Ryedale Penny Playground

[crbattery]

This is a little something I've been working on the past week. The first sort is a zinc sort with the sensitivity turned up fairly high. Second sort is a copper sort. Makes sense to me to get 75% of my zincs outa the way. I handsearch the zincs second zinc pail for old coins and foreign stuff. I have found that cold coins from the minnesota winter do not sort nerly as reliably as warm coins do. All outa time now but I will expalin more later.

Thanks

HH CR

[dakota1955]

any problems when the machine jambs?

[NHsorter]

looks awesome. thanks for the pics. now we need a video

[fasteddy]

Beats the heck outa hot wheel track. Nice set up and welcome to the madness. Have you been sortin long and how did you find Real Cent?

[Numis Pam]

Nice setup you have there! Welcome to RC! Look forward to hearing ...the rest of your story!

[Engineer]

I'm a bit jealous of your setup, but think the base needs to be a little thicker. Half inch steel just doesn't seem sturdy enough!

[Zincanator]

Oh man, that's got to be the coolest sorter I've ever seen! Makes me want to dust off my welder and try to fab up something.

+1 on the video request too.

What guage sheet metal are you using?

[hobo finds]

Call it the Ryedale slide

[slickeast]

Call it the Ryedale slide

Or the Ryedale amusement park.

[crbattery]

I have been sorting for about two months. I started as a hand-sorter than became a hand-sorter using a digi scale. I was looking for a faster way for a couple days when I found a video on YouTube of this guy with two wicked fast sorters. I knew I had to have one to make sorting pennies worthwhile given my busy schedule. I contacted him and ended up buying one of his Ryedales. That same week I purchased a Ryedale Automaxx directly from Andy. I also bought a Coinmate 2000 counter a couple weeks ago after a major discrepancy at one of my dump banks.

I crunched some numbers last night and I have sorted 132 boxes, $20 of loose rolls and bought $12 and some odd cents worth of coppers from my girlfriends dad. I know I have 9 pails of keepers with $110 in each pail. I will figure out excatly what I have as not all the keepers have been counted yet.

I am on 16 box per week pickup schedule from just one CU. I've been with that CU for several years and they are extremely nice folks there.

I ran 17 boxes and a few loose rolls through the Ryedale Amusement park yesterday. I just ran all my zincs through the counter. I have $311.76 of returns from yesterdays sort.

I am uploading a 7 minute video i took yesterday of the Ryedales in action. I will post a link for it once it finishes uploading. I may have to post the link later as it says 40? minutes remaining and I have to leave for Easter at my Gmas soon.

The frame work is all 1/2'' 1/2'' x 1/8'' angle iron. The sheet and slides are made of 16GA 304 Stainless. I have worked at a local steel fab shop for 11 years and am the sole operator of a 5x10 Torchmate Plasma table. I do 95% of the cad drawing for the table as well. Self taught using the operators manual and some quick tips from the torchmate folks. They are very nice folks as well!

I found Realcent when I was researching penny hoarding. I am a member of TNET as well. One of the Realcent folks recommended another Tnet member to come over to Realcent. I had checked it out before but became a member probably 1 week after I found it.

I want to thank everyone here on Realcent for the wonderful information and attitudes you all have. This "hobby" is a fair amount of work but I think it will be well worth it in the long run. Thanks again everybody!!! Have a great day!!

[crbattery]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESS2ynd ... e=youtu.be

I hope this works. I've never uploaded a video to You Tube before.

Enjoy!

[RichardPenny43]

Nice set up.
I'd like to see your roll cutter being used.

[lewbo]

Very nice and more impressive is one CU for 16 boxes a week, you must be a great customer!

[outofsort]

Oh man, that setup is fabulous. Bravo! I'm still hand sorting (also in Minnesota), but seeing this makes me want to upscale.

[fasteddy]

Great looking setup!....put a couple old towels in the bottom of those buckets to quiet them down. Call Andy up and getcha some hopper extensions for the top unit. Four will hold $25 and 7 with a little shake will hold $50 of cents. *AND don't forget the ear plugs.

*cant spell today.

[NHsorter]

Thanks for the video. Nice fab work. I was happy with my setup until I saw this, now I need to make some improvements!

[MrIncredible]

Nice set up.
I'd like to see your roll cutter being used.

Ditto. Can you do a quick video of that monster in action?

[crbattery]

I run 2 hopper extensions on the top one. Thats good enough cause when it jams its not as much of a pain to tip it over into a pail!
Working in the fab shop I always have good earplugs nearby. Also have a set of muffs I wear if others are around.

Nice set up.
I'd like to see your roll cutter being used.

Ditto. Can you do a quick video of that monster in action?

Next time I sort I will have my GF record it in action. Im getting more pennies tomorrow.