$7000 Worth Of Copper Wire Is No Problem For the Copper King!$!$ & A Shop Update 

I like what you are doing. I was an Allied Trades Warrant Officer in the Army. I could do anything from textile work, welding, machine fabrication, auto body work etc… This type of stuff is in my blood. I started out in trades school. Keep up the good work!

My grandma used to recycle copper back in the late 90s. She only used a really sharp hook knife and a bolt cutter to strip cable.

As always, great video! Can’t wait to see what else you turn out, out of the new shop!

Oh that's great now I just need $7,000 worth of copper and probably $7,000 to spend on a machine to help me strip copper 👌 that's awesome bro thanks for the tip 😀😀😘💝💝

Cool! Back in the late 90’s we just burned off the plastic before recycling.

It's getting there. When you get all the shelving in place it will be so much better. Good to see that office finally done. I reckon you will turn out some amazing custom wire strippers when you are fully set up. 👍

I will enjoy watching you make all your projects my friend

glad too se it comming togather for you keep up the great work.

Excellent stuff, love watching the stripping and what an amazing pay. The racking will be awesome and so handy when it's up 👍 God I love that copper!! 💜🧡

Aldo thanks for the great Videos Derek.

My dad owns a commercial electrical contracting business. As a kid we would strip that huge gauge stuff with just a box cutter. Was good money for a 15 year old.

A late friend of mine was stripping copper back in the late eighties , he was running a 3-71 GMC powered hammer mill that was capable of chewing thru large bird's-nest of wire with no problems , spitting out pieces 3-4 inches long and mostly cleaned . From there it we t into a small hammer mill that not only finish cleaned , but left the pieces about 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch long . From there it went across a vibratory table that was tapered at one end to funnel the pieces into a quart jar for transport . Above the table was a suction hose to remove the insulation and chaff . He ended up getting sick from copper poisoning , because wearing a mask would have interfered with his cigarette .

Stripper definitely the way to go. People have all these ways of stripping wire without a machine but not many people understand that insulation is different. This last chunk of wire for example you couldn't score it really. But it was the easiest wire I ever cleaned. Make a 3 in slice and pull the copper out while twisting the insulation. Did a 100ft cord by hand in 20 maybe 30 min

Nice glad it's coming together

Shops looking great now you can make as much noise as you want 👌

great show your shop is coming along big fan keep up the good work bro.

WOW what a cool cooper wire stripper machine. Guess the machine can be adjusted so you do not have to peel off the plastic by hand. That is maybe why the machine cut in multipble times. As you said fine tuneing should get it done. Stay safe and blessinges

Nice job on the big stripper,looks sweet and the shops nice.

You need 3 X 3 roll around table with 6 or 8" sides at the wire stripper to stack up what is getting stripped . This way you don't have to keep bending over . Under 4 X 10 table puts some brackets to slide round bars , shafts , or anything you want to get out of the way . On the bank draws label them and put what think will use the most at eye high .The old Beaver pipe machine would make a great BBQ spit .

Very satisfying to watch

You've got soooo many balls in the air. Keep the money flowing.

IMPRESSED with your endeavors! From an old man that has been backyard scrapping over the years. Maryland

once you get the adjustments dialed in, that is going to kick some serious copper A$$. shop is coming together nicely.

Things are looking good keep up the good work

The way he says ‘Dagggg’ - straight out of Joe Dirt lol

Great video and great job

I have a suggestion for the jaws of life I'm going to do in the future, there's a camera hip mount that you can get it takes the weight off the user for the heavy cameras.. 1+1=1

Hang on to those shop smiths they are amazing tools! I know as my grandfather had one that he gave to me! It had all the extra add ONS! When I started to inspect it I learned that it was one of the first ones to be sold! It came with hand typed instructions on how to operate it's many different tools without no diagrams or drawings! Plus it had instructions on how to build a stand to mount it on as back then they didn't come with one? Love your videos and your amazing self designed machines

Loving the new paint on the stripper. If I had just started watching I would think it's brand new. RE the springs. I see upper springs on the tighten screws. Maybe replace them with stiffer ones? unless underneath it's missing some. The side one maybe it needs springs too. Either way it's already awesome

For the output of the wire strippers put a plate with a large slot up higher to allow the copper in it and send the insulation down. Auto separator.

That is an amazing machine. I wish I had one of them

Love the Hurst shift handle

The stripping machine could use a conveyor belt to move the stripped wire/ insulation away from the moving parts of the system. Idk if that's an issue or could be at some point. 10 years ago I was big into scrapping before the prices dropped and was making 60k-70k a year and really enjoyed it. Found your channel recently and it's making me want to get back into it. Thanks!

Great video bro thanks

New subscriber. Just found your channel now. This looks so satisfying

Slowly but surely can't rush it 👍🤙🇦🇺

Cool setup

Also can’t wait to see the water sluice as I’m thinking of doing it cos I do a lot of motors and stuff so have a lot of copper dust I sweep up so would like to clean it up and be able to sell it to smelters to get that extra coin

Copper mountain well impressive. I was looking for your famous copper doughnut. That one haul of copper wire you took there takes me one year to gather from dumpster diving.

Oh my gosh this is a huuge copper score! I lik this

This is the first video that I have seen and new subscriber

Boom Copper $$$

You need a table to put the coils of wire on and cut the coils on the table and slide the wire down were you feed it into the stripper, that way you wont have to bend over and pick them up, save your back, also you can mount a pipe to hold spools of wire to feed the big stripper. The shop is looking great. The electric service needs to be upgraded to anywheres from 200 to 600 amp because you will that 100 amp service will be overloaded when you start welding and doing fabricating things and then you could use that three phase generator, so don't sell it. I knew a guy who took a three phase motor and a single phase motor and used the single phase one to turn the three phase one with a belt and made three phase power to run his lathe, because the power company didn't have three phase power were he lived and it would have costed several thousand to get three phase power to his place. Keep up the great videos and God bless you and your family.

THANKS MAN GRT BELGIUM

open belts, open gear/chain cases open roller/knives "all about safety"

You're doing alright bro! I've got the Shop Smith, Mill, Lathe, and lots of other old school tools, they are the best!! I'm surprised you can find so much scrap people are willing to sell, they can cash it in as it is for far less than what you get after stripping but people being desperate for money would make me think scrap would be hard to come by. No disrespect to anyone but please be careful who you hire and your security, when you have the ONE BIG LOAD ready to go is when someone will hit you and skip town... Great stuff, keep it up!

Love the set up, MODERNISE the new stripper would it be possible to gind away some of the grips, i would open the gap to its widest and paint the tips of the blades. Would then slowly lower it with sand paper throw the feed holes as you lower the blade showing what blades are actually used for each hole, then u could file some of them down so that would give you a set of blades since they are filed will just be extra grip with the one or 2 sets of blades per hole be used as the cutting blades. Just an idea, and thats only if its possible to do it

Old worn out strippers are to be respected but new strippers are a thing of beauty. Love the shop! The wal-dos are a perfect idea. Everything is awesome, I should be in bed damnit but nostalgic and envious as hell!

Man you got this thing running like a champ now all you need is a small plastic shredder then you can find a plastics company to buy your waist plastic 100%pay back

That machine worth well its value!

Now that's a ton of copper

love iT

I would suggest a bench brush and trash can for your assistant to sweep the 'needles' into. I bet they add up pretty quick.

Suggestion for your future wire stripper- Something that would make it much more efficient is a "double decker stripper". Like how you were feeding both at the same time. But instead of them side by side design 1 right above the other with duplicate sizes. So as you feed 1 wire in the top you can then feed another in the bottom and by the time youve done that you can feed the next in the top and repeat. Instead of waiting 5 seconds for each wire to go through you are 24/7 just feeding and it will cut down on your time from that stand point. something else ive noticed from your vids is as you strip the wire if your employees are either not keeping up or not present the wire builds up on the table And idea of mine would be to build a custom box thats like the size of 2 pallets side by side, build it on wheels and build it to match the height of the table. Then install and plate on an angle so the strippings slide down into the box. This would hopefully avoid the build up that you see at the table and would then allow you or someone else to process a box's worth of stripping's away from the machine. Keeps them safer and keeps the stripping more efficient as youre not having to stop to process whats built up on the table.

Parabens !!!

Cool 👍

You should make some guards for that asap. Cool stuff your doin but one bad move and you lose a hand. Be safe out there

Once you get that cutter dialed in to where it cuts right man I bet you could go through a lot of copper wire real quick getting it dialed in is the key

Du hast ja schon den Himmel auf Erden, brauchst dafür nicht auf den Messias zu warten ,ein realer ehrlicher ,handfester Himmel!Ein Himmel voller Arbeitsgerät,

And im here using a potato peeler but it works good too just manual force. I shredded 8lbs in 10min with a peeler. Im just starting out.

I wish I had a better set up and was able to find a small fraction of the copper you do. I do ok just by word of mouth and what I find from any demo work. I think this winter I was about to get about 600 pounds of wire stripped as well as some pipe. I will have a full weigh and cash number next weekend when I turn it in.

Those odd looking pieces are “trailer hitches” for installing ground clusters on High voltage equipment.

Can you tell me when stripping wire what percentage is the plastic coating. I have a bunch of #6and8 wire just wondering how much waste I should expect. Thanks in advance great video keep it up.

You got a lot of bright ideas ,only one problem where are you going to find the time

maibe get a schredder for the insulation , the scredded stuff packs a lot more compact and doesnt require tamping down intoo the bin

Round off the corners on that 10 ft table top......I saw a buddy slip and fall back on one of the corners on a similar type of table....it tore him up bad...just saying....love the channel and content....btw you got a lot of stuff lol....and plans , can’t wait till the shop is running smooth

Are you doing the second stripper so you can have another person stripping at same time? Or to up production of the spools. It also looks like it can do smaller wire as small as 18 gauge?!

Where can we buy the Wire Stripper that cuts the wire from top and bottom, really impressed with the end results?

Tweakers will love that thing

Copper is nice color.

Can’t wait to see the stripper man ganna be awesome

I don't have a set up like you do,but lots of hand work I just made two gran in three-days of stripping the old school way. But I don't run into as much copper as you do,wondering if you could give me some advice as to how I can get more.

Being and electrican about all my life that wire is worth twice what you scrap it for if you was and electrican but obviously not or you wouldnt be scraping wire for a living and hitting copper licks at night time lol my hats off to you if your tottaly on the up and up if your not then im sure im not the only person watching you offline..

Bro your so lucky noce setup that’s a gold mine

Suggestion! Save some room for the scrap lol

Just an idea on your 10 ft table and others ...maybe round the corners

Will your buyer take the stripped wire if you were to compact it into blocks

Where do get all your copper from?I seen at the end u said u paid 5 g for it what is that process like?

Not sure what sort of human would watch an hour of someone recycling but I will pray for you all...🙏

Nice set-up! Just please be careful with your hands and fingers man, put up some see thru guards over the chain and sprockets.

just watching the video got to the part where you saying about stuff getting corrupted Sounds like it lasted a long time but did you mean memory card not sim card

No criticism hear. Just observing. You were putting wire in two different holes. Adjusting many times. Once dialed in, two machines will be great. Right know, the big orange monster eats that stuff up. You R a worker. Going good.

You need something to contain the wire from hitting the operator, maybe plexiglass sheild

Здорово что за одну зарплату уборгщициы можно сделать такую простую вещ, сапасибки за обзор

You know you could sell the jackets off of the wires once separated. I work for a company that buys those jackets in bulk all the time. We shred them and then mix it with other pvc and melt it to be reused in all sorts of manufactured products.

The problem is you continuously adjusting it while it’s feeding you shouldn’t have to keep adjusting it and you would think that you should be able to adjust it once and get the right cutting depth and it should cut every size since the blades and rollers looked tapered or at least that how I would’ve made it waste a lot of time adjusting it for every size.. we had a smaller one that ran off a drill or you could hook it up to a little motor and once the depth was set you could put 350 in the 350 hole or 12 in the 12 hole and it would strip it didn’t never have to adjust it accordingly to size

Where do you get the copper wire & pipe that your processing?? I've done a lot of Scrapping & street picking, but looking to find a way to get more consistent on bringing in copper. Thank you for any info. Great Video!!

"wall dildos". OMG that was so funny!!! Great video

Do you want to seal the red ford I need one bad I’m trying to start working whit a truck

Do you ask your scap yard the length they want wire?

When did you get the new attachment to the stripper??? Or have you always had that attached on the right

Please let me know when you get your own wire stripper that I can purchase I mean the one you have now is unbelievable, the one I have is similar to the Blue Rock wire stripper which is not that great from what I see compared to yours. I don't have my own shop I basically carry my wire stripper which is 80 lb up and down the stairs to strip wires which kind of sucks hopefully I can get to where you are by the way I'm from Massachusetts

Where do you source all the wire?

Most of the copper scrap sellers wanted advance before inspection is it safe if not how to buy on Safeway please

Like that machine were do you get one at.

I’d flip the diamond plate to the Smooth side. Seems to be catching a bunch.

Stupid not picky point but it's a pet peeve. A Keyway doesn't fall out. A key, falls out. A keyway is the sloy a key slides into.

Ich hab immer mit ganz einfachen Umständen meinen schäl gemacht ,ein cuttermesser und eine Zange, und stofftüten zum sammeln ,,einen einfachen komodenschrank ,um meine Geräte unter zubringen ,an einem Küchentisch gearbeitet ,in meinem wohnschlafzimmer oder auf der Terrasse,,so einen Maschinenpark, nie gehabt ,und trotzdem einige Kilo zum schrotthändler gebracht und einen reibach gemacht ,

Do you have a place that buy's the plastic from you mate as I reckon you are going to have loads of it if you don't I would have a look on the internet mate as there has to be some where that buy's it.👍👍✌👊👊

I think you need to make a set of name plates for the lock boxes mate it would be easier to find stuff.😂😂 All the best from Dundee Scotland.👍👍✌👊👊 P's Matt from Nacho Stuff gave you a shout out so here I am to Sub to you.👍👍