Massive $18,500 Copper Pipe Breakdown Pt 1 

Well who ever came up with the comment saying WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER must've been watching your videos, cause I've heard that for some time now and haven't been watching your videos longer than I've heard that, but you sure do work smarter and not harder. This was a great video, can't wait for part 2

Wow ! ! ! That was some awesome load of copper. I'm ready for part 2 also.

That was freaking AWESOME!!! Can't wait for part 2!!

Fantastic job, as always 👍 Can’t wait for part two and other content from the new shop 👍👍😃

“Leave it cleaner than when you got there” …you were SO close! 😆

Nice score..... it always amazes me how much good quality copper and brass is out there just waiting to be discovered 👍

Wow, your new shop kicks butt. Always looking forward to your videos.

I'm amazed at how fast you said that the did each step; it would have taken me 2 to 3x as long. But you look like you know what you're doing, to say the least.

Always amazing to see how you think of ways to improve your process. Thanks for sharing! 😃👍

Weld and sharpen a piece of flat plate to the power hammer attachment you made and it will smash the pvc off as you scrape the pipe. You could also set the depth on a circular saw make your four cuts and she should peel like a banana while you scrape. 👍 Channels awesome buddy I’ve definitely learned some new tricks

I'm a painter and one job I was on they was tossing same thing in dumpster. Nobody wanted it. I took it cleaned up like you did. Sold it as reclaimed copper pipe. Made 3 times what I would made scraping it . That when #1 was 3.50 lb

Ripping copper out of stuff should be name of your compagnie a big publicity board in front of your shop good job scraplife!!! Living the dream

Apart from the mess you are probably doing it as best as possible keeping it simple. You could possibly replace the recip-saw stage with a hot blade like these two. 👍If those 2 amazon links don't show let me know as often, links seem to get deleted automatically.

What an awesome find! Great job I learn so much from you. Such as your business dealings and your processes for breaking down scrap. Also I like that you clean your copper up so good. Keep up the good work!

Please please PLEASE show the scrap yard run for this! 👍🏽🇺🇸

Tough job man. I think you did it the best that could be done. Some jobs are tougher than others and this was a difficult one. Well worth the big payday. And like you said, good to get this with all the start up expenses of the move.

I like to call days/projects like that "earning it today" and "by the time we're done, we will know the best way to do it" great work, excited to see breakdown and payout. Extruded Al is stupid money now, I am looking high and low for as much as I can get my hands on!

Sure would like to see the math on scrapping it without cleaning opposed to clean pipe then taking your 5 mins per pipe and see how much per hour you were making to clean it. Sweet find . Thanks for the videos brother

man what a great find and great scrappin video! That wire brush on the grinder was the ticket!

That JAW is awesome. Cutting the big one's. Nicely done sir.

Adding the rollers is a nice touch

Bro! I wanna give you the nickname "Nordic Gold Viking" you have obtained, cleaned up and sold more Copper then l have ever dreamed of. Have a good one!

Hey just as a heads up you got to watch out for asbestos on this stuff. We’ve taken out 1000s of feet of old hydronic piping with insulation and a lot of it had hot mastic on the pipe insulation.

I wonder if running them through a bandsaw would make that first step easier/quicker instead of the reciprocating saw. Good work man. Monotonous work pays off if you have the grit to do it.

LOT WORK , LOT EFFORT MAKING HONEST LIVING BEER'S FOR THIS GOOD MAN ON ME AND A BIG LIKE 👍

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Bild a press that can accept them in 2 or 4 ft sections and press the copper out while another guy cleans the copper then stacks it.

Whenever you’ve got the trailer I know it’s gonna be a great day 😁

when i went back country camping we had to drive for an hour on a logging road and it looked like everything on this new dodge was going to shatter lol

Someone else said steel wire brush, they make those for trimmers too... those new high power 80v battery ones are pretty good, but I still like those Redmax 29cc commercial trimmers, they rip and would make short work of a lot of jobs if you make a mounting plate for various blades and discs, or those wire wheels bolt right up to the stock hub.

Make use of the pipe bender as a chuck and rotate the pipe as in a lathe, fix up a sliding knife on a six foot section and turn the insulation off as you would in a wood lathe, that way you could cut precisely to the surface of the pipe and minimise waste.

Nice one 👍

Dang lovely copper 1 pipe like that would be like finding gold here rare as hens teeth

I think I would feel better if you release an hour video everyday

Great job man ;andprice is going up spectacular,now here in Belguim now is 8.10 euro a kilo for copper nr 1,it was never so high.greetings from Antwerp Belguim.

A bell wire wheel would take that write off i think man you are a busy boy

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Should try STEEL WIRE BRUSH Disc for Angle grinder instead of Sand disc...

I would build a roller assembly an your ten ft table (motorized) to roll the sections for you while you run the tools, back in the day I'd probably have used a weed Wacker edger I converted with a custom hub that held 7" cutoff wheels, 7" metal saw blades, those Lennox Max diamond metal wheels would work great, especially if you had the pipes turning somehow. That tool obviously wasn't very safe, but I used it in the field salvaging properties and contents for 10 years, as well as at my little scrap business.

Awesome!!! U found a little gold mine

I was thinking something along the lines of a lathe, either metal or wood, wouldn't really matter. That way you can also keep the job spinning for a final pass with your paddle grinder. The problem is also that you'd also need to buy a lathe which is just more expense and I doubt it could be justified if you aren't doing these sorts of pipes at least semi regularly. Just my thoughts.

Dam bro!! That's beautiful!! Love it!!

4" copper pipe can run as high as 15bucks per foot and 3" can be 8 dollars. ... contact local plumbers to sell to

thanks you taught me a lot here in dublin

a table saw with your fence set so the blade is 16th of an inch away from the pipe. To clean the remainder clamp 2 7inch angle grinders with wire wheels facing each other. like a knife sharpener. Then spin your pipe through them

WOW! Loved watching this

I'm so excited for this vid.

make a band wrapped around the pipe, run power thru it to heat it up and sllide it down mellting it off the pipe.

Looking forward to part 2. How many sawzall blades have you gone through so far?

been waiting for this one. awesome

Sweet! Love the process!

Dude I can't wait for pt 2

Great score! Looks like easy way to do it with hand tools. Although I would've probably just ran a skill saw down opposite sides of pvc and than ran your homemade power blade tool down those cut lines. Hopefully a touch faster with less mess dropping both halves off.

Man nice score on that coppers.

I think I would have just got some gasoline and diesel and set it all ablaze. 🔥 no way the PVC and foam burn them is > copper melt temp

Exciting!!

Great video! Keep up the great work

Now that's a nice haul

Great video

Love your videos, i have learned quite some tricks from you sir, thank u👍

Portaband would have been way quicker than a Sawzall

I was thinking you could streamline the process by making a round jig with an ID just larger than the Copper pipe OD, then weld on a few blades on the outside, maybe stabilised by another outer ring that would allow the OD of the complete pipe to enter inside it. Then you could force the pipe through this jig, much in the same way a Log Splitter works. That would take off the plastic pipe and insulation in one pass, then you would only need to give it a quick blast with the flap wheel afterwards. You may need to cut the pipe in to shorter lengths to do this, but you are cutting it afterwards anyway in your current method. Waaay to late to try now, but maybe next time?

Very very nice work and very very nice video idol

Nice job I hope you get paid very well👍💯

Very nice find'$

yeah the lathe idea my first thought but would need 5hp min. and special diy cutter, at least when using sanding disk as just hold there instead of lugging across entire surface of each. I'd make bars with a Fresnel furnace and the hot FL sun.

I work in a factory. We make copper tubing. I probably made that tubing

Maybe cut them into thirds first then you can use a regular band saw. It should cut down on the dust compared to a reciprocating saw. A porter saw would probably tear off my arm after about an hour into it lol.

great 2 watch this ace work

if you could flatten them somehow after you take the pvc pipe part off then you would only be dealing with the top and bottom, drving over them with something heavy maybe

Kick ass my man. I hope you smashed it out of the park with that money.

Awesome work bro.

Nice work good way to do it 👍

My dad used to hook his arc welder up to both ends of a pipe to WARM it up then pull the pipe out of the insulation. Would that work there? DONT CATCH THE PLACE ON FIRE!

If u would have cutter on side of chipping hammer attachment up might not have to use sawsaw skip0ing step

Great work effort and good technique /cheers ScrapBongo

What do you have to do to get a supercharged Mercedes? Work hard. Nice.

Make a jig with razor blades or knives on all 4 sides and slide them through it

Hedge trimmer but bye metal blades seem 2 work also !!

Hey im in jersey. I got some ideas for you and maybe you have some for me. Your videos are extremely interesting. You did the pipes the right way. The only other way is attacking them like they are hot water heaters. There is a blade that skins the pipes in one shot.

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I have seen some where, a hand held 3" belt sander that would be better than the flap wheels. I believe it was 300.+ bucks.

How about find a pipe with inner diameter same as copper outer diameter bevel end to sharp cutting edge and push copper pipe thru it. Could try casteling the end of cutter pipe if to hard too push thru .

I mean if you had 2 or 3 people helping that just means you're making less money for yourself. :D

Is that 11k profit or gross? What was the hourly on this?

What’s the copper pipe worth as used copper pipe?

Did you get money for the PVC too?

Could you cut 2 sides then use the hammer drill to take the rest off? Just a thought that may help save time

New subscriber. Anyone who is in Florida gets my attention. I lived n Siesta key while I went to school at USF for chemical engineering. I am changing careersand starting a machine shop/mobile welding and fabrication business. I can't wait to come back down to Florida!! Last time I was there we swam across the Manatee river.....snakes and gators..... Can that stuff be dissolved in acetone or some other type of solvent. It might help immensely.

probably would be a good idea to catch the copper dust flying off while using the flap wheel.

Good size pipe but what is around it asbestos

all that asbestos being pumped outside .or i may be wrong but old ac pipes the insulation around them contained asbestos.

I knew a wire wheel would be the way to go! Less material loss then flap disks and disks prolly were burning up quick. But somewhere there is an AC guy dying watching this. I knew some guys that would retrofit cast iron to copper for huge water chiller ac systems. Like the ones for PBG mall. They even may have liked them insulated.

How about try making a Hot wire cutter?

Why did you stop using the chisel though it be better than the saw

I know money is money. That said, please tell me your going to make a copper bed frame out of so of that. So you can dream of copper every night.

Hi sir where can I get cutt of jar from

That’s a beautiful thing 😍

That is sweeet but MESSY . If you already have a porta -band give it a try on the small ones but those Torch blades seem to be working ok . Are they paying #1 ? watching at work low sound

I’d love to make a wind chime out of a few of those pipes. 😍