I actually like this because i peel wire with a retractable box cutter . So seeing so much wire getting peeled with this machine makes everything much easier. Got my thumbs up 👍
@@codythompson2295 if you’re talking about the wire stripper you can buy them online. I think they start off at $1500 and go up from there. This one just doesn’t have all the fancy guards on it. Lol
Thank you, I am adding a Hurst shifter from a race car and possibly making it a two speed with a line cutter. You should check out my video on wire stripper upgrades. It’s going to be awesome. LOL Thanks for watching I love your channel dude
THIS CABLE STRIPPING SYSTEM IS THE BEST OF ALL THAT I HAVE SEEN SO FAR, VERY EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT! CONGRATULATIONS, PROJECT SHOP FL FROM COLOMBIA: ALFISH FAWXTY AYALA FONSECA. MAY 2, 2021
@@joshuamorris9050 😂😂😂 there are plenty of wire strippers that are cheaper, but I doubt any wire stripper you have to hook to a drill is going to compete production wise or versatility wise with a machine like this. Just my opinion.Thanks for watching
My wife will love it when I build one of these in the garage. "Honey you'll have to park outside for a while". And she'll be impressed with the Boat-bottom workbench too!
I spent many many days stripping wire with a sharp knife as a kid in an old scrap yard. The sale price is huge compared with leaving the insulation on. Burning it off produces a less valuable oxidised copper. Wish we had one of these machines back then. Unless you have done this job by hand, in the rain, or extreme cold of an outdoor yard in winter, you can’t really understand how useful this contraption is.
Damn this will be great for what I do for my job (excavator operator) alot of the times we work in the city, we come across alot of the 11kv cables/22KV high voltage cables , this will make us get more cash selling just copper instead of selling with the surroundings. Copper sometimes $7.00 a kg, and the max I've pulled out from the ground (my excavations) 300 metres . This is awesome 👍 mate
Very nice contraption. Have you ever considered adding a roller bar on the back end to attach the shielding too as its stripped. That way it completes the entire stripping operation in 1 motion and you dont have to go back later to separate it. Instead of having the 15' lengths you could have much longer lenghs and the roller would wrap up all the shielding leaving the wire in a pile on the table.
Yes I've thought of something like that. On long runs it would be nice but you would have to set it up each time. on short runs it would be tedious. What I was thinking of would spool the copper up like a automatic donut maker.
@@ProjectShopFl yeah I would only suggest it for long runs. I just saw you mentioned you cut up the cables to shorter pieces so it would alleviate that.
impressive machine and video. are you an electrician or what, that's a lot of wire ? impressive set up, and nice work/ storage area. I'll be right there with my '72 ford camper special, with the clutch out. I'll be like, can I just store over the weekend, Mike, please, please !!! hee, hee !!!!
Very impressive! Nothing like some hillbilly ingenuity & engineering to get the job done! Copper thieves everywhere are drooling watching this thing work.
3700 lbs!!! That’s insane! I work at a scrap yard in south fl and that’s a crazy amount! Most we get from someone at one is a couple 100 pounds! Great work Edit: Also make sure they not taking weight from you on the scale. I recommend pre weighing on a county scale and going to places with digital scales!
What a great machine I wish I had one when I was contracting electrical contracting all my life we used to get a lot of scrap cables especially underground cable does your machine need a bit of a service oil or grease in the bearings sounded a bit dry and I was wondering how much they cost what a brilliant idea saves so much time than using the old Stanley blade
I think you were hearing the gears making noise. The rollers move and change how the gears mesh. Unfortunately it has non serviceable bearings like most things today. You can get machines like that for $1300 and up. I paid $250 for this one used, in pieces and missing pieces.
You need a saftey bar on the front of that. I made one goes 187 ft. min. Hyd. take up spools. Lay them out and run full lenth. I had different heads for each wire you could clamp them on and stuff them in ass soon as the last head fell off. Then tie the wire and insulation and let them coil. Collapsible spools on coiler. Used hydrostatic drive easy speed control with rev. and tied saftey bar to drive. I can do 4 layer CATV cable. Coiling 4 things at once at 187 ft. per min. The heads had guide rollers to straighten the wire before it hit the cutting wheel. Used pipe cutting wheels. and mini roller bearings on the wheel below the cutting wheel. The kind out of a 8 in. hand grinder. It would be hard to change that one but if you bend it thru the rollers it will force the outer layers off. Joe Schroeder Iron Man Metals.
@@ProjectShopFl Pics will not be easy. find me on facebook and message? Joe Schroeder WI USA. Just get a Hydro out of a big lawn tractor. You can not distory them. On that machine Looks like a couple spockets on the yellow shaft. to match the hydo rear end replace wheels with sprockets. It is a simple froward rev. lever. Tie in a safety bar. I had mine set so it would not break the skin on a banana. Yes I used banana for testing. I could not get any volunteers to stick fingers in there. LOL The control slid on a saw tooth rack big knotch for nutrual. So you could set speed. and the safety could pop it out of the notches and kick it back sometimes even to rev. I it works quite well. Trusth me I ran for many years on the same trans that I got cheap it went thru a fire and still was the heart of my shop for years. Mine came out of a bolens. For a take up spools I just copied the ones they use when they sell you wire by the foot. A hydro power supply and motor. A simple switch and solenoid valve to control it from stripper. My switch controled 4 spoolers at once. I just tie the wire and insulation. There is still a spin problem when running long stranded wires. I never completely over came the spin. I ran mostly CATV Back then solid copper center conductor and some even had copper jacket. I got it all for free they were burying it. If you want to run a lot of CATV I wll have to talk to you about the "egg" factor and created static charge. a lot more involved when going for 4 layers. The blade had to hit the center wire. I ran up inch and a half CATV cable. 2.5 oz a foot of just alum jacket at 187 a min. do that math! Then add in the center conductor. half an oz a foot. I got t boned by a stop sign runner and got paralyzed
Love the striper I made one from a treadmill and it works great for 12ga and smaller but no good for bigger stuff and I found a comment you replied to about how you get it all cuz I was gonna ask what hydro company you jacked lol
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A lot of cash sittin there in the form of copper... very nice. I knew an old timer that used to strip his wire by making a big fire and throwing it in there.... letting the fire burn it off
I'm watching your wing nuts turning as you start. That would drive me crazy. I would tighten everything down so that it's consistent and I could monitor the changes.
lol ... The reason I leave them loose is I’m constantly adjusting on the fly, and the springs hold the T nuts in place so they are not really necessary. I might to just take them off. thanks for watching
"We got this little pile over here. About 3700 lbs...." LOL, those are some big piles. I suppose for some it is considered a lot or a little. Depends on the trade/source I guess. I do not scavenge for copper but I gain scrap regularly. It goes in a bag or container (Trash or keep, either way.) I have been considering investing in a mechanical wire stripper but my yields may not justify the price of the stripper. Nice video, I love this kind of stuff.
Thanks for showing the different types of wires . Like those spaghetti wires , what’s your tip on hand tool stripping if you don’t have a big machine ?
I've made a few videos you should watch on hand stripping copper wire. th-cam.com/video/LquGF-xfbHU/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/jpDl3mhcxKU/w-d-xo.html
What is the best way to take off the aluminum casing wrapped around the copper cable. I've been doing it by hand then stepping the wire with my strip meister 2000x
Question for my scrappers. Do you put your power wire and cat wire mixed together when selling to scrap yard ? New to different grades of wire and how to separate it. Any thoughts and suggestions.
I do basically the same thing with 1x1s with holes drilled in them and slit for a razor blade and a vise to squeeze the wood to hold the blade. All manual and slow as hell though.
Just wondering, so say that trailer load with the 2 cans of wire, what would you get for it with insulation vs stripped like you do? I know price varies but just an esti ate of your opinion. Always wanted to make a wire stripping machine or byy one. Just always wondered how long before it paid for itself is all. A big bundle of bare copper looks pretty sweet... lol. 1st time watcher and subscriber too. Keep it up
Thank you. I only paid $250 for that wire stripper and it paid for itself in 24 hours. LOL on average one stripping copper you gain 1/3. You have to account for the loss of insulation usually around 10% and your time. With the proper equipment and proper handling it can definitely be worth it. Some of the smaller wire is too tedious now which is why I have a granulator.
I just rebuilt the motor and the hydraulic pump for the one in the videos. I need the cylinders rebuilt and its ready. It also has a rotator that came with it. I might make some videos on it. Thanks for watching.
Yes, the problem with that particular size wire I was having is the roller on the backside wasn’t squeezing hard enough. 99% of the time that machine peels the wire automatically
You have to be very competitive, and have to offer better service because in south Florida scrap yards are everywhere. My customers like that I offer free pick up at their office or job site. I also offer other services that nobody does.
Project Shop Fl i understand but what I was meaning if I give good prices for the scrap yard they have much wire and cables or just few here and few there .thanks
@@rassas1975 well I sell to an exporter, they have tractor trailers full. You got to have a buyer, they sell directly to a mill. I’m sure if you got a better price they will sell to you. Go to your local scrap yard and offer to buy all their copper. But you will pay big money and have to have the ability to process it fast and have a buyer because the market can change daily.
@@ProjectShopFl I was homeless in Manhattan Westside upper 40s. ☺ Scrapping and can redemption 5 cent per can.😉 Maspeth in Queens was where I cashed in.😁 I happened on a super large 9 yard dumpster. 😃 The contractor saw how neat I kept everything and took me inside the Brownstone. 😨whoa! He had stripped the building of all the floors!😲WOW! I want you to have all the BRASS WATER PIPES out of this building. 😍🌇🌘🌇🌗🌇? I don't recall how many hours it took.... I walked the😛 whole pile in the 6 wheel mail carts that the postal service use. Across Manhattan to😜 the 50th street bridge. The grating was hard on the cart wheels and by myself it took 2 days to get to 😝Maspeth recycling. The owner gave me 10 cents extra per pound!👍😎💰 I have always kept my wire indoors. It is cash, so I treat it accordingly 😐 I strip it all by hand. I've no choice in the matter. I switch on the radio and set my mind to it with box cutter blades. The Thomas Edison guys in NYC who work the subway lines never clean their stuff! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎🚛they empty their stuff. Cash in and leave! What a waste of money! But their payout is so massive! 😳....... I loved Manhattan and Queens to scrap metal and can redemption. But here in the state of Virginia? Wise Recycling was sold by auction this summer! The fake covid 19 disruption has stolen from the poorest people the ability to work at all 😈!!! I find something many flat cans!😡 of course it is easier to store them. But the whole industry is gone😐 I will keep at picking up & storing them......😉 aluminum is money😀 It was the late 1980s when I was in NYC. 😊
@@ProjectShopFl did you get it from a business? I got a old one I thought someone made it from scratch and the blades were so damaged they looked like a bread knife all jagged and dull I sharpened them up but I would like to get a new set and I can't find any businesses are my area that sell that size of cutting wheels if you could hook me up with the person you got it from maybe they could help me out. Thank you for your time and reply Sincerely Tony Ward
Some places pay for the insulation separately. Not much but better than trash. I once got $160 for all we could cram into a cherokee. Worth it if someone has as much as you have there.
Dang. I'm happy when I full a 5 gallon bucket with stripped 😆. How'd you get into contacting electrical contractors and propose a deal? I get most of my wire from electricians that just don't care about saving it (or site dumpsters ha!) But I don't get anything even CLOSE to hauls like that. And I'm willing to bet noone around here is doing what you're doing. Untapped market I hope. Thanks. Just subbed.
Thanks for the sub. I pay for all my scrap and if you watch my playlist "making money scrapping" I show everything about what Im doing and how I got started. Thanks for watching.
Hi there i am new to your channel, I really like what you do. All the different pieces of equipment you have made👌just wondering how you find so much product to recycle. Do you run adds and people sell to you, or is it just you have been doing so long you have good contacts. You must run the mileage up in your truck going back and forth to place's. Keep up the great videos, I have learnt a lot about recycling from this channel. Cheers 👍
Thanks! Years ago I did a lot of cold calling. Have not done it in 10 years. lol Yes I do a lot of driving. lol My other truck has 500k miles. Thanks for watching.
Where do you find all this stuff? Im a low voltage tech and been saving all my scrap probly close to 4k pounds in cat5 and 6 wire and alot of romex over the past few year, any tips would be appreciated
@@ProjectShopFl , how do you figure the pay that you pay for the wire. I do a lot of this myself, but not to the scale that you are. Would love to be able to get that kind of pile of wire. My loads to the recycle center are usually closer to just a couple hundred pounds or less. I would be willing to purchase, if I am able to make a profit, just don’t know how to figure payout rate.
Hello, I have a doubt?? Can it be more effective, if I melt the whole wire above the melting point of copper and seperate copper and pvc/ plastic/ any insulation by gravity seperation method
That requires a lot of energy for melting the whole plastic and it generates a lot of smoke, not forgetting, there is a high risk of accident due to fire.
Thats how they did it 50/60 years ago, nowadays you will have an officer at your doorstep within 30 minutes. All that black smoke and smell will alert them within 10 miles
That would take all the fun and excitement out of it. LOL I actually leave it loose for a reason and I explain it in this video. th-cam.com/video/jpDl3mhcxKU/w-d-xo.html
I bought it from electricians. A lot of times the wires either burned up or damaged. I don’t have the time or the space to be holding onto a bunch of wire trying to sell it to people. I’m working on acquiring a larger shop where I would be able to stockpile some of the good wire. Thanks for watching
Pretty Amazing way to make a good living without all the hi-tec stuff in my book simple ways make good money , I use to cut car harness out(as much as i could get at) on customers scrap cars here in the UK but i've never seen wire like you have were on earth do you get it from.
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I actually like this because i peel wire with a retractable box cutter . So seeing so much wire getting peeled with this machine makes everything much easier.
Got my thumbs up 👍
I made a video on how to do it by hand. Thanks for watching
th-cam.com/video/LquGF-xfbHU/w-d-xo.html
Good old fashioned American ingenuity. Dangerous as hell works like a dream...love it!
Famous man once said, if you’re not risking losing a finger, you’re not stripping. Or maybe he was infamous. LOL
except that the 1st thing he said was this was most likely made in China...
@@CorvidianSystems I did modify it right here in the USA. Lol
Hello, awesome concept. I'm curious as to how I could get my hand on one of these in Canada ?
@@codythompson2295 if you’re talking about the wire stripper you can buy them online. I think they start off at $1500 and go up from there. This one just doesn’t have all the fancy guards on it. Lol
I like your clutch mechanism on the wire stripping machine. Good engineering
Thank you, I am adding a Hurst shifter from a race car and possibly making it a two speed with a line cutter. You should check out my video on wire stripper upgrades. It’s going to be awesome. LOL Thanks for watching I love your channel dude
THIS CABLE STRIPPING SYSTEM IS THE BEST OF ALL THAT I HAVE SEEN SO FAR, VERY EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT! CONGRATULATIONS, PROJECT SHOP FL FROM COLOMBIA: ALFISH FAWXTY AYALA FONSECA.
MAY 2, 2021
Thank you, stay tuned its about to get a hole lot better.
No idea why youtube suggested I watch this, but I'm glad I did! Very cool machine.
Thank you.
Sometimes TH-cam recommends cool stuff. Never knew of these machines.
Very simple and yet effective.
Best $250 I’ve ever spent. Thanks for watching
There is a stripper you can hook up a drill to much cheaper
@@joshuamorris9050 😂😂😂 there are plenty of wire strippers that are cheaper, but I doubt any wire stripper you have to hook to a drill is going to compete production wise or versatility wise with a machine like this. Just my opinion.Thanks for watching
Holy COW, I want some copper hauls like that!! Guess now I gotta go watch more of your videos 👍
Good luck and thanks for watching
I grew up on a scrap-yard. Was stripping copper as a young child in the 80s. lol
Nice! Did you have a machine?
@@ProjectShopFl Honestly, back then it was midnight skies with burn barrels and hillbilly's. Not very environmentally friendly as today's standards.
My wife will love it when I build one of these in the garage. "Honey you'll have to park outside for a while". And she'll be impressed with the Boat-bottom workbench too!
Good thing I'm not married. lol
At the end of the those short pieces reminded me of playing pick up sticks as a kid. Good video, thanks for sharing. MIke
Thank you
@@ProjectShopFl what kind of chain did you uses
Wow thank you for all your hard work finding/collecting/stripping all this wire! Here's 10 bucks.
Thanks
When I was a kid my dad made me sit in the garage with a celatex knife and had me strip all the wires. Boy did I wish I had this machine back then!
I stripped wire by hand for years before I got one . lol Thanks for watching.
I spent many many days stripping wire with a sharp knife as a kid in an old scrap yard. The sale price is huge compared with leaving the insulation on. Burning it off produces a less valuable oxidised copper. Wish we had one of these machines back then. Unless you have done this job by hand, in the rain, or extreme cold of an outdoor yard in winter, you can’t really understand how useful this contraption is.
Man, me and this guy would make great friends. Using things found at the curb or junk pile to make useful things. And using junk to make money
Thanks I like to repurpose as much stuff as I can.
Damn this will be great for what I do for my job (excavator operator) alot of the times we work in the city, we come across alot of the 11kv cables/22KV high voltage cables , this will make us get more cash selling just copper instead of selling with the surroundings. Copper sometimes $7.00 a kg, and the max I've pulled out from the ground (my excavations) 300 metres . This is awesome 👍 mate
Good luck, and thanks for watching.
Very nice contraption. Have you ever considered adding a roller bar on the back end to attach the shielding too as its stripped. That way it completes the entire stripping operation in 1 motion and you dont have to go back later to separate it. Instead of having the 15' lengths you could have much longer lenghs and the roller would wrap up all the shielding leaving the wire in a pile on the table.
Yes I've thought of something like that. On long runs it would be nice but you would have to set it up each time. on short runs it would be tedious. What I was thinking of would spool the copper up like a automatic donut maker.
@@ProjectShopFl yeah I would only suggest it for long runs. I just saw you mentioned you cut up the cables to shorter pieces so it would alleviate that.
Wish I was off to the scrapyard tomorrow with a load like that tomorrow Yes please
Great video awesome machine love it
Me too. lol Thanks for watching.
There is Always a 1st. Never thought the day would come that I watched a male "Stripper." UNREAL DUDE. Way Cool.
Haha, thanks!
You are helping the world and making money, what can be better then that
I try to do my part. LOL thanks for watching
I salute you, Sir! Awesome! Thanks for the videos! I appreciate the effort you put into making them and all the great advice! Cheers! 👍✌
Thank you
I like how you’re teaching us to use a machine that none of us will probably have lol Super cool stripper though
The only way you will never have any of the equipment I have is if you don't want it and don't work for it.
Great job thank you for sharing be safe 👍🇺🇸😎
Thanks You be safe as well.
impressive machine and video. are you an electrician or what, that's a lot of wire ? impressive set up, and nice work/ storage area. I'll be right there with my '72 ford camper special, with the clutch out. I'll be like, can I just store over the weekend, Mike, please, please !!! hee, hee !!!!
Thanks
Bro you brought your A game
Strip-0-Matic 5000 😂
Awesome 👏🏼
I made that up on the fly. Lol thanks for watching
Best thing about this setup is that it's so much more environment friendly opposed to usual method - burning coating away. Thank You!
Burning the coating is not the usual method in the USA. lol
@@ProjectShopFl Yeah, I'm from eastern Europe.
Great job and video like always
I appreciate the comments
Very impressive! Nothing like some hillbilly ingenuity & engineering to get the job done! Copper thieves everywhere are drooling watching this thing work.
Thank you lol
I like your well ventilated open air safety boots.
Thanks me too.
3700 lbs!!! That’s insane! I work at a scrap yard in south fl and that’s a crazy amount! Most we get from someone at one is a couple 100 pounds! Great work
Edit: Also make sure they not taking weight from you on the scale. I recommend pre weighing on a county scale and going to places with digital scales!
Where do you work in South Florida? I buy my Scrap from all over South Florida. I weigh all my copper before I sell it.
@@ProjectShopFl I work at a small scrap called AM Scrap Metal in Miami Fl
Very satisfying feeling to turn a problem into realbucks! Neato!
Thanks
Awesome cable stripping machine I still use a Stanley knife and v pulley with little control on cutting the insulation, time to invest I think.
you should watch my video on how to hand strip wire.
Bravo! Hi from Siberija!
Hi and thanks for watching
Great invention. You'll make a million if you use time lapse speed for the whole day!
I cannot take credit for inventing this machine I paid for it. LOL thanks for watching
Very cool and efficient
Thanks
What a great machine I wish I had one when I was contracting electrical contracting all my life we used to get a lot of scrap cables especially underground cable does your machine need a bit of a service oil or grease in the bearings sounded a bit dry and I was wondering how much they cost what a brilliant idea saves so much time than using the old Stanley blade
I think you were hearing the gears making noise. The rollers move and change how the gears mesh. Unfortunately it has non serviceable bearings like most things today. You can get machines like that for $1300 and up. I paid $250 for this one used, in pieces and missing pieces.
sir，we are original manufacturer，you can get it no more than $600
nice hauls . thats a great set up
Thank you
Man that’s awesome!! Great set up thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
WOW 3700Lbs Thats A Huge Amount It Would Take Me A Year To Strip That All LMAO 👍😊Just Love Those PILES Of Money $$$
New to your channel. Nice set up.
Thank you
You need a saftey bar on the front of that. I made one goes 187 ft. min. Hyd. take up spools. Lay them out and run full lenth. I had different heads for each wire you could clamp them on and stuff them in ass soon as the last head fell off. Then tie the wire and insulation and let them coil. Collapsible spools on coiler. Used hydrostatic drive easy speed control with rev. and tied saftey bar to drive. I can do 4 layer CATV cable. Coiling 4 things at once at 187 ft. per min. The heads had guide rollers to straighten the wire before it hit the cutting wheel. Used pipe cutting wheels. and mini roller bearings on the wheel below the cutting wheel. The kind out of a 8 in. hand grinder. It would be hard to change that one but if you bend it thru the rollers it will force the outer layers off. Joe Schroeder Iron Man Metals.
Thanks for the Ideas. I'm interested in the hydrostatic drive you mentioned. do you have any pics or a video? Thanks for watching.
@@ProjectShopFl Pics will not be easy. find me on facebook and message? Joe Schroeder WI USA. Just get a Hydro out of a big lawn tractor. You can not distory them. On that machine Looks like a couple spockets on the yellow shaft. to match the hydo rear end replace wheels with sprockets. It is a simple froward rev. lever. Tie in a safety bar. I had mine set so it would not break the skin on a banana. Yes I used banana for testing. I could not get any volunteers to stick fingers in there. LOL The control slid on a saw tooth rack big knotch for nutrual. So you could set speed. and the safety could pop it out of the notches and kick it back sometimes even to rev. I it works quite well. Trusth me I ran for many years on the same trans that I got cheap it went thru a fire and still was the heart of my shop for years. Mine came out of a bolens. For a take up spools I just copied the ones they use when they sell you wire by the foot. A hydro power supply and motor. A simple switch and solenoid valve to control it from stripper. My switch controled 4 spoolers at once. I just tie the wire and insulation. There is still a spin problem when running long stranded wires. I never completely over came the spin. I ran mostly CATV Back then solid copper center conductor and some even had copper jacket. I got it all for free they were burying it. If you want to run a lot of CATV I wll have to talk to you about the "egg" factor and created static charge. a lot more involved when going for 4 layers. The blade had to hit the center wire. I ran up inch and a half CATV cable. 2.5 oz a foot of just alum jacket at 187 a min. do that math! Then add in the center conductor. half an oz a foot. I got t boned by a stop sign runner and got paralyzed
Love these post.
Thank you
@@ProjectShopFl YW..... I'm a small time scrapper your post give me motivation.
Love the striper I made one from a treadmill and it works great for 12ga and smaller but no good for bigger stuff and I found a comment you replied to about how you get it all cuz I was gonna ask what hydro company you jacked lol
Thanks, do you have video of the wire stripper you made?
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A lot of cash sittin there in the form of copper... very nice. I knew an old timer that used to strip his wire by making a big fire and throwing it in there.... letting the fire burn it off
lol, as fun as that sounds its illegal where I live. Thanks for watching.
Love your setup!
Thanks
New friend here, quite the set up. :)
Thank you. Stay tuned I’m building “ The Copper Mine” the ultimate copper extraction table
@@ProjectShopFl I'm looking forward to that
I like those safety shoes.
Thanks lol
I'm watching your wing nuts turning as you start. That would drive me crazy. I would tighten everything down so that it's consistent and I could monitor the changes.
lol ... The reason I leave them loose is I’m constantly adjusting on the fly, and the springs hold the T nuts in place so they are not really necessary. I might to just take them off. thanks for watching
Good video , thanks !!!!
Thank you
"We got this little pile over here. About 3700 lbs...." LOL, those are some big piles. I suppose for some it is considered a lot or a little. Depends on the trade/source I guess. I do not scavenge for copper but I gain scrap regularly. It goes in a bag or container (Trash or keep, either way.)
I have been considering investing in a mechanical wire stripper but my yields may not justify the price of the stripper. Nice video, I love this kind of stuff.
If you have the right source or copper wire a wire stripper is well worth it. Check out my playlist on making money Scrappin
Thanks for showing the different types of wires . Like those spaghetti wires , what’s your tip on hand tool stripping if you don’t have a big machine ?
I've made a few videos you should watch on hand stripping copper wire.
th-cam.com/video/LquGF-xfbHU/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/jpDl3mhcxKU/w-d-xo.html
So satisfying
Thanks
Love the slow Mo's guys
Thanks
I love how people say “little” to pretend that this huge pile of copper wire is insignificant to them 😂
😂😂😂
Cool video!
Thank you
Love watching Strippers
Lol thanks for watching
I would bet This man has worked his ass into the ground to get where he's at..good job for real
It was a rocky road for sure, thanks for watching
Great payday I bet. Thanks for sharing my friend
Thanks for watching
Dang, you got this down to a science
Thank you, that’s 10 years of learning. Thanks for watching
That is bad ass man I wish I had one of those
Thanks
You are amazing. The machine that you built is amazing. Can you built one for me? Thanks for inspiring me
Haha, well as much as I'd like to think I'm amazing I did not build the wire stripper, it is something you can buy. Thanks for watching.
Guy sitting around sipping on a beer looking at his strip-o-matic 5000. Thinking, ' What Chinese dude thought this name up?
Haha, I just made that name up on the fly. I have no idea what's its called. Works great though. Thanks for watching.
What is the best way to take off the aluminum casing wrapped around the copper cable. I've been doing it by hand then stepping the wire with my strip meister 2000x
I made a video on it, best way I found is with a vice
Question for my scrappers. Do you put your power wire and cat wire mixed together when selling to scrap yard ? New to different grades of wire and how to separate it. Any thoughts and suggestions.
Cat wire is #2 insulated at my yard
I do basically the same thing with 1x1s with holes drilled in them and slit for a razor blade and a vise to squeeze the wood to hold the blade. All manual and slow as hell though.
I’ve stripped tons by hand. Check out my videos on hand stripping wire.
Just wondering, so say that trailer load with the 2 cans of wire, what would you get for it with insulation vs stripped like you do? I know price varies but just an esti ate of your opinion. Always wanted to make a wire stripping machine or byy one. Just always wondered how long before it paid for itself is all. A big bundle of bare copper looks pretty sweet... lol. 1st time watcher and subscriber too. Keep it up
Thank you. I only paid $250 for that wire stripper and it paid for itself in 24 hours. LOL on average one stripping copper you gain 1/3. You have to account for the loss of insulation usually around 10% and your time. With the proper equipment and proper handling it can definitely be worth it. Some of the smaller wire is too tedious now which is why I have a granulator.
@@ProjectShopFl awesome. Thanks for the reply.
You're gonna need a forklift for that donut 🤣
I just rebuilt the motor and the hydraulic pump for the one in the videos. I need the cylinders rebuilt and its ready. It also has a rotator that came with it. I might make some videos on it. Thanks for watching.
Where and how did you come up with that much wire?? Wow. Did you have to buy it then resale? Thx
I buy it from electrical contractors
After you have processed the wire the first time; Have you ever tried using the stripper to aid in removing the cut insulation?
Yes, the problem with that particular size wire I was having is the roller on the backside wasn’t squeezing hard enough. 99% of the time that machine peels the wire automatically
Mr thanks for your video.if you have good capitals is the wire and cables available and easy to buy or hard to find.
You have to be very competitive, and have to offer better service because in south Florida scrap yards are everywhere. My customers like that I offer free pick up at their office or job site. I also offer other services that nobody does.
Project Shop Fl i understand but what I was meaning if I give good prices for the scrap yard they have much wire and cables or just few here and few there .thanks
@@rassas1975 Are you wanting to buy from the scrap yard? They usually have a lot but you want to buy directly from electrical contractors.
Project Shop Fl yes but I want truck loads not just few thousand lb I need a lot its business and you have to hustle .
@@rassas1975 well I sell to an exporter, they have tractor trailers full. You got to have a buyer, they sell directly to a mill. I’m sure if you got a better price they will sell to you. Go to your local scrap yard and offer to buy all their copper. But you will pay big money and have to have the ability to process it fast and have a buyer because the market can change daily.
Awesome video. What size motor is that?
Not sure its in Chinese. lol Probably 2hp but I'll look in to it.
That's one agricultural set up pal!....fukn minty👌
Thanks
Boss is wondering why the estimators are always short on the materials needed for jobs
Couple of my customers have fired employees for over ordering wire and trying to keep the rest.
@@ProjectShopFl I was homeless in Manhattan Westside upper 40s. ☺
Scrapping and can redemption 5 cent per can.😉
Maspeth in Queens was where I cashed in.😁
I happened on a super large 9 yard dumpster. 😃
The contractor saw how neat I kept everything and took me inside the Brownstone. 😨whoa!
He had stripped the building of all the floors!😲WOW!
I want you to have all the BRASS WATER PIPES out of this building. 😍🌇🌘🌇🌗🌇?
I don't recall how many hours it took.... I walked the😛 whole pile in the 6 wheel mail carts that the postal service use. Across Manhattan to😜 the 50th street bridge. The grating was hard on the cart wheels and by myself it took 2 days to get to 😝Maspeth recycling.
The owner gave me 10 cents extra per pound!👍😎💰
I have always kept my wire indoors. It is cash, so I treat it accordingly 😐
I strip it all by hand. I've no choice in the matter. I switch on the radio and set my mind to it with box cutter blades.
The Thomas Edison guys in NYC who work the subway lines never clean their stuff! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎🚛they empty their stuff. Cash in and leave! What a waste of money! But their payout is so massive! 😳.......
I loved Manhattan and Queens to scrap metal and can redemption.
But here in the state of Virginia?
Wise Recycling was sold by auction this summer!
The fake covid 19 disruption has stolen from the poorest people the ability to work at all 😈!!!
I find something many flat cans!😡 of course it is easier to store them. But the whole industry is gone😐
I will keep at picking up & storing them......😉 aluminum is money😀
It was the late 1980s when I was in NYC. 😊
@@ProjectShopFl stealing is not encouraged but you can't blame them, at $4.00 a lb and rising, you can make quite a lot of money.
That just looks like an accident waiting to happen.
@@ProjectShopFl 8
They should call the "Cha-Ching" Machine. 13:33 Top Shelf Stripping. $ $ $ $ :)
That’s pretty much what I call it. . LOL Thanks for watching
genius thats awesome .market it
I'd love to take credit but I bought that machine. lol Thanks for watching.
Now that’s a great machine.
Thanks, Thats a great name you got. lol
LOL
That’s my old CB handle.
Back in the '70's dad would just take it out to the farm and use a butane flame thrower and burn it off.
That sounds fun but my neighbors would not like that too much. lol
You get paid less for dirty copper than for bright copper, when you weigh it in at the recyclers
@@paulbritton187 not all places care
Now I know where all the wiring from my rental house went.
No you don't!
We’re is the best place to get that amount of copper? Or do you just collect it overtime? And that gauge too
I buy it from electrical contractors
Where did you get new cutting wheels for your machine?
It came with them
@@ProjectShopFl did you get it from a business? I got a old one I thought someone made it from scratch and the blades were so damaged they looked like a bread knife all jagged and dull I sharpened them up but I would like to get a new set and I can't find any businesses are my area that sell that size of cutting wheels if you could hook me up with the person you got it from maybe they could help me out.
Thank you for your time and reply
Sincerely Tony Ward
Some places pay for the insulation separately. Not much but better than trash. I once got $160 for all we could cram into a cherokee. Worth it if someone has as much as you have there.
I've looked in to it but no one in south Florida buy it unfortunately
Dang. I'm happy when I full a 5 gallon bucket with stripped 😆. How'd you get into contacting electrical contractors and propose a deal? I get most of my wire from electricians that just don't care about saving it (or site dumpsters ha!) But I don't get anything even CLOSE to hauls like that. And I'm willing to bet noone around here is doing what you're doing. Untapped market I hope. Thanks. Just subbed.
Thanks for the sub. I pay for all my scrap and if you watch my playlist "making money scrapping" I show everything about what Im doing and how I got started. Thanks for watching.
Awesome!
Thank you
That machine is a beast. All the open and spinning belts/chains makes me nervous. It sure munches all that insulation off the wires though.
I actually have all the cards for the machine, I like watching it all work. lol Thanks for watching
Some of that's good wire, Bro!
It was pulled out because it was damaged. I can't save it all.
@@ProjectShopFl Got it... Just a Hobbyist and a handy man who cannot resist a good run of wire 🙃
Hi there i am new to your channel, I really like what you do.
All the different pieces of equipment you have made👌just wondering how you find so much product to recycle.
Do you run adds and people sell to you, or is it just you have been doing so long you have good contacts.
You must run the mileage up in your truck going back and forth to place's.
Keep up the great videos, I have learnt a lot about recycling from this channel.
Cheers 👍
Thanks! Years ago I did a lot of cold calling. Have not done it in 10 years. lol Yes I do a lot of driving. lol My other truck has 500k miles. Thanks for watching.
What you mean cold calling ? You would you call ?
Where do y’all get all of your wire and other stuff for scrapping
Electrical contractors
Dude I love this! How much did you make on that big doughnut?
I don't remember but probably gained 1/3 on what I paid for it. Thanks for watching
10+grand metal yes sir well done
Thank you.
Where do you find all this stuff? Im a low voltage tech and been saving all my scrap probly close to 4k pounds in cat5 and 6 wire and alot of romex over the past few year, any tips would be appreciated
I buy from electricians
@@ProjectShopFl , how do you figure the pay that you pay for the wire. I do a lot of this myself, but not to the scale that you are. Would love to be able to get that kind of pile of wire. My loads to the recycle center are usually closer to just a couple hundred pounds or less. I would be willing to purchase, if I am able to make a profit, just don’t know how to figure payout rate.
Hello, I have a doubt??
Can it be more effective, if I melt the whole wire above the melting point of copper and seperate copper and pvc/ plastic/ any insulation by gravity seperation method
That requires a lot of energy for melting the whole plastic and it generates a lot of smoke, not forgetting, there is a high risk of accident due to fire.
Sounds like a mess, and waste of time. What are you trying to gain from melting the plastic? I’m pretty sure that put off some toxic fumes as well.
I can smell it now! Probibly toxic.
Thats how they did it 50/60 years ago, nowadays you will have an officer at your doorstep within 30 minutes. All that black smoke and smell will alert them within 10 miles
@@Mark-vn7et Even if he got away with that where I live in South Florida they won’t buy it.
Looks super safe.
OSHA approved. Lol
Unlike the footwear!
you should probably tension the belt that is attatched to motor so it wont wobble as much as it does
That would take all the fun and excitement out of it. LOL I actually leave it loose for a reason and I explain it in this video. th-cam.com/video/jpDl3mhcxKU/w-d-xo.html
what do u do with the plastic insilation ? Thanks
Usually take it to the local dump and pay less than $5 to get rid of it. I'd like to turn it in to diesel one day.
Where did you get all that wire from? Also, would it be more profitable if you sold some of it to an electrician that needs some short pieces?
I bought it from electricians. A lot of times the wires either burned up or damaged. I don’t have the time or the space to be holding onto a bunch of wire trying to sell it to people. I’m working on acquiring a larger shop where I would be able to stockpile some of the good wire. Thanks for watching
Hi from Kansas from moses scraping company
Hello there!
Meintest du: wie ist der preis für kupfer
28/5000
what is the price for copper
$2.62 per lb at the moment
Please make a guard for the motor and belt. You catch your shirt sleeve in it you could loose your arm
Thanks for the concern and thanks for watching. Upgrades are coming soon. lol
Pretty Amazing way to make a good living without all the hi-tec stuff in my book simple ways make good money , I use to cut car harness out(as much as i could get at) on customers scrap cars here in the UK but i've never seen wire like you have were on earth do you get it from.
I buy it from electrical contractors
How does this thing work exactly? Is there something to score the exterior of the wire?
Yes blades on the top and bottom of the rollers, check out my playlist making money scrapping I show a lot more of that machine. Thanks for watching.
What do u do with all the coating?
Pay the dump to take it. I guess they recycle it.