Scrap Marathon of everyday work, cord cutting, scrapping e-waste & scrap metal yard visits. All in a weeks work. To contact me by email: weeeben@optusnet.com.au Keep scrapping & Have fun!
I scrapped for twenty years, maybe a little longer, but now I've got arthritis in my hands, knees, my hips, my lower back, not counting all the other problems i have, course I'm an old man now so all that has caught up with me. Over here in the states, mainly KY and Ohio, but I took everything that I could get a buck out of, you know, but I had several pickup trucks so I could take all the appliance/shred steel, and heavy steel like #2, etc etc, and all the non ferrous stuff I tried to save up a good bit before I took it to the scrap yard. There was good money in it, better than what you could make at a regular job, working for someone else and I had money in my pocket everyday bc we tried to go to the scrap yard at least twice a day, mostly once a day though. That's another thing too, scrap prices went up and down all the time seemed like, sometimes it was better than others but your right, it will beat you to death after a while, hard on the hands and everything else but God i miss it, haha, I miss the money more than anything, well it kept me in shape, as good as shape as one could be i reckon. But I've been disabled for about 15-16 years now and unable to drive, what a bummer!! Anyhow, I'm rattling on , good deal mate, I just found your channel and subbed you, at least I can watch someone doing it and think of the memories. Lol! I'm sure there's a lot of guys over here that probably has RU-vid scrapping channels, i just never thought about it till I saw you doing it. Anyways have a good one mate!
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For processing lots of cable by hand, don’t use side cutters, get a Knipex hand held wire cutter, same size, about a third of cutting effort, if that.
Plus he also had like 3 more full bins out the back full of cable and lots of cable in his shed. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gowgx4RXapk.html
Cable and Wire Processing and a few Trips to the Scrap Yard ! Pick Up with more Cable and Wire - the Scrapping Hamster Wheel is Turning - ha ! Yes- GOOD Money for all Your Cable at the Yard - not Bad at all ! I buy lots of Silver ! Cooper Iron/Alu Sell - wow - You had lots and a Nice Payday - see - all Your Hard Work is now Rewarding You - well done and many Cheers from QLD !!!!
Love the marathon. You also have converted me, as I now know the system of my local scrap yard. I role in, know where to go, get in, get out. And chuckle at the new people and their first time. I was there not so long ago. Cheers Ben!
He is keeping some of the material out of landfill, but it is more about the sorting and processing resulting in the re-direction of material. He is doing synergies which turn over money, not just turnover in terms of personal income, but generating economic turnover as such.
Wow a long video some scrap runs and the potential for street scraping coming up this has been a wonderful video thank you for sharing this six stars brother
Hi Ben, Awesome video! You got me motivated to clean up 50 kilos of power cords! Yaaa! Next job is to sort and de-populate about 150 kilos of mother boards & router boards. Thanks! Love your longer videos. Take Care, Stay well! Jim
I watched this in 2 parts because of work etc but loved it. As you were delving through that copper bin I could feel my pulse racing lol! I know you're too big a scale to bother, but I did a video a while back experimenting and found that if you leave copper with green Patina in cheap cola over night (and I mean really cheap, 19p for 2litres) it literally strips the copper back to bright copper. So for £1 you could make a big copper tub bath and clean it all up with zero effort to get more for the money, well worth doing for some. Anyway, your tubs at the yard looked great!! 🧡🤍
Great cable jackpot👍💪💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵 from the hospital, great junkyard, you can just walk around the scrapyard for a bit to see what they do and what kind of machines they have, it's interesting with you, your videos are great and if you pick up the things from companies If you would also like to put more videos online, I would be happy to watch them
Hey Ben, I'm just curious is how long it would take you to fill a 1-gallon jug with those little tiny screws that you come across every time yeah let's see how long it takes you to feel one gallon jug with just those little tiny screws that would be cool as hell 2 see.
Ben, There has to be a small foot or hand powered electrical bench shear that you could buy locally that will cut off all cable ends efficiently. Save your hands buddy! Processing cables should be an easy sit down job that could go swiftly with the right shear I would think! Do you have a local Harbor Freight or equivalent tool supplier near by?
hey Ben, your doing a lot of cable cutting in garage, that's quit a bit strain on your hands there like you said. I would use some kind of electric cutter with a push of a button.
I didn't notice the orange board tubs. You not using them anymore? LOL my mistake. 🤣🤣. Loving the videos. Keep them coming. You're giving me quite the education.
I have a liad of compressors for air conditioners her, I've done quite a bit in the past and forgot what I turn out per unit, Radiators, insulated wire and the winding from the motor, also copper tubing and clippings from the radiators. I used to get $1.40 PER lb. On the copper alu. radiators so thinking a little over ten bucks per ac unit. Maybe more, but was worth it for me. Now I have space to do alot more room for scraping now .I don't burn my wire at all, I do buy it from folks when they get it from a house fire.
Hi Ben I hope someone would come up with a way to make a machine that would cut the plugs off the cable ends so you wouldn't have to use pliers any more and it would help save your fingers from cramping up all the time. I love watching your videos and I love listening to your Australian accent, it's really nice. Thank you for the marathon. Please keep em coming!
Ben take care of your hands , because I was once a pot washer in a merriot by hotel I wast pots all day long a d my hands couldn't deal with it my hands started to lock up
I do wonder if cutting through the moulded part of the plug instead of the cable just puts more strain on the fingers than the extra couple of mm's of cable is worth the strain on the hands?
Man I thought it was live the notifications just came up but it was 19hours old ohwell love your videos mate I try my luck up here as e waste nafe not much but street scraps but I get a bit done 450kg/$396 in the last 3 months mostly just the stuff you would go for and I've got a couple tubs of boards I'm saving up
M8 I saw you fill the pc with plugs y I do that bu u put a few in there that had transformers in. Smash them open and just cut one side of the copper wire transformer off with a grinder and knock through with a punch; it’s all no2 cooper may not be worth your while with this pickup but it’s still coppers save and melt into bars.
Hello Ben You should get some small cable clippers and a small one you can still sue with one hand. They dont give me hand cramps. They cut rather than clipping/snipping or what ever its called.
Get a dedicated spot to process wires and mount a pair of cutters to the table so all you have to do is push the handle instead of squeezing. Should save some stress on the hands.
That cable haul still blows my mind. Have to wonder if my house is gunna be like that in a spare room some day. Can't bring myself to toss a lot of old stuff out if it's still useful, I'll be working through old PCs and next thing I know there's dozens of spare PATA cables or something lying in a box for years lol
Have you ever tried using "a Bench Hand Shear 5" Length Sheet Metal" for cutting the plugs off you could easily do multiple with something like thiss? Much easier on the hand
Those older workstation PCs aren't catching great prices because there's a huge abundance of them now and some sellers have raced the prices way down, looking to sell them quickly. Most of them aren't upgradable due to form factor issues and most people looking to buy used parts aren't interested in whole PCs. However, people are interested in bundles of parts that need to go together, so you can usually sell a CPU+MB+RAM combo faster than the individual parts. What you had was a regular aftermarket board, and those are often more in-demand than CPUs. CPUs are very unlikely to fail, so after 6-10 years there's plenty of CPUs but not that many boards, and the boards aren't being made anymore. Also, I think it would be worth getting electric shears for all those cables. Save some effort short term, health benefits long term.
Hello Ben,,, sitting in the garage stripping copper from torroidal transformers and video in the background. Big apetite kids,,, two teenage boys going to the gym 5-6 days a week so food doesn't last long here 😅 I gladly take that instead of them gaming and shouting at the computer 👍
ben was wondering what low grade boards go for were you are at? my yard doesn't want boards in shred steel. here in washington state shred is only 140Ish while lowgrade boards have been a steady 15 cents per pound
Is there a discord for scrappers, I need a place to ask questions and learn. Also why are the blue wires thrown somewhere else, are the blue wires not copper?
