Your buddy needs credit for not littering all of these cans throughout the years.

I think we can all agree that the most impressive part of this video is your perseverance. Thanks for the entertainment!

That shelf is so gonna break at 3am and scare the crap out of you. Great video!

Loved how you could see the shelf bend an inch or so at the end 😂

This is by far the "greatest aluminum can meltdown" on KZfaq... Thanks for the time and effort you put into this project... I love it to "DEATH"

Hey all you beautiful people! This was a MASSIVE project that took me a few weeks to orchestrate and conduct, and cram into just under 16 minutes. Melting cans takes a long time, but melting over 8,000 cans takes even longer 😂. I hope you all enjoy watching this madness as much as I did creating it. Let me know what you think of the video and stay awesome my friends 👍 Update: After my buddy watched the video, he texted me and said “I said that was 2 years of camping, not 10 lol” 😬 I thought he said 10 when he dropped them off. Wanted to clarify…

Fun to watch. Not sure the propane guy hates his best customer.

Where I live in Australia, a single can is worth 10 cents when recycled at a depot. You’d be looking at $840.50 AUD right there!

Now THAT is something not even BigstackD has tackled! Fun to watch, too.

This was awesome. Not sure what is more incredible though. Your patience to melt down thousands of cans, or how much fun your buddy has had on his camping trips.

It boggles my mind that more than one of these ASMR meltdown channels exist.

You and BIG D are the only melt down channels I watch I find both or your work very relaxing to watch when I want to wind down from a hectic day

In my estimation, 500+ cans is a massive melt. This was a MEGA melt! And I loved your supporting cast - you always come up with great ways of enhancing your content. Thank you for all your efforts!

I love metal in ingot form. And I love to watch when others pour something good out of metallic "waste" or just make ingots. Doesn't always have to be gold bullion. A 10KG copper bar costs about 75 euros in Germany (my home country). Aluminum also has its value, it's the quantity that counts. I've seen other "metalsmiths" heat up the mold with a gas burner before casting, then you'll get a better result after it cools down. Maybe I could give you a little tip. Nice Greetz from GER

Man, the dedication. Hats off, thank you for your videos

Brother that shelf is STRUGGLING! Great vid, great bars, great stack. Love it.

After watching BigStackd for years- I cannot fathom how clean and smooth this guys pours and stacks are

This video is sick! Amazing patience and persistence through this. Love seeing that pile of melted blocks

Love the video and the humor put into it to keep things lite and fun.

You sure do have some amazing patience!! This probably took forever 😮 its cool to see them in bar form

That was quite the undertaking. You definitely go big or go home. I see why you didn’t have a video last week. I can’t fathom the effort that went into this. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming.

Having seen the ant hill pours, I've wondered how well an electric induction hot plate with an iron dutch oven would do for assisting with a can melt. If the aluminum didn't melt in the hotplate at least a bunch could get up to 800 degrees or so. And with different breakers you could have a handful going at one time. One can of propane cost how much and 1 kw of power for an hour cost 10¢. If an induction hot plate is $50 it could still save money in propane and potentially be a lot safer.

That giant stack of treasure is just so cool to me. It makes me really really want to get into this.

I think it takes 200-ish cans to make an AR receiver (upper or lower). 8k / 400 (1/ea) = 20 receiver sets. Value (per set) ~ $15 x20 = $3000. Its not about the raw material but what you make from it that becomes valuable.

I melt a lot of cans, but 8400+! That's dedication my friend. I started with a little 6kg furnace. Have since upgraded to the 10kg Devil-Forge and it goes much faster. That was a joy to watch.

Spouse built foundry and has collection of crucibles. I have been crushing and saving cans… real eye opener here. Thank you for this video and all the exact numbers.

Love your videos they are a nice distraction from my day and also very calming to just put on and do something while the video is playing.

Back in our heavy drinking early years, my best buds and i always drank from bottles. We took a heaping, entire 8 foot bed pickup bed load load to the recycling area at the disposal site. The attendant there was pretty damn impressed! Then we found out we had to sort by color.... You sir have earned a sub for this one!

By far, the biggest can meltdown on YT. Congrats sir. And a nicely cleaned up video to boot.

This was surprisingly entertaining. I came in expecting nothing special but here I stand, corrected. This was awesome

Loved the mega melting and damn can i appreciate some good strong and sturdy shelves haha. Thanks for the content

I find my scrapping very sensory fulfilling but wow, this was stunning in every way! One thing is for sure, like every scrapper out there, I could definitely do with the space you have in that garage!!!! This lot certainly helped the stack grow and your perseverance needs applauding!! I'm not watching many videos while I'm temporarily away from KZfaq at the hospital with our little one because if I'm honest it makes me miss you all, but I'm so glad I noticed and watched this one, I particularly loved the way it started looking like a giant jenga wall! I certainly didn't mind watching the ads either because videos as enjoyable as this deserve it, good work and I'm glad you showed the propane costs 👍

In Finland, the "deposit"system is in cans. by returning the can to the store You get 10 euro cents per piece for that amount. you would have received 800 euros, or about 850 dollars, just by taking the cans back to the store

That's a DAMN GOOD buddy, to give those to you. Also, I'm sure many, many good times were had making all those (not all remembered, probably but still good times!)

This video was awesome!! Hahaha those deaths lmaoooo I was so confused lmaoooo and the little thing that fell over every time you poured the molten in

I used to smelt aluminum cans and magnesium together in a factory with Flux in two pits pouring 10 ingots at a time. This is long, tedious, and potentially dangerous work. Hats off to you good sir.

Ok, ok you win! I've seen a bunch of can melts. Never this many! If I worked for Guinness, you'd get a world record, Mr. Melter! Excellent video, my friend. We had a hurricane-Ian. So, no power. 😢 You Sir, are my entertainment. My fav entertainment! 😀

This is by far the biggest can melt I've ever seen on KZfaq. You win man. Subscribed. 😀

I don't know what I am more surprised with: the amount of bars you made or all the death statues you keep summoning

Very generous buddy!

If anyone CAN do it, I knew it’d be you! Great quality content. Cheers!

Massively impressive video! Can’t decide which I’m more impressed with! Your patience or how your shelving units strength to hold all that weight!!

Awesome video man I’ve watched a lot of different people do melt down videos best one yet I’ve seen very good job sir

That shelf began to warp when you put the ingots. I got hella scared thinking it would collapse.

well done great video lot of effort put in keep melting stay safe and enjoy

I like how halfway through the stack you can tell the Bud Light stopped getting consumed 😂😂😂

Here in Germany we have something called 'Flaschen/Dosenpfand', basically a deposit you pay on almost all cans and bottles, usually 25 cents. The empty cans can be returned at special maschines available in almost every supermarket, giving you back the deposit, usually in store credit but you can have the register pay you out. Returning all those cans would have netted you a nice sum of €2101.25, or around $2066.

Crazy that it was under 200 pounds. That a crazy amount of propane. Cool job!

I really respect the effort of that, really impressive. Keep it up

Honorable mention to your super strong shelf lol

You earned a can of beer for that, great video thanks for sharing.

Just the sheer time it took to harvest all of those cans and the time and effort it took to melt them all down is staggering. I’m new to these kinds of videos but, I’m amazed at the work you put in for this one. Cheers.

what a patient guy you are my friend

When you smack the little grim reapers I laughed pretty hard! Idk why, but that was great. Thumbs up! 👍

i would estimate that each can weighs about 20 grams and if thats the case then 8405 cans would weigh 169KG meaning you got about a 50% recovery out of the cans which sounds about right for aluminum. i would reccomend saving the slag cause often times aluminum slag is reusable and you could probably get another 5-10KG out of it.

Genuinely impressed he counted all the cans, props to you

How can I NOT Like, Comment, and Subscribe after a commitment like this video? Awesome video. I'm collecting cans and will be melting them down for my own projects soon. Thank you for the video.

Very nice uniform blocks too, for some reason that really stood out to me🤷😂

i would reccomend installing supports for your display shelf since you can see the wood bending from weight

bro, how many of those grim reapers do you have? 🤣🤣🤣 I thought it was funny how you would just put them right next to the cooling aluminum ingots and kick them when they'd begin to melt into it. for sure a great video to watch. thanks for the content.

When all those ingots started stacking up it reminded me of that scene with the armourer in mandolorian haha

That qualifies as one MASSIVE MELT!!!!! Really should get you on an oil Burner, Waste oil is FREE!!! 😜😜😜😜 I've done this in a day melting Aluminum, but never tried to do that amount of cans. I'm betting this didn't happen in a single day...lol Great Video Bro!!! That stack just took on a whole new AWESOMENESS!!!! 😎😎🔥🔥💯💯👍🏻👍🏻

My guess is you were 3d printing those death models faster than the cams could melt. Haha what a cool angle of entertainment to show even more so how hot the molten metal is. Even aluminum

Cool obsession, great passion.

Loved that filmed brilliantly!😂

Props 100 percent/and that's what u call a real stack

Okay but....alumnium crazy paving. This needs to be a thing 😂

This is by far not boring to me but thanks for making this video bc I am finally ready to sleep and am starting to nod off.

Love watching this!! And I need to do this!!!

I love how every time a death is about to fall onto a cooling ingot, you just slap it away lol

Poor Death, he's looking a bit sad at times. I really appreciate you for all the work you did to make this video. Thank you! Is that new music? I like it!

I wish someone had as much confidence in me as you have in those shelves 🤣

This is amazing I loved it so much keep it up

8405 ..... somebody(s) has a drinking problem 😂 Seriously though, that video was pure dedication. After the first 5 ingots, I probably would have just quit and took the rest in to be recycled.

Fun to watch. Lesson learned. It doesn't pay to do your own recapture of recycled materials. Amazing production. Good fun.

what a very patient man you must be

As you were putting each stack of ingots on the shelf you could see it slowly flexing :D great video bro

A whole work week for 20$ profit? Brilliant Fun to watch but I'm not sure if I'm going to get into the recycling buisness any time soon

Fantastic Melt! I don't know why this is so satisfying.

500 cans is a lot, we take in a little over 2000 cans a year to the scrap yard, we don't melt them down though. We have a bunch of old truck beds that we fill up completely full of cans. Get enough to buy Christmas gifts plus pay the bills also lol good enough for something most people just toss away. We have a few bars... if you're wondering where all the cans come from haha

This is a man of strength, perseverance, and pure fucking will

You got WAY more patience than I ever would

Nobody’s gonna talk about how he had like a hundred different death toys😂

You spent a solid week melting cans and you still have a spine?!! Fair play! Glad this video did well for all the effort that went in to it.

Crazy amount of work man......id love to try machining one of those blocks I wonder how it mills

I'd believe the 10 years with camping buddies if they weren't all new style cans haha! Nice work! That's a ton of time.

im impressed by ur shelf handling that tbh

The real MVP is that shelf! It sagged more and more every stack 🤣

Hi there. This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. Great content, love the humour with the grim reaper figures. They just kept multiplying and getting bigger 😂 But the main selling point that made me sub was that YOU ACTUALLY PUT A VALUE AMOUNT on the whole lot at the end! So many people don’t do this and it annoys me! I want to know how much all the ingots are worth after all that work melting the cans down! So, thank you.

8,432 cans = 248lbs Aluminum yield = 164lbs 248 - 164 = 84lbs dross 248/84 = 33% dross

Super videos ! 👍

Thats a strong shelf you've got there

Now imagine if he had a crucible and cast big enough to make one giant ingot.

Hey man 8,000 cans ain't even that much.... Just kidding, mad props on taking the time and effort 💯👍👍👍

Great video I got exhausted just watching you count them lol 👍

Great Video 👍

This exudes a lot of "That one guy in the math problem" energy.

just seeing that shelf bend as it gets weighed down is a disaster waiting to happen

So satisfying much respect

A good start.