Dumpster Diving "It's A Jet Pack!"

Howdy, y'all! My name is Mike and I absolutely love scavenging for free stuff, random treasures, lost valuables and other interesting artifacts. I mainly rock the dumpster diving scene but can be found digging through trash curbside as well as scavenging the river bottoms for lost treasures in the summer months. Join me on my epic voyages!
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In a nutshell, I ‘m an avid dumpster diver, scrapper, picker, treasure hunter and underwater connoisseur. I prowl the city streets in search of dumpster loot, curbside treasures & scrap metal as well as scour the river bottoms for lost valuables during the summer months when I can scrounge up enough money for gas. Be sure to stay subscribed to stay up to date with my latest expeditions, y'all!

[@tempviewr12345]

Haha at the end, Lawn mower, then a plane flies over. I thought a marching band was gonna come down the street next!

[@d.t.4523]

Naa, just a Mariachi band in the back of a truck! 👍

[@claudiofrancisco1856]

Nothing but entertainment everytime I watch mike! I’m heading out tonight to dumpster dive in your name. Thanx for the awesome content

[@jerryglass6513]

Take a day off. Rest, relax, rejuvenate. We will still be here...

[@nebraskapicker2952]

Never take off then you make no money

[@LizaTerraASMR]

@@nebraskapicker2952 it is ok to take a day off once in a while

[@swedishchefdave49]

Those rolls Of Tape Are 1960’s magnetic computer tape, same as a floppy disk

[@torbar9603]

they may have started in the 60's but we used them into the 90s on large (mainframe) computers for backing up the data..

[@Bill23799]

These were thrown out when Government program Tic Toc was finally cancelled.

[@bradprice8040]

They were the hard drive before hard drives were invented

[@jonnaguinn-brandt5197]

Love all the videos you're pumping out! Take a day off! We'll still be here!

[@Evertonfootballclub-nk3kc]

Them dumpsters have had more hits than the Beatles

[@MichellePennada]

I think I’m gonna start calling you Motor Mike, I can’t believe the amount of motors you find! 👍🏼🤪

[@sharonduran1619]

That sample window might be used in a children's outdoor playhouses?

[@danadimes8184]

Ever thought about putting that double sided magnet on a steeeck?

[@Lovingme224]

Y’all hear him pass gas 🤣🤣🤣I hear him all the time 🤣🤣🤣

[@indicasmama]

That extension cord!!! 😂😂😂 Jet pack is a mobile hot spot.

[@akis71611]

hmmmm!!!!

[@jaydenroyal8896]

I wonder have anyone ever went to throw away something then seen him digging up in it.🤔😜😜😝😝😝

[@1Grandma62]

Lmao 😂 I was wondering that & heard him talking & not knowing he was making a video

[@davidcaporossi9586]

@@1Grandma62 hmmda 5w78yee

[@onelovechild1307]

That sewing machine! Old sewing machines sew the best! So cool! 🌹

[@johnhicks692]

Mike, Those reel looking things are magnetic tape used to store digital data. Very old school.

[@bradtorville5526]

For mainframe computers.

[@chriscyrus2983]

Hey Mike if you want to keep your shoes from getting wet or so put some mink oil you get it at any shoe repair shoe shop where they have the products for polish and what you do is you take a toothbrush and you get it into those threads and I'll keep the water out cuz if you're going to be afraid that your boots are going to get wet and soggy then do that fix the problem

[@craigstaggs8597]

NEC Plasma screen , used in malls for advertising on , they are super well made and produce an incredible picture , it's got all kinds of inputs on it !

[@piotrnowinowski2479]

this is "commertial display"

[@Pandora_369]

Yeah, I did it. Gave a thumbs up before I even watched it. Because hello, it's Mike the Scavenger!!

[@marylousinger3489]

I do that on every single video he uploads.

[@jeffswartek7356]

To get those ballast you could have put the magnet on the end of the stick and then picked up the ballast.

[@mandysouthen1505]

Bless you!

[@jimmy8653]

For the fart or sneeze ?

[@mandysouthen1505]

@@jimmy8653 missed the fart 💨

[@perdu1430]

Hey Mike, i love your content and the karate sound effects to! Made my day! :-)))))

[@gravitybear]

@29:39 That is a tape dispenser for gummed tape that requires water. I've got a 45 year old one (same model 52 from Nashua Package Sealing or NPS) sitting about 10 feet away from me right now.

[@leonardtreadway7082]

Can you use the stick and the magnet together? I was thinking the dumpster with the ballast. 🤔😅👍

[@ScrapPalletMan]

1:42 gesundheit

[@teresapino2401]

I just started watching you, and you are a crack up! You are my favorite scavenger!! 😏

[@johnnilsson1311]

Magnet would had picked up those ballists.

[@johnnilsson1311]

Just tryin to save him from the juice!

[@DPcar-mania-65]

Mike the Scavenger is awesome & cool ! Very entertaining & funny.

[@maryyates7819]

The window would be good for a tiny house build.

[@Craigd68]

Mary Yates he could have probably gotten 50 to 75 dollars out of it.

[@tesla_3_performance]

lol'd at the "kapow" punch sounds...gets me every time 😂

[@ritahunter3177]

Bless you

[@richardwarnock2789]

The magnet 🧲 Mike on those dumpster Juice Ballist !!😅🤣👍

[@kevdel]

Mike punches dumpster. I mentally Insert the punching sound effect every time!! ;)

[@DumpsterDivingMoe]

🤣👍

[@davidstiger3420]

Put that magnet on a stick so you can reach things like those ballasts

[@jamesfrank7]

Mike be blessing us with all these videos this week!! You're smashing it bro keep up the good work

[@PoXFreak]

The nec monitor is one of the best monitors of it's time, and expensive as all get-out. The Multeos series has 2 versions, M40 and M46. I have the M46, being used as a home entertainment monitor. It's from 2011 and cost $4,200 without the added speaker package. They were meant for permanent installation, mostly airports, hospital waiting runs, etc.

[@LizaTerraASMR]

Always take care of yourself and your family we are here for you

[@xanetea]

Bless you! Love your videos! Thanks for showing us your work & doing it in a way that makes me laugh video after video. ❤

[@DumpsterDivingMoe]

👍👋

[@aarongrabowski3775]

Thx so much for all the uploads lately Mike. Love the videos. This is my favorite channel

[@herbertjanzen3707]

“Is it dead?” I don’t know. Maybe you should try and feed it! Lol

[@curlywolfone]

To quote the great Momma Bushier, (Bobby Bushier’ Momma in da Water Boy,) “Dat foos ball be uh duh devil!”

[@TheAshesvondust]

Momma Boucher said a lot of crazy stuff lol

[@rebacunningham3773]

Some good stuff, thanks Mike😊...

[@TheNightowl001]

Man, sometimes I just wanna cry at all the wood and plywood you leave in those dumpsters! I'd HAVE to take that home with me! BTW, those are reels of magnetic tape (like they used to use for reel-to-reel tape recorders and cassettes), that is used for data recording by some instruments, then transferred to a computer.

[@rickwilliams9350]

Right on Mikey - do your thing

[@rastamanralph6670]

Old tools and saws are very sort after and worth lots of money to the right person.

[@corrinnacase9233]

Bless you on your sneeze 🤧🥰❤️

[@hughstephenson2957]

Why don't these dumpster manufacturers make drain holes in dumpsters anymore? We have an old one and it's got a 2inch hole with steel catwalk welded over it to keep the mice out.. no dumpster juice there!!

[@carlacowling1789]

I think they had to stop putting drainage in because it can contain potentially hazardous contaminants, especially for streams and rivers. I worked at a senior living community that had a roll off and - trust me - you did NOT want any of that "dumpster juice" running off through the parking lot and into the storm drains!

[@DumpsterDivingMoe]

I really wish they did!

[@kandiwolfe1125]

I'm guessing they don't do it because it costs them a few bucks more!!

[@kathigelowitz5382]

I was just about to ask the same thing!

[@michelleevans8694]

Hook your magnet 🧲 with the schtick and then you wouldn’t have to get in the juice 😉

[@leannkennedy6568]

Thanks for the effort you put forth to make these videos.

[@wayne5607]

Mike take those old monitors and drop them from 5 feet on the top front corner and they pop apart then kick the big copper coil off the back of the picture tube in seconds! I used to do computer reclaiming and we'd swing those monitors like a sledge hammer into the cement floor with the power cord! Good times!

[@goldmagnet]

Woo hoo another one, loving the vids every day buddy, it fills in at least an hour as we're in bloody lockdown again here in vic Australia.

[@raymorgan5767]

great job!!! Keep up the great work!!! Thats a buncha brass now!!!!

[@rastamanralph6670]

You can make a dolly to get under your motor to fix it with the plate with wheels on.

[@baharuddinbesah3709]

Hi Mike another beautiful day for dumpster diving a lot treasure there stay safe bro regard 👍💪💰❤️

[@aprilwenceslao-mw7jq]

that fart makes me cry laughing 😁🤣🤣🤣 you always make my day Mike great haul again 👍

[@todd7619]

You're entertaining as hell Mike 👏🤣

[@swedishchefdave49]

That magnet is amazing, attach it to Your glove and it will suck Up Everything

[@fredgillick3071]

God Bless You Mike

[@jorgecalderin3028]

God Bless you Mike!

[@carolrowan6734]

Get a good rest. You'll be missed, YES, even for one day. I look forward for my daily Mike The Scavenger treat. Weekends are not fun.

[@carolynsummerall8940]

Bless You Mike 🙂

[@jackiegromacki686]

Mike the Scavenger with my coffee. Breakfast of champions.

[@panamint]

I could see the making of a crane for your truck with that exercise equipment, the tubing looks pretty thick and you could get a hand crank winch from Harbor Freight for the lifting part.

[@superchuck3259]

Even a come along 1 ton cable puller would do the trick.

[@robertschwartzman195]

Tools are always nice. That sample window goes for $ 30-150. I had those windows in the show room of our glass shop I worked for. They sold windows and doors and custom glass works.

[@colindavies4860]

A big shout out to mike 4 all the great videos he does he’s amazing guy 4 all the great work he does recycling stuff respect ✊ 2u 😎ps hope you don’t suffer from hey fever stay safe and strong 💪❤️

[@michelebrown7951]

Hello Mike, be safe and happy hunting. 😊😉

[@davidthimell7845]

It's the Mike the Scavenger show

[@josephcarpenter7193]

can you retrieve those ballasts with your magnet fishing pole setup?

[@superchuck3259]

Likely if they have a metal case. But the copper is not magnetic.

[@natinoterry7519]

😆🤣🤣 I love Mike out burst world's, ITS OIL DOWN HERE!! 😆 HE REALLY entertain himself knowing he got alot to do! I always watch him, I got my mom watching Mike, i.said mom!? This fellow here? He's cool to watch and he won't leave a dumpster unless it was fully check, if its too full ? He what he can and move on! 😆

[@cleughy8736]

At 29:50 I don't know what it was but the way Mike said (oops if it's not a broken its a broken now) proper cracked me up 🤣🤣

[@arsme3287]

Love the shoes you are wearing in the review part of this. You wore those before in your review.

[@gregbehan9895]

Mike.When a box falls apart, it’s just cardboard.😜🤣💖

[@Firejoker54]

28:22 Holy hell, look at that rat nest of power cords :O

[@teresameloy9553]

Cool sewing machine. Weird that it was in that dumpster with all that stuff from an office. Good diving video.

[@lukelegg9915]

Bless you mike!

[@billhuman448]

Mike be doing his thing !! and the HUMAN guy do LIKE the scrap he find !!!!! CODE

[@mr.dudafel8723]

📼Those are computer tapes I used a lot every day to backup, long long time ago.

[@piotrnowinowski2479]

correct, those are computer data tapes.

[@lenscap8925]

Watch first few seasons of Mannix when he worked for an international security service...those tapes had all the answers to questions you asked them. lol

[@JOMAR3]

Person with lawnmower makin all kinds of racket while mike is filming, Mike stops to wave good morning and drops sinc while his mind is strangling the noise maker by end of film mikes mind explodes as he considers throwing the heaviest thing nearby at the noise assailants while yelling watch yo head ...LOL

[@deborahchevallier9294]

Bless you mike

[@donaldtroxclairjr5803]

Lots and lots of party gravy!

[@patrickschoenpflug]

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂. The farting gets me every time puts me in stitches 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnnyphillips9735]

Hey Mike good video that hand grinder is probably a high dollar carving grinder mine has the foot pedal good for cleaning tools and grinding you scored big

[@jackjacke4654]

You crazy Mike, Put the magnet on the stick them get the ballasts. Gotta use yo head! lol

[@roxtarreactsandreflects7924]

Dedication and perseverance my brotha!

[@spokanetomcat1]

Use your magnate for the ballasts. Use what is at your disposal. You never would have never needed to have gone into the juice.

[@gpckoleco]

I know i"m late! and you probably already know this, At 34:18 , that JetPack device is a portable internet modem. Cell companies sell them for people who don't want or can't use their cell phones as hot spots. Plans are usually cheaper than a phone plan because it's plain data. nothing fancy.

[@donnapadgett6583]

Enjoyed your video 😎. God bless you and be safe

[@ddawe31635]

Don’t let that cardboard get ya! ❤️❤️❤️ Gotta be strong!

[@cecilwine4806]

lessee....the Verizon Jetpack is a portable wifi - the thing with rollers is probably a server rack attachment - as for the big reels, those are computer tapes...they were used mostly in mainframe computers.....yeah, I'm old enough to remember that....lol Great dive tonight, especially with the display monitor and sewing machine! Always love watching! Keep hustling!

[@ruthbutler725]

Be safe Enjoy hunting Scrappity scrap with you! Save jet pack for space ship. LOL

[@DAVIDLopez-up2di]

Mike we love what you doing man all the scrappers dumpster diving and everything we've been doing it for a lot of years but there's only one thing we have to tell you no matter what you don't leave no scrap behind I don't care how little it is you know that's how we got our dumpster diving certificates so please keep doing what you're doing and make us proud We love your show PS don't make us Revolt your dumpster diving Pitbull signing off God bless you bro alright alright alright

[@lindaseto2386]

Gotta watch out for those ducks you stepped on Mike they tend to make noise🤣😂🤪

[@tracisikkes7916]

Fun trip, thanks!

[@BudhagRizzo]

3:55 -- LOL!!

[@johnthompson3253]

🤣🤣dumpster got you good, no traction, you slipped right into it

[@patrickbaird290]

Another great score MTS I'm so jealous the places I go to maybe headphone wires, and plastic plumbing

[@caseybinion806]

I love wires too lol 🔌🧵😎

[@cmmc3400]

I got some free windows, samples, from Menards. The intent was to put them in my She Shed but health got in the way and I don't need the windows or the shed anymore. Just a suggestion to y'all. Talk with the manager to see how they deal with "disposable items".

[@larrykinslow6587]

Mike why don't you keep a 5 gallon bucket with you

[@robinjocaldwell1449]

Hi Mike those tape rolls are not movies, they are old computer memory tapes!!! Old school. Stay safe Robin Jo

[@mathiaspalmholt370]

Bless you mike😁

[@jamespatterson8512]

You should have hung your magnet on your dumpster stick to get the ballasts. 😂