10 for one.
We do not eat shellfish.
And I don't mess with miners.
Well, how confusing that you ended up here, person who doesn't like anything about this channel or video.
Need a cover over that ogger before shit happens.
🙏💞🙏💪😎💪
I dont think I want to eat the chicken fed with this stuff.
You should rather watch out for the eggshells, those you won’t want to eat then probably 😉
Malithion, All you are telling me is you have not raised chickens. This is not their main source of nutrition. "Fed" is a bit of a misnomer. They have their feed and water. But they also need grit (tiny rocks) to help their stomachs grind up the food and a source of calcium to replace the calcium they use creating the egg shells. That last bit is where the oyster shells come in. I used to keep grit and calcium on the side and the chickens would consume it at will. If you don't give them the calcium then the eggs start coming out thin shelled and even rubbery shelled.
No growing up in New Mexico we had our own chickens and never had issues. My understanding is they got the calcium through the water and of course eating grit off the ground. Im wondering about the digestibility of this calcium source vs something else. Also higher heavy metal concentrations in seafoods I'm assuming its the same with the shellfish. 🤷🏻♂
@@Malithion2001 Interesting about what's needed in different locations. My well water is very soft (few minerals) so neither the chickens or me get our calcium from it. But I hadn't thought about how that might differ somewhere else.
But digestibility is fine. My chickens were healthy. And they did free range. The grit I provided was just backup in case they didn't find enough in my driveway.
As for heavy metal - not much of a problem I think (not sure). Tuna is known for some mercury because they swim deep and mercury tends to sink. Some tuna are down around 3,000 feet. The oysters are farmed in shallows close to shore. I've actually seen the oyster beds the shells in this video probably came from. They are local for me.
@@davidbwa Also free range i figure they eat more insects that are good in calcium. Just crazy there needs to be industrial processing for one nutrient for one industry.
Kinda just thinking out loud about the heavy metals but i looked it up and it seems shellfish are on the lower side of things. But he did say it burns up the hammers every 50 to 60 tons, or 100 or so of the blue bins. So that chrome heavy steel going in there regardless. But its recycling so I'm not mad at it just pondering.
Sounds like a really cool area!
The way he keeps hiding the processing of his ore makes me think hes scamming people.maybe that ore isnt as good as advertised
It sounds like you think that mine is what pays his bills.
I believe he said something about that years ago. It's the machines that pays for the bread and butter, but the mining and exploring is his dream and passion. Or something too that effect as far as I recall it.
jealousy is a powerful emotion.
@klausnielsen1537 all that is common sense.i know how he makes his income he keeps showing us
You sound like a Democrat trying to stir stuff up to me...
I don't think he can be much more honest about what's in the bags. If anyone buys one it's likely they'll be sorely disappointed if they expect to get their money back. If the ore was averaging at or above the price of a bag he'd be doing it himself because it would likely be easier than bagging them and shipping them. I'm pretty sure that most buy them because it's fun.
Jason, with all due respect stick with ore processing.the other stff is not interesting
Sorry but true.
Processing and smelting gold is your strong suit. Mining and blasting is really interesting but oyster shells and cell phone parts are not.
You do realize he runs a milling equipment company right?