Massive Can Meltdown - 8,000+ Cans Melted For Pure Aluminum - Trash 2 Treasure - The Growing Stack
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- I got a gaylord of cans from my buddy who had been saving his cans for a decade. It took me 40 hours to melt down this massive amount of cans, and another 10 hours of cleanup, editing, and side work on this project. I hope you enjoy this massive can meltdown to end all massive can meltdowns as much as I did making it!
-The Growing Stack - บันเทิง
Your buddy needs credit for not littering all of these cans throughout the years.
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That's a slow Tuesday
I think we can all agree that the most impressive part of this video is your perseverance. Thanks for the entertainment!
totally agree
I think we CAN!
I agree, but the shelf comes in second for how well it handled those ingots.
I hope they was all aluminium 🤣
Agreed! I would have lost patience during the counting session.
That shelf is so gonna break at 3am and scare the crap out of you. Great video!
Loved how you could see the shelf bend an inch or so at the end 😂
This is by far the "greatest aluminum can meltdown" on TH-cam... Thanks for the time and effort you put into this project... I love it to "DEATH"
Thank you my friend, it definitely took me a few weeks to fully complete, a ton of hours on top of just the melting and I was really proud of the end result. I’m glad you liked it and share it if you “CAN”… I know I’m cheesy, sorry! Thank you again 👍👍
@@TheGrowingStack I give you a like just for the cheesy pun.
@@aaronburdon221 me too
Hey all you beautiful people! This was a MASSIVE project that took me a few weeks to orchestrate and conduct, and cram into just under 16 minutes. Melting cans takes a long time, but melting over 8,000 cans takes even longer 😂. I hope you all enjoy watching this madness as much as I did creating it. Let me know what you think of the video and stay awesome my friends 👍
Update: After my buddy watched the video, he texted me and said “I said that was 2 years of camping, not 10 lol”
😬 I thought he said 10 when he dropped them off. Wanted to clarify…
Love your vids! Would have loved to see all those cans go through a big grinder... Future ideas? Cheers man 🤘
Ah, when you said massive, I was thinking 250k or more...the kids at our school collected more than 8000 lol...
Hello Mr. G!! This, as all your other videos, was very satisfying to watch. I love the organization, humor, editing and content. My favorite is the scooping of the slag and remelt so I’m definitely looking forward to the next episode.
I hope your finger has completely healed. Stay safe!
@@forestcityfishing4749 😂 that’s funny, but I think 250k or more might kill me… or will it 🤔
@@irishsakura1 hey Irish, I hope you’re doing wonderful! Thank you for the lovely comment, and I hope to not disappoint for the remelt on the next episode. My finger is completely healed, you have to look really close to even see where it was. Have a great weekend and I’ll talk to you soon 👍
Fun to watch. Not sure the propane guy hates his best customer.
Where I live in Australia, a single can is worth 10 cents when recycled at a depot. You’d be looking at $840.50 AUD right there!
Same here in Canada. Did a quick calculation and the aluminum he got would be worth around $177 based on current prices of $2400us per metric ton. Not accounting for the propane cost. Ouch!
If u watch till the end he breaks down the prices....
Many u.s states don't have can return.
Here in sweden 1 small alu can is worth 1 Sek so that is about 8000+ SEK or About 800 Euros.
No, because recycling is funded with taxes. spotprice for alu is dirt cheap
Now THAT is something not even BigstackD has tackled! Fun to watch, too.
Someone should challenge him to lol
@@shadowstal3er082 *_MELT-OFF COMPETITION!!_*
Ikr. Sometimes I really want him to do this, but with Copper. Find some copper pipes, boatload of wires, or disassemble lots of old electric motors. Or all of them.
@bigstackD, challenge accepted?
Hes building a shop. And I might guess some bigger hardware
This was awesome. Not sure what is more incredible though. Your patience to melt down thousands of cans, or how much fun your buddy has had on his camping trips.
I was wondering if you remove the tabs and donate them to charity
It boggles my mind that more than one of these ASMR meltdown channels exist.
On youtube, if there is one channel that is a success, there's always going to be someone that tries to copy it and get a piece of the pie.
why?
You and BIG D are the only melt down channels I watch I find both or your work very relaxing to watch when I want to wind down from a hectic day
In my estimation, 500+ cans is a massive melt. This was a MEGA melt! And I loved your supporting cast - you always come up with great ways of enhancing your content. Thank you for all your efforts!
Not bad, but I'm ready for a GigaMelt after this.
I love metal in ingot form. And I love to watch when others pour something good out of metallic "waste" or just make ingots. Doesn't always have to be gold bullion. A 10KG copper bar costs about 75 euros in Germany (my home country). Aluminum also has its value, it's the quantity that counts. I've seen other "metalsmiths" heat up the mold with a gas burner before casting, then you'll get a better result after it cools down. Maybe I could give you a little tip.
Nice Greetz from GER
I love the TH-cam's who pour the molten aluminum down ant and wasp nests! Crazy how big those nests get!
The cost of all that Aluminium is about $2500 where i'm from. If you can find sources of rare metals and and forge them into ingots you can make a lot of money.
Man, the dedication. Hats off, thank you for your videos
Brother that shelf is STRUGGLING! Great vid, great bars, great stack. Love it.
After watching BigStackd for years- I cannot fathom how clean and smooth this guys pours and stacks are
I was going to say the same thing.
This video is sick! Amazing patience and persistence through this. Love seeing that pile of melted blocks
Thank you my friend! 👍
Love the video and the humor put into it to keep things lite and fun.
You sure do have some amazing patience!! This probably took forever 😮 its cool to see them in bar form
That was quite the undertaking. You definitely go big or go home. I see why you didn’t have a video last week. I can’t fathom the effort that went into this. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming.
Having seen the ant hill pours, I've wondered how well an electric induction hot plate with an iron dutch oven would do for assisting with a can melt. If the aluminum didn't melt in the hotplate at least a bunch could get up to 800 degrees or so. And with different breakers you could have a handful going at one time. One can of propane cost how much and 1 kw of power for an hour cost 10¢. If an induction hot plate is $50 it could still save money in propane and potentially be a lot safer.
Induction plates get pretty hot, but aluminum melts at 1200 degrees F°, so a crucible is the best at-home option
@@jacobchristopher6941 hot plate is meant as the prep for the propane crucible. Get your cans close to melting in the iron dutch oven and then dump into the crucible to finish.
Try both at the same time from room temp and see which melts faster. I predict it will be close.
@@carpediemarts705 I agree with you, electric would be far cheaper. You could build an electric kiln (or several) for the cost of all the propane.
@@LFTRnow miss my point entirely yet again. Which since I don't plan to actually do the work is fair. I'm just supposing that a cheap hot plate in a dutch oven might be a way someone could add to their aluminum melting experience.
I’m with ya Carpe on scale like this or bigger use cheaper energy to get some heat in upfront plus doubling the batches in process if if ever facing 8000+ cans again
That giant stack of treasure is just so cool to me. It makes me really really want to get into this.
Love your videos they are a nice distraction from my day and also very calming to just put on and do something while the video is playing.
I melt a lot of cans, but 8400+! That's dedication my friend. I started with a little 6kg furnace. Have since upgraded to the 10kg Devil-Forge and it goes much faster. That was a joy to watch.
Spouse built foundry and has collection of crucibles. I have been crushing and saving cans… real eye opener here. Thank you for this video and all the exact numbers.
I think it takes 200-ish cans to make an AR receiver (upper or lower).
8k / 400 (1/ea) = 20 receiver sets. Value (per set) ~ $15 x20 = $3000.
Its not about the raw material but what you make from it that becomes valuable.
That must be the "new math" because when I learned math 15x20=300. Not 3,000! 🤔
@@jasonkelley2651 typo clearly lol
@@djdrack4681 😅 It happens to us all occasionally.
Back in our heavy drinking early years, my best buds and i always drank from bottles. We took a heaping, entire 8 foot bed pickup bed load load to the recycling area at the disposal site. The attendant there was pretty damn impressed! Then we found out we had to sort by color....
You sir have earned a sub for this one!
By far, the biggest can meltdown on YT. Congrats sir. And a nicely cleaned up video to boot.
This was surprisingly entertaining. I came in expecting nothing special but here I stand, corrected. This was awesome
Loved the mega melting and damn can i appreciate some good strong and sturdy shelves haha. Thanks for the content
I find my scrapping very sensory fulfilling but wow, this was stunning in every way! One thing is for sure, like every scrapper out there, I could definitely do with the space you have in that garage!!!! This lot certainly helped the stack grow and your perseverance needs applauding!! I'm not watching many videos while I'm temporarily away from TH-cam at the hospital with our little one because if I'm honest it makes me miss you all, but I'm so glad I noticed and watched this one, I particularly loved the way it started looking like a giant jenga wall! I certainly didn't mind watching the ads either because videos as enjoyable as this deserve it, good work and I'm glad you showed the propane costs 👍
In Finland, the "deposit"system is in cans. by returning the can to the store You get 10 euro cents per piece for that amount. you would have received 800 euros, or about 850 dollars, just by taking the cans back to the store
Or you could lose 850 euros, but look cool af melting all that down
In the US it's 5¢ per can or bottle, and only a handful of states have it
@@TacoNissan Here, glass bottle 10 cent, small bottles and cans 20 cent and 1 litre or up bottles 40 cent (eurocents)
@@TacoNissan in Michigan it’s 10 cents
That's a DAMN GOOD buddy, to give those to you.
Also, I'm sure many, many good times were had making all those (not all remembered, probably but still good times!)
This video was awesome!! Hahaha those deaths lmaoooo I was so confused lmaoooo and the little thing that fell over every time you poured the molten in
I used to smelt aluminum cans and magnesium together in a factory with Flux in two pits pouring 10 ingots at a time. This is long, tedious, and potentially dangerous work. Hats off to you good sir.
Ok, ok you win! I've seen a bunch of can melts. Never this many! If I worked for Guinness, you'd get a world record, Mr. Melter! Excellent video, my friend.
We had a hurricane-Ian. So, no power. 😢 You Sir, are my entertainment. My fav entertainment! 😀
This is by far the biggest can melt I've ever seen on TH-cam. You win man. Subscribed. 😀
I don't know what I am more surprised with: the amount of bars you made or all the death statues you keep summoning
Very generous buddy!
If anyone CAN do it, I knew it’d be you! Great quality content. Cheers!
Massively impressive video! Can’t decide which I’m more impressed with! Your patience or how your shelving units strength to hold all that weight!!
Awesome video man I’ve watched a lot of different people do melt down videos best one yet I’ve seen very good job sir
well done great video lot of effort put in keep melting stay safe and enjoy
That shelf began to warp when you put the ingots. I got hella scared thinking it would collapse.
I like how halfway through the stack you can tell the Bud Light stopped getting consumed 😂😂😂
Here in Germany we have something called 'Flaschen/Dosenpfand', basically a deposit you pay on almost all cans and bottles, usually 25 cents. The empty cans can be returned at special maschines available in almost every supermarket, giving you back the deposit, usually in store credit but you can have the register pay you out. Returning all those cans would have netted you a nice sum of €2101.25, or around $2066.
Crazy that it was under 200 pounds. That a crazy amount of propane. Cool job!
I hope he has some good propane and propane accessories
@@jamiehughes5573 man I tell you what
I really respect the effort of that, really impressive. Keep it up
Honorable mention to your super strong shelf lol
You earned a can of beer for that, great video thanks for sharing.
Just the sheer time it took to harvest all of those cans and the time and effort it took to melt them all down is staggering. I’m new to these kinds of videos but, I’m amazed at the work you put in for this one. Cheers.
His friend saved all those cans in two years of camping time and gave them to him. From what I gathered, he didn't comb the ditches, as I use to do. Now I keep driving by them thin light weight cans.
what a patient guy you are my friend
When you smack the little grim reapers I laughed pretty hard! Idk why, but that was great. Thumbs up! 👍
i would estimate that each can weighs about 20 grams and if thats the case then 8405 cans would weigh 169KG meaning you got about a 50% recovery out of the cans which sounds about right for aluminum. i would reccomend saving the slag cause often times aluminum slag is reusable and you could probably get another 5-10KG out of it.
Genuinely impressed he counted all the cans, props to you
I would have weighed out 100 cans and used that weight to “count” piles of 100.
How can I NOT Like, Comment, and Subscribe after a commitment like this video?
Awesome video. I'm collecting cans and will be melting them down for my own projects soon. Thank you for the video.
Very nice uniform blocks too, for some reason that really stood out to me🤷😂
i would reccomend installing supports for your display shelf since you can see the wood bending from weight
bro, how many of those grim reapers do you have? 🤣🤣🤣 I thought it was funny how you would just put them right next to the cooling aluminum ingots and kick them when they'd begin to melt into it. for sure a great video to watch. thanks for the content.
When all those ingots started stacking up it reminded me of that scene with the armourer in mandolorian haha
That qualifies as one MASSIVE MELT!!!!!
Really should get you on an oil Burner, Waste oil is FREE!!! 😜😜😜😜
I've done this in a day melting Aluminum, but never tried to do that amount of cans.
I'm betting this didn't happen in a single day...lol
Great Video Bro!!! That stack just took on a whole new AWESOMENESS!!!! 😎😎🔥🔥💯💯👍🏻👍🏻
My guess is you were 3d printing those death models faster than the cams could melt. Haha what a cool angle of entertainment to show even more so how hot the molten metal is. Even aluminum
Cool obsession, great passion.
Loved that filmed brilliantly!😂
Props 100 percent/and that's what u call a real stack
Okay but....alumnium crazy paving. This needs to be a thing 😂
It would be cheaper than some bricks.
This is by far not boring to me but thanks for making this video bc I am finally ready to sleep and am starting to nod off.
Love watching this!! And I need to do this!!!
I love how every time a death is about to fall onto a cooling ingot, you just slap it away lol
Poor Death, he's looking a bit sad at times. I really appreciate you for all the work you did to make this video. Thank you! Is that new music? I like it!
Death had a bad experience this go around 🙂
Thank you Leslie, it was very taxing to make and produce this one, but I’m very proud of it so I’m glad you like it. It is new music, always a brand new track on every video. My brother creates a new and unique song for each and every video so they are never the same. I’m glad you like it and I’ll definitely let him know.(insider info, I used his demo track before he had time to finish it because I wanted to get this one out so bad, he had more to add to it, sent me his idea to see what I thought and I just ran with it, so it would have been a lot better and more full sounding, more everything… I might never live this one down 😬) 👍👍👍
@@TheGrowingStack why don't you use an eletric furnace to melt the metal? Coupled with solar panels I believe can save you some bucks in the long run
I wish someone had as much confidence in me as you have in those shelves 🤣
This is amazing I loved it so much keep it up
8405 ..... somebody(s) has a drinking problem 😂
Seriously though, that video was pure dedication. After the first 5 ingots, I probably would have just quit and took the rest in to be recycled.
Over the course of 10 years, that's less than 3 cans a day. Lol
However it was over camping trips, and I can't imagine his friend is camping every day. Lmao BUT, I can imagine those cans weren't all drank by one person, so who knows who was drinking how many. Hahaa
Fun to watch. Lesson learned. It doesn't pay to do your own recapture of recycled materials. Amazing production. Good fun.
Correct, those cans were almost pure alloy anyway before the melt, it is worth it when you are improving the purity of things, however this is greak content now at 800K views
what a very patient man you must be
As you were putting each stack of ingots on the shelf you could see it slowly flexing :D great video bro
A whole work week for 20$ profit? Brilliant
Fun to watch but I'm not sure if I'm going to get into the recycling buisness any time soon
Fantastic Melt! I don't know why this is so satisfying.
This is a man of strength, perseverance, and pure fucking will
500 cans is a lot, we take in a little over 2000 cans a year to the scrap yard, we don't melt them down though. We have a bunch of old truck beds that we fill up completely full of cans. Get enough to buy Christmas gifts plus pay the bills also lol good enough for something most people just toss away.
We have a few bars... if you're wondering where all the cans come from haha
You got WAY more patience than I ever would
Nobody’s gonna talk about how he had like a hundred different death toys😂
I KNOW RIGHT!
You spent a solid week melting cans and you still have a spine?!! Fair play! Glad this video did well for all the effort that went in to it.
Crazy amount of work man......id love to try machining one of those blocks I wonder how it mills
Thanks brother, I’d love to send you one and curious how they do. I need to catch up on your channel too, I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t really been watching anything. I’ll catch up though. Shoot me an email and I’ll shoot one over to you. TheGrowingStack@Gmail.com
I'd believe the 10 years with camping buddies if they weren't all new style cans haha! Nice work! That's a ton of time.
im impressed by ur shelf handling that tbh
The real MVP is that shelf! It sagged more and more every stack 🤣
Hi there. This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. Great content, love the humour with the grim reaper figures. They just kept multiplying and getting bigger 😂
But the main selling point that made me sub was that YOU ACTUALLY PUT A VALUE AMOUNT on the whole lot at the end! So many people don’t do this and it annoys me! I want to know how much all the ingots are worth after all that work melting the cans down! So, thank you.
IDK man, i thought there was a little too much death in this video 🤣🤣 But really, awesome video
He made 20 dollars in 40 hours, idk if it's worth it though
post your ingot collection bro
8,432 cans = 248lbs
Aluminum yield = 164lbs
248 - 164 = 84lbs dross
248/84 = 33% dross
Super videos ! 👍
Thats a strong shelf you've got there
Now imagine if he had a crucible and cast big enough to make one giant ingot.
Hey man 8,000 cans ain't even that much.... Just kidding, mad props on taking the time and effort 💯👍👍👍
Thank you my friend! 👍
It was a big project that took me a few weeks to complete and a ton of hours to edit the entire filming into something watchable.
Great video I got exhausted just watching you count them lol 👍
Thank you! It was exhausting counting them all in real time. 🙂
Great Video 👍
This exudes a lot of "That one guy in the math problem" energy.
just seeing that shelf bend as it gets weighed down is a disaster waiting to happen
So satisfying much respect
A good start.