You are the man. I was exited for my largest scrap run ever at 2400. 550 lbs of #2. Then I watch your videos and it puts me back in my place. Keep em coming always learn stuff watching your content.
Hey, it's not the quality that matters it's the si............ It was worth a try! To be fair, not many can compete with their shop but Keep doing what you're doing big fella.
im getting all my scrap together now. got a pile of wire the size of a 2 door tahoe, and 15 barrels of brass copper and dirty copper. expecting 25k+ cant wait. gonna buy myself a low mileage OBS
I wanted to diversify my my subscription feed and recommended feed. I grew up across the street from a scrap yard and found it fascinating. So that's how I found my way here. This is frickin cool to watch. I appreciate you sharing it
Wow. As an old ex electrician. In my younger day. I have stripped a few by hand. On many many building sites. 😅😅😊😊. Looking at your machine. All i could see was money money money. Flashing passed my eyes. 😊😊😊😊😊
I was going to save this content til tomorrow because I’m getting tired but then I saw Steve was going to be the special guest this week so I just had to watch😊 I think me and you have the same sleep thing going on,I stay awake until I’m tired then I go to sleep then wake up like whenever then do the same thing again,my sleep schedule is constantly in flux I don’t do alarms or hardly even clocks unless I need to get to the scrapyard
Just as an observation, the piece that was scraped up was maybe installed that way, as you can see that copper has a lot of oxidation,turning the copper dark. You can see it at 12:12 as it comes through the stripper.
@@ProjectShopFl it’s very tedious work. All the little wires. I see you ripping through finger sized wires. I feel like a 🦧, buts it’s free money from work scraps.
@@Jack_of_1_Tradepay some kid to do all that & tell him you’ll give him a cut of the money . Also if it’s small hold onto it until prices are at highs then haul it in. Copper prices are going to go up ALOT the next 1_3 years
Gotta love it when you're neighbors star t leaving you surprise scrap metal 😅 My neighbor left me some lastweek including about 10 pounds of solid clean brass.👍
its great too see the copper king at work making that money ha ha ha i enjoy all the great videos you post thanks for shareing and will watch the live feed too
I used to strip the cable that ran the equipment in the Coal Mine back in the 70's up in the hills of Virginia... Love too have some of that now with today's price...we would squat a Chevy ton truck....
Thats funny I was a concrete cutter for 10 years before I started recycling and I cut so much cable and copper pipe and never knew how much it was worth.
First time viewer. Decent video. I'd have to say that you definitely need to rethink the space, or lack of space, you have to do the work efficiently. Always ways to improve what we have how we work. Work smarter, not harder.
I've got a lot, a LOT of scrap wire so much that I haven't even messed with it. I've got scrap in every room from 750 down to #12 THHN. I saw one of these big strippers at a foundry I put high bay lights in. It stopped working and they wanted me to fix it, but the motor was gone. I offered to buy it and they didn't want to sell instead they scraped the entire machine.
@@ProjectShopFl awesome, the guy was almost going to sell it to me I don't know why he changed his mind. I have a motor here I could have used, but with no reverse option which you really kind of need.
Hi Derek. I just love watching you tweak the Copper King machine. Something about watching the donuts get huge. I can't wait for you to rebuild the Copper King and get your forklift up and running. Then you will be moving at Mach 1. Steve looks like a dwarf next to the second donut. Not a cut. I know he is pretty tall. You guys get more accomplished between midnight and 5:00 AM than people working all day. Favorite channel ever. I miss it when you aren't on. Regards, Marc P.S. What happened to the Estwing "transformer" hammer?
Here in southern WV our copper right now that is bare bright copper prices are $4.07 a pound the last time I was there a month ago and vehicles with engines and transmissions and without tires and a hole in the gas tank is only paying eight dollars on 100 pounds but appliances have dropped down to seven dollars per hundred pounds and number one copper is $3.87 a pound, Along with yellow brass paying two dollars a pound and red brass pays $2.20 a pound which is normal Pricing on both types of brass over the past three years here
I believe if my Copper King was making me that kind of money I would keep it in great working order . I’ve got 2 ton of clean copper right now and I’d say 40 loads of scrap but way too cheap to be hauling it in . I’m not giving it to them ro hard to get and come by but when prices do go back up I’ve got the mother load
We used to go in a power plant and cut the cables and weigh them in we used to get £14000 a night 3 nights a week done it for like 2 months straight shared between 3or us was easy money
Honestly, your the boss...but I just want to know how and where I can get....maybe buy some of those highly qualified copper wiring. I'm pretty sure it takes money.....just to make money. Anyways, I'm all for it....making money is my priority
With how much time you are spending handling material it really seems like you should probably just get your own forklift. Right now the market is kinda saturated with them from the yellow freight auctions. You can probably pick one up right now for fairly cheap
im not sure if you mentioned it but at 14 mins into the video you have a big pile of plastic sheathing , have you tried putting it through a garden chipper..? is it recyclible,,?
It would be faster to run through the machine but would be a nightmare handling long lengths on the back side. It makes life easier for the guy on the back side. That wire is really heavy.
@@ProjectShopFl who SA or TMR? Here on the West coast its mostly TMR bought all the mom and pop out. They ok. Some days they are weird. Some big youtuber over here keeps filming and making dramatic youtube vids so I joke with them about the guy and they like me TMR better give me Motor price for all these stators pool motors, A generator end that I took apart. Too much work to yank the copper out Was count to cut one end and try to pry bar it out
@@ProjectShopFl I know nobody will give it to you. I got confused because I thought you could only go out and scavenge copper. From dumpsters or old abandoned houses. I didn't know there was a place you buy it from.
We need to do collection for a forklift, dam you guys struggling I wish I was in you county love to come and give you a hand. Get plastic pallet bins so you can through the copper in.
4500 for a day or 2 of work isn't too bad. The only monetary cost would be buying the wire and labor. The rest of the cost would just be time. He probably made somewhere around 225+/hr.
A how do you get your copper just wondering I don't live in Florida but just wanna know if you get it given to you or do you have an account where you just go pick it up and how do you get your LED transformer too and other stuff too
our complex has and will. demo contractor they use is either too incompetent to take the copper, brass,wire or just doesnt care. his sparkies threw roughly 4,000 lbs of UF, 2 AWG,10 AWG, 12-/3 , 14/3 , 12/2,14/2 in with the demo debris. fished 80% of it out on a weekend
