Speaking from experience, you should smelt lead in cast iron containers. Rounds rarely are in the mix and don't always go off, but don't go far or do much without being in a gun barrel.
It's not the speed or impact of the round he was worried about ( the case actually is more dangerous than the projectile) but instead he doesn't want hot lead splattering everywhere when it explodes in the liquid. It's not terribly fun I would imagine :)
LegendLength the barrel is what contains the pressure pushing outward from inside the bullet casing, making the bullet the weakest point for the pressure to release through. Without the barrel, the explosion just blows the bullet casing wide open and the bullet barely goes anywhere.
LampP0st If you like seeing metal getting turned into blocks look up the channel "bigstack D Casting". Every video the dude makes is him turning scrap into blocks.
@@allraiders420 Lead isn't really that dangerous. The only thing you'd need is a respirator for the dust; once it's melted into a solid chunk it's not an issue if you don't handle it ALL the time.
Wow, that really must be a ton of shooting going on in that spot. You could probably make a decent hourly wage selling lead as scrap with how much you were getting in each pan.
Thanks for taking us to the range to collect. There's a Boy Scout shooting range that's open to the public near me and I never considered mining for lead until now. You got me started on a lot of my cool hobbies and making my own bullets is next. I've been reloading for years but never even thought about making my own 5.56 and .44 bullets. And my hunting calibers.
I've always wondered how much lead is in the ground at the ranges, I didn't even think about the copper. With the price of lead now, I'm surprised someone doesn't go out commercially and collect it. Cheers for an interesting and informative video Cody. 👍
Legal outdoor ranges will let the bullets build up to a point then do a mass cleaning generally with a trommel to quickly pull the bullets from the dirt/sand the brims are made from. Most recycling places will not touch copper from bullets as it is classed as a hazardous material due to the lead that sticks to it even after melting it out. To make it into something they will take you have to melt it into bars or find the few that deal with it but pay far less then coppers scrap value. The brass is also a good thing to collect in both legal and illegal ranges both for reloading or for melting down.
Newer ranges have prefabricated metal trenches beneath the berm to collect up the spent bullets, and are usually sifted out for recycling once a year or so. The indoor range at my club collects all the spent bullets from the trap [although club members who cast their own bullets are welcome to take some too] and puts them in 55 gallon drums for a recycling company to take. The proceeds (about $5000-$6000 annually) are used to fund the youth shooting and firearms safety program.
@@officermeowmeowfuzzyface4408 lol meow meow fuzzyface.. gotta love bojack :P but yeah dremel would probably work better for this application, cool idea to brand his ingots tho! only downside is it makes one side of the ingot not quite so flat and might be less-than-ideal for some projects
The first video that I came across on your channel. I clicked subscribe,never regretted my decision Thank you Cody for all the wonderful and interesting content the past few years
Cody'sLab you would make an epic science teacher. But not in a public school, or a private school, but one of those authentic alternative schools where they actually teach valuable stuff.
I've been to quarry ranges in the mountains of Washington and its worse than the one he was at you would get 10x more in that pan but when it snowed over it was actually kind of beautiful without the millions of bullets and shells.
*"Lol the ground is so full of bullets, you can actually mine lead from it. And no one in the comments seems to be surprised by it."* Yeah...who'd think there'd be lots of lead in the ground *AT A GUN RANGE.* I'm telling ya, it's a freakin' miracle!
I subscribed to your channel because of the videos you did mining ores and processing them. I was so curious about watching the process and you were the only person who did anything remotely similar to what I was looking for. Since then you have made some fantastic content, best sub ever.
cody is the type of guy i would take if i had to go on a survival trip or maybe i was stranded in the middle of mountains with mining tools, i would totally survive with cody's sheer knowledge of the earth and its rocks/minerals. Good job Cody, like always.. good job
I love shooting there. One time when a group of us were there an older gentleman brought out his belt fed M2 Browning. That was pretty cool to see in action.
Just imagine if this man had grown up in a standard middle-class, white neighbourhood instead of a 100-acre ranch... The house wouldn't have survived long...
@Fester Blats Who says he doesn't? There are probably hundreds of people who go there in a given week. To blame him solely and make a blanket statement like that is ridiculous.
@@bobby8012 ACTUALLY, that's precisely what it means. You just don't know what you have. Look at the 9+ imbeciles, who agreed with your comment. Pitiful!
@@CooManTunes i know its 3 years ago but if you wanna go to russia and be like my family then you wouldn't have to save up much to buy a big piece of land
So I know that I'll never be able to do these things and I probably won't even go into a science-based major in college, but I just love watching all of your videos. They are so well done and really fun to watch. Great job man keep it up! :)
I have a couple ideas for a video, for example you could take a small disc of of flattened gold foil then cool it in liquid nitrogen and then place it over a magnet to see if you can achieve quantum levitation. Or you could make a whopping big capacitor to do something with, because whopping big capacitors are always fun ;).
Holy shit, how much lead does that quarry hold?! o-o I think ecological disaster is a bit of an understatement if you get several bullets with a single pan... Anyway, loving the uploads, keep em going! ^^
If a small group of people are shooting there every weekend, they're adding several thousand bullets a week. Do that for 10 years and this is what you end up with.
Yea, I always pan the ground of my range when I finish shooting :3 Thanks for weighing that ingot! And sweet behind the scenes look at the liquid oxygen shot!
Can you publish the levels of lead and mercury in your blood before and after you started playing with it? You will need to sign this youtube HIPAA form.
We did gold panning in Alaska, too. Got enough for, as the guide called it, "one souvenir." (Flakes that would assay to less than $5, I'm sure; but it was a fun experience) Though he had a story about one guy finding a "lead musket ball" and tossing it back in the river. The guide nearly had a heart attack, got him to stand exactly where he was and recreate the throw with a rock. When they screened it out of the river, the guide sliced a chunk off of the outer lead casing to reveal a solid gold nugget. They paid for their vacation, everyone else's food & drink for the night, and gave the guide a big tip. We also had the opportunity to pan at one of the beaches on Nova Scotia, which the rangers say on average will yield after a full day about what you pay for one day of access to the park, and lunch... About $10-$20 worth. Again, fun, not really profitable.
A trommel is what your thinking of. A rotating screen that separates the dirt/sand from the larger rocks/bullets. Generally used in mining to quickly classify the materials to let them go to the right process for that size material. Can be built with the right screen size starting with the smallest at the front and largest at the back so you can have fine>large with anything oversized falling off the end.
This was my second video of Cody it won my heart ! I actually found him while I was bored and seen a video of his crazy butt trying to sweep a Utah highway for elements lol. Had me at hello. Way to go Cody. Sunset, Utah YEAH!
OMG WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS VIDEO. I thought for sure I have seen every video you made but guess not well then I will have to take another look to see if I can find another FREAKING AWESOME VIDEO 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
Hey cody I was reading about how Robert Hooke extracted phosphorus in the 1600'e using his urine. Sounded like the perfect experiment for you to replicate.
just saying currently the price of lead is 85 cents a pound. That means you've got about $85 of lead from that bucket, but the price of copper is $2.25 a pound. It would actually be worth it to try to melt down the casings (yes I know they are brass but still). It wouldn't be much more of a process and would net you a higher profit from the same material.
Drc362 casings would be much less concentrated. Many people reload and pick up all the brass that they find, plus different guns throw brass in completely different direction, 1 rifle might throw brass 40 feet forward and another might throw brass 10 feet backwards. Or 20 feet to the right.
@@bigjohn7818 Dirt cheap, doesn’t hurt gun barrel steel, and it’s the densest softest metal that carries the most momentum as a projectile. Very malleable and is perfect for hollowpoints and other expanding bullets. People have been shooting and eating animals with lead for 1,000 years now and lead poisoning is not even a remote concern if you clean the animal correctly. You don’t eat any meat around where the bullet/shot entered/fragmented. The biggest lead hazard with shooting is not the bullets at all but the primer compound lead styphnate which is vaporized upon firing and is inhaled by the shooter especially indoors. Only thing similar to lead in shooting is bismuth or tungsten in a polymer matrix. But lead is so superior with expanding hunting/defensive bullets and the others are way too expensive. Steel shot sucks so much and wounds as many birds as it kills and it’s not suitable for handguns or rifles except as jacket material and even then it causes forest fires from sparks. Uranium makes a great bullet too but it’s too hard to work with, too expensive, and the ATF and NRC both frown strongly upon them because they’re both armor piercing and radioactive. Copper is becoming a lot more popular but every bullet has to be precision machined which makes the ammo prohibitively expensive for anything but hunting or defense. Nobody could afford to shoot 2-500 rounds a month for practice.
actually, many fallout shelters do utilize lead as a barrier for radiation. lead vests are also given to people who are getting x-rays. as long as you don't swallow or inhale it (or inject it, if you're that dumb) it's not really a hazard.
Hello, I'm from Spain so my english is not perfect, I wanted to know the meaning of lead, because you use it in all your videos and the meaning for me is the element Pb (82) Is that the real meaning or you have other meanings? thanks and greetings from Spain
The word lead has 2 main meanings I think. Lead as in the element Pb. Lead (pronounced with a long e sound, like Leed or see) which means to have someone follow you, and "led" is the past tense of "lead, and sounds like how you say the element lead Pb. But lead(long ee) can also mean an exposed wire in an electrical circuit (he says "im going to connect these two leads) and it can also mean a pipe or hose that transfers something important as in this pipe leads into the engine. english is fun haha
thanks man :) used to go panning for gold when I was a kid, took like a whole day to teach myself how to pan, not many people do this stuff around my parts.
+Cody'sLab sounds about right...America...The country that has to be different from nearly everyone else even if it is wrong...Which only means it is more right in the eyes of America.... *rolls eye so hard they pop out*...god damn our crazy country...
Actually, America did sign the Metric treaty, all their imperial units have metric definitions and they are, after all, using the metric system. They're just converting it to obsolete units. Also, does anyone find it weird that America, the revolutionary, rebellious, freedom-loving country uses the *Imperial*, as in, the empire they fought for about 8 years to get rid of, system?
Frizzykid: Some states are terrible and restrictive, while others are very lax. Having said that, the countries I have researched to live in after retirement don't come close to the gun freedoms in Constitutional carry states in the USA.
I made several lead bricks in the past as well as pouring some into the body frame of a mini-stock race car to help with balance. I stopped at an old auto-repair shop and he sold me a bucket of wheel weights for cheap.
Hello CodyDon! I´m Daniel, a big fan of science, and ofcourse your vids. You´v put up a few vids about Lead over the years and I found it very interesting as usual. Recently I get the hold of a dead lead acid car battery, thinking I could melt the lead down to cute ingots, just for the fun of it and also to learn in the process. But, to my disappointment, I was to discover that the only lead to melt was the bars at the top of the battery that connects the cells together inside, and some in the grid of the plates after removing the brittle pasty stuff on it. I noticed that after removing this brittle stuff (Lead Dioxide and Sponge Lead according to wikipedia) from the lead, it still had some weight to it, although I could´nt see any typical metal in it. One plate is dark brown and the other is leadish grey. It seemed to make up for the majority of the batterys weight, making me think it was some kind of lead but not in its metallic state. I wanted to melt this down as well instead of just put it in the recycle bin. But when trying to melt these two compounds it did´nt form any lead at all, but only a yellow glossy brittle thing that needed way more heat to form then the lead it self. Maybe because of sulfuric acid resedue? I don´t know. This is probably obvious to many, but my chemistry knowledge is nothing to brag about. Anyway, this brings me to my question. Is it possible to turn the Lead Dioxide and Sponge Lead back to regular metallic Lead? After all I want all the lead I possible could get out of the battery. But if it includes some advanced chemistry to achieve I probably just leave it on the shelf for now. Anyhow, it could be interesting to know the procedure. Knowledge is king/queen after all =) Have a nice day all.
When Fishing anglers are bar fishing in rivers of British Columbia, approximately one thousand to two thousand tons of lead are lost as gear each year which is an ecological disaster. But with the famous Pacific Northwest rivers such as the Chilliwack shoving all those lead plates and mini trolling sized cannon balls just lost by fish and snags make it even worse as it dissipates slowly or rather broken up and pushed out to tide lands.
That is the estimation from local environmentalists and I would not recommend even boiling the waters with a generic water filter afterwards because of the lead count. Unless you would want to have a lead gut to handle it for maybe a few years or less lol.
I'm talking like 9 or 8 statues of liberty lost each year. Luckily people can pick freshly lost weights and tackle when the rivers are low and at the mouth during low tide on the banks throughout the years.
Well... you could, hypothetically, cast it into a shape that you could then, hypothetically, use to bludgeon her to death with. Hypothetically, of course.
Hi cody! I have a little challenge for you :) Can U make explosive matter from the things you can find in an average woman's beauty box? I mean It has a lot of chemicals I'm sure U can do It! please like this comment so he might read it!
People like you who waste your time on TH-cam to teach us when you can be out getting smarter and inventing new ways of making math/science/chemistry/electric engineering, way easier are awesome just wanna say thanks for making my homework easier to understand
He could go to a doctor and check the lead concentration in his blood. Wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than you think. He sat downwind of the lead dust that was blowing, and washed his hands and arms repeatedly and obviously changed his clothes and maybe bathed before eating anything.
+Gabriel Bizzlebop ...there's no doubt in any fan of Cody that he has ingested a pretty decent amount of harmful chemicals(including radiation and other bad things that don't have to be ingested to effect you) in his life. Granted most have been spread out through his life(mainly adult life)... He does as good of a job at being safe as he needs to without drastically affecting his life(meaning, he takes in some stuff for sure but nothing that matters to much). Even when he feels like he might of taken to much of something he then runs some tests on himself to just make sure everything is kool.
Hell ya Cody This is one of the Best Videos i have Seen yet :-D that is a great idea on getting Free Lead LOL ill have to go and Check a Couple of Spots Down here in Tooele and do the same thing you did :-D NICE VIDEO MAN Loved it....
+ClapTrap You're a moron. Lead poisoning is believed to have contributed to many of the problems of ancient rome, as well as violence more recently due to leaded gasoline. Touching it won't hurt you, but drinking from it, breathing it in, etc definitely could over time. Just because something doesn't kill you immediately doesn't mean it isn't harmful.
Larry Pseudonym I do agree that it's toxic in the long run but unless you inhale/eat it days to days, it's shouldn't cause much trouble, it's fine for a little experiment here and there
What the heck?! I just came back to your channel to rewatch your "Cody's Mine" playlist but they've all been made private =( I loved those videos! Sometimes I watch your older videos bc for whatever reason I find them quite comforting and relaxing, not to mention enjoyable and educational! I'm sure you have your reasons but I'm still bummed.
I totally enjoy everything Cody does. So MUCH using such basic, simple tools and a LOT of knowledge. However, I grew up in the days when lead was considered a non-reactive metal. My big old tomcat and I used to spend hours hunting with my pellet gun. It was a single shot, so I carried the pellets under my tongue so I could rapidly reload and shoot down sparrows...and the cat was in the game for the dead birds. Somehow, and of course modern scientific hysterics will wet their panties in dismay, I managed to earn several advanced degrees, score over 145 on IQ tests, and become very successful in several highly technical business endeavors.... while growing up with lead bullets in my mouth. I wonder what I could have achieved if, somehow, I had known what the hysterics know today.
Hi Cody. You should think about getting a 12 volt battery powered dry washer. I use one in the southern Cali deserts to recover gold and get some lead with it sometimes. Being battery powered they are quieter and less of a fire hazard than the leaf blower powered ones. It can concentrate the lead out of dirt as fast as you can shovel it and you should also recover the very small lead and also gold flakes if there are any.
'occasionally theres a live round that explodes'
dude.
Speaking from experience, you should smelt lead in cast iron containers. Rounds rarely are in the mix and don't always go off, but don't go far or do much without being in a gun barrel.
right?
he was so casual when announcing that
It's not the speed or impact of the round he was worried about ( the case actually is more dangerous than the projectile) but instead he doesn't want hot lead splattering everywhere when it explodes in the liquid. It's not terribly fun I would imagine :)
LegendLength the barrel is what contains the pressure pushing outward from inside the bullet casing, making the bullet the weakest point for the pressure to release through. Without the barrel, the explosion just blows the bullet casing wide open and the bullet barely goes anywhere.
Imposing Patriot but it’s still a live round it’s still dangerous
"Which is an ecological disaster, but, I'm gonna take advantage of it."
Lol, perfect
I wanna see your entire stock of lead bricks
cause it's satisfying to see blocks of metal/
ahhh
LampP0st aye aye it is capt’n
LampP0st you sir made my day 😃
LampP0st If you like seeing metal getting turned into blocks look up the channel "bigstack D Casting". Every video the dude makes is him turning scrap into blocks.
2 years and I am reminded of the "h" meme... You're gonna make me cry. Me and my friends in chemistry used to laugh Everytime hydrogen was brought up.
LampP0st nutt
Dust in the ground could contain lead and you probably don't want to breath it *3 seconds later* here lets see how fast I can do this
LOL
And it goes right up into his face lmao.
As he handles the led without ppe lol
@@allraiders420 Lead isn't really that dangerous. The only thing you'd need is a respirator for the dust; once it's melted into a solid chunk it's not an issue if you don't handle it ALL the time.
Lol,I was thinking the same thing
this guy needs to be reconised more than you tube he is a absolute legend
Rt
Do you mean recognized?
He is one of the 100 remaining mars one candidates, I'd call that recognition.
+Huntracony ok you mistake of a kid
***** Aha, you're one of those dipshits.
Wow, that really must be a ton of shooting going on in that spot. You could probably make a decent hourly wage selling lead as scrap with how much you were getting in each pan.
Scratch that, lead price has gone down since I last checked.
Ayyy
I'm kinda hoping some locals will see the video and go help clean it up. :)
+Cody'sLab That's really nice of you... =D
I'm in ogden how do I find this place? Do you know of a similar place closer to me?
oddly satisfying to watch.. I would have watched the rest of the 80 pounds too lol
That has to be so satisfying to get the lead brick out and feel the weight.
I'm so excited when I get a notification for your videos, Cody! I hope this one is just like the last, amazing!
update your profile pic please
agreed
+chemo star is that meme outdated now?
Yes.
It has always been annoying. ^
last time i was this early tmartN found a cool new website
L0oOoooOOO0O0oL
ok
Last time I was this early nobody was making last time I was this early jokes.
gtfo
xD
Thanks for taking us to the range to collect. There's a Boy Scout shooting range that's open to the public near me and I never considered mining for lead until now. You got me started on a lot of my cool hobbies and making my own bullets is next. I've been reloading for years but never even thought about making my own 5.56 and .44 bullets. And my hunting calibers.
I love how it go's into a montage of all the fun times you and the block of led had
I've always wondered how much lead is in the ground at the ranges, I didn't even think about the copper. With the price of lead now, I'm surprised someone doesn't go out commercially and collect it.
Cheers for an interesting and informative video Cody. 👍
Depending on the range they may.
Some ranges they do. Indoor ranges pretty much all do, as far as I know.
Legal outdoor ranges will let the bullets build up to a point then do a mass cleaning generally with a trommel to quickly pull the bullets from the dirt/sand the brims are made from.
Most recycling places will not touch copper from bullets as it is classed as a hazardous material due to the lead that sticks to it even after melting it out. To make it into something they will take you have to melt it into bars or find the few that deal with it but pay far less then coppers scrap value.
The brass is also a good thing to collect in both legal and illegal ranges both for reloading or for melting down.
"With the price of lead now" -.-
the price of lead is around 1.90 usd per kg
working at mac donalds earns you more
Newer ranges have prefabricated metal trenches beneath the berm to collect up the spent bullets, and are usually sifted out for recycling once a year or so. The indoor range at my club collects all the spent bullets from the trap [although club members who cast their own bullets are welcome to take some too] and puts them in 55 gallon drums for a recycling company to take. The proceeds (about $5000-$6000 annually) are used to fund the youth shooting and firearms safety program.
you should weld a ridge in the bottom of your ingot mold that spells out Cody'sLab.
or just dremel it out, then it can be embossed in the ingots
@@officermeowmeowfuzzyface4408 lol meow meow fuzzyface.. gotta love bojack :P but yeah dremel would probably work better for this application, cool idea to brand his ingots tho! only downside is it makes one side of the ingot not quite so flat and might be less-than-ideal for some projects
Backwards
Dude.
The first video that I came across on your channel. I clicked subscribe,never regretted my decision
Thank you Cody for all the wonderful and interesting content the past few years
Cody'sLab you would make an epic science teacher. But not in a public school, or a private school, but one of those authentic alternative schools where they actually teach valuable stuff.
I always do a little happy dance when I see a notification from cody. yay!
same
Lol the ground is so full of bullets, you can actually mine lead from it. And no one in the comments seems to be surprised by it.
XD I am. I didn't think he'd get that much lead XD haha.
Not to mention all that trash left behind.
I've been to quarry ranges in the mountains of Washington and its worse than the one he was at you would get 10x more in that pan but when it snowed over it was actually kind of beautiful without the millions of bullets and shells.
You could probably make some good money by winning the lead like he did
*"Lol the ground is so full of bullets, you can actually mine lead from it. And no one in the comments seems to be surprised by it."* Yeah...who'd think there'd be lots of lead in the ground *AT A GUN RANGE.* I'm telling ya, it's a freakin' miracle!
I subscribed to your channel because of the videos you did mining ores and processing them. I was so curious about watching the process and you were the only person who did anything remotely similar to what I was looking for. Since then you have made some fantastic content, best sub ever.
cody is the type of guy i would take if i had to go on a survival trip or maybe i was stranded in the middle of mountains with mining tools, i would totally survive with cody's sheer knowledge of the earth and its rocks/minerals. Good job Cody, like always.. good job
>.< my heart almost stopped when i saw you in Grant's video, congrats on that collaboration.
“Occasionally there’s a live round that goes off”
Lol that’s so metal
One of my favorite videos. Seen it probably a dozen times.
I love shooting there. One time when a group of us were there an older gentleman brought out his belt fed M2 Browning. That was pretty cool to see in action.
buy a turkey fryer and use a cast iron skillet to melt the lead in
That's what I do. Cody's lucky; he has free lead! I have to buy wheel weights. I get them cheap, though.
+5Rounds Rapid cool
i personally live just a 10 minute walk from a shooting club. they charge on the lead you take tho :(
+5Rounds Rapid haha, move to Texas, if you go out to Alvarado there's ranges everywhere.
+You_just I live by lots of ranges. They just don't let me collect lead or brass.
Just imagine if this man had grown up in a standard middle-class, white neighbourhood instead of a 100-acre ranch... The house wouldn't have survived long...
The "white" part was probably unnecessary
jej
Imagine if he grew up in the ghetto, there'd be a drive by and he'd go to collect blood samples
I know I wouldn't have faired well if I had neighbors growing up.
Really enjoy your vids Cody. You are one of the few TH-camrs that I watch the ads beforehand without Skipping.
that was a great explanation of the physics of panning: the shaking liquifies the sandy material allowing the heavier elements to sink to the bottom
I think I've been shooting in that exact place, holy shit. Cool vid as always!
@Fester Blats Who says he doesn't? There are probably hundreds of people who go there in a given week. To blame him solely and make a blanket statement like that is ridiculous.
can you make more codys stories? Tell us why you are so smart and why your family owns so much land and shit
well his family probably bought that around the 19''s. Land didn't cost much during that time. Probably why my family own's a big part of a mountain
My family owns alot of land too but that doesn't we're rich and stuff
DOGE here anyone? Much human
@@bobby8012 ACTUALLY, that's precisely what it means. You just don't know what you have. Look at the 9+ imbeciles, who agreed with your comment. Pitiful!
@@CooManTunes i know its 3 years ago but if you wanna go to russia and be like my family then you wouldn't have to save up much to buy a big piece of land
Your channel is so awesome Cody!
So I know that I'll never be able to do these things and I probably won't even go into a science-based major in college, but I just love watching all of your videos. They are so well done and really fun to watch. Great job man keep it up! :)
I have a couple ideas for a video, for example you could take a small disc of of flattened gold foil then cool it in liquid nitrogen and then place it over a magnet to see if you can achieve quantum levitation. Or you could make a whopping big capacitor to do something with, because whopping big capacitors are always fun ;).
Hey Cody what happend to your rocket science series I miss it and am looking forward to more if you will start it up again
Also can you send me or email me the depth charge stuff I thought those were cool and me and my friends have been wanting to do them
yhea i'd like the series back.
i would love seeing some rockets back in this channel too
Answers this
Normale 501 ok
One of the earliest Cody’s lab videos I ever watched! Still a classic 👌🏻
So glad you're hanging out with Grant! Your channels going to skyrocket!
Holy shit, how much lead does that quarry hold?! o-o
I think ecological disaster is a bit of an understatement if you get several bullets with a single pan...
Anyway, loving the uploads, keep em going! ^^
If a small group of people are shooting there every weekend, they're adding several thousand bullets a week. Do that for 10 years and this is what you end up with.
wait, copper jackets? unspent shots? Are those people shooting with slingshots?
rain
Sometimes ranges especially remote ones like that will grade the surface. Usually ending up piling up berms at the end of the range.
I'm really learning a lot watching the channel! Thanks cody.
Yea, I always pan the ground of my range when I finish shooting :3 Thanks for weighing that ingot! And sweet behind the scenes look at the liquid oxygen shot!
Can you publish the levels of lead and mercury in your blood before and after you started playing with it? You will need to sign this youtube HIPAA form.
im pretty sure it was impure and didntnt get absorbed by his skin
You can't absorb lead through your lungs only by eating it.
xq39 not true at all cody even said it in the video
Do a video with bismuth!
YES!
he already has
*****
Then he should do another one!
+Jeffrey Coplin stfu kid
What is your problem?
Good place to get brass from, too.
(Bullet shells, or copper jackets from FMJ or partial jacketed projectiles)
On the Dot! I love it. Awesome job, my friend. Catch ya' next time.
How about a river gold panning video
I actually just got back from alaska
+Cody'sLab cool can't wait to see what film you got.
here is some gold panning footage : th-cam.com/video/ZyuzIGMelEc/w-d-xo.html
We did gold panning in Alaska, too. Got enough for, as the guide called it, "one souvenir." (Flakes that would assay to less than $5, I'm sure; but it was a fun experience)
Though he had a story about one guy finding a "lead musket ball" and tossing it back in the river. The guide nearly had a heart attack, got him to stand exactly where he was and recreate the throw with a rock. When they screened it out of the river, the guide sliced a chunk off of the outer lead casing to reveal a solid gold nugget. They paid for their vacation, everyone else's food & drink for the night, and gave the guide a big tip.
We also had the opportunity to pan at one of the beaches on Nova Scotia, which the rangers say on average will yield after a full day about what you pay for one day of access to the park, and lunch... About $10-$20 worth. Again, fun, not really profitable.
@@theCodyReeder q0
cody for a side project can you make a machine that would separate the bullets from the dirt, and all you have to do is to shovel it in?
what about the rock
It should separate it from rock to
No it wouldn't
+FroggyVids (Frpggy) ok
A trommel is what your thinking of. A rotating screen that separates the dirt/sand from the larger rocks/bullets. Generally used in mining to quickly classify the materials to let them go to the right process for that size material.
Can be built with the right screen size starting with the smallest at the front and largest at the back so you can have fine>large with anything oversized falling off the end.
Man i think of a question to ask at the end and jeez you answer it before i get there. Like breathing in the dust!!!!! Awesome love the videps
This was my second video of Cody it won my heart ! I actually found him while I was bored and seen a video of his crazy butt trying to sweep a Utah highway for elements lol. Had me at hello. Way to go Cody. Sunset, Utah YEAH!
I want to do this to make fishing weights :D
Shut up
Notification squad where are you?
there has been a rumor that their HQ exploded
I am one of the survivors. But I am late. Probably why they fired me.
i was the only one to get out with my life. We were attacked by the "First" squad, it was a brutal massacre.
Sean im afraid your friend is no more ;(
up your soggy ass cheeks c:
OMG WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS VIDEO. I thought for sure I have seen every video you made but guess not well then I will have to take another look to see if I can find another FREAKING AWESOME VIDEO 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
Also why didn't you remove the jackets before you poured?
lazyness
lol
+Cody'sLab *process efficiency
+Cody'sLab *Laziness
Fight fight fight fight fight
Hey cody I was reading about how Robert Hooke extracted phosphorus in the 1600'e using his urine. Sounded like the perfect experiment for you to replicate.
already did it I think
+sweggy mcsweg Ah that's it. sorry. my bad:)
Very nice and interesting video, thanks Cody!
That's really good Cody. I made 40 lbs of dive weights from lead tire balance weights I picked up off the side of the road.
Just watching this video makes me feel like i need to wash my hands
just saying currently the price of lead is 85 cents a pound. That means you've got about $85 of lead from that bucket, but the price of copper is $2.25 a pound. It would actually be worth it to try to melt down the casings (yes I know they are brass but still). It wouldn't be much more of a process and would net you a higher profit from the same material.
Drc362 casings would be much less concentrated. Many people reload and pick up all the brass that they find, plus different guns throw brass in completely different direction, 1 rifle might throw brass 40 feet forward and another might throw brass 10 feet backwards. Or 20 feet to the right.
One mans trash is another’s treasure . You’re a genius.
Super cool video Cody!
6:50 Cody's cooking show
lead is a dollar per kilogram. Why breath it in like that
Why shoot lead bullets in the first place?
A gram of lead would then be a tenth if a cent
@@bigjohn7818 Blow up a lead factory so the price goes up.
@@bigjohn7818 Dirt cheap, doesn’t hurt gun barrel steel, and it’s the densest softest metal that carries the most momentum as a projectile. Very malleable and is perfect for hollowpoints and other expanding bullets. People have been shooting and eating animals with lead for 1,000 years now and lead poisoning is not even a remote concern if you clean the animal correctly. You don’t eat any meat around where the bullet/shot entered/fragmented.
The biggest lead hazard with shooting is not the bullets at all but the primer compound lead styphnate which is vaporized upon firing and is inhaled by the shooter especially indoors.
Only thing similar to lead in shooting is bismuth or tungsten in a polymer matrix. But lead is so superior with expanding hunting/defensive bullets and the others are way too expensive. Steel shot sucks so much and wounds as many birds as it kills and it’s not suitable for handguns or rifles except as jacket material and even then it causes forest fires from sparks.
Uranium makes a great bullet too but it’s too hard to work with, too expensive, and the ATF and NRC both frown strongly upon them because they’re both armor piercing and radioactive.
Copper is becoming a lot more popular but every bullet has to be precision machined which makes the ammo prohibitively expensive for anything but hunting or defense. Nobody could afford to shoot 2-500 rounds a month for practice.
@@HughesEnterprises Bismuth isn't much more expensive. Pretty cheap actually
cody your videos are amazing and inspiring i hope your chanel grows more and more
-faris al harbi from saudi arabia
Wowww, this is so cool. I'm jealous of Cody's experiences.
few more bricks and you can make a totally safe non poisonous house!
They would make a heck of a fallout shelter.
You'd need to set it up after the explosion though given the lead would stand no chance to a blast wave.
+Nosirrbro If the blast wave is going to knock over a solid lead structure, you're going to die regardless.
actually, many fallout shelters do utilize lead as a barrier for radiation. lead vests are also given to people who are getting x-rays. as long as you don't swallow or inhale it (or inject it, if you're that dumb) it's not really a hazard.
Nathan Lang yeah i guess thats true, who does go around having a bite of their house
Hello, I'm from Spain so my english is not perfect, I wanted to know the meaning of lead, because you use it in all your videos and the meaning for me is the element Pb (82) Is that the real meaning or you have other meanings? thanks and greetings from Spain
yes that is the same lead, It melts at 327.5°C
+Cody'sLab okay thanks but does it have another meaning?
+yago vip that you use frequently?
+Cody'sLab its bot that hot to melt pretty cool , you Channel is by the way exploding ;) good Vids
The word lead has 2 main meanings I think. Lead as in the element Pb. Lead (pronounced with a long e sound, like Leed or see) which means to have someone follow you, and "led" is the past tense of "lead, and sounds like how you say the element lead Pb. But lead(long ee) can also mean an exposed wire in an electrical circuit (he says "im going to connect these two leads) and it can also mean a pipe or hose that transfers something important as in this pipe leads into the engine. english is fun haha
You’re amazing Cody!
thanks man :)
used to go panning for gold when I was a kid, took like a whole day to teach myself how to pan, not many people do this stuff around my parts.
5:15 looks like chocolate milk
choccy milk :D
What kind of chcocalate milk do you drink?!
This chocolate milk tastes oddly heavy
I miss the bees
I'm working on it, I just lost a lot of footage so I have to re-film
I've only seen your electrorefining video in the precious metal recovery playlist. But it was a very cool video and would enjoy seeing more of it.
you can snort a small amount of crushed lead (300mg~) for a half decent stimulant effect, slightly trippy at times
when do you guys plan on adopting metric system? ;)
When it is no longer the global standard.
Martin Name America 🗽
+Cody'sLab sounds about right...America...The country that has to be different from nearly everyone else even if it is wrong...Which only means it is more right in the eyes of America.... *rolls eye so hard they pop out*...god damn our crazy country...
We don't want communism or the metric system Its all yours lemming.
Actually, America did sign the Metric treaty, all their imperial units have metric definitions and they are, after all, using the metric system. They're just converting it to obsolete units.
Also, does anyone find it weird that America, the revolutionary, rebellious, freedom-loving country uses the *Imperial*, as in, the empire they fought for about 8 years to get rid of, system?
Cody I enjoy your videos a lot. Please wear a respirator when ur melting metal
Melting lead isn't all that hazardous so long as you don't overheat the metal.
Wow. The lead looks really shiny and clean once it's been melted down.
Great video Cody.
Me: Never going to melt lead from bullets.
Also me: Learning how to melt lead from bullets.
"Getting lead from bullets." Only in Murrica!
But we've got tons of it here. .-.
Pro tip dude the USA isn't the only country in the world with lax/legal gun laws
Frizzykid: Some states are terrible and restrictive, while others are very lax. Having said that, the countries I have researched to live in after retirement don't come close to the gun freedoms in Constitutional carry states in the USA.
ShinyPartsUp i
ShinyPartsUp Eh, less shootings in the stricter countries too though. I’d rather have that to be honest. Each to their own though
I made several lead bricks in the past as well as pouring some into the body frame of a mini-stock race car to help with balance. I stopped at an old auto-repair shop and he sold me a bucket of wheel weights for cheap.
Hello CodyDon! I´m Daniel, a big fan of science, and ofcourse your vids. You´v put up a few vids about Lead over the years and I found it very interesting as usual.
Recently I get the hold of a dead lead acid car battery, thinking I could melt the lead down to cute ingots, just for the fun of it and also to learn in the process.
But, to my disappointment, I was to discover that the only lead to melt was the bars at the top of the battery that connects the cells together inside, and some in the grid of the plates after removing the brittle pasty stuff on it. I noticed that after removing this brittle stuff (Lead Dioxide and Sponge Lead according to wikipedia) from the lead, it still had some weight to it, although I could´nt see any typical metal in it.
One plate is dark brown and the other is leadish grey.
It seemed to make up for the majority of the batterys weight, making me think it was some kind of lead but not in its metallic state. I wanted to melt this down as well instead of just put it in the recycle bin.
But when trying to melt these two compounds it did´nt form any lead at all, but only a yellow glossy brittle thing that needed way more heat to form then the lead it self. Maybe because of sulfuric acid resedue? I don´t know. This is probably obvious to many, but my chemistry knowledge is nothing to brag about.
Anyway, this brings me to my question.
Is it possible to turn the Lead Dioxide and Sponge Lead back to regular metallic Lead?
After all I want all the lead I possible could get out of the battery. But if it includes some advanced chemistry to achieve I probably just leave it on the shelf for now.
Anyhow, it could be interesting to know the procedure. Knowledge is king/queen after all =)
Have a nice day all.
Last Time I was this early ricegum "punched" fouseytube
I thought that in the video, Fousey pretended to punch Ricegum.
+Hand of Fate1315 ricegum would do anything for more views, except actually throw hands!
WHO ACTUALLY CARES? If you want to talk about useless drama, please show yourself to a useless drama channel.
+Random Guy Who did you report for spam.
+Hand of Fate1315 *?
When Fishing anglers are bar fishing in rivers of British Columbia, approximately one thousand to two thousand tons of lead are lost as gear each year which is an ecological disaster. But with the famous Pacific Northwest rivers such as the Chilliwack shoving all those lead plates and mini trolling sized cannon balls just lost by fish and snags make it even worse as it dissipates slowly or rather broken up and pushed out to tide lands.
Lol thousands of tonnes of lead lost each year? Dodgy eco-statistic alert.
That is the estimation from local environmentalists and I would not recommend even boiling the waters with a generic water filter afterwards because of the lead count. Unless you would want to have a lead gut to handle it for maybe a few years or less lol.
I'm talking like 9 or 8 statues of liberty lost each year. Luckily people can pick freshly lost weights and tackle when the rivers are low and at the mouth during low tide on the banks throughout the years.
Omg Cody!!!! I saw the video you did with Grant Thompson. congrats bro!!!
Just keep the videos coming love your work.
Let's say, hypothetically, we used one of these lead bars to, hypothetically, kill my ex wife, hypothetically.
How would I do that?
smack her on the head with it
Well... you could, hypothetically, cast it into a shape that you could then, hypothetically, use to bludgeon her to death with. Hypothetically, of course.
You could, hypothetically, grind the lead and, hypothetically, spike her drink with it.
Hypothetically, of course.
ThismcGeneration in the conservatory with the lead pipe
Hi cody! I have a little challenge for you :) Can U make explosive matter from the things you can find in an average woman's beauty box? I mean It has a lot of chemicals I'm sure U can do It! please like this comment so he might read it!
that's a good idea!
I can think of a few explosive combinations already,
+Cody'sLab nice!
+Cody'sLab make a video!
omg you actually replied :D thank you, your channel Inspired me a lot.
I do the same thing with a cast iron pot over a wood fire. Works like a charm.
People like you who waste your time on TH-cam to teach us when you can be out getting smarter and inventing new ways of making math/science/chemistry/electric engineering, way easier are awesome just wanna say thanks for making my homework easier to understand
"Occasionally there are live rounds in it" haha crazy...
lead dust on his clothes, his hands, arms, and he no doubt inhaled more as well.
He could go to a doctor and check the lead concentration in his blood. Wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than you think. He sat downwind of the lead dust that was blowing, and washed his hands and arms repeatedly and obviously changed his clothes and maybe bathed before eating anything.
+Gabriel Bizzlebop ...there's no doubt in any fan of Cody that he has ingested a pretty decent amount of harmful chemicals(including radiation and other bad things that don't have to be ingested to effect you) in his life. Granted most have been spread out through his life(mainly adult life)... He does as good of a job at being safe as he needs to without drastically affecting his life(meaning, he takes in some stuff for sure but nothing that matters to much). Even when he feels like he might of taken to much of something he then runs some tests on himself to just make sure everything is kool.
@@arokace the scary thing about lead tho is that it makes you *stupid*, not something you want
it's the lead oxide that's the problem, not elemental lead.
@@arokace You're exposed to radiation every single day of your life.
Hell ya Cody This is one of the Best Videos i have Seen yet :-D that is a great idea on getting Free Lead LOL ill have to go and Check a Couple of Spots Down here in Tooele and do the same thing you did :-D NICE VIDEO MAN Loved it....
That was actually really interesting what a nice video man keep it up
Ah, Cvljslob. my favorite channel :)
It's a joke ! :D
good thing you clarified that this is a joke else I wouldnt have known
@@RagbagMcShag i know lele
hey, i'm a chemisrty noob, but wont you get lead poisoning?
ohhh ok that makes sense! Thank you!
Kørbï but even the lead oxide is much more poisonous
Yeah, he should probably have gloves and stuff, but he's ventilating outdoors, so that's the worst of it gone.
+ClapTrap You're a moron. Lead poisoning is believed to have contributed to many of the problems of ancient rome, as well as violence more recently due to leaded gasoline. Touching it won't hurt you, but drinking from it, breathing it in, etc definitely could over time. Just because something doesn't kill you immediately doesn't mean it isn't harmful.
Larry Pseudonym I do agree that it's toxic in the long run but unless you inhale/eat it days to days, it's shouldn't cause much trouble, it's fine for a little experiment here and there
What the heck?! I just came back to your channel to rewatch your "Cody's Mine" playlist but they've all been made private =(
I loved those videos! Sometimes I watch your older videos bc for whatever reason I find them quite comforting and relaxing, not to mention enjoyable and educational! I'm sure you have your reasons but I'm still bummed.
I don't know what amazed me more, you just being incredibly smart or the amount of lead you found
a hundred pounds is a lite day, we normally get close to a ton, it all depends on the site, and time of year
I totally enjoy everything Cody does. So MUCH using such basic, simple tools and a LOT of knowledge. However, I grew up in the days when lead was considered a non-reactive metal. My big old tomcat and I used to spend hours hunting with my pellet gun. It was a single shot, so I carried the pellets under my tongue so I could rapidly reload and shoot down sparrows...and the cat was in the game for the dead birds. Somehow, and of course modern scientific hysterics will wet their panties in dismay, I managed to earn several advanced degrees, score over 145 on IQ tests, and become very successful in several highly technical business endeavors.... while growing up with lead bullets in my mouth. I wonder what I could have achieved if, somehow, I had known what the hysterics know today.
Why does cody put gullible in all of his descriptions?
+Outrage Quitter he once actually did
almost got me.
well played
you dick
Vsauce does that, then people say it in the comments, but no one believes
Hi Cody. You should think about getting a 12 volt battery powered dry washer. I use one in the southern Cali deserts to recover gold and get some lead with it sometimes. Being battery powered they are quieter and less of a fire hazard than the leaf blower powered ones. It can concentrate the lead out of dirt as fast as you can shovel it and you should also recover the very small lead and also gold flakes if there are any.
nice and interesting videos u upload help me upgrade my knowledge and pass my time
keep doing these stuffs :)
am i early enough for a reply?
Not quite. :)
+Cody'sLab love your Channel it is both entertaining and informational. I love it.