He's the real deal, if he did make more RU-vid money, you KNOW he would just drag more old iron home. I explain it to my wife like this: it's tough to have a person be really really good at fixing stuff, without them tinkering on old junk, so she gets to look at my yard art, but when the furnace breaks and it's -40° outside, I can fix it in like an hour, vs having to wait till 2026 for a repair guy to come fix it.
Hahaha love it. The 80 year old English you tuber Garage Racing has so many spares it takes him a day to check his stock before going buying stuff...its all in front of me bro'.
It will cost the previous owner too much to clear. The work and transportation will cost more than the value. I hope he keeps it all besides of potential chemicals in the "keep out" box
Actually, he can make enough money with what's left there to pay for the property. Those diesel engines, generators, ect. are still worth money. Lot's of scrap metal too, although the prices are a little low right now.
You are an interesting human being! I like your view on things that most people would consider junk. Lots of good ideas come from your channel and I'm really impressed with your know how. You live a life most of us tinkerer's could easily envy. I would be genuinely be interested in your worldviews. Anyway i really like this channel and i enjoy your "can do" attitude " and skill set. Keep up the videos as i no longer really enjoy the videos of the RU-vidrs that have made it "big". There is a lot to be said for those that can do much with what they have. Thank you Sir!!
The bins with the train coupler are ore cars used underground. Look like 5 ton cars. If they have a wheel on the side its a camel back side dump. They were usually pulled with a large battery powered locomotive.
I used to work on those air cube compressors on offshore oil rigs back in the seventies/eighties.Fantastic machines. Huge output. Need to use turbine oil in them to stop the valves coking up.
Were the ones you worked on Joy compressors? I worked for a compressor repair contractor and he had a Joy cube looking compressor in the back corner of the warehouse. He was a Joy company service man.
I'm here for it; I cleaned out hoarder homes for 15 years, and worked at a rock quarry/sand mine that doubled as a racetrack sometimes..and had an 80 acre recycled materials section...so you could say this is right up my alley. Not to mention this is one of my favorite YT channels, thanks man.
I found your channel about a month ago and I watched every single one of your videos in order. I'm glad I caught up! I'm really looking forward to the new stuff this year.
Big metal cone on top. Curved glass walls underneath. Seems like you could scrounge up some metal beams, etc., for the structure! Going to need a boom on the half track.
I'm four plus hours from my storage. I hate the drive there....but once I arrive......glorious! Here is what happened to me. I went from being scared to leave something of value..... to wishing I could take everything to storage and only bring back the things I was working on. Happy New Place in the New Year!
Man, that place is heaven! You have a live time worth of content now! The metal alone is worth the cost! I got a storage barn next time over few years ago to clear my home. Now I spent several times a month dropping and picking up “stuff”. You will end up with two sets of everything also. Have fun!
That big thing is for air conditioning they put them on a roof and they were like a Radiator and the system use ammonia to make it work. But that was years ago. So happy you found this place great video.
as for those big cone things maybe just stand them up and cut a door in them looks like they'd make a decent little storage shed That place is going to be awesome I can't wait to see all the things you're going to do there
What a cool piece of property! I know that it is a long way from "civilization" but that is one of its best features. You can do all most anything you want to do out there! I would be thrilled to have something like this. If your RV bus can handle the road to the property, you could live on your property part of the time if you wanted to! Anyway, thanks for showing us around and please keep us updated on the progress out there. 😊
Low-Buck Garage and Pole Barn Garage are becoming two of my favorite channels and I'm not a mechanic. EDIT : That property you bought with all the rusty gold is like Heaven ! I can only imagine cruising around on your ATV going on a treasure hunt and finding it !!!
Pressure vessel at 15:58 is made by autoclave engineers, they have been building HP stainless vessels like that since the 1930’s, submarine tech and reactor tech too. That needle valve on the end is still commonly used today and its end connection is good for 60,000 psi.
Free, is always better. Casually mention to the previous owner that it they "dont want to worry about cleaning the place up, they can just leave it" you sir, are now set for life with the "low buck garage" theme. Soooo much stuff, needed a place to store "said stuff" so you bought a place with more stuff! Absolutely genius! 👍👏
I bought a place like that about 20 years ago, all it had was fields woods and a 100+ year old barn. Still enjoy going there and playing with the tractor, dump truck, bucket truck etc. Your new place comes with a lot more stuff!!! It will make an excellent off-grid retirement home once the kids move out.
The important thing about stuff is that you can never have too much of it. You may have the wrong stuff, but that just means you have to have more stuff. To make sure you have the right stuff. When you need it.
Looks like a good buy. Nice to have all that material and the land. Enough projects there alone to add to your to do list. Lots of fun. You'll be able to build a great commentary box for the race track from all the glass!
Just fell into Heaven!! Plenty of project starters and projects not to start. How could one average home brew mechanic stumble into a candy store like this!! Amazing!! I don't know what you are keeping or scrapping out, there is a piece I would be interested in buying if possible.
Your going to need an excavator with grapples and semi truck with big trailer The glass would be cool for a greenhouse or a house built into a hill. Excavator to dig out the hill. Got furniture too… hmm so much potential.
Told my wife about your move of the collection and she said "No!" . When I showed her the gorgeous property she said "Hell, no!" and her comment on the scrap metal and assorted goodies was "Absolutely, NO!". I am not quite sure but it almost sounds as if she was not on board with me entering the scrap business. On a more sincere note, not knowing what the scrap metal prices are in your area, but methinks you make the "used car price" of the property back relatively easily with the stuff that is there. Large electric motors, pumps and the 2 inch steel plate usually bring good money.
my idea would be to make a "small town" out of all the stuff that it can be more organized, so there would be a furniture store(put all the kitchen ranges, fridges, sinks etc,) hard wood store( all types of wood that isn't rotted, some tables, chairs) hard wear strore( scrap metal, drums, glass) engine yard, and then a car renovation/repair shop near where a race track in the future would be. maybe even check if there is a long enough strip to make a drag strip/ Runway. could be pretty fun
Nice Find/and buy. like you said some people think your junk is Eye Sore. but hey it's yours, you do necessary thing to find land move your junk too, but I think that stuff going be their till you pay then guy going sit till the scrap price go up, then you're going be inconvenienced when the previous owner decide it time to profit. so should have negotiated deadline or you Forgit it....
Love the new property. So whatever you don’t use as far as metal, you could scrap the not so useable metal and it would pay probably close to half of the property cost, just a thought. Lots of stuff there that could be used for future projects. I look forward to seeing more videos of the old mine property.
Love all your videos. My Dad was a farm kid and learned to fix almost anything and everything from his Dad, Uncles and Granddad...all dedicated hoarders. I'm more of a city kid but learned my DIY and Fixit skills at his knee. I'm now retired and have been looking for a reasonably priced worn out flat fender jeep to tinker on but they've become stupid expensive in my (northern outskirts of Phoenix) area. Still looking in an ever widening area. Your videos are both entertaining and instructive. Please keep it up
Oh ya! that's a gold mine of another kind! I used to dream of owning a junk yard out in the middle of nowhere so i could just build stuff, so I'm thinking you are living the dream...good find!!!
Oh we defiantly want to see more about this new property and what you can do with it. Can't wait for school to be out so you can take the motor home out there and spend some quality time organizing all the cool stuff left behind and putting together a cool shop.
I need to live next to an abandoned mine, that place looks awesome. I'd keep all the junk and drag it to one corner and call it a day. I'd try to get the ghost town as part of the deal too.
Your new property will give you a lifetime worth of videos to make. That’s amazing. I’m super jealous of your property. Keep up the amazing videos. Love them.
I have the same exact Hotpoint fridge in immaculate condition and it's still in use to this day, best beer fridge ever! Also, if those air cubes end up for sale I will take every one of them!
That's pretty I see 1 problem like you said it's far away but I guess that can be a good thing sometimes. I can only imagine some of stuff you can make with this stuff. All the other stuff you can sell, there's probably at least 10 loads of scrap to drag out that place hopefully a scrap yard is close so you can make some money for projects. Happy New Year
That would be my kind of dream property. I am willing to bet, that the previous owner is going to leave a lot of that stuff up there for you to sort through at your leisure. Happy New Year..
This is a great way to start the new year! The mine looks like a dream , I see two metal teepees,acres of useful steel, that sheet of 2” steel is peaches!
I lived in Grants for many years and when the Uranium mines shut down went to a bunch of auctions. It was a blast! These are cool leftovers from that Era!
Cool new spot!! I’m digging the industrial riff-raff scattered about. Love this channel, thanks for showing us around all your cool projects. I’m excited for that Dodge 200
Were I younger, I would like to have joined you in a partnership on the land. I love the possibilities that junk offers. Love your videos and can't wait for the next one. Sarasota, FL.
