Stripping 300+ lbs of Data Center Wire ; Stripmeister ; Scrapping ;  

If you're buying wire to strip, get a proper motorised multi station stripper so you're not constantly adjusting the machine for different sizes. Run that shredded wire through a second time so it has 2 cuts then the plastic will fall off it. Then you dont end up a pincushion. I run 1 wire through, then peel the plastic, wind the copper and bin the plastic before running the next. This keeps the area clean to work easier. And mount your stripper on a bench so your not getting up and down all the time or bending over so much. 1 wheelie bin for the plastic, 1 for the copper. I also wind up all my wire tightly once stripped to keep tidy and compact for stockpiling until I reach my 1 tonne goal. Hopefully you get to scrounge a lot of free strippable wire too, that's what's already paid off my AU$900 machine in 6 months! A steel pedestal on large lockable castors would suit you if you haven't a dedicated area to do this, and a tarp to catch all the little bits. Good luck from Wallaroo, South Australia! P.S. Wallaroo is on the Copper Coast, Haha!

IDK how I feel about this one. I kinda think it was a huge waste to recycle these as they're still in great condition and totally reusable. I know a couple of AV equipment leasing companies that might've been interested in them. While recycling is a good thing, reusing is much much better.

Hey there! I just discovered your channel and I'm digging your videos. I wanted to just toss out a quick tip here. I once made the same mistake that you did, overtensioning my drill powerered stripper a bit too much and cutting too deeply into the copper on this wire. I have got a very similar stripper to yours and I've got it bolted to a base that is just a section of 2 by 12 lumber that is about 2 feet long which keeps it nice and stationary and stable, especially if run running thicker gauge wire through it. I took a large plastic tub and lay the 2 by 12 base across it, and secured it to the tub with a small ratchet strap. I then reran the Wire back through the stripper with it rotated so the blade was cutting the opposite side of the wire than it previously cut. I wore some nice thick gloves and fed the wire through the machine slowly and carefully, keeping the wire turned so that the blade was always cutting roughly on the opposite side of the wire from the 1st cut. I also ran the tension of tension a little bit heavy at this point so has to make sure and cut completely through put completely through the opposite side of the wire. Even feeding the wire through slowly so as to keep it turned in the right direction, I was still able to go through it at about 1/3 or 1/4 speed compared to usual. In any case it was much much quicker than then the very slow careful hand removal of the wire from the sheath. As the wire came out of the other side of the stripper I had it feeding down into the tub. Depending on how much twist there was to the copper inside some of it stayed together in longer chunks and some of it just came apart completely into little bits once the sheath had been completely split down both sides effectively leaving 2 long strips of insulation That pulled the rat off the wire. I used a nice big tub so that there was a minimum of little bits of copper that Fell down around the surrounding area but I swept this up in under a minute once I was done. It was a couple different types of wire I had made this mistake with and this method worked best on the wire with dense, hard, more rigid plastic insulation which luckily for me was the majority. It did not work quite as well for a couple sections of wire that was more like old AC extension cords, with very soft Flexible thicker insulation. Thought I'd share in case it might help anybody in the future.

How to turn $3k in cables into $300 in scrap.... What a guy

Putting that Stripmeister to work! Those little copper spears can be awful, go right through the gloves too. I’ve got a vice bolted to a stump so that’s what holds my Stripmeister, keeping it elevated definitely helps. Nicely edited vid too! 👍

stripping wires was the first task I was given when started my practice as an electrician. i was 16yrs old and on the first dat my boss was like. alright kid here u have all these cables and I want u to strip all of them today. good luck. oh and had to do it with a knife only :v dangerous I know but basically u just cut them away not towards yourself and its just like peeling potatoes. took a very long time but a good first day practice.

Copper is at all time high prices. You should be getting at least US$3.40 a pound for #1 bright shiny. Shop around. If you have enough weight then it's worth travelling to get the better prices.

Have you ever done the math as far as stripping small gauge wire vs. selling it as dirty copper wire? I haven't, so I'm not judging, but typically anything that isn't going to make bare bright gets tossed in the dirty copper wire bin.

I guess you could have a plastic sheet down to catch all the bits from the badly stripped wire, but I can understand that it might not be financially viable. Good job with the rest and an instructive vlog, thank you.

Hard work, learned a lot, thank you.

Great video. Very entertaining & informative. I was recently doing research on best wire stripper and this convinced me to invest in the StripMeister. BTW looks like you have a sweet property to enjoy while working outside your house. Very nice!

Hey, from Deano in Napa Valley, CA, USA>. Now that's what I call a knife!! (say it like an Australian!!) Enjoyed your video and look forward to watching more.

hi country boy its mano from pakistan sending love from pakistan i wish i was there with you work with you i really very loves ya videos you are amazing very special

Really love your videos brother so happy u randomly showed up on my RU-vid feed thanks alot we would get along well

That bright copper >>>>>

Sounds like a advertisement for tools than scraping wire

Beautiful yard !

Thousands of dollars worth of reusable cables scrapped..$10 to $30 a foot and he scraps it.

So much wire! That’s awesome, your videos are so cool!

Good hustle. Man I’m doing a porch like yours myself.

Good tip on the pressure don’t def don’t wanna cut the wire along with the insulation 😩

Super 👍👍👍

Keep up the good work brother

Wow I have never seen someone work so hard to strip wire, build a fire chuck wire in when plastic burnt off rake out wire 😂 job done

Buy yourself a work bench. Maybe a picnic table,dual purpose. This could be used by all. 🐎🌻✌️

Love the copper stack the copper...etherium went from 3100 to 4k

You have a really cool bike!

You could sell them plugs and boxes on the end of them cables on eBay for some good money then things are expensive and those look pretty nice I’d bet some are $150 new per end if not more on some of them

I guess this is better than sitting at an off-ramp with your thumb out. Stay safe.

you have a cool striper wire there.

Keep on stripping I've been breaking down a fair amout of big ac units and the money is phenomenal when you take the time to break it all down

Your buckets weigh about 2lbs each. So if you use them to take the wire to the scrap yard keep that in mind. 🐎🌻✌️

That's different. My daddy used the fire pit. No landfills involved.

The red bull can crush at the beginning tho😂💯

that's alot of work for 150 bucks. Especially after gas hauling it. Auction house saw you coming.

My friend fashion out a roll feeder so you don't need to unroll everything, cable go straight to the stripper.. 🙏🙏

Cool Chanel 🤟

Hey love the video. I was wondering where do you purchase the copper from what type of website do you bid on the material.

Where I live that barebright wire is selling for $5 a pound!!!

That's crazy in England it's all bright or house hold

i think the trailer hitch on the truck and a pairing knife would have been better than all that effort just to have ruined and unstripped wire

My farther who passed this year done scrapping for 9ver 50 year started on a horse and cart he would strip wire for 24 hours a day if he had anuff of ot

Those connectors alone are worth more that what you paid for the wire!

couldnt you re use the stripper at a much lower tension to re run the cable back through, or maybe run the copper part in the stripper and let it strip the plastic of somehow? Im sure theres a way you could make that work, you'd save a lot of time and effort, you could even have a bucket and run the copper part through a little bit and shove it into the bucket, and then run the rest so that it strips itself and also puts itself in the bucket.

Alright mate great video just wondering where you got the cable striping machine from 👍

So you're taking wire that's already been processed, you're stripping it so that it has to be processed again and then re-coated again. Besides making money off of it, what's the purpose since all you're doing is forcing more energy to be spent to reprocess something that could easily be sold and reused as is.

As an electrician, with one 50 foot run of wire, of what looked like 8 wire so (30-50amps dedicated circuit) I would have made $600... So next time sell all that wire to an electrician for $1000 or even better learn to be a electrician ...

Just stumbled onto your videos.. curious couldnt u get more selling it as good wire? I was building my shop on a budget way back when.. would have loved all that wire..

A work table would be essential for this kind of work, but your stripping wires for copper so I understand if you can’t afford one

THE CAMERA WORK IS A BIT BETTER , BUT the jerky , swinging about is still there, I am only commenting because I like to watch these kind of vids , and I suffer from severe motion sickness lol. SO I have to keep pausing the vid or just turn of THIS vid is a little better with the selfie stick though so you are progressing lol

You should check out Mike the Scavanger on RU-vid mate.P's do you not collect E-waste mate some of it has gold connecters (Mobilephones and Computers).👍👍✌👊👊

Get a oil drum and burn the plastic off not good for the environment but quick and easy

Curious how you search out bulk used wiring auctions in your area. Would like to do the same in my area but have no idea how to go about doing this. Thanks.

Odd question but.... What work boots are you wearing here? I need myself a new pair and those look like they get the job done.

How do I get these auctions and will it work in any location

be careful you know that crime people will learn from you lol.

Just tuned in on channel....nice job on stripping, really seems like you made good money for a couple days work. Exactly how much did you make minus you expenses?....learned alot...

where people sell copper?

For your totals - you slightly more than doubled your money? Just want to make sure I understand what your numbers represent. Seems like a lot of stripping for final values. What do you think you would have made if you cut off the boxes and turned in as is?

Nice vid. How do you tell what number copper you have?

With them sending dope fiends to jail more often there's gonna be less meth users so this industry is gonna be wide open in many cities

Dude! Build a workbench.

How much the Machine which country are

So you needle the wire. Why strip it over the deck and not the concrete. Least than you could sweep it up

New sub friend

Anybody know where I can buy the stripmeister in europe?

Is the strip meister worth it if I get alot of Romex 14 and 12 gauge? I don't get much of the bigger stuff anymore but I get alot of scrap Romex and small THHN from my job Does it work great with it, or is it picky with small wires like other machines are?

Where do you buy this cutting machine?

So you made 100 bucks?

Get a little better one with ih its own moter and it will pay for itselfe i did and it paid for itslelf the fisrt year.

I don't strip anything smaller than #8. I know the machine will do it, but it's not worth the time to me.

We're do u go the auction

You could rather sell each wire with casing and connector for much more higher price

What type of auction did you buy the wire from?

Bro can you share the link for this stripmaster

What kind of conduit is that?

What is the auction called?

we run those cables in our crypto farm if you find more please let us know we will buy it from you

So all that work for a net profit of $200?

прикольно сдать медняшку за 5$, а целый провод бы продал за 50$ ))))

Recycle the plasrics

Im sure someone would have paid more for the way it was

All that work and having to buy a stripper to make a $50 profit? What a waste of time.

You would have made 10 times the cash if you sell the wire as is by the foot. You basically just wasted hundreds of dollars and you put effort into it for no reason

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Why are u buying wire to strip?? Ur kinda losing out on money. If ur scrapyard pay 3 dollars a pound that's nothing. U bought all the wire for 300 bucks.. ur better off looking and getting the wire for free then stripping it and taking it to the scrapyard.. go to electrician company's ask them for their scraps.. that's what I do..

Where’s your gloves ,come on

Let me get this right...you spent over $300 purchasing that wire....spent all that time stripping for a total of $450 ???? That's insane !!!!! Pure waste of time and $....Wow

Are u OCD? I see a lot of wasted energy just do one roll at a time I’ve been a electrician for 50 yrs Git R done!

So are u doing this for the sole purpose of making content and the profit doesn't matter? Because anyone watching this that comes across similar stuff. Ebay that sh#$. U would be surprised at what data cables and weird connections go for on eBay. They actually sell too. The wires are perfect with connections and junction boxes. U just tore apart something that will be need to be remade again. But probably just for the channel right lol

2 min in and your loosing money

sooooo 70 bucks?