Copper to the Moon! Don't Sell your Scrap Copper 

I am so happy for this video! Hearing "coppah" so many times. :-D

The two of us were just talking about stockpiling our copper sometime last week.. I think everybody should have a rainy day fund. ♻️💰

Imagine how much copper gets dumped.

... almost time to mine the landfills.... LoL

Greetings from snowy northern Sweden. I put some copper aside when I strip wire or crack torroids and transformers for stockpiling. Same with gold pins and crystals and chips. Yesterday "koppar" had gone up at my yard, brass also. Love the videos and very informative and I even let the ads run as they come.

I watched this video not long after it came out. i've been saving for over a year now and have nearly 1000 LBS of number 1 and 2. All free and salvaged from the scrap i've gotten.

My dad is a linemen and when he rebuilds power lines he gets to keep all left over copper,and other metals so my back yard has enough copper to wire a walmart

Damn just found my favourite RU-vid scrapper!!

My friend has 210 kg of copper welding tips saved over a 20 year period. Its his rainy day fund. Wish I kept mine

Ben you are totally RIGHT! The electric motor (or more importantly battery tech) is here to stay. I have 2 e boards and an ebike and it's only a question of time before i switch my car. Solar installations will all require more copper or koppa as you say ;) for wiring. Tesla and Panasonic are pushing hard to provide enough batteries to make all this possible. The next bottleneck will be copper. It's gonna rise for sure. I'm not a "scrapper" (yet) but i think its great how you are informing us all. Cheers man. I'm gonna rip my old tv apart now and stockpile. so i guess i am about to be a scrapper thanks to you! :)

I spit my coffee out when he said KAhpurr @25:50 omg dude I actually enjoyed this video thanks mate for the literal valuable information. Wish you well from the States.

Start saving the rare earth magnets from hard drives. All those E-car motors need rare earth magnets.

I wanted to say thank you for what arrived yesterday Ben. Unboxing video tomorrow. You are truly a kind soul, thanks again.

Copper and Gold! Love talking copper and gold!!! 👍👍

Well, since corona virus has happen the price of copper has tanked dramatically! Hold onto it till it peaks again!

Thanks for this because I work for 1 800 got junk and I have been saving copper brass and aluminium for quite some time but I don't have the device necessary to melt it down and make it into a bar

I also keep hold of circuit boards and gold platinum and silver cpu processor

HORDES OF COPPER WIRE ......THE JOY OF DELIVERING FOR HOME DEPOT.............I GET HAUL-A-WAY JUNK APPLIANCES + I have a friend that buys the older washer / dryer units for $30.00 a-pop

If you going to stockpile your copper don't clean until you sell plus if some piece of crap steals it less time you have in it Thanks for sharing

I’ve been holding mine for 10 yrs waiting for them to pay good prices again like they use to! I’ll just keep adding to my pile until that day

Another correct prediction of precious metal prices from Ben!! Price in april 2017- $2.54/lb and Feb 2022- 4.38/lb!!

I have over 7,000 pounds of copper that took me a little over 4 years of saving. I keep it locked away in my secret storage container along with special insurance for it in case it ever gets stolen. I won't sell mine anytime soon my friend. I love my copper!

I started out in scrap copper and now I'm a jewellery dealer but i still keep up with copper for a decent haul (public sector refits are great) or smaller pieces to feed the silver refining tank

Also something to add Ben. Graphene, which is the new wonder material of the future, has only one true mass production method as of only a few months ago. Due to how much potential that material has it may replace the recharge material as it is carbon and more available, however it will still need copper for mass production.

I made a crusher out of a log splitter . it will smash 50 pounds of cans into a 4x4x6 brick . It will smash copper wire , etc

Over 4$ per lb it’s doubled in price this year! Great call I’ll be stripping the night away

And something to keep in mind, that aluminum dross isn't worthless. It's primarily alumina (aluminum oxide), and that's what refineries use to produce aluminum from ore. Some scrap yards will take it straight forward, and I know a few guys who toss it in with their sheet scrap without issue.

I've been thinking the same way you're thinking for years I hate selling my stuff at the scrap yard because I know someday it's going to be worth a lot more so I don't sell much of it I don't do much picking up of stuff but I do save everything that I come acrossed

Greetings from London in the UK, want to say thanks for another great Video, and will keep the ads rolling !!!.

If this it true Ben, then you should strip all cables and keep the copper =)

Love copper it's been so resourced to so many sectors it's like poor mans gold to me anyone can collect scrap from so msngr things consumers overlook

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks the copper will go to the 🚀🌚

Ben you have some interesting comments. I live in Tucson, Arizona, USA. There are new copper mines being developed here, right now, as well as in Australia. I used to work in mine research and development. One of the things you might find interesting is that a lot of copper mines mining expenses are covered by copper byproducts. Gold and Silver are common byproducts that greatly reduce the cost of mining copper, and there are a lot of other minerals as well. Since you mentioned our President, he has raised import duties on copper, making it cheaper to mine here. I expect copper to go up over the next two years. Not because of running out, but because of higher overhead. I believe it will go up maybe 25%. I enjoy your videos.

Not sure how I got here but I hoard copper have you sold yet lol copper got to over usd$4.00/lb down a bit now I'm still holding strong good video thanks

Just cleaned out a house of a scrapper. He lost the house because he couldn't pay the mortgage. He had ingots of copper, brass and aluminum in just about every room. We estimate there is around $45,000 in scrap. More than enough to pay off the mortgage. He lost it at a sheriff's sale.

Wish I watched this 2 years ago so I could've told you what was coming today

good information, thanks, I do metal detecting once in a while I find copper pieces of pipe n I also find brass, keys r also recyclable.

refrigerator evaporator coils are almost pure aluminum.. i have melted about 50 now, almost no drauss. cans suck..lol i am a appliance repair man by trade for years i threw them away . not any more.

April 2020.. Def don’t sell it now compared to where this video began on “mining supply running out” 😂

The United States is self sufficient in copper and on top puts out around 8% towards the rest of the worlds demand for the highly abundant metal...Ithink this dude just likes to hear himself talk.... 1/3 of new copper products come from recycled material..Alaska also has solid mountains of copper still......just look at the kennecott mine in AK.. J.P. Morgan built a train track that had to cross over 1000 rivers and gorges just to get to kennicott mine (literally a solid mountain of high grade copper).. I grew up there and it’s a tourist spot now....but back in the day it was quite the northwest boomtown full of wealth, miners, debauchery, and coppah.... salute

This should have come true...its 2 years later since you've posted it. Haven't heard anyone say this either. I call bs

I usually go for the osmium.

Good job Ben, the thing is that money is the worst stuff to have, it loses value faster then anything else.

Interesting that you talked about Cu and Al today. I made an Al run today and brought in some ICW and transformers - all from that electric meter calibration box I paid $0.50 for. My yard classifies by: heat sink, extruded, cast and breakage. And transformers as Cu or Cu/Al. Added up I made $85 on that one purchase.

I melt my scrap copper into neat skulls, one weighs in at 4lbs, lol, hell yes I save all the copper I can

Looking back he was right the price in 2021

I find alot of washer/dryer motors w/ aluminum windings.

Went online and right now where I live it is $2.90 lbs and when I called the local yard, he said they are taking for $3.10 lbs CAD, he said they have been just bringing it in and shipping it out the next day because it is needed that bad right now. Just think in the new year

Pick up a chunk - twirl it a bit - drop back in bucket - repeat over and over

🇺🇸Greetings eWaste Ben. Than you for always passing knowledge/blessings forward. Be safe,healthy &blessed always

I have scrapped for the last 30 years and used to believe in stockpiling ! The cycles seem to last to long now . I would say just sell and invest the money in the market right away .

Thank you!!! I have felt this myself and you have confirmed my thoughts (as too other commenters here)

Awwww!... thanks man. You make quite a lot of good points on the potential of both copper and gold.

I go to the scrap yard every month I fill up a 55 gallon barrel with number 2 copper about 300 pounds worth I try to stock it up but I never can

Thanks for your superb knowledge Benny, love it.

WHERE AND HOW DO I MELT AND FORM IT?

Sadly ran into some financial woes so loading up 1400ish lbs must sell. Wish I could keep holding it.

Great video bud I'm from Ireland I do the same as u keep the copper it has to go up mad good video keep it up

I burn the insulation of mine.....its 2.60 cents per lb now. I used to take time stripping it....buring works better and you dont lose any. I sit on my non precious metals and if the prices are good I'll get rid of the precious. I work full time and scrap on the side. My pile is my bank....its sad that prices are shit....4.00 per hundred on tin...7.00 per ton for number one. Great video Sir and greetings from Pittsburgh Pa USA..

Nice I'm gonna need to build a bigger shed.

Just started my coppah pile also working on aluminum peace

Great will keep piling up the scrap copper tube

Nice video I learn a lot today.

Only thing im selling now is parts and steel/tin. Holding batteries, copper, aluminum, and cat converters.

Plenty of ore left in the Copper Belt, just needs a little higher price for the mines to start to think those reserves are worth the mining, and that will come on line fast as the price rises.

Great video. Ketchup! Huh! Who'd have thunk! But you never said how much ketchup to use!

Ben!!! 3 years ago how's that Copper horde looking? paying 2.80 a Lb in the U.S. today for bare bright #1.

Cant beat a good load of bright

eWaste Ben, Very interesting point of view on the copper price, everyone will be watching with keen interest.

Copper might run out, its a concept called peak copper. If oil ever peaks and we need more electric cars or electronics, then copper will definitely be worth way more. When will it happen? Who knows, but i think you are on to something Ben.

Time not to pass on CRT televisions. I have 5 ready to scrap right now!

xlovinit, clean/bright copper is always bright copper even if it tarnishes with age over time.

This video is a couple years old, but what a video it is! Fantastic knowledge, I'm always impressed with e waste ben. I too believe gold will shoot the moon and all of my scrap copper goes on gold. I'm 36 y/o and even if I'm 46 or 50 y/o when gold takes off, I'll be very rich because im stacking plenty of gold. The only downside at this time, Covid19 is really messing up my scrap copper collecting. I think the plumbers and electricians are out of work so they're keeping their copper. Damn Covid! But I keep going. There's still some copper out there if you're willing to go and look.

I love your optimism but 30000.00 oz? Maybe 3000.00 I agree with you about copperrrrr I'm saving all of mine for now and my ram too

Very informative, a must watch again and take notes for myself at least.

Hello. I am from Poland the price of buying copper is PLN 20 (about US $ 5)

Thanks. This does give me a direction

Copper is categorized as a precious metal

Copper sells for 8€/kg now, definitely was worth holding

24:49 "...or CAHP-PER." I ALMOST SPRAYED WATER I WAS DRINKING!

copper spot as of writing now is 3.5 USD/lb, i'm not selling yet, waiting for +4 buck/lb

dang, i just scrapped roughly 60lbs of brass and about 95 lbs of copper...

If you're running out of space or never had any to begin with what you can do is cash in your copper and buy silver ingots with the money. Think of it as "compressing" your metal. You're trading the second most electrically conductive metal for the most electrically conductive metal. And at roughly one hundred times the price it takes up one hundredth the space. And you're still satisfying the need to have some of your assets in the form of a chunk of metal. The only possible negative is if the price of copper goes up and silver stays flat or goes down. I personally don't think that's very likely. Half of the silver produced today has an industrial destination. Cell phones, solar panels etc....

If not the scrap yard where do you go get the most $$$ from ?

I'm glad my copper stash is growing steadily. Would love to get my hands on some of that old RAM for old PCs hah.

Should we get the cash for copper and invest that cash or should we save our copper for a future date when copper skyrockets in price? Which would be more profitable?

I can tell you where your resourceful scrapper is getting his copper wire from... out of houses, new housing estate that have had the wiring run through th3 walls but not yet connected

Pre 1982 usa pennies are worth atm 1.9 cents almost twice face value :) been getting a few bags a month from the bank for about 4 yrs i pull out everyone and just keep filling my buckets :)

The reason the gold rams are only $12 a lb in the US is that the gold CT is only 12CT it's not pure gold 24 CT if it was then yes you would get $300 a lb. No computer company use 24 CT gold in any of there computers.

my father and I work on job site's and we get a lot of copper

Literally sleeping on copper will be a good investment make a ingot bed!

Hate to tell you my friends but if you melt your copper you're copper you no longer are allowed to sell it as copper to scrapyards they do not know what you added to your copper so they will not give you copper price

Hi mate great vid,im a scrapman from Dorset England UK,do you realy wana now why ali is worth so little but should be more?ill tell ya if so!

I definitely do not sell any of my copper but I'm not sure if it's going to go up in value as much as people think I hope so but there's a question mark there I say that this video was 3 years old I would say maybe 5 to 6 years from now then maybe we can make some real cash

Machine copper bars more valuable or same as hand poured ?

Thanks for the info,good stuff

Copper is the new Gold.

A year later I’m getting less than $2 a pound. If a war breaks out the prices will go up.

Im getting $5.45 per pound rite now in Ontario Canada

another fantastic informative video kind regards Ben .Tim