Dumpster Diving - No Way All This Fits!

What a fantastic dumpster diving adventure today! Started off with a visit to the scrapyard to empty out the truck , then hunted down a dumpster that was absolutely loaded!! How much can we actually fit in the back, and how much is it worth? Let's find out together!
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[@jamespatterson8512]

Mike the Scavenger just bends one end of the light fixture out a bit and the tubes come out easy.

[@madelinerose5326]

You really put your heart and soul into a video. Never waste or haste! You earn every cent. Got better gloves?!

[@daleh645]

That looked easy after all it was light work. 🤣 God bless 🙏🏼🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@omar_padilla]

I had fun my boy! Thank you for bringing us along with you! .

[@its_marc]

Decent score that without much having to search! I’d take that every day.

[@killjoy987987]

Trash is cash 💰

[@eddiejensen5783]

Nice find brotha prices are low for a few weeks just saving up a hord for winter keep up the great work

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Great haul from one dumpster and the people would surely have been happy with you freeing up so much room and having stuff properly recycled! Great work Thub! 🖖

[@cdcVintage]

I am loving the productivity. You are the man!

[@TeamBlackDiamond]

With those lights you have to just grab one of the ends and pull bend it outwards. Then the bulbs just fall out.

[@patrickfluet6328]

Love you videos suggestion for next time you find light fixtures on both ends just spread them apart and the bulbs fall right out

[@thubprint]

Oh that’s a great idea! I lost so much time angling them out one by one. I feel a bit silly I didn’t think of that on my own haha

[@68Eric86]

Great tip! Plus if you go ahead and kick the ends out of the way, they will stack together very nicely.

[@thatcanada]

I find a lot of those light boxes - knock one end off to get those lights out quickly. After breaking a few in my hands, smashy smashy was the way to go. And the ballasts - no need to unscrew them, just take the whole fixture and knock it on its end really hard and the ballast will just pop off.

[@vincedibona4687]

I was gonna say the same thing about the ballast removal. 👍🏻

[@VileStorms]

Problem is I doubt anyone wants to breath the mercury thats in them. Saves time, but slowly poisons you while you are at it.

[@FogartyAvenue]

Magnificent vid.

[@thubprint]

Thank you!

[@ruthbutler7984]

Like the speeded up on repeat. Enjoy your videos thanks for sharing 👍

[@adamdaley8090]

High value trash, love it. You threw me off posting on a Thursday. I lose track of days enough on my own lol. As always, have a good weekend Thub.

[@stephensmith3708]

Crazy, cuz! That first stop with all that wire, DAAAANG! Talking about blessings, WHOOP, THERE IT IS! Hope you get that Lil trinkets I've sent...

[@thubprint]

I did, I did! 😁 That’s actually in the middle of tomorrow’s video, but I am asking the audience to clarify what exactly it is haha I’ve never seen anything like it, and I can’t decide if I want to polish it or leave the aged patina.. either way, thank you very much for being so generous! Not sure if I should get some equipment I’ve been eying up or just take the kid out for a fancy meal 🤔

[@stephensmith3708]

@@thubprint it's called an errie bronze. High tin content. I thought it should belong from whence it came from. Make it a family heirloom. Please share with Brother Paul and that crazy Texican Mike thee scavenger, if you could be kind. Glad you have received it. What of that wee bit of a small token in the envelope? Would that get you a new microwave? I also have a daughter, too. Yah, only one child. But most blessings to yo, cuz in the North. Dang, I wish I had your beatnik Bohemian easy minded mentally. But NOOO! I had to be born in a military type family. But no complaints on it. It this an HONOR to defend, OORAH! Glad you received it again, it was the only thing I kept when my plant shut down in 2015. Besides, it came from Canada, so I saved for a reason, and that would be you!

[@stephensmith3708]

@@thubprint ome more addition, polish it up, very pretty yellow!editing time, you are truly a man bringing that young Las along. I wish my daughter could be that tolerant to recycling. Plus she is just a princess as me own, HOLD FAST, LUCEO NON URO, just remember them motto! Carry on!

[@thubprint]

@@stephensmith3708 okay, I’ll give it a polish! I’d love to see what it looks like all shiny 👌 I figured it was Canadian and possibly of military origin, you don’t see such a stylized maple leaf on common things. It certainly would get us a new microwave! I’m happy with our scavenged one as long as it keeps working though, so I was wondering if you’d prefer it go towards equipment or enjoyment? Either way it’s very much appreciated! Nothing but love for Paul and Mike, two of the greats for sure. Wishing you and your daughter all of the best, and thanks again for your kindness!

[@stephensmith3708]

@@thubprint not military but bottle manufacturing purposes. It can tolerate heat up to a 800 to 900F. As I mentioned it's a good amount of more tin for that.. It's called MYNOX or is it minnox....minnow..... Glad you like it. Did you open the envelope? Get that microwave so your wife doesn't leave you, lol 😂....

[@JDeWittDIY]

16:50 It's amazing to me the difference between the scrap steel and the data cable. You got $50 for the steel and $20 for the cable. But the $20 took about 2 minutes of work and the $50 steel took hours of work.

[@thubprint]

Absolutely, it’s almost upsetting sometimes! But an armful of cable like that is so rare, and I can fill the truck with steel any day of the week

[@JDeWittDIY]

@@thubprint Steel is the bread and butter...

[@TileReseller]

Just a random like and comment for the algorithm 👍🏼

[@thubprint]

Appreciate chu!

[@vinnienowhere1015]

I scored a chop saw from a construction open top once. It worked really well. Sold it on fb marketplace for $50. Nice scrap run today thub!

[@benjaminarmstrong7047]

Thub on a Thursday

[@thubprint]

What can I say, I wanted to get out there 😁

[@bigcountryscrapper6885]

Great video

[@BushDogScrapper]

booom some Thubprint Adventures with my morning coffee nice haul of goodies to the yard and i can just picture the hours cleaning up all that wire at the end haha 😅Cheers Bro 👍🏼

[@josephoneill2609]

Good job keeping it out of the trash system.

[@EddieTofpik]

I love your commentary delivery...

[@goosubux]

I loved scrapping fluorescent lights. My yard took the ballast as cbm's. My county solid waste service would take the tubes for a small fee. Once the county went to a big fee, i quit taking them.

[@stevenbergstrom3308]

Remove the bulbs use a 5 lb sledge to remove both ends and everything would stack a whole lot neater and take up a lot less space I do it all the time probably taking up a fifth of what you did

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

I needed some 22g sheet metal to patch rusted body panels a few weeks ago. Found a dozen fluoro light fixtures in a dumpster. Yoinked them. Stripped the ballasts off. Turns out I only really needed like one panel worth, so, I'm interested in seeing what you get for your little haul here.

[@bread-gz3rl]

Would've grabbed that chop saw that was in the dumpster

[@lboe927]

He got it 10:53 it's in the truck

[@bread-gz3rl]

@@lboe927 oh yeah I'm blind apparently lmao

[@richardwarnock2789]

Trash to Cash by Thub!!!; ) did ever get Stop by people saying I've got some metal scrap you get a address you go by they say it's by a tree but nothing !?

[@tedz74]

Brass contacts in the white tombstone bits.

[@dennisshaw9285]

Love all ur video not easy out there as so much compition

[@alexmurphy9025]

Some of those looked like electronic ballast, I'm curious if the yard has anything to say about that? And cat5 can be tricky, there's one yard near me that pays next to nothing for it and another that pays almost the same as romex. Then again, the yard that pays more also buys e-waste, so that might be a factor. Either way, great find! Keep doing the thing!

[@mathewsmith2650]

to get the tubes out easy stretch the ends out before removing tubes

[@spangdeez498]

Pretty sweet your yard is so BIG - my yard is very small .. mayyyybe 3/4 trucks can back up and start unloading the junk- it causes lines to form and I’ve waited over an hour in my truck .. and that’s not necessarily too too busy - there’s just not a lot of space to work with .. and there’s only like two sections you can throw the junk for the magnets to pick it up - so yeah that’s what I have to deal with when I junk lol

[@thubprint]

That’s not ideal! Living in a larger city I’ve got a few options for scrapyards and I have to say the efficiency of this one is one of the biggest reasons they’re my #1 choice

[@spangdeez498]

@@thubprint hey Thub, thanks for responding! .. Also, I only have 2 yards (in my city) and the other one about 15 years ago when I was about 20 - I forgot my wallet at home, even tho I’d been there 100 times and in the system , they wouldn’t accept it and they’d already threw my stuff in the piles , long story short - they gave me back trash - it was a big fiasco so I DONT EVER go back … NO OFFENSE to any of us here but the junk business is DIRTY but the buyers are even DIRTIER.. you legit have to watch them ..tbh I try to be the most honest junker out there lol I even wash my cans out so they’re not dirty 🤦🏽‍♂️ but they try at every step of the way #leaveitbetterthanyoufoundit

[@jxavier3876]

I recognize that in Charleswood

[@Catharticscrapper]

Found that same exact chop saw diving..

[@lboe927]

Nice little haul there! Curious what your yard classes that Cat5 wire at? And also they must be a pretty big laid back outfit for you to be able to just hang there stripping those fixtures. The one here would have a stroke if I tried doing that in the dumping area. Good on ya!

[@thubprint]

Mine calls it “mixed data”. It’s a little lower than #2 insulated but not very much

[@murano63]

Hi there. New subscriber here. So how are things in Ol' Cow Town? You remind me of Mike the Scavenger. 😉You put a nice dint in that scrap from the open top! Take care & God bless. Watching from the 306.🇨🇦🏒🥅

[@iffy9776]

What a find a pile a mess of wire. Not that long ago I found a massive haul of cat wire in the skip. Its equivalent to your open top dumpster. Slightly smaller the foreman wouldn't let me have it there must have been approx 15kgs. He was a man on a power trip. No good reason he could give me.

[@careyflorence5673]

If you bend out the end of the fluorescent light the tubes will pop right out. Just for future reference.

[@lisagood1272]

If you pull the top of the light up or bend it up , the light bulbs come right out . It’s faster

[@patriciaramirez5632]

Down here in Mississippi, ballasts sell for less than shred, so just toss them out together now.

[@E-hab]

A one stop shop at the mall but not quite the mall 😂

[@rng3769]

let me give you some info abought the lights that you scraped out ,,if you hit the end of the bulbs come rite off ,,if you take off both ends then the middle off then knock off the power supply ,,you can stack them up and they take up no room and you can keep scraping I did 161 lights put in my wife's rav 4 still had to for over a 100lbs of extru,,,,keep scraping ! Rob the junk man WEEKI WACHEE FL..KEEP ON KEEPING ON

[@gravitybear]

Nice one! Is it even worth sorting those ballasts out of the shred? The wire, yes, obviously, but recently they've been paying so little for the ballasts.

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

I fit 13 of those in my Toyota camry today!!! Can you beat that!! Lol

[@jrae6608]

If you stand on the frame, bulbs will all release

[@thubprint]

Nice! Definitely gonna try that on the next ones 👍

[@DARKSHT23]

🤞

[@BallonWheel]

Great job. I enjoy stripping wire and electric motors. Funny you found that miter today, I found one Hitachi yesterday and it works. Already have a DeWalt one but I’ll keep it cause it’s lighter and smaller. I enjoy your videos. Is there another way to reach you. Have a great day.

[@w8what575]

If u step on one side of the light fixture and then pull on the other side, the bulbs will pop right out

[@keith102955]

Are you going to take the brass out of the ends of the light fixtures? Also I will trade you some New York plates for some Alberta plates lol

[@gweedgweed6523]

Green tips on tubes not mercury

[@j_toledo419]

Your in Canada yeah? Just curious how many (Karen & Steve's) approach during bigger more in public grabs like this video? I only ask because I'm in Ohio and did this alot when I had my little truck and also with a late 90s model Grand Voyager that I removed all the bench seats leaving only the driver and passenger seats lol, but more often than not I would get nosey citizens asking me stuff like "are you supposed to be doing that" and yadda yadda yadda lol Anyway cool video as always, keep grinding brother 👍

[@unchained20000000]

The call me the dumpster panda.

[@thubprint]

Is that what they call you? 😆

[@mollynakamori]

Maaaan - what a treat on so many levels! Great haul, nice day, Thursday bonus - wowsa! And a shoutout to boot. (Actually, it's not mine - it's Scrap & Pallet Paul's.) This snail mail addy isn't working, Thubbie. Thanks for the treat! I got so excited when I saw all that wire, and I don't even scrap.

[@thubprint]

Oh that was from Paul? Well, it gets around haha! I’ll mention that next time I’m sorry to hear that, not sure what happened with the mail! I just picked up a couple packages (seen tomorrow) and I get an email telling me when something arrives so I’m not sure what caused that.. I’m sorry, that’s disappointing for both of us!

[@karlburris4587]

Save those electrical wire nuts. You can sell them by the bag.

[@unchained20000000]

They thought I was a racoon, but I was much chubbier. Dumpster panda, close cousin to the original dumpster coon! lol.

[@proking5044]

Question how much per pound did they pay for the ballast and how much per pound for the tin

[@DMM-cv5fh]

I spent an entire summer scrapping nothing but those white style of light fixtures, you have to find a scrap yard who doesn’t care about PCBs and fluorescent bulbs. It took 1.5 tons of hand loading per scrap run to make it worth the money, and had to have at least 2 runs a day to make it worth it, did about 200-400 a day in just fixtures over this last summer depending on gas and amount of trips. Wore big thick welding gloves, nothing else held up. Not worth the time if you have to remove ballasts, fins a yard that doesn’t care before you start hauling a bunch or you’ll hate your life of having to remove hundred of ballasts

[@thomasvail9914]

Next time try bend the ends out a bit and the lights bulbs come out easier

[@TheRealPSKilla502]

I would've snipped the wires on the heater at the start of the video

[@afineliner740]

It would be a bit odd, dumpster scrapping in a busy mall carpark, did you get any odd looks or comments ?. Great job in the end, but ballasts seem to be little reward. 👍

[@thubprint]

Nobody said a thing 😁 The ballasts certainly weren’t anything to get excited about. The wires I got from them were alright though, $17 (shown in the next scrap out vid 👍)

[@gregmorrow59]

Hey that's pateratic wire red white and blue wire 😅

[@vincedibona4687]

So, was all that fiddly “helium steel” worth it? I only bother if there’s a passle of it like you had, and even the , depending- time, temperature/weather, or price of steel. Shred is down to $5.50/hundred pounds again, so I pass it by for the most part.

[@E-hab]

I was afraid that you will not take the chop saw.

[@thadofalltrades]

Should probably blur out other people's plates

[@furiouscraigsgamng]

You didn't take the motors off

[@mrajinj661]

You could have made $40 selling them high output bulbs on Facebook marketplace.

[@duderton]

After xmas!?!?

[@kimphillips8354]

Why not strip the good wire ?

[@DMM-cv5fh]

Wire?! This kills me

[@VileStorms]

You could have returned that license plate for 80$ lol

[@valveneul3958]

quality content, imagen how much you could also profit on if ya had a tool sponsorship or something

[@Jpbawlings]

How do they weigh it? Hé Just drops it on a pile, awsome stuff!

[@TheSamba37]

The vehicle is weighed on entry and on exit. The difference is weight of the scrap. Smaller deliveries might be done on a smaller scale individually.

[@williamstockdale4833]

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