Many MANY years ago in the 80's i worked a rotating night shift 12 hours days followed by 12 hour nights. I spent lots of my spare night shift hours going through the scrap bins. I could easily collect copper cable in long lenghts (30 or 40 feet) from where the engineers were stripping out. I would tie one end to the door handle of the boiler house and run a sharp knife along the outer case. Some nights i could easily collect 30 kilo bright copper. Plus i collected all the SS pipe offcuts. Paid for doing it and i got the scrap££
Great video pal i came across your site while passing sometime & now i think I've watched about 8 or 9 of your videos I'm glad that you seem to break things down and explain about what's what like you just did with the different wires so keep up your good work 👏
Many moons ago as a youngster 63 now, I used to help me Dad scrapping TV,s and stuff. With copper cables we used to just burn it in our fire to get rid of all the insulation. Came in handy for keeping warm in winter.. Good luck and happy scrapping. 👍👍
Vandal when striping the grey wire I use to get the live poking out and then get pliers on it and pull it down the cable so I didn’t need to cut the outer casing of the grey wire might save some time instead of cutting it down the middle with stanly. I use to strip all wire 🤦♂️ in the end I made a wooden device I put in a vice with a blade at an angle and different size of holes so I could feed the wire through and then pull it and the blade would strip the plastic off and I’d be left holding copper cable. Couple of wires I didn’t know about was the tv and sky wires I’ll be damn 😱🤦♂️. Great walk through, hope the van gets back on the road sooner rather then later missing the “let’s get weighed and paid” saying. ☹️👍!
that is the easiest way. 1 would put one end in a vice or tie it off too a hook. It was fab if you had a good long bit. The longest bit i had was almost 40 foot long. That was a good day scrapping! You dont get it like you did though.
Here in Minnesota and north Dakota we got done with our clean up week. I picked up 10 pounds of cat 5 wire from one house and it's currently 70 cents per pound united states dollar.
Yo bro, grate video to help people that are new to scrapping to get the most 💥 4 there 💷. That terminal on the jump lead I get a angle grinder and cut a line down the sides of where its crimped to the wire it doesn't have to be all the way through then it bends easy with pliers to free the wire. 💯💯💯👍👍😎😎👊👊
Nice vid bud I only strip cable on nice days out side as it is a boring job but we like it when you have a nice bag full 👍keep up the good work and you get your van sorted soon bud
Thanks Vandal for putting up a really useful video showing the different types of cable and how to strip them ( or not) . A new string to the crafty foxes bow ! ( Crafty Fox Tutorials ) Keep up the good work Vandal. Learnt a lot from you and always admire your grafting work ethic. What's up with Big Momma ? How about doing a vid about essential tools to carry on the van when street scrapping and or dreaded licences etc. Peace ! Steve...... Birmingham
Good video mate. I notice that some scrap yards pay a fixed price for wire, like the 40 or 60 % they do not differentiate but a pay a certain price for VIR cable or summit like that I forget now. But if space is short its still worth turning 40% into 60% as its easy to strip, you get more in a sack and more cash each scrap run.
@@Vandal-Vlogs knipex ergostrip Have a look . Only costs £20 and strips cable easy . Just put over cable and it has like a stanly blade inside that cuts the sleeves
I think the jump lead connectors are tin coated copper so you don't need to cut them off. If you scrape them with a knife or file you can see if they're copper
Yeah I don't waste my time trying to strip the smaller cables. I do strip twin an earth and armoured cable. The copper cable from the 📺 is a degusing cable I got some nice thick copper out off a old crt TV a while back. Great video bro 👍
Where do you get your armored cable and your thicker cable from im 14 and trying to make money I already have 5kg of that Green and yellow cable and some other random Bits
Are the singles basically unstripped cable? Great video as well mate, I’ve learnt a lot from it. I also own a Fix Or Repair Daily, so I feel your pain!
Vandal hi I'm yours new subscriber and happy to give you new subscriber of my friends. I got some extension leads 32am415v should I stripe this or what best way.?
Can you do a guide to metal. Categories? Been on it a few. Months. My scrappy seems to put all metal. Down. As mixed iron. I have two radiators. Card discs and two car metal reinforcing bumpers. Surely these are at a better rate?
Interesting. well sort of; our U.S.A friends seem to find that jump leads are coated aluminium; the odd ones I have found have been copper. also mike the scavenger turns his nose up at coax for the save reason. Just different here I guess.
If you get enough cable theres a cable stripping machine for around 250 pounds brilliant little machine will strip everything down too 1mm from 38mm cable even a slot for twin and earth very quickly earnt the money back
i metal detect and find brass copper bronze and lead but all have verdigre green black white no plastic some may date back to the romans and very early bronze age so will the scrap yard take it i have filed into it and sorted them all . they look like crap but when they are filed the metal is quality also i believe the roman lead can be quite valuable because it is not like modern lead it can be used for the machines in hospitals your body slides into radiation and all bronze copper and brass seem to be better than what you get today the question is will we get laughed at weighing it in any idea . love the vid good luck and happy hunting GH&HH
I’m a mechanic I get to work on shit vans 😜 Cheap brake pipe flaring tool with a Stanley knife blade works very well for stripping cable easily. Cheap jump leads are often Aluminium with copper coating 👍
Get yourself some new blades for the Stanley should fly through the SWA cores , hit those jump lead ends with a file you’ll probably find there copper mate
You know its funny lately ive been stripping the romex with the thicky stuff ya know anyway,even the braided solud stuff and i let the wire sit in the frack of my kitchen floor,and run the box futter flush hold ing pressure and ill offten cut it bare in the middle then pull the other frap off both ends in one go saves timezand you get all the copper
Good luck getting van sorted . All those part time scrappers are loving it while ur off the roads 👍👍👍
Many MANY years ago in the 80's i worked a rotating night shift 12 hours days followed by 12 hour nights. I spent lots of my spare night shift hours going through the scrap bins. I could easily collect copper cable in long lenghts (30 or 40 feet) from where the engineers were stripping out. I would tie one end to the door handle of the boiler house and run a sharp knife along the outer case. Some nights i could easily collect 30 kilo bright copper. Plus i collected all the SS pipe offcuts. Paid for doing it and i got the scrap££
Great video pal i came across your site while passing sometime & now i think I've watched about 8 or 9 of your videos I'm glad that you seem to break things down and explain about what's what like you just did with the different wires so keep up your good work 👏
Many moons ago as a youngster 63 now, I used to help me Dad scrapping TV,s and stuff. With copper cables we used to just burn it in our fire to get rid of all the insulation. Came in handy for keeping warm in winter..
Good luck and happy scrapping. 👍👍
Cheers 😁✌
global warming is a thing
Vandal when striping the grey wire I use to get the live poking out and then get pliers on it and pull it down the cable so I didn’t need to cut the outer casing of the grey wire might save some time instead of cutting it down the middle with stanly. I use to strip all wire 🤦♂️ in the end I made a wooden device I put in a vice with a blade at an angle and different size of holes so I could feed the wire through and then pull it and the blade would strip the plastic off and I’d be left holding copper cable. Couple of wires I didn’t know about was the tv and sky wires I’ll be damn 😱🤦♂️. Great walk through, hope the van gets back on the road sooner rather then later missing the “let’s get weighed and paid” saying. ☹️👍!
that is the easiest way. 1 would put one end in a vice or tie it off too a hook. It was fab if you had a good long bit. The longest bit i had was almost 40 foot long. That was a good day scrapping! You dont get it like you did though.
Really informative - working my way through your videos 👍
Here in Minnesota and north Dakota we got done with our clean up week. I picked up 10 pounds of cat 5 wire from one house and it's currently 70 cents per pound united states dollar.
Good vid mate, hope you get the van sorted asap! 👍👍
Some Health and Safety rep just fainted watching you with that knife. Keep up the great work mate. Bring us some merch too........
Nice instructive vlog..thanks👍
Well done very interesting. Thanks. ❤️💙
Hello Mr vandal! good vid mate keep them coming 👍
Yo bro, grate video to help people that are new to scrapping to get the most 💥 4 there 💷. That terminal on the jump lead I get a angle grinder and cut a line down the sides of where its crimped to the wire it doesn't have to be all the way through then it bends easy with pliers to free the wire. 💯💯💯👍👍😎😎👊👊
Thanks for the advice 😁✌
Use a potato peeler when stripping cable quick and very easy to do,great video hopefully see you on a Sunday vlog.
The dingleberry is my favourite part of televisions too 😆
I don't like the dingleberrys they are to sticky I know you like to strip them but I'm afraid they went ad singles. Good to see you dude 😁✌
Nice vid bud I only strip cable on nice days out side as it is a boring job but we like it when you have a nice bag full 👍keep up the good work and you get your van sorted soon bud
Prayers, hope everything works out good.. ❤️💜💕
good vlog vandal hope you get van back soon bruv take care blessings davey east london scrapper
O yes Vandal a very good informative video interesting. Hope you get. Big. Mamma on the road soon All the best Cheers. B K keep going.
Good vid Vandal. Informative, with a bit of comedy narrative. Daz
Cheers Daz 😁✌
Thanks Vandal for putting up a really useful video showing the different types of cable and how to strip them ( or not) . A new string to the crafty foxes bow ! ( Crafty Fox Tutorials ) Keep up the good work Vandal. Learnt a lot from you and always admire your grafting work ethic.
What's up with Big Momma ?
How about doing a vid about essential tools to carry on the van when street scrapping and or dreaded licences etc.
Peace !
Steve...... Birmingham
Thanks buddy 😁✌
Nicely explained hope you get your van sorted
Cheers Paul 😁✌
Good video mate. I notice that some scrap yards pay a fixed price for wire, like the 40 or 60 % they do not differentiate but a pay a certain price for VIR cable or summit like that I forget now. But if space is short its still worth turning 40% into 60% as its easy to strip, you get more in a sack and more cash each scrap run.
Good to see your subs are going up and your channels getting some traction 👍🏻
Cheers Tom good to see you my bro 😁✌
Pulls out a Rambo knife 🤣🤣
Top work always mate! Keep the vids going! 👍
Cheers Peter 😁✌
Always watching your vids mate 👌♻️
@@Vandal-Vlogs knipex ergostrip
Have a look . Only costs £20 and strips cable easy . Just put over cable and it has like a stanly blade inside that cuts the sleeves
Cool vid,, nice one.. 👍
Thanks really good vid
Stripping with the Vandal! Enjoyed 😁
I was going to title the video Vandals strip club 😆 good to see you dude 😁✌
I think the jump lead connectors are tin coated copper so you don't need to cut them off. If you scrape them with a knife or file you can see if they're copper
They were steel I'm afraid ✌
Interesting Vandal. Thanks.
Cheers TJ not my finest work but its something I guess 😁✌
Yeah I don't waste my time trying to strip the smaller cables. I do strip twin an earth and armoured cable. The copper cable from the 📺 is a degusing cable I got some nice thick copper out off a old crt TV a while back. Great video bro 👍
I don't mind armoured cable everything else can jog on 😁✌
@@Vandal-Vlogs thats what i call a knife bro .its a fucking beast for stripping armoured cable down 🤪👌👍💥🙏
Hi Buddy love your videos you are very good at this, little tip for stripping outer cable I have found a potato peeler is a great tool, give it a try
A few have mentioned the potato peeler I will give it a go one day.
Excellent vid! More tutorials please! Just one question do you weigh in singles and household Vir separate?
I separate them 🖒
Super 👍👍👍
Where do you get your armored cable and your thicker cable from im 14 and trying to make money I already have 5kg of that Green and yellow cable and some other random Bits
Are the singles basically unstripped cable?
Great video as well mate, I’ve learnt a lot from it. I also own a Fix Or Repair Daily, so I feel your pain!
Liked the video 👍
Cheers Altaf 😁✌
Stupid question but how do the scrap yard know what your carrying,ie ferrous/ non ferrous?Do you have to separate it before you weigh it in? Cheers.
Ferrous goes to a small shed in the yard the rest goes on the scrap pile.
Nice copper nice video
Vandal hi I'm yours new subscriber and happy to give you new subscriber of my friends. I got some extension leads 32am415v should I stripe this or what best way.?
Hmmm not sure it depends if you want to put the time in and if the end result is worth it.
Can you do a guide to metal. Categories?
Been on it a few. Months. My scrappy seems to put all metal. Down. As mixed iron.
I have two radiators. Card discs and two car metal reinforcing bumpers. Surely these are at a better rate?
I would love to do a good metal video but I'd need a bit more space. Sometime in the future Ill do an epic video 😁✌
Vir or wir?
Some yards don't bother splitting the cylinder cast, you say the yard you goto buy it as mixed iron how much they paying on that??
Interesting. well sort of; our U.S.A friends seem to find that jump leads are coated aluminium; the odd ones I have found have been copper.
also mike the scavenger turns his nose up at coax for the save reason. Just different here I guess.
Yeah coax and data are the same really not worth the hassle and a bit ends up with my chords and I get downgraded to mixed cable.
If you get enough cable theres a cable stripping machine for around 250 pounds brilliant little machine will strip everything down too 1mm from 38mm cable even a slot for twin and earth very quickly earnt the money back
I cant afford to keep my van on road 😁✌
How can i buy your plastic scraps?
I am from india
i metal detect and find brass copper bronze and lead but all have verdigre green black white no plastic some may date back to the romans and very early bronze age so will the scrap yard take it i have filed into it and sorted them all . they look like crap but when they are filed the metal is quality also i believe the roman lead can be quite valuable because it is not like modern lead it can be used for the machines in hospitals your body slides into radiation and all bronze copper and brass seem to be better than what you get today the question is will we get laughed at weighing it in any idea . love the vid good luck and happy hunting GH&HH
I’m a mechanic I get to work on shit vans 😜 Cheap brake pipe flaring tool with a Stanley knife blade works very well for stripping cable easily. Cheap jump leads are often Aluminium with copper coating 👍
Yes
sollers did same other day with hoover cords and lost going to singels
Oh really ill check it out 😁✌
Get yourself some new blades for the Stanley should fly through the SWA cores , hit those jump lead ends with a file you’ll probably find there copper mate
Did think of checking the ends good shout bro 😁✌
You know its funny lately ive been stripping the romex with the thicky stuff ya know anyway,even the braided solud stuff and i let the wire sit in the frack of my kitchen floor,and run the box futter flush hold ing pressure and ill offten cut it bare in the middle then pull the other frap off both ends in one go saves timezand you get all the copper
2 pair of pliers, half of copper wire In each and pull, splits the insulation easy
keep er lit rkid
Have you thought about buying a electric cable stripper, make your job a lot easier. Should pay for itself after a bit as well.
No Im not really into stripping wire unless I had a granulater but they cost a years wages.
I've found the best tool to strip cable is a potato peeler :)
This sounds like a joke, but it actually works surprisingly well :)
I have heard a potato peeler does wonders for the smaller stuff 😁🖒
You should watch the channel Thubprint.
Can we start a petition to get TH-cam to pay to get the van fixed so we can get more videos!
Its ok ill be back on the road in the next week or so and hopefully get back to normal programming. 😁✌
@@Vandal-Vlogs look forward to it Vadal. I was in the metals industry for a number of years selling steel and non ferrous, loving the vids.
Get yourself a stitch ripper for getting the insulation or tape off. They’re about a quid off Amazon bud.
How come u haven’t uploaded
I spent weeks stripping cable leading up towards Christmas and I filled a drum with copper and got 830£
Better easier way chuck in nurn drum
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I couldn’t be arsed me like for a few quid
Me neither its just not worth the time.
@@Vandal-Vlogs looks hard work that for the reward pal.
Do t use a Stanley blade mate it's dangerous believe it or not a potato peeler is that best Manuel tool to strip wire
About a million people have said about the peeler now 😁✌
Remember kids always cut away for yeself
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Never cut to ord you 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That's not a knife. THAT's a knife.
Watching this while stripping 500m of 3 core pain in the ass but nowt better ta do
You’re doing it wrong bro. Bad advice here I’m sorry. You can double your money with a lil more effort. Love your videos xx
I wasn't giving advice I was showing what I do. Glad you like the videos. Cheers 😁✌