Building a Industrial Strength Magnetic Pickup tool

Today I am cleaning up where the burn pile was. The ash is full if nails and bolts. So I am going to build a magnetic pickup tool out of industrial strength magnets.
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[@davidtrull4738]

I have a suggestion to improve your magnet tool, if you get a strip of heavy gauge plastic (about the thickness of a milk jug plastic), and attach it the length of the magnets, you just pull the strip away and the metal comes with it!

[@bradleyschneider3871]

You really Nailed this video 😁

[@Tonetwisters]

Ahh! A man after my own Hee-Haw!

[@scottneusen9601]

Is there anything quite so satisfying as a job well done by tools built by your own hand.

[@edsecorr7812]

Great job looking great nice work love your videos thanks

[@hankfacer7098]

Wow, how amazing, that is just awesome

[@donetawrate825]

i'm glad 4 u, that u r stronger than a magnet

[@MySliceOfHeavenoutdoors]

pretty cool, you could hear when it was picking stuff up

[@vernonvest9927]

You idea of bigger tires is a good idea 💡.

[@jkdubs2]

Awesome job. Pretty smart.

[@Dave-xl7oc]

Just saw pick-up tool WOW!!!!!

[@Mongchong_123]

Great invention!!

[@SuperLaplander]

Great tool!

[@kentowens2179]

There must have been a building there at one time that burned down. Nice work on the stumps and the magnetic picker upper. LOL

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Evan, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

[@janfrench4691]

Hi Evan,. Suggest scrape the magnet off over the barrow ... that way you're not picking it up twice.

[@PoteauCowboy]

Well done.

[@albundy1956]

Great build Evan, good job.

[@rg1599]

Great job.

[@joannak4640]

You are ingenious!! I love your videos and get so excited everytime I see you posted a new one!! Rebekah is one lucky girl 😁❤️😁

[@yasminghani2073]

Amazing job

[@frankdeegan8974]

A lot of the warehouses and truck and trailer yards have magnets like yours hanging from the front of their maintenance vehicles to keep the sharp metal junk cleaned up. For trucking companies tires and fuel are their two largest expenses. When you get time hang that thing under the front of a tractor on the homestead.

[@bishopmakings9205]

Great video.😎

[@sharonanspach2734]

WOW! you created such a very handy tool for the homestead..people will standing in line to borrow it

[@loraineleuschke4186]

A good build. Creative way to extract nails and metal shards from the burn pile.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@timetable620]

Use adjusters off a old lawnmower on the sides so you can adjust it for different situations

[@localsouptalks]

Building a tool with (mostly) materials you have on hand, that does quick work of the job it was built to do. Very, very cool.

[@RichBurris2]

Looked like fun.

[@superdave3106]

Evan, I'm at a loss for words after watching your magnet video. I have had multiple experiences with store bought and rental magnets after roofing jobs on my house and again on the garage. They always sucked. That magnet you built is worth a fortune if you want to sell it. It's unbelievable how effective it is. Your video ranks up there with the best of the best of all the videos I've watched and believe me, I've watched a lot of them being mostly confined to home because of my age and bad knees. Tons of kudos to you.

[@sixosixo]

Wow! Good lord at the nails! I don't know if I would ever be confident all the metal was gotten. I think I'd be taking all that soil and disposing of it. You are one hard working man Evan.

[@angelapinnock3793]

WOW AWESOME!😯 That was an unbelievable amount nails. When I first saw it I thought it was all dirt. And a fab money saver. Well Done!!!

[@leabarto8156]

Awesome

[@Tonetwisters]

That haul is incredible! Neat tool! I have some Neo-dymium magnets about the size of a quarter that are very light and incredibly strong. Amazing what they are doing with magnets these days.

[@warren519]

All I can say is Awesome. Cheap home invention. You nailed it, brother

[@lunakatt429]

Watching this video was fun . I like all your videos , you and your wife are so lovely together .

[@deanbarr5740]

What a piece of ingenuity Evan. That was great, worke well. 👍👍👍

[@terrimccullough724]

Wow. That was crazy!! What a time saver!

[@tannenbaum3444]

That is incredible! Lucky you have that powerful of a magnet!

[@donnahardin107]

If anyone has any old large speakers they usually have a large, round, very strong magnet in them that work great for this application.

[@donmacdonald7758]

Good one.

[@Sigurther]

Those things were way more beastly than speaker magnets. Kinda wondering what they came from.

[@donmacdonald7758]

@@Sigurther Easy way to check is get some iron nails and put them on a 12 in. woofer.

[@shaniaa9287]

WOW.... good thing you did that. Unbelievable amount of nails and metal 😲

[@shaniaa9287]

Thank goodness for your brother in-laws magnets gift👍

[@Trekr1998]

Nice build. It seems to me that pulling the pick tool would be easier than pushing it. Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work

[@jamesharless5357]

Wow, very impressive!

[@davirgo77]

You can hear the nails sticking to the magnet. Nice Job.

[@jackmargason2594]

Enjoy your creative approach to jobs on the farm. Always look forward to a new video from Country View Acres.

[@VelvetRedRoses]

Any neighbors who have a new roof put on their house/garage might want to borrow this. Nice tool. I like the idea of another size tire; you will have two to use, one for over concrete or floor and one over the ground. Great job and easy, uncomplicated build too.

[@renelozoya8563]

Excelent

[@dennisfahlstrom2515]

Evan, I like your invention and made a similar one for use around my farm when I bought it 18 years ago. My pasture and yard were loaded with nails, bolts and other ferrous junk and I fought flat tires for a few weeks before devising my magnetic pickup tool. It was bigger than yours at 4’ wide but a little heavy for manual use. One simple refinement I made that allowed very easy separation of my collected ferrous junk was to mount an 3/16” non ferrous aluminum plate on the bottom of the magnets with swivel brackets I made that mounted the aluminum plate at each end. This allows me to swivel the aluminum pickup plate away from the magnets easily and the ferrous junk just falls off. The aluminum plate doesn’t stop the magnetic flux from picking up the junk and it doesn’t stick to the magnets either. With your skills I’m sure you can modify your tool the same way. One more suggestion - don’t pound or rap on your magnets. It will weaken the domain structure and the magnetic strength. That can be repaired with an electromagnet but best to not need doing that. Good luck and keep your excellent vids coming. I try to never miss them.

[@AfterTheRains]

Your innovative tool plus a metal detector - job done.

[@patwanner1781]

Great job. You have to be one of the hardest working people on KZbin.🐓

[@lorenmeyer5290]

Great video Evan! Can't believe how much junk you got out of that area! WOW!!! HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

[@Bass2010]

That’s a lot of nails heck that a lot of metal you got up 👍👍👍👍😊

[@peggysizemore4207]

wow that’s quite the magnet....good job!

[@eugenelayhue1932]

27 seven bucks i spent on a much lesser one at home depot because my diy mind was being too lazy, well i'll be taking back. I got one of these magnetic bars that screw to the wall for holding screw drivers pliers etc. I never put it too any use and it is pretty powerful so now i have a use for it.

[@noocemiller6005]

Nice little project!! I like the way you think!!

[@crslyrn]

Pretty nice magnetic pickup tool. It's almost unbelievable seeing the amount of nails & metal debris the magnet was picking up in that area. Yep, you get the concrete slab cleaned off & it'll be an excellent place to part implements. Stay safe.

[@MrKenhaigh]

Cracking little project Evan! Well done. One to be a little proud of, a great little success. Reward yourself with a nice beer friend.

[@kingkong7617]

The magnet works great and having it that low, you also level the ground as you pick up the metal bits. Good job on the magnet build and it does exactly what you wanted it to do.

[@csnanny1882]

Unbelievable, there’s probably that many more nails there in the same spot. Bless your heart.

[@charlescoker7752]

Your the only one I can find on the Tube. who has built one of these.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

What a great build you came up with Evan, really going to be quite useful around there. Make sure you really fasten the magnets securely to a super strong outfit before using it underwater if the need arises. Lots of magnets are lost on flimsy retriever ropes. You have an excellent magnet for what you are doing so far. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.

[@maintenancebynathan2150]

Some day I'll drive by and see that thing in the front yard. I'll know you found the old well casing and can't get it unstuck. LOL.

[@fiorevitola880]

I have heard of worm farms but never a nail farm, wow that is a lot of nails!

[@logan5755]

That's great man. Thanks again for another great video.

[@aleldon9085]

Well done. Thank you!

[@sixosixo]

Great job. Maybe use a plastic putty knife to scrape off the metal?

[@jaynomeroma6829]

Oh my goodness, works a treat, wonder if it would work on the sand beachcombing, necessity is the mother of all inventions, great job !!!!

[@skipstein744]

Great idea and useful, too.

[@yourdriver4093]

Use one of those sturdy metal rakes next time, it's better than a shovel and it grades a lot better too. Also u may be able to use those adjustable hight wheel brackets off an old push lawn mover..

[@floodedcar123]

That is cool

[@DaSarcasticNorthernman]

Last summer I borrowed a friends store bought pick up magnet, similar to your homemade. I quickly learned to wrap the magnet with a thick plastic or burlap, to make it easier to release the metal it picked up. A side note, I live in northern Minnesota on what is commonly referred to as the Iron Range. Besides metal pieces, the magnet picked up just as many rocks.... I was pretty intrigued to see if and how many rocks you may have picked up.

[@willford8475]

I was thinking that would be the best way to retrieve the metal off the magnets.

[@LloydJarvis]

Meteorites are also like that from what I've seen. At least you can find them with a metal detector. Not sure about magnet.

[@Bamaman14k]

That magnetic nail pick up is fantastic, we could even see the nails jumping up off the ground on to the magnets. you could put bigger wheels on it if you wanted but it looks like it did pretty good job the way it is. Great video thanks a lot, Jimmy

[@dpyles9396]

Put yourself about a 12 tine stiff rake on the back so it turns up the ash/dirt whatever you have then you can drag back over that same path and pick up all the iron you dislodged on the first pass. Just a thought. I do like that tool though!!! Thanks.

[@petedavis8701]

Ingenious! Well done

[@vikinghog]

Amazing. Good thing you did it.

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

Awesome tool. A keeper for sure. And fun to use too.

[@dylan8285]

Surprised the camera still worked after you held that magnet that close. Also the sound of all those nails attaching to the magnets is quite satisfying

[@donmacdonald7758]

Worked well Evan.

[@ravenridgehomestead4596]

that's just crazy... success!

[@josephbrown-ut9ty]

JudithB Great project!!!! I work on my driveway all the time and dropping a screw or nail is a pain until I find it!!! LOL I sure dont want to drive my truck through when there are any loose screws around! I would run your metal sweeper around all the barns and where there were old buildings when you have time this summer. I finished putting my wood burning bbq together, and dropped screws here n there that I had to have. I have an extended pen type magnet and used it to find and pick up the screws. It sure made things easier!!!

[@EC4400]

Great idea Evan, it worked beautifully. How is Maggie handling her little Brother, Full of energy.

[@CountryViewAcres]

She is still very unhappy. But getting a little better.

[@EC4400]

@@CountryViewAcres First thing I thought of when I saw Rebekah Holding that beautiful ball of fur.. That lap was Maggie's lap. Maggie is older and set in her ways, Scout is a ball of energy that just wants to play. Scout was so large, I thought he was a pyrenees.

[@johnsadler8637]

A friend explained how to make an electromagnet out of the transformer coil of a microwave. I found one at an appliance store and wired up the diagram with a switch through the top of a plastic bucket. The coil, wiring etc fit in the bucket. When I switched it on, it was close to as strong as yours. So I carried it onto my ash pile and made overlapping bucket prints with the switch on. You could hear the metal hit the bucket. Then I lifted it over my barrel and shut the switch off to let the upside-down pile fall off. It worked fine most of the day, until the guy running it left it on too long and burnt out my wiring. Another friend said to get a permanent magnet like yours and mount it to something that could be pulled up from the inside bottom of the bucket. Then pulling it away would be like switching it off. As strong as yours are, you might need a little spacer below them to weaken it enough to pull it up.

[@johnsadler8637]

Of course, if you don’t mind pulling the loos nails etc off, yours is quite good.

[@janicecancilla913]

I love your content, Evan! Great job on the magnet tool!

[@thomasrichardson7865]

Another way is to use a window screen over a wheel barrel to shift out metal and the ash you could use in your garden.

[@VelvetRedRoses]

We had a small area to sift out junk in some soil and we used a 1/4" mesh inside a square made of 2 x 4's. We laid the square on top of 2 saw horses; worked great. The good soil fell down onto a tarp which we dragged to where we needed the soil.

[@auntym4729]

Great job that clink clink is a-satisfying sound. I used a big box one and had to go over everything 3 or 4 times and still got more. One in a tire also. Lookin good!

[@estellaknox4488]

That is amazing wow thst great i need one of those

[@greybeard5774]

Another option to put these magnets in place would've been using cable ties. It's always handy to have them around.

[@HMSSfrigate12]

hi Evan, around here in Ontario I am told by older fellows that a scrap metal pile is a must on a farm and it follows that they throw metal into a pile around old stumps until the scrap man comes around

[@donnamcnichol7433]

That was a great idea. Love your vidoes.

[@barbaraanderson5785]

Great project Evan, it worked out wonderful. I think one of the best thing ever made on here🐔

[@davidgambler1591]

There is way to make a release for that unit. Place a thin piece of plastic ( like the corrugated plastic voting signs you see in People’s front yards) between the magnets and the ground. Once it’s loaded up, Simply slide the plastic off.

[@npsurf1]

I saw some stuff on the ground in what looked like an old burn site... I remembered seeing this. Got one of the cheesey magnet from one of the box stores... 12lbs later I'm still picking up stuff.

[@huevacho97]

13.28 looks like a post apocalyptic place

[@Gen_X_Jimmy]

My Harbor Freight magnet works great

[@wgoconnor33]

That was a lot of nails good job !

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Looks like it works great. Nice build

[@michaelgriffee145]

Neat ideal I use to drive a spotter to move trailers around at a warehouse they had a magnet that was as long as the front end it hung on chains about 4 inches from the pavement it was unreal what it pick up as you were driveing it away back and forth it did a good job

[@ivanmischyuk9813]

Magnetron 😎

[@wcsd9577]

Looks like it worked great. I had a customer who bought a small store-bought one for a project we had and insisted we use it. We rolled our eyes at first but then grew to love it the first time we used it. Hers had a mechanism where you pulled on the handle and the magnets pulled up and away and the metal all dropped off. Maybe if you have some pieces of plastic lying around you could try to rig up something that covers the magnets that you pull off and all the metal falls away.

[@johnzink3309]

Thx

[@79meatstick]

Nice job. Put some plastic or some fabric around the magnets so you can just pull on it and it will all fall away from the magnet

[@Living-The-Dream]

Awesome tool.....many roofers around here use a tool similar to yours. That will save many a tire/tube patch! Well worth your effort👍🤠