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

[@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

[@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 🤞

[@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

[@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.

[@asacummings8319]

That unknown diesel engine looks like a Caterpillar 3306.

[@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!!

[@steineriksen1850]

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

[@Proswim1]

I bet the scrap metal and glass will pay for the property, the race track, if done right has possibility of making huge money even if it was open only two times in summer. The investment in a property were you have complete serenity, where no one is there to sniff up your butt, or look over your shoulder is the American dream. Bravo!!! Cant wait for future videos.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@ziggybome]

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

[@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! 👍👏

[@tedvandell]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@namelessjames7696]

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

[@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!

[@2coolwheels139]

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

[@ytidb]

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

[@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. 😎

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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. 😊

[@asbjrnkvisle5831]

I could walk around there for days 🤩

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@jarm7726]

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

[@baxojayz]

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

[@superfly99206]

Low Buck adventures galore

[@bymarcatholictinkering]

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

[@davidallen5320]

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

[@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 !!!

[@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.

[@chrispy725]

16:55 the paul and Steve engine looks like a lincoln welding machine without the frame and voltage controller parts

[@johnossendorf9979]

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

[@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

[@kopperhed4472]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@wicks7581]

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

[@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.

[@plowboybill8283]

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

[@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!

[@SleepToots]

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

[@70SuperBee]

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

[@jasonjavelin]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@carmanmacbain5976]

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

[@goptools]

That place is wild! There is no end to the amount of fun you can have there. You could start a hoarding empire! So much good stuff. I would be hoping that the prior owner leaves most of it.

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Now that's a cool place, lots of room for a self motivated man to evolve & lots of stuff to do it with. 😀👍

[@boolongfellow8452]

Those massive funnels would make great storage sheds or cabins

[@TCW-hw6iw]

i was thinking the same thing. Flip them onto the open and they would look a bit like teepees. Great place to store rattle snakes and scorpions.

[@francistheodorecatte]

if that land was part of the silver mining operation, you might want to get some soil samples done and make sure the land you just bought isn't heavily contaminated with lead and arsenic that gets blown around as airborne dust.

[@dentoncustoms]

Man I would have so much fun cleaning that place up! Super cool spot.

[@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.

[@chuckh.2227]

My dream property!! Looks like all the value is above ground There's years worth of projects there If you're not having fun there it's work Have fun!!!

[@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....

[@tonydaniels3093]

You got the makings of a awesome rifle range!!!

[@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!!!

[@PRAISETHESAVIOR]

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!

[@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.

[@bigospig]

That is a treasure trove for a guy like you! Congrats.

[@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!

[@patricksjeeps]

Being from and living in NM myself, those mine trucks are super cool

[@peterunderdown4374]

Love the side track,having some where to play great.

[@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..

[@talltom1129]

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

[@Jethrosgarage]

That six cylinder appears to be either an early Cat 3306 or it's predecessor, a D333. Neat piece of property but wow what a bunch of junk! Yeah there is scrap value there if the seller does not come clean it out, but is it worth your time to do it? My inlaws bought a foreclosed place that has old logging trucks, tons of junk, junk farm machinery etc. They are still cleaning it up!

[@DIESELHILUX]

Wow heaven I’m in heaven I would have told the previous guy too just sign everything over and you will deal with clean up into piles of money oys and endless resources your life from now on will be busy scouting out the hidden gems old luck I’m desperate too see how this goes lol the best from here in UK ENGLAND Royboy fantastic find 👌

[@n1r0l]

Your Dad is going to poop himself when he sees what you bought. Prepare to move the blue bus out there for him to spend next spring.

[@nigelbeiley6668]

What a great place and full of “Goodies” my kind of heaven😊❤

[@morewithles]

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

[@craigbowley6783]

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

[@craigbowley6783]

That's a perfect new piece of land! It even comes with more useful stuff!👍

[@rossjon4795]

This is going to be fun watching what you do with this place

[@mike-lp6gn]

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

[@davidbeer]

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

[@purplegravy]

I can’t explain with words how much I love you. If you ever need a kid that may or may not be over 50 please let me know.

[@gkett001]

This is beyond cool! I would love to be cheap labour to help clean up the place. And just because the mine is played out doesn't mean there isn't more silver, just not enough to make it profitable. Or maybe they missed a vein of ore. Anyway, it's way too much fun to pass up. Love your videos.

[@mrshaneyt43]

Amazing place , your own slice of heaven to do as you please and I’m very jealous. Living here in the Uk on this dinky island your lucky to have a few metres to play in 👍

[@tobyihli9470]

That smaller diesel that you ask if we knew, I’m gonna say that was the power supply for a pump to pump water out of places in the mine.

[@gregglogan9553]

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

[@hgj2019]

GREAT PLACE! Beautiful area and nice selection of good junk. Only thing that makes it better is the remoteness. Reminds me of parts of AZ.

[@67697072]

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

[@TractorFella]

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

[@francoisbouchard602]

Cool yard Nice show Happy New year 😄

[@lucasstiles8012]

This is gonna be a source of endless projects. Can't wait.

[@wesgraham9588]

👍 Now that looks like fun 😉

[@RuralTowner]

Definitely interesting looking place. Before you even mentioned the detail about that Dodge...the emblem on the door was a giveaway.

[@markc5593]

I absolutely love that place, I had 30% of a house built by the end.