Scrap metal small business owner i also do House clean outs. And some truck reviews.. I do a little bit of everything on this channel. I own all rights to my content me and only me. Videos and footage are not to be used with out my sole Permission.
They're great machines for sure. I also have the 2024 recon. I added the tow hitch assembly to it, front and rear cargo racks, 2500 lb winch, and sunf mud terrain tires. The brakes on the recons aren't good at all but they're light machines so they work when you need to stop. As far as adjusting the rear brakes, just tighten up the butterfly nuts by hand a few turns right behing the rear right tire. The cables will stretch out after a lot of use but they're easy to adjust. It takes a few seconds to do. I don't have to pull the choke on mine unless it's cold outside. In the Summer months it starts right up without choking it. They'll get around 80 miles off a full tank of gas, that's if you're driving it on a straight hwy. They are good at wheelies but you have to full throttle it and pull back. I aso installed a digital hour reader on mine. You can get them on amazon for around 12 bucks and they're very easy to install and last years and they're waterproof. That way you can know exactly how many hours it's been ran. The first service for the recon is at 20 hours and the second is at 100 hours. The first 20 hours is the most important oil change. That motor takes 1 quart of oil. I do an oil change on mine every 20 hours of use. The winch is just for looks on a recon but it makes them look beefy. If you ever get stuck in mud on a recon then all you have to do is get off of it and pick the rear or front end up! One major thing that you should never do to a recon is put bigger rims and tires on it. If you have a warranty on it form the dealership and you take it in for a service and you've added bigger tires to it, they will void it. I have a friend that put bigger tires on his and the power dropped bigtime. Those 229 cc motors are designed for the smaller tires.
That's an awesome load brother, had a nice paycheck at the end. Hope all is going well for you brother, my family are continuing to pray for you and your family. Take care and I will see you on the next video.
So sorry to hear about what you and your family are experiencing. I send my prayers for a complete healing for your daughter and sympathy for your family and your loss.🙏
@peanutdog2371 Where i'm at, that's not a thing.You can grab whatever you want.. But we don't have garbage like normal suburbs or towns.. Where I live? It's hard to get rid of things hence. Y I get so much.. The closest scrapyard is 45 miles away. So a lot of people are not scrapping.And a lot of old farms have tons of stuff also.. And most big businesses have to pay to get things removed
@@Adventureswithmike1bro that ain’t low at all! Plus I thought the ford manufacturers said it only topped out at 12500, I knew they were cappin 😂 I have a 2015 f250 these things are crazy beasts 👏🏻😊
Be reliable and not shady. Ninety percent of my business is word of mouth.It took a lot of years to get the respect and the recognition. Spokennoise, it's Not something.You could just jump into and expect to make big money
All that stuff is 90% trash junk your stuck with and 10% copper especially those water heaters only copper is the connecting and maybe pound inside the rest it cheap tin cardboard paper crap
Obviously you don't know anything about scrap.. There's more than just copper in an air conditioner. There's also an electric fan motor and a seal unit. A little bit of copper tubing, a little bit of copper wire. And everything else goes to the yard. Tin.. There's no waste everything.I get paid for down to the ounce..
It helps when your cutting the coils off of functioning a/c s. Also no one knows how much gas, insurance, drive time where you could be working elsewhere it cost to pick all this up.
@Adventureswithmike1 Good. So how? Commercial buildings? Big city or Metropolitan area. Because around me it's broken in half trucks with drug addicts trying to pay for their next fix..
@mechanicallycreative9788 I live in a very rural area And I have 20 HVAC companies that I pick up scrap metal for and I take everything that they have. I scrap hundreds of air conditioners a year and hundreds.Water heaters furnaces boilers.. Plus I have auto garages I pick up for and. Two auto body shops And three appliance places. Last year, I averaged just under a million pounds if Metal material
@Adventureswithmike1 Wow, they obviously don't realize the value of cleaned coils. When I worked commercial HVAC we'd take a day when we accumulated 5-10 5-50 ton rtus and disassemble them, cut the coils out ends off. We had individual coils worth thousands. We'd often bring back over 10000 dollars. It's certainly worth it as a company on the bigger units if you have a yard to store them. I could see the smaller stuff like residential nor being worth the labor, good on you. The money is in those coils, it's unbelievable how much some of them are worth. What's thr going rate on cleaned aluminum coils now?
@mechanicallycreative9788 The load I brought in the other day. I got a $1.95 a pound And that was for them dirty. It's $2.10 a pound clean. So for me, it's not worth cutting the ends off. When you're processing a lot of them, it adds a lot of time. And we all know time is money. I'd rather move on to something else.Then fight for a few more pennies. And I would need a giant warehouse to store them.Which is not feasible, just clean him up.Get the money
@@Adventureswithmike1 when you figure in the time to pick up,take back to your stash, then dismantle and separate, then off to the scrap yard. It really doesn't add up to enough compared to what I can make an hour for regular work.
@hholbrook3658 What's bull shit. Is that you don't even know? There's nothing in a dryer worth taking apart. Do you just put that on the trailer to get sent with all the other useless shit. And window air conditioners, I can easily process ten of them. An hour.. And the bigger household units are actually easier to take apart, and they're about a $100-150 in copper each And I can process then extremely fast.. Sometimes making a thousand dollars in an easy six hour day..
Yep show the time and money you spent to make it. My family been doing it a long time it comes in waves. You might make good for two or. Three years then have two or three that’s you barely make anything . As your better to sit on it an hope the price comes back.
I have been scrapping for over 25 years. And every year I make more and more money, because I get and more material.. I work more in the spring and summer, unless in the fall and winter. But most months I average over $10,000 Easy.. Actually more, but not to give away everything
Now imagine having twenty hvac companies. That give you all of the air conditioners.Water heaters, furnaces, pressure tanks and copper.And brass.. It's actually crazy
Well when you get caught putting holes in those ac units to get that money the epa gonna have all that an then some 😂😂 but hopefully your using a vacuum pump an putting it in a tank to either re use it or dispose of it correctly
What do we think? Ummm... after the haircut the gov is gonna give you on taxes.. you might break even with your fuel bill. At least in america. But id rathr be poor with guns than rich with bounderies.
@@jakelapoint I do scrapping as a business.And I claim all the money that I make.. So I'm paying taxes.. Just like if I was a small business because technically I am thanks for watching
I guess it depends on your definition of money. If your definition is a hat full of hundreds, then yeah, there's money in scrapping. If your definition is a car full of hundreds. Or a house full of hundreds, then no, there's no money in scrapping. Although I've seen entire buildings scrapped for millions of dollars. So at the end of the day, I guess there is money in scrapping. No matter how you look at it
@tgodshall2 Saying there's no money in scrapping is just plain ignorant. I guess you never noticed all the scrapyards that make millions of dollars a year that are all over the place.. They're buying it and they're only selling it for ten percent of what it's worth on the open marketThey're buying it and they're only selling it for 10% of what it's worth on the open market. That's all the profit they're making. The only thing is is they All they have to do is pay you for it and wait for the price to go up, then sell it.. Where I would have to drive around, pick the stuff up.Break it down and bring it to the scrapyard..
