Love the security guard sitting on the box!! Instead of eatin" powdered and glazed donuts, it watches copper donuts being made!!

I think it’s absolutely crazy the amount of copper u process. No other channel on here comes close lol

You sir are a hustler. Hard work pays off

Please never get rid of your “free ghetto music” it’s nostalgic and love when it comes on. Reminds me of when I first found your channel! How far we have come since then!

I work for a large underground utility company and we pulled out old phone lines for AT&T. The phone lines are called a (1600 pair) so each little colorful wire is 1 pair. So 1,600 lines wrap really tight. it’s roughly 3” round of solid copper! We pulled out over 2 miles of it. Filled a couple 20 yard dumpsters full. That’s BIG $$$$

The wire is always crazy but I love those bus bars! I can’t bring myself to scrap them, they just stack so nicely 😊

Bro, you got the big money copper laugh 😅

Holy crap, Derek!! Glad the transformer wrecker springs didn't catch you!!! That was a MASSIVE amount of wire in just a few days!! Reminded me of the job I did at Kraft a year and a half ago. Did $12K gross, $6K net, with just a drill powered Stripmeister, but that was a GREAT month!!

This guy is bashful but there is no one running more copper than him! He’s the copper king!

Thanks for your hard work and honesty 😊

Derek that's a fantastic few day's working and hauling . I remember when I was hauling 6061T CNC 3 times a week with 1600 pounds each load and as soon as they unloaded me they were loading their big van trailers to their melting foundry 40 miles from here . Several trailer loads a day and their foundry was working 24 hours a day . Lots of money constantly going out and coming in . Extremely busy recycling facility that also has a monster steel shredder that sorts vehicles and other merchandise into 11 different types of material . Great video Derek .

Pizza pointer . And I thought I knew all The possible uses for pizza. 🤯

True what you say can't sit around or you loose $$$

awesome load of copper copper

love it

I appreciate the fact you drive in any traffic much less Miami with the "train" you drive! Also, nice haul!

This is satisfying to watch

That was fun to watch, just waiting to see you get your forklift up and running and save you hurting your back, take care😊

We're talking "tonnage" Hahaha. Congrats on the record ticket. Btw, I like the pizza pointer LoL. I didn't know what to look at.. the ticket or that pizza. I'm Hungry.. Damn!!

You really don't have enough room.👍

12:10 yessir! Easy eating right there.

Great work getting all that processed

Cool video.. I made 1500 English pounds in a month. But I got the wire free. I scrap as a side hustle as I have a full-time job. You are definitely copper King.

WOW!!!!! U the man!!!

Another awesome video...

great looking copper great load good job and video

❤❤❤ awesome scores bud the busbars yummy yummy 😋🤤

your videos always keep me wanting more you have the best scraping videos about copper i watch ,your honesest about your prices and dont try to get over on your costemers either thats what i like about watching your videos too keep up the great work keep the faith and god bless

Down to 30c per lbs for #2 Cooper in Tampa today . Im not messing with it anymore . Not enough to even cover gas

That's some high quality h2o

I wish could make this happen. I only seem to pick up small copper amounts like $60 here and there from copper pipe and wire. It's too bad i could help you stripping the wire to speed this up and cut the time in half to process it to sell.

Great video bro

Awesome video good job

Me and you do the same thing that small wire killed me I process 50k lb a month for scrap yards I bought a granulator I do 1500 to 2 000 lb in a shift now

amazing nice few grand profit is always a good day lol or 12 months for me

time to look into a stake body truck with a knuckle boom crane

Dude, the wire stripper is the heart of your operation-time for a rebuild!!!Stop talking about it do it.

Nice chunk of copper, think you need some hidraulic pallet lifter or a special pallet to lift your cable at your hand level, I think it's to physical for your back to get every piece buy leaning to it... Keep up the good work, Shoutout from Romania, EU

Good chunk of buzz bars 👌

Have to ever thought about buying a house with a garage. Make it your shop with less overhead.

Sounds like your back could use a pallet with jacks to go up and down to waist level so your not bending over all the time to get stuff off the floor. I have a dislike for stairs as well. Awesome haul of a video.

Hard to believe a company would give it away instead of processing it themselves

Copper train! 😂 Love your vids

If * I ever get another thousand pound load of copper? I definitely need the JAWS because I had triple zero wire and cutting it by hand is not fun! can only imagine 500 and 600 MCM

Amazing video! keep up the great work and the enjoying content

hey you need a biger shop i would go crazy in that shop

nice pumpgun... :-) i also have a mossberg in germany...for hunting

First, lol. Always a great watch

30:52 I am so loving this. Gotta be one of my favorite vids you've posted. It's so chill sitting here with a beer after a long day of computer work on the couch. Too bad I'll make less this week than you made this morning. ha!

Good job

i missed your videos ;-)

Awesome episode brother absolutely beautiful shotgun. Just keep near leave the doors open. That was definitely a drug deal going down.

Hi Derek, You're having way to much fun stripping by yourself!! With all the heavy-duty plastic insulation you generate - have you checked into any local companies that could use it to make other products?? Companies that do plastic injection molding or something similar. Just thinking out-loud - better to sell it than throw it away. Love these longer videos! Looking forward to the next one! Stay safe! Thumbs up! Jim

I’ll be I. Miami in about a week or two . My uncle passed away. But you can put me to work. I’m willing and able!

Time for a table to stack wire for stripping

Someone buy this man a pointer. He's using a slice of pizza as a pointer! Are you ever gonna take a bite of that?

Your 5HP motor did its job on that 600.

Awesome work bro. Love watching your vids. You should have 48 hours to the day...or a helping hand or three. ....and someone who could edit your vids. Most satisfying parts is when you organize or clean your shop. Least satisfying is when you talk about all you are going to do to the copper-king. Either fix it, witch would be a really good vid, or leave it out. Another good thing is when you film stuff in fast mode, that is also satisfying. Please see it as positive "critics". (i do watch your vids anyway so). lol Keep up the good work! / Mickey (fellow scrapper/ ex USMC / Sweden)

😂 using pizza as the pointer that was funny

Man you have some killer volume running through your shop,have you ever looked into becoming a whole seller and cut the scrap yards out?

Don’t like leaving the door open when you are by yourself… only a fool would mess with you seeing that friend you had sitting on that box!

Now that is a hole

E&h in Orlando got 12 k of bus bars

I would be ecstatic if I could find just 1% of that.

I wonder if the people you get that stuff from has ever verified if the stuff they are getting is not stolen from a job site. Because if you put all that 600 mcm back together it will be a whole roll. I just pray that if it is you don’t get caught up in it because we like you as a friend and you putout great videos.

I like your style. Hows that big Merc running? The algorithm hasn't fed you to my feed in a minute.

Ok I’m gonna make a tutorial video on how to manage your excess straps! Learned an amazing technique so you don’t have a mile of extra stuff to wrap and wrap and unwrap and unwrap. Or it gets loose and you got a monkey tail 30 ft behind the trailer lol

@1:06:35 Nice insurance policy! ;2)

Is Miami the closest yard to you?the difference between yards around me and the one you go to is my yard will give me #2 for all that since it is thin individual strands that make the big piece. My yard wants a single strand to be a certain size to be bare bright.

Have you ever tried cutting with the broken part of jaw on top? It looks like you grab wire easier that way. Also the rear tire on trailer drivers side is getting ready to throw that retread from what I saw after first delivery. Also what's the width and length to rear roller on the Copper King? I'm thinking of making a wood mockup for your V notches. Yes it won't last long but you would be able to cut and adjust the wood to dial in notch design. 😊 💖 from Minnesota

Lock aka latch

I show them my tickets so they know.. Honesty is always the best policy.. Exactly why they'll keep working with you. I'll transport all yall shit ...Lmfao..

Hey there I’m from ontario Canada doing the same type of thing wondering how you go about talking to contractors and business about buying their scrap copper etc,

Fellow Floridaman, young gun, machinist. Buying my own machine tool is still out of reach for me and the corporate trade was a huge disappointment, dei management, HR pussyfootin, incompetence allround. Would be nice to have my own shop like this to process if the work's there, build up to better tooling. Never owned a business or rented out space to work on my own, could I ask a general range of overhead for a space this size? Also if you have specs on that motor you use to run the stripper rig or have shown a build video I'd be interested in that. Little bit south of Tampa area so you don't have to worry about me steppin on your toes. Overall interested in small/medium foundry work to pump out material to machine, have scrapped and stripped my chunk of found and discarded, but tensions about the garage space are getting tedious so it's about time I carved out my own. Pops had a heart scare so he's retired a little early, he's a woodworker, but actually had a welder he said I could have, so I'll need to learn that along the way. Thanks for the content, I understand it's not all green eyes, not afraid to work just tired of working too hard for less takehome. Really dig that turtlebeak you got there, though I'm not sure I'll need one for a while, cheers m8, be well eat well. 😁

Have you ever tried buying your copper from any auctions I've been thinking about trying it out what are your thoughts on it. Also found an app that has auctions

Where in the world do you find a stripper machine that actually pulls the insulation off??

57:12 I’ll call you the copper courier dude how’s about that

It seems you generate alot of scrap insulation. Is it recycled or do you just pitch it ( you never talk about it )

🙂

Just wondering do you strip romex wire usually?

Do you recital the plastics too

59:00 - the shitty part about all this money coming in is that at the end of the year, yes, you did make a shit ton of money, but you're paying a bunch of tax on it, because the govmnt sees that 14,000 as 'income'...

Derek a question do you get more or less for granule copper ?

Might seem like a dumb question but why wouldn’t they just sell it directly to the scrap yard?

Why don't you clean the wirestripper machine with a good blow from the compressor?

Hope thats a good quality drum you got in that AK and not a cheap Korean one.

How about putting a wire stripper on your trailer and running it off a generator instead of running back and forth to Miami? Save time, no?

Hey Derek did you get your sluice working??? Peace from Canada

How often do you need to change the blades on your stripper?

Me and you do the same thing that small wire killed me I process 50k lb a month for scrap yards I bought a granulator I do 1500 to 2 lb in a shift now 1:20

have you ever thought about how much money scrap yards make compared to you and wear the sell there scrap profits must be huge, is there a smelterany where near you?

Where do the bus cars come from

can the wire plastic be recycled?

I heard prices have dropped so much its not worth the time to strip it

Price is rubish here in England, how do u dispose of all the plastic sheath ?

wish i could find a few places in ohio to buy wire

That machine would eat your fingers up

How does one steal so much high end copper? Inside gig. Telecom or electrician.

Do you ever get sketchy people trying to sell you stolen copper?

Hey Derek May I Know Approx How Many Tons Of Copper You Accumulate After Stripping Every Month ???