The Low-Buck Mine: Scrap Metal and Hoarding

[@corryn00]

Most youtubers get money and build fancy shops... not you man... your like most of us and just get a bigger place with more junk. YOU ARE AWESOME!!

[@1nvisible1]

*Bring a trailer full of scrap back to the yard on your return trips.* *In 37 years it will all be cleaned up!*

[@bondvagabond42]

He's the real deal, if he did make more KZbin money, you KNOW he would just drag more old iron home. I explain it to my wife like this: it's tough to have a person be really really good at fixing stuff, without them tinkering on old junk, so she gets to look at my yard art, but when the furnace breaks and it's -40° outside, I can fix it in like an hour, vs having to wait till 2026 for a repair guy to come fix it.

[@Krumpetpirate]

A man of the people.

[@chrishalford7930]

Hahaha love it. The 80 year old English you tuber Garage Racing has so many spares it takes him a day to check his stock before going buying stuff...its all in front of me bro'.

[@chrishalford7930]

Sorry "shed racing " is the 80 year old

[@chriswhite2151]

So to get rid of junk, you bought a place with a mass quantity of junk? Masterful move! Wow that is a lot of stuff!

[@Freedbird]

Livin the dream !

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Absolutely genius!

[@patrickthemayor2524]

that is all $$ laying around there. that was a great move !@@Dancing_Alone_wRentals

[@CoryMT]

Instead of getting rid of his junk, he's just hiding it in a bigger pile of junk. lol

[@daviousmaximus6446]

@@CoryMT ...and that was his cunning plan all along

[@anthonymarcello1265]

Amazing how what was a silver mine is now a gold mine!!! Hoarder heaven!!!

[@another_unique_username]

That’s about what I was thinking. As he was riding around I was all but drooling over a lot of the stuff there

[@RoseBud-fk4qg]

I can't wait to see wat you do with all that junk treasure

[@BCVS777]

I’m thinking you’re gonna inherit all that stuff whether you want it or not.

[@Frank-Thoresen]

It will cost the previous owner too much to clear. The work and transportation will cost more than the value. I hope he keeps it all besides of potential chemicals in the "keep out" box

[@lost_dream]

🙂 yep

[@Decenium]

even those truck trailers? because he could easily sell that or use those.

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Actually, he can make enough money with what's left there to pay for the property. Those diesel engines, generators, ect. are still worth money. Lot's of scrap metal too, although the prices are a little low right now.

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

He wish 🤞

[@glenjenkins21]

This is my absolute favorite channel. I can’t wait to see what you do with the new property.

[@SAM-zt2uy]

This is the dream! An old mine with a radioactive truck.

[@stanleybarnette3025]

You are an interesting human being! I like your view on things that most people would consider junk. Lots of good ideas come from your channel and I'm really impressed with your know how. You live a life most of us tinkerer's could easily envy. I would be genuinely be interested in your worldviews. Anyway i really like this channel and i enjoy your "can do" attitude " and skill set. Keep up the videos as i no longer really enjoy the videos of the KZbinrs that have made it "big". There is a lot to be said for those that can do much with what they have. Thank you Sir!!

[@namelessjames7696]

“I wonder if you could build a shed out of desks?” You are asking the right question!

[@ScottDLR]

It's a hoot exploring that place. Thanks for taking us along and congrats on your new treasure trove.

[@michaelb.42112]

That would be SOOOooo much fun exploring that property looking for neat gadgets.

[@gmwally4537]

The bins with the train coupler are ore cars used underground. Look like 5 ton cars. If they have a wheel on the side its a camel back side dump. They were usually pulled with a large battery powered locomotive.

[@paytonagresta1343]

Great video, awesome property, tons of potential. All the junk is sweet, that power wagon with the atomic symbol on the door is amazing.

[@allanwinter4991]

I used to work on those air cube compressors on offshore oil rigs back in the seventies/eighties.Fantastic machines. Huge output. Need to use turbine oil in them to stop the valves coking up.

[@steveaw5895]

Were the ones you worked on Joy compressors? I worked for a compressor repair contractor and he had a Joy cube looking compressor in the back corner of the warehouse. He was a Joy company service man.

[@allanwinter4991]

@@steveaw5895 Ingersol Rand just like in the video.

[@opus1952]

Crikey ! you've bought a small fortune in scrap metal alone. 👍 Can't wait to see what comes from this lot. Happy new year. 😎

[@ProlificInvention]

I'm here for it; I cleaned out hoarder homes for 15 years, and worked at a rock quarry/sand mine that doubled as a racetrack sometimes..and had an 80 acre recycled materials section...so you could say this is right up my alley. Not to mention this is one of my favorite YT channels, thanks man.

[@tedvandell]

Thanks for all the great videos last year! Looking forward to more in 24!!

[@Viva-la-Maquina]

Man, that place is heaven! You have a live time worth of content now! The metal alone is worth the cost! I got a storage barn next time over few years ago to clear my home. Now I spent several times a month dropping and picking up “stuff”. You will end up with two sets of everything also. Have fun!

[@thaddeustroyer]

Free, is always better. Casually mention to the previous owner that it they "dont want to worry about cleaning the place up, they can just leave it" you sir, are now set for life with the "low buck garage" theme. Soooo much stuff, needed a place to store "said stuff" so you bought a place with more stuff! Absolutely genius! 👍👏

[@juztyn00]

Awesome project, looks like a year's wages in just scrap. I'd be wary of leaving anything of value (Like the quad) up there though.

[@robertburns3014]

Yeah, I would worry about leaving anything of value there as any thief checking out the property would take it, I can almost guarantee it. 😢

[@alcopower5710]

Was thinking the same thing

[@billmoxon9506]

Yeah but his good junk is cleverly hidden amongst all the old soon to be his junk... and it's already been safe for quite a while by the looks of it!

[@ridethroughlifertl]

I found your channel about a month ago and I watched every single one of your videos in order. I'm glad I caught up! I'm really looking forward to the new stuff this year.

[@2coolwheels139]

What fun! I can't wait to see you get those old diesel engines running!

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

I'm four plus hours from my storage. I hate the drive there....but once I arrive......glorious! Here is what happened to me. I went from being scared to leave something of value..... to wishing I could take everything to storage and only bring back the things I was working on. Happy New Place in the New Year!

[@ytidb]

You are living the dream my friend! Know that we all live vicariously though you! Keep it coming!

[@robertburns3014]

What a cool piece of property! I know that it is a long way from "civilization" but that is one of its best features. You can do all most anything you want to do out there! I would be thrilled to have something like this. If your RV bus can handle the road to the property, you could live on your property part of the time if you wanted to! Anyway, thanks for showing us around and please keep us updated on the progress out there. 😊

[@roypearce6968]

That big thing is for air conditioning they put them on a roof and they were like a Radiator and the system use ammonia to make it work. But that was years ago. So happy you found this place great video.

[@steveaw5895]

They were called cooling towers when I did hvac work in the eighties.

[@jarm7726]

😂 I got goosebumps looking at all that junk 😂 I would keep it all 😂🎉 Happy New Year

[@asacummings8319]

That unknown diesel engine looks like a Caterpillar 3306.

[@steineriksen1850]

I want to see that 27 liter caterpillar and air cube thing run

[@baxojayz]

The new expansion / overflow property looks amazing! I am shocked you wanted all that stuff cleared out. So much looks so useful!

[@chestercobblepot7839]

Pressure vessel at 15:58 is made by autoclave engineers, they have been building HP stainless vessels like that since the 1930’s, submarine tech and reactor tech too. That needle valve on the end is still commonly used today and its end connection is good for 60,000 psi.

[@Freedbird]

Big metal cone on top. Curved glass walls underneath. Seems like you could scrounge up some metal beams, etc., for the structure! Going to need a boom on the half track.

[@manytrickpony695]

everything about this channel i like and envy. New Mexico, the machinary, the "go for it" attitude. and that place looks like a mecca of fun.

[@carld3184]

I bought a place like that about 20 years ago, all it had was fields woods and a 100+ year old barn. Still enjoy going there and playing with the tractor, dump truck, bucket truck etc. Your new place comes with a lot more stuff!!! It will make an excellent off-grid retirement home once the kids move out.

[@michaelb.42112]

Low-Buck Garage and Pole Barn Garage are becoming two of my favorite channels and I'm not a mechanic. EDIT : That property you bought with all the rusty gold is like Heaven ! I can only imagine cruising around on your ATV going on a treasure hunt and finding it !!!

[@EJJ123]

as for those big cone things maybe just stand them up and cut a door in them looks like they'd make a decent little storage shed That place is going to be awesome I can't wait to see all the things you're going to do there

[@jasonjavelin]

This is such a cool property! Looking forward to an update video and more on all the stuff they leave

[@asbjrnkvisle5831]

I could walk around there for days 🤩

[@cattlerepairmancattlerepai9414]

Told my wife about your move of the collection and she said "No!" . When I showed her the gorgeous property she said "Hell, no!" and her comment on the scrap metal and assorted goodies was "Absolutely, NO!". I am not quite sure but it almost sounds as if she was not on board with me entering the scrap business. On a more sincere note, not knowing what the scrap metal prices are in your area, but methinks you make the "used car price" of the property back relatively easily with the stuff that is there. Large electric motors, pumps and the 2 inch steel plate usually bring good money.

[@marklelohe3754]

Looks like a good buy. Nice to have all that material and the land. Enough projects there alone to add to your to do list. Lots of fun. You'll be able to build a great commentary box for the race track from all the glass!

[@davidallen5320]

You're doing it right because we're having fun!

[@rudolphbondefangerer5513]

The important thing about stuff is that you can never have too much of it. You may have the wrong stuff, but that just means you have to have more stuff. To make sure you have the right stuff. When you need it.

[@hfdzl]

Just fell into Heaven!! Plenty of project starters and projects not to start. How could one average home brew mechanic stumble into a candy store like this!! Amazing!! I don't know what you are keeping or scrapping out, there is a piece I would be interested in buying if possible.

[@brianlubeck4184]

Just for fun, if you had a drone, you could fly it over that prohibited area and find out exactly what they don't want you looking at

[@afberglund2764]

With sensors for radiation and other stuff

[@kopperhed4472]

This is one of the coolest purchases ever. Those mountains are beautiful and a radioactive truck.

[@argreenboo]

my idea would be to make a "small town" out of all the stuff that it can be more organized, so there would be a furniture store(put all the kitchen ranges, fridges, sinks etc,) hard wood store( all types of wood that isn't rotted, some tables, chairs) hard wear strore( scrap metal, drums, glass) engine yard, and then a car renovation/repair shop near where a race track in the future would be. maybe even check if there is a long enough strip to make a drag strip/ Runway. could be pretty fun

[@matthewanderson7766]

So much more room for activites I'm really excited to see what you do with that property and the projects you get into

[@bymarcatholictinkering]

What you do is what most of us wish our life situations would offer us, but just can’t for various reasons.

[@superfly99206]

Low Buck adventures galore

[@morewithles]

Projects for a lifetime! You’re gonna need an army! 😂

[@doubleduty1703]

Your going to need an excavator with grapples and semi truck with big trailer The glass would be cool for a greenhouse or a house built into a hill. Excavator to dig out the hill. Got furniture too… hmm so much potential.

[@sarachucks]

Love the new property. So whatever you don’t use as far as metal, you could scrap the not so useable metal and it would pay probably close to half of the property cost, just a thought. Lots of stuff there that could be used for future projects. I look forward to seeing more videos of the old mine property.

[@2-STROKEFUN]

That’s awesome! Such a blessing that many can’t see, it’ll be a lot of work cleaning/organizing it all but I’m looking forward to seeing what happens!

[@SleepToots]

Looking forward to your future projects! That place looks like a gold mine (or at least a silver mine)!

[@rogerheilman2699]

Love all your videos. My Dad was a farm kid and learned to fix almost anything and everything from his Dad, Uncles and Granddad...all dedicated hoarders. I'm more of a city kid but learned my DIY and Fixit skills at his knee. I'm now retired and have been looking for a reasonably priced worn out flat fender jeep to tinker on but they've become stupid expensive in my (northern outskirts of Phoenix) area. Still looking in an ever widening area. Your videos are both entertaining and instructive. Please keep it up

[@MNJay1]

I'm with ya. Everything has potential. The outboard motor has a 90° gear box on the lower unit. Potential. Love your vids.

[@johnossendorf9979]

I love those King Quads ! Best utility Quad ever made !

[@hubcityhotrod]

Oh we defiantly want to see more about this new property and what you can do with it. Can't wait for school to be out so you can take the motor home out there and spend some quality time organizing all the cool stuff left behind and putting together a cool shop.

[@mike-lp6gn]

Nice way to start the year Good luck Happy new year.

[@plowboybill8283]

Way Kool!!!!! Land of a thousand Smiles! Miles of Smiles, you are having FUN, Thanks for sharing!

[@Scrapy-ih7ob]

Nice Find/and buy. like you said some people think your junk is Eye Sore. but hey it's yours, you do necessary thing to find land move your junk too, but I think that stuff going be their till you pay then guy going sit till the scrap price go up, then you're going be inconvenienced when the previous owner decide it time to profit. so should have negotiated deadline or you Forgit it....

[@willhooker9567]

Excited for the channel!

[@wicks7581]

Thats one way to get new projects (assuming the previous owner fails to clear up). Keep up the good work.

[@keithwight856]

Congratulations on your new property this is very exciting so much potential

[@JCG105]

A seriously FUN video. You got my subscription, sir.

[@carmanmacbain5976]

it looks like you hit the jack pot for a scrap colector great show and ideas thanks .

[@Hazmatt4700]

Having lived on an old gold mine for many years, the amount of cool and useful items and parts is always an excellent addition to the goldberg.

[@pjofurey6239]

This is a great way to start the new year! The mine looks like a dream , I see two metal teepees,acres of useful steel, that sheet of 2” steel is peaches!

[@dandexinventor]

Oh ya! that's a gold mine of another kind! I used to dream of owning a junk yard out in the middle of nowhere so i could just build stuff, so I'm thinking you are living the dream...good find!!!

[@francoisbouchard602]

Cool yard Nice show Happy New year 😄

[@detroitdiesel12v71]

I have the same exact Hotpoint fridge in immaculate condition and it's still in use to this day, best beer fridge ever! Also, if those air cubes end up for sale I will take every one of them!

[@67697072]

Good score...lots of really cool stuff !!👌

[@alexwilson8279]

That power wagon is so rad!

[@Jono.]

Cool new spot!! I’m digging the industrial riff-raff scattered about. Love this channel, thanks for showing us around all your cool projects. I’m excited for that Dodge 200

[@mattmac2488]

That is such an awesome place. I can't wait to see what you end up doing with all that space you're gonna have at your shop! Have fun!

[@grahamsmith6474]

Your new property will give you a lifetime worth of videos to make. That’s amazing. I’m super jealous of your property. Keep up the amazing videos. Love them.

[@EricV63]

My OCD wants to organize that mine equipment yard. LOL! For those thinking all the metal is worth big money, price steel scrap Vs gas or diesel. It would cost more in fuel than he would recoup in the scrap metal unless he finds a loads worth of copper or aluminum. You may have to do a lien sale action on what's left in the sheds, but those were nice shiny new locks, so I suspect they want what ever is inside. I hope they come and haul it off soon so you have the storage shed space to use. Hopefully whomever they pay to haul won't take your quad too!

[@calfeggs]

I'd have a lot of fun scrapping that stuff. all I need is my truck, tailer, plasma cutter and generator.

[@NewBeRVer]

Happy New Year! And much success with your new acquisition! I’m excited!🎉🎉🎉

[@lloydprunier4415]

Looks like a dream deal! Happy New Year ! Looking forward to the new adventures.

[@gregglogan9553]

yes a gold mine of scrap . a lot good stuff. love the shout video. an love your channel.

[@dalegnodle]

I lived in Grants for many years and when the Uranium mines shut down went to a bunch of auctions. It was a blast! These are cool leftovers from that Era!

[@talltom1129]

I hope you brought some of that plastic back to make a new set of drive gears for the snowmobile

[@jjock3239]

That would be my kind of dream property. I am willing to bet, that the previous owner is going to leave a lot of that stuff up there for you to sort through at your leisure. Happy New Year..

[@williambrooks4585]

I think your videos are great a wide variety of stuff and your diagnostic stuff is awesome I would not change

[@theodoredugranrut8201]

The silver may be gone, but to me, you are looking at a gold mine. We are looking forward see what will be done there. Central California watching

[@Breakstuff455khz]

I need to live next to an abandoned mine, that place looks awesome. I'd keep all the junk and drag it to one corner and call it a day. I'd try to get the ghost town as part of the deal too.

[@ziggybome]

Gotta respect the man who transports a trailer full of old used tires to a property 4 hours away 😂

[@AfroMyrdal]

The ending if fantastic! 😆

[@matthewfulk4124]

Wow that place is incredible! Great find and great purchase! Can't wait to see what you do with it!

[@Prescopalt]

Amazing vídeo. Happy for ur purchase, i think is a nice one.

[@craigbowley6783]

Id be there for days! Just looking through stuff! And imagining what I could do with it!😊

[@brianhostak3961]

Paradise Plus !! You got it man !! Thanks for the ride around !!

[@kyliepierson8718]

That's pretty I see 1 problem like you said it's far away but I guess that can be a good thing sometimes. I can only imagine some of stuff you can make with this stuff. All the other stuff you can sell, there's probably at least 10 loads of scrap to drag out that place hopefully a scrap yard is close so you can make some money for projects. Happy New Year

[@davidbeer]

I love this new sight you got Especially the thick plate steel that was left.

[@smudger797]

🤠 Epic video, Im so jealous, good luck and hope to see much more from there. Happy New Year

[@TractorFella]

I love exploring old treasures that many don't see as treasures. Congrats and enjoy!

[@MiguelRodriguez-zi4sl]

Happy New Year to you and your family!! Thanks for everything you do and God Bless 🙌

[@adamheazlett1179]

You have a wicked sense of humour.

[@frosteone1670]

Three cheers for the low-buck mine. Looks to me like there is a lot of fun to be had there. Great score!

[@ewelmo3921]

As an old miner, I'd tell them don't bother cleaning up. Lots of cool stuff out there.

[@billmoxon9506]

You're fast becoming my all time favorite channel!!