Since we're on the subject of scrap metal, and knowing your Dad's sense of humor...Why are people who crush Coke cans so sad? It's soda pressing.

@gravelydon7072

2 жыл бұрын

The door is that way. > ;-)

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Just for that I have pinned you as our favorite weekly comment Lol

@mdouglaswray

2 жыл бұрын

Just what we need, syrupy humor

First! Brian!!

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

second! graham!!

@drummachine434

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 third! trey!!!

Glad to see that you were given the chance to gain experience that you would not otherwise get. Always love your channel. Your honest approach to work is refreshing.

We enjoy anything East Terminal Railways has the time to produce. Thanks.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

This takes me back to cutting & air arcing old conrail hulks for rebuilds at GE in Cleveland, we would strip them down & make custom locos for customers all over north & south america. Thanks for the memories and be safe!PS don't miss those full leathers in the middle of summer

Gee we really shoulda had a safety meeting before hand. Larry was supposed to be on fire watch but he went to white castle instead 😉

Great Vid ... I have fond memories of scrapping old semi flat beds when i was a young cat like Graham ... My buddy had the long torch ... We called it the " Railroad Torch " .... Graham and Pa are living the dream for us Grinders ... It's like the Jeep Thing ... most don't understand ...

That cutting tool you use is really a wicked piece of work. A very interesting piece of equipment. As someone whose family once owned or otherwise worked in foundries, thanks for doing this sort of work to create scrap. It is the lifeblood of a company like a foundry. One of the foundries we once had in Dayton, used to make the wheel carriages and other pieces for rail cars.

That first photo is a very interesting looking photo. It has a sort of post-apocalyptic look.

I live here close to Ken's place. I also am a tube creator. I will be at the show Friday, but have tp go to Ohio Sat and Sun. Ken was a good fellow and will be missed. If I see you there Friday, I will introduce myself.

@kman-mi7su

2 жыл бұрын

You have an awesome channel! I've been watching it for years now. Keep those great videos coming and be safe out there on the road towing is dangerous work with the way people drive around you guys.

That was great, Graham! I never knew what happened to scrap metal or gave it much thought, so I appreciate the lesson. I'd love to see more. And it sounds like you taught your Dad something as well!

Very interesting video. Nice to be able to see how railroad equipment is salvaged. Take care.

Should sell those big crankshafts for yard art.

Woohoo! I look forward to y'all's videos!

Thank you for your update, very interesting, great night shots.

@5:42. Your father is wrong for two reasons, [1] as you said, engine block castings _can_ be cut, but also [2] they _are_ ferrous, they're cast iron, which is pretty much the definition of a ferrous metal, as is steel. Any metal that is mostly, or entirely iron, is "ferrous", which gives iron its chemical symbol "Fe". AFAIK all locomotive engine blocks are made from cast iron, as are truck engines, and _most_ car engines, except for some high performance cars which have aluminum engine blocks. ..... The Dodge Viper V10 started life as a cast iron engine designed for a truck, but was re-engineered (by Lamborghini engineers) to be cast from aluminum for use in the Viper.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Well. If it is ferrous then go buy a cast iron pan from a thrift store. Then get a torch and try it. Yes it is technically cast-steel but it doesn’t cut like steel and it takes a lot of experience to be able to cut it efficiently.

When I worked in the South Bronx industrial area. People would put the wire in a shopping cart and set it on fire to burn off the insulation to get a better price at the scrap dealer

@SmallMartingale

2 жыл бұрын

Still do. I saw a guy burning a bundle of copper out in the middle of the street the other day. Just standing back having a soda while watching it burn like he was at a backyard barbecue. Not the Bronx, St Louis

Good to see something have been waiting for something new since you last posted a video. Praying all goes well going forward. Enjoy what you do.

Not bad I like watching this type of work . Can't wait to see the security improvements and live East Terminal Railway cam

Great video. Great pictures.

orange hardhats well it would make sense to make the hardhats orange that is the color scheme of the ETR after all.

Nice one! I found it interesting, we have a cutting torch at our railway, but I don't have a lot of experience with it.

Nice bit of Gas Axing there ,good job!

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.

Who needs pyrotechnics when you have a Graham around. Great video bro. Safe travels up your way

Great video of lance work! Dangerous stuff. Thanks for sharing!!

Cut up a lot of scrap metal in my early days in the oilfields. In addition to skin and eyes, take care of those lungs. As always, I enjoyed the video and look forward to more.

@mpgarr

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Lots of nasty fumes come off doing such work.

Enjoy Eiderville. Incredible tractor collections plus.

Nice cutting torch

Thanks..very interesting…esp like the night shots! You’re a hard working young man. Your parents should be very proud of you.

Looks likes Graham is ready to torch any trolls or spammers on the channel. He could really scare the White Castle out of any potential loco vandals with his PPE and torch too. Great job Graham!

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! PPE is something I take vary seriously in my burning area

ARRRGGGHHH! I wish I had seen this video earlier. I live about an hour and a half west of where you are going to be this weekend. Earlier today I made a commitment that will keep me busy all day Saturday. RATS! Would've been great to meet you guys while you are in my neck of the woods...

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

K G And I was bring you a tee shirt! Brian

Thanks Graham for making this video. As I watched you working at this job that is dangerous, dirty, takes skill and strength I kept thinking about the effort you and your Dad are making with the ETR. Of course, your scraping work contributes to that fantastic adventure. I also had a moment of sadness when I thought about the damage done to 2021 and wished there was more respect for both people and their property. But, I promise, I will not let "soda pressing" thoughts remain long! Cheers to the ETR and its great owners!

Many thanks for a very interesting piece of information! Looks like your family can provide a wider range of expertise than I was aware... What Graham is doing adds a bunch to your overall capabilities! Continued blessings for your operation, growth and success!

Kool stuff

Very cool! Maybe if you get a big job you can get an oxygen lance, those things look pretty awesome! Keep up the good work, men 👍🇺🇲

Wow, cool Graham. We were wondering what you had been doing. Yah Gotta make money and ETR is that there yet. It is sad in a way to see old equipment getting cutup. I always wonder whether it is better to rebuild, but I am not an Engineer and metal fatigue maybe why things like freight car bodies are cute up after so many years etc. I hope we can see more progress on getting ETR ready for action. The roadbed and right of way cleaned up and made ready and the 50 tonner painted. Keep it up with the videos. Move Videos of the work you and your dad do outside of the ETR are fine I enjoy all of them Thank You

I hope this is a skill that the ETRR can use to expand your service offerings. Otherwise it looks like dull and dangerous work to me. I want to see the ETRR become a growing business.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Well. It is one of the many ways that the ETR is supported financially. It’s my way of donating.

@georgecarter838

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 All good for the railroad you and your dad is doing. Be safe!

Nice video! Also with my railroad I'm hoping I can start up I'm also going to start up a lumber mill and maybe a scrap yard

I would enjoy watching a video where you told us the story of buying the East Terminal Railway, how you found a railroad for sale, etc.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the idea!

When are you building an engine house at the ETR? That should be next, to protect your investments. Just my $.02 worth

Suggest you two check out the Buckley Old Engine Show held annually in Buckley Michigan. It is awesome, used to go every year. Coolest steam engines and they even built a full size circular railroad around the family farm. Fun time that would make great video content. Location is in the middle of God’s country, beautiful, with lots of places to stay nearby (if you can find availability). Just a suggestion, but worth a look IMHO.

Very interesting. Thank you!

Awesome video! Just a thought, scrap railroad pieces, small enough to ship would be a huge fundraising opportunity! I have a knuckle coupler as a conversation peice that people love.

being diversified is what keeps a business growing.

Thanks for sharing….

Great video!

Awesome

It was a great video keep doing it that was really interesting I didn’t know the process as far as the east cut up and then what you had to do as far as the size of the torch using

Cuts through that steel like a hot knife through soft butter. The old saying from some of my mechanic buddies and brothers in law is it can't be tight if it's liquid.

Always interesting to see how things are done.

Awesome. If the aerospace company that I wrote in my book was real. You guys would be a major contractor. To supply the scrap metals. That would be shipped to Killeen Texas.

I thought locomotives engine blocks were ferrous. If they aren’t made of iron or steel, what are they made of? I know the EMD 567 and 645 blocks were fabricated (welded) from steel shapes and we could cut them with a standard torch. Are GE blocks cast from something other than iron or steel?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

The ones that I cut were cast steel mix but it was still hard cutting

Using the good old "flame axe"

Scrapping RR cars and loco's is tough hot work for sure. Like you say you have to get experience somewhere.

I wonder how much the torch gasses cost + equipment + labor per hour vs. the value of the cut up metal in the end. What dictates the size you need to reduce it down to, for example the forklift parts? Do you have to wear a respirator when cutting up some items due to all the oil / grease fumes?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Other then I don’t know if you have Instagram you can message me there and I’ll give you a video call when I can!! It’s the same name just on Instagram East_ terminal_railway

@dt7377

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing, only in my experience the only way to go is with positive pressure constant flow hoods. Lots of nasty stuff, including lead and possibly asbestos. Always be safe, and smooth rail ahead for the ETRR. Get some sleep, Graham!

I see you were cutting in the snow, how much longer doe sit take to heat the metal and cut during cold verse warm weather?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

About the same! Steel starts to melt around 2000 degrees and that’s about what the torches put out. So any water or cold material gets warmed up rather quick

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Graham, check out some of the ship breaking vids from places like Alang, if you want to see =real= scrapping.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Lyle I have watched those, Id like to work there... for about a week. Then "piece...me out!" ( pun intended) Brian

@laknox88

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 Not even for an hour! Not even with a full respirator! The lucky ones have shoes and hard hats; the FNGs have sandals and scarves.

Great learning experience Graham; are you also learning the other side for welding also? This is a great plug that young people can learn a trade vice college if they don't want to pursue.

Any updates on the dozer??

3rd Graham!

Good afternoon from SE Louisiana 31 Oct 21.

What sized pieces do they require? I assume they melt the pieces down to make ingots?

@rearspeaker6364

2 жыл бұрын

most scrappers want it in a 3'x3' cube or no longer then 3 foot.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I cut coil 3x3 but a lot of places is 2x5

kzread.info/dash/bejne/haKIo5dreNycqLA.html At 6:42 is the frame of a Clark Michigan 475 wheel loader which was the little brother of the 675. This video is the history of the 675.

Hey Graham, cool vid. What kind of torch did you use and what kind of gas are you using it with? Thanks!

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

I use flame Tech 8600 torch and it liquid oxygen and propane

You can do this, take one of the buildings that is for sale on your line, and make into a scrap business You can scrap trains and you can put the scrap into gondola cars and put them out for the main railroad to pick up and bring to the buyer You have room, you can add sidings and even create a small rail yard inside the fence of one of the business properties. That way you can see everything at night and install security cameras and monitor and have a professional alarm company monitor the site You can also look at finding someone down on their luck, who would stay on site in exchange for a place to live. A simple 1 room apartment and bathroom would be easy to build in one of the buildings An on site security guard is a lot better than the security company I used to work the graveyard shift at a national media company in a big city and in addition to satellite feed changes and recording and making CDs for distribution to other stations, I had to monitor 26 remote broadcast sites and our main site, which took up an entire city block. I had to chase people off our property several times and call the police a few times. If we had just had a security system, and no live person, we would have been vandalized for sure Lots of people steal copper and aluminum from broadcast sites

@gravelydon7072

2 жыл бұрын

You should have been down here after Hurricane Andrew. We had the only towers standing and had to have the Army and National Guard guard them at night to keep the cell operators off of them. Our sites transmit by microwave links data from our structures and signals to our structures ( SCADA system ) along with microwave voice communications. Most of the major structures have cameras in them now but back then, it was just alarm systems that told us if someone was inside and no one from our agency went in one of them without voice contact first. Same with leaving after the alarm system was reenabled.

So, at the price of scrap, is it worth the cost of labor, fuel, etc, to even cut stuff up? Or, is it just backing up?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

It’s more of what the steel mill wants. If they want it 2x5 then that’s what we do or if it’s 3x3 the we do that

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

And yes it is worth it

@tommyhunter1817

2 жыл бұрын

That is awesome. Actually looks like fun too. Testosterone Zone!!

Interesting video. Was there a specific size that you had to cut those pieces into?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

2x5 and 3x3

@markgruenberg6277

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 Thanks for the information.

I gather from the pictures that this is being done for recycling purposes???

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Yes this is the recycling process of taking old out of date equipment preparing it to size and cleanliness for the mill to make something new.

Interesting to see how you and your father diversify to earn a living.

Wonder why no one wanted those engine blocks to rebuild?

@rearspeaker6364

2 жыл бұрын

thousands of GE 16 cylinder blocks available.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of them we blown up

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

One that I cut had a mangled piston in it

its a hot job but some got doit

Cutting up a fork lift, who cares, cutting up a locomotive always brings a tear to my eye. If I did that job I would waste way too much time checking the history of the loco.

Did you address the vandalism issue with the locomotive?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and we have a video out on it!!

Dad and I. LOL

Is this the future of the 44 tonner?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Heck no lol.

Nice. Thanks for the videos. Oxygen and Acetylene?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Oxygen/ propane

ETR…..OMG. Pushing 20k. Thanks

Think I would want a fan behind me for the smoke some of that stuff can be pretty nasty

Imagine being a ship breaker.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

I am humbled by the ship barkers in India 🇮🇳. They know how to work

Would they let employees buy and Railway cars at scrap prices they be great ballast Cars on The ETR

The question is if you ever got a steam engine would you cut it up

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Well if that’s the job then yes. But I’d try to find someone to buy it first

Looks Dangerous, Hot and Extremely Time Consuming. I don’t think most of us knew this happens.

I thought that at a scrap your that old train can be reused. And refurbished. To look renewed

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Well everything has a life span and railroad cars are no different.

Greta Thunberg approves of this video….

are those train car's in the background

@train_chicken6143

2 жыл бұрын

oh yes

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they are. But those are active cars.

Gosh I thought this was about a railroad. Guess things with the actual railroad are not going so well? Have you been able to secure any online bussiness? Its all fun and games right now, but successful railroads who last secure business. How`s that going?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

This is just a different part of the business. Just a test video to see what people say.

@pm8302

2 жыл бұрын

Ok I get it. I really want you all to succeed and prosper. It’s a great time to get into the business. But maybe you need an experienced individual to drive that side of the business?

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

PM You are correct, its a RR channel, Graham wanted to explain where he has been. Brian

Cast steel will cut, cast iron is different, it will not cut, it will melt but that is not cutting.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

EYE Thank You! That's what I told Graham...you don't torch cast steel. This is how they learn, and become us! Arnt they lucky! Brian

Larry's Truck and Electric?

@SteamCrane

2 жыл бұрын

That was my guess.

@stanpatterson5033

2 жыл бұрын

That's my guess as well.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the locomotives that I cut in the spring came from LTEX

@billblomgren9618

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 I looked over that operation from across the road bridge into it. An amazing collection of old power waiting for either rebirth or scrapping.

@billblomgren9618

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 A lot of folk would want EVERY engine "saved" and "restored" -- Even with steamers, that isn't possible... and in a lot of cases it would be cheaper simply building a new one. And the industrial work you did makes it possible to recycle the metals to do the construction of the new one...

oxygen lance!

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

No. We use Oxy propane. It more cost affective

Waddaya scrapping? Anything interesting? Tell em you scrapped the SD40-2 and accidentally drive it home for the East Terminal!

Please keep the videos to railroad… No junkyards.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Industrial Scrap Processing yard! not junkyard big differences

@mpgarr

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 And vital to keep the country running, just like the railroads and trucks.

Oh wow ...be Honest. ..brain........Did. you find any Good Stuff.....for your Dad....