Dumpster Diving - That's a Big Chunky Win!

Great street scrapping dumpster diving adventure today! Started off strong with a decent delivery of scrap from the house and continued out on the hunt to see what we could find. Just a few little scraps here and there until the end of the day when we found a dumpster full of big scores!
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[@vincedibona4687]

It’s almost 1am on a Monday morning, I just had a coffee drink, I just watched a Thubprint video, and now I am about to go do the thing. Wish me luck, lads. Thanks for the great video as always!

[@UltimatelyEverything]

I'm late but good luck mate i hope it works out good for you

[@Kreacher1974]

I love taking apart the magnatrons and getting the copper from the center and the magnets.

[@TheCompound01]

Nice video. Good score on the dumpster. I understand the aluminum light shield not much weight.. But, free and that easy to pickup. I find it hard to just leave $$ laying in the dumpster. Especially being clean and with having a pile to add to. Stay safe and keep video’s coming.

[@thubprint]

Yeah in hindsight it would’ve been an easy couple bucks

[@mollynakamori]

That's our thub! Never one to disappoint the viewers. "Just try to blend in with the trash." Thanks for one of the funnest videos in awhile!

[@thubprint]

lol, I think I blend in pretty well usually! That’s what the coveralls are for 😉

[@Jason1975ism]

I enjoy your content! You and Mike the Scavenger!

[@rogernelson8872]

I’m new to this business and I do enjoy your videos. I’m scraping lot of wire right now

[@rogernelson8872]

And electric motors.

[@b_force157]

Lol'd at the Metal Gear Solid warning sound effect. Glad you saved those chucky bits from going to the landfill.

[@gravitybear]

Ha! You don't see those VHS cases much anymore.

[@unchained20000000]

[@kelliebloomfield6907]

Not sure if someone has mentioned it but that smal black kinda a-frame stand you found near 11:44 is used to turn a regular bicycle into exercise equipment indoors. You sit the back wheel on it and then sit a ride. It takes the place of needing to buy an expensive electric exercise bike.

[@thubprint]

Ohhhh! Sweet, thanks for letting me know! The scrapyard doesn’t open till Monday so I can try it out and maybe sell it instead of scrap it 👍

[@kelliebloomfield6907]

@@thubprint not a problem, I had one myself so the minute I saw it I knew what is was and figured if you had a chance to use or sell it that’s better than scrapping. Just glad I caught you in time to test it out.

[@richardwarnock2789]

Hanging out for Poe Poe lol!!!; )

[@thubprint]

Not if I can help it! 😆

[@goosubux]

I loved scrapping fridges until the yard stopped taking them unless the compressor and lines were intact. They paid shred rate for them.

[@keithluszczynski3200]

Not sure why you passed up on the smaller shred? It all adds up especially the aluminum.

[@thubprint]

It’s true, I was right there. Could’ve had an extra few bucks

[@marcobadot57]

YOu're super-strong my friend

[@curtmazur5155]

9:21 "because we've got the tools!" Proceeds to beat grill with hammer....

[@bigredbullion3883]

Great video

[@fernandomantovani2998]

Sending good vibrations from Brazil!!!

[@donaldnicol8415]

You are going to have to get a power lifting tailgate,to assist with lifting that really heavy stuff.There is a guy near Ottawa who calls himself uberism 81 who really injured his back lifting heavy scrap.He got a power lifter later and wished he had got it sooner.

[@thubprint]

Oh I didn’t know he hurt himself! I’d love to get the power liftgate, prevention is definitely better than fixing a hurt back later

[@omar_padilla]

That was an awesome game of dumpster Jenga! Lol. Great adventure!.

[@JohnnySemor]

Great haul Thub. Way to see the city gets recycled.

[@thubprint]

I’m doin my best!

[@shellyouellette1724]

awesome...!!!

[@farrig1981]

Awesome adventure

[@drdaver]

The real money is in creating a scrapping based exercise program for seniors!

[@christopherjacobs2746]

Ok why did you throw the fan motor in the dumpster so what if it was aluminum just throw it in with your shred or if your yard excepts them as motors sell them as motors

[@FogartyAvenue]

Yeah I agree everything deserves to be recycled despite the value. I even save all the screws when I take this apart.

[@thubprint]

Did I toss a motor? Didn’t realize I’d done that 🤔

[@DARKSHT23]

@@thubprint part of the microwave

[@peggybarnhill4285]

u have a most personable son

[@stephensmith3708]

I sure hope you get what I send sometime this week. Oh, guess what, I just recently purchased a new toy, Stripmeister e220. Couldn't pass up on the sale price on it. Again, my Bohemian scrapping cuz, great find and future awesome blessings!

[@TheEXTREMEcleaningguys]

That motor on the top of one of them motors will be worth more as a working motor or atleast stripped for its massive copper coils etc 😁

[@frankhanney8737]

You can sell the shelves, replacement handles and door bins etc on ebay- replacement parts sell well

[@frankhanney8737]

I mean for the refrigerator

[@_DB.COOPER]

Thanks.

[@scottybeescrapped4429]

I love the fact that I can go to my scrap yard after hours and holidays up to 5 loads it's killer!!

[@Manhandle730]

How does that work? Are employees there or are you responsible for everything? Damn I’m jealous of that!!

[@scottybeescrapped4429]

@@Manhandle730 well I noticed someone going in on a Sunday after hours. So I inquired and I been doing it since the cvid hit and been responsible so ya the let . The yard I go it is trc never closed there is always big truck dumping stuff off and me too I love it cheers

[@afineliner740]

Nice last dumpster. They are either too empty or too full, but good score. I would have had trouble walking away from that one. 👍

[@thubprint]

Well when the truck is basically full that’s kinda the only choice left aha

[@daleh645]

I can tell you ate your Wheaties this morning! 💪🏼 You need a liftgate and the Snap-Tool like Scrap & Pallet Man has. 🤣 Keep doing the thing. 🙏🏼🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@thubprint]

Would love the power liftgate!

[@gasstationpeanuts1814]

@@thubprint Lift gates are a game changer. 10-15 years ago in the U.S. when oil & gas companies still had huge fleets of work trucks with lift gates, you could get a 1/2 ton truck with 150,000 miles and a working lift gate for $2,200 USD any day of the week. Those days are long gone now though.

[@FogartyAvenue]

Magnificent.

[@thubprint]

Ty!

[@iffy9776]

I wondered and opened the new ones have aluminium radiator in freezer but the old ones had copper. The motors I cut open as well, find copper windings in the old ones. One kg of windings in the good quality motors. These are refrigerators. I measure quantity so I'm on about 30 small transformers similar size you found on the units. I take the copper out and try to build 50kg of copper. I cut the copper and pull the windings out.

[@thubprint]

I’d better check them from now on then, didn’t realize the old ones had full copper inside

[@iffy9776]

@@thubprint yeah they are normally nickel coated or some kind of silvery coated copper. I have found the large commercial refrigerator with the rad outside. Next to the compressors.

[@DrHutOfHandcraft]

I wonder is dumpster diving officially illegal where you live? Or why was it a problem when the cop was there? Where I live it’s actually illegal, also just picking stuff from the side of the street😅

[@nelsin1925]

When you get a truck going again, you should carry a "Come Along Winch" and a few 2"x6"x6' boards for ramps. Then just winch those big items in without killing yourself, or smashing your hands again. Although I do enjoy watching you struggle. :)'

[@gravitybear]

Those heaters were labeled UH-2 and UH-7, implying there may have been #'s 1,3,4,5, and 6 still in there. I always pull the gas valves off of furnaces. They are mostly cast aluminum, plus bits of brass, and stainless. I just save them up until I can process a bunch together since they are pretty much the same.

[@thubprint]

Truthfully there probably is the whole set in there, I imagine I could empty this truck and go back to full up again if it’s still there!

[@vincedibona4687]

Yeah, I saw the two units as you opened the door and started saying “he just made some money”. 😂

[@majesticbuffaloman4327]

When my mom used to go treasure hunting she would find old phones and they even worked! She would get me to remove the google account on it and she would sell them! :D

[@thubprint]

I’ve found a few phones myself, and they do tend to work a lot of the time! Upgraded to an iPhone 6 that way. Shame most people don’t delete their old iPhone from their account when they toss them

[@danielwggudan2]

I’m so mad you didn’t take the aluminum pie plate light fixture things

[@brucefineout2963]

What did you do with the freon

[@willlastnameguy8329]

You should take the dumpster. It's probably worth like twenty dollars at least.

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

My yard will buy motors & transformers for way more than shred price - even if they are ally windings. Most older microwave transformers weigh close to 5kg. Last time I sold them I got $1/kg. Five bucks is not to be sneezed at! 😁 Thanks for the adventure Thub 😊

[@thubprint]

Huh.. I usually don’t sell them as motors if they’re alu windings, just makes me feel like I’m taking advantage somewhere. Although I have pointed out the aluminium before and they throw them in the motor pile just the same so maybe it’s fine?

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

@@thubprint I'm sure the yards are well aware of the increasing amount of transformers and motors with ally windings and I'm sure they build an allowance for that into their purchase price! I fully expect the price to gradually drop over the coming years with less & less copper content.

[@gussuperman7565]

M8 do you remove the magnets out of the microwaves , and recycle the aluminum transformers as dirty aluminum ?

[@killjoy987987]

Uncle thub is bout to cause a landslide

[@thubprint]

Trying to avoid it!

[@davea5150]

I have a question for you Thub. Do you where a N95 mask when grinding and cutting metal. Metal dust and other dust is very bad to breath in. FYI 😁 Stay Healthy,Keep Scraping 💯

[@ccartershecticlife]

There is a nice chunk of copper inside the magnetron just got to micro scrap it

[@ccartershecticlife]

The magnetron On the microwave

[@ccartershecticlife]

The magnetron On the microwave

[@Oldgrumpyvet67]

Enough of your sass !! 😂😂 I wasn’t expecting that and had soda shoot out of my nose

[@patriciaramirez5632]

Do you have a video on which wires are worth stripping, and which ones are best turned in as is? Like a cord from a toaster, or vacuum? Worth stripping or not?

[@vincedibona4687]

I believe he does, look back through his videos to see the one in all detail, but essentially, home appliance cords are only worth it if you have a motorized stripper.

[@adamdaley8090]

Do work Thub! Atta boy. Have yourself a profitable weekend.

[@thubprint]

Thanks, you too!

[@davea5150]

Do you take a part the sealed units in air conditioners for the copper? Thank you 👍

[@thubprint]

I do! They’re actually a pretty good return, if you pile them up and go through them in a batch it’s between $25-50 per hour over just bringing them in whole. I’ve done a couple videos on them now but I’d suggest only doing the larger ones, the smaller they are the worse the return for the time spent

[@rng3769]

I did not want to send that last comment I will send one later

[@killjoy987987]

Would you like fries with that 😂😂😂😂

[@LukaModrich556]

@Mike The Scavanger

[@jrae6608]

Always wanted to know what was in fridge. Thanks

[@thubprint]

Me too! I don’t think that copper tube around the door is very common though

[@rng3769]

do you know that the peal

[@jxavier3876]

Fridges are good but Im not sure with the refrigerant. Do yards in Calgary offer safe freon evacuation onsite?

[@jxavier3876]

Might be a worthy investment for me to eventually get a manifold to remove it

[@thubprint]

Not that I’m aware of, a person needs to put a deposit down to rent a recovery tank and return it when full here. It ends up being free but you have to pony up the deposit in the first place

[@gasstationpeanuts1814]

@@jxavier3876 Fridges are barely worth the space and trouble as is, investing in the equipment to pull the gas is not a good return on investment imo. And half of them are nasty/full of mold and food.

[@jxavier3876]

@@thubprint sorry to bother on an old comment but do you know what places offer this? Thanks

[@JesusGuerrero-fe3du]

Have you ever gotten in trouble with the police for dumpster diving?

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

There's a psychology phenomenon about how people have inconsistent preferences. Like, people will not negotiate a car or house payment as hard as they would inconvenience themselves to shop around for a buck or two in gas savings. They think "It's so large, it doesn't matter", which, is backwards. Likewise for you, you're going through bins looking for cords here and there, driving all over town for a buck or two in stuff... and then when you come across a giant dumpster full of goodies you get the easy pickings and then say "Ehn, good enough", and leave stuff that, for the same effort, you'd probably spend half a day scrounging for. Just leaving money on the table. Isn't that weird how our brains work? Ahh well, you're doing it for fun and some content and some spare money, if you start treating it like work then it stops being enjoyable so, whatever your reasons, you quit when you quit and you go home happy.

[@thubprint]

That’s just it, I did go home happy. I could’ve fought to get the rest of that stuff out and I know it would’ve been decent weight but the truck was getting full and those pieces were super long and super buried. It would’ve taken me quite a while to exhume them and I might’ve spent an hour pulling stuff out just to decide they were too long to load onto what I had and still had to put everything back

[@gasstationpeanuts1814]

It's easy to sit at home with the heater/AC and see all the things that are missed, but in the moment you're thinking about a million different things, like am I going to be told to leave or be ticketed by some cop that doesn't know the law. If you throw half a dumpster out on the ground to get to all the metal in there you WILL be asked to leave often. Better to get what you can and go.

[@davidbolton184]

Dude, I don’t know what dumpster diving laws you have in your area, but ours are sketchy as it is we’re lucky enough to be not bothered with why we do it let alone opening up doors and taken off safety latches to access the dumpster. Can you get in trouble for that?

[@andrewcannon587]

where is your side kick kiddo?

[@thubprint]

He’s in school now! It’s definitely more fun to have him along tho

[@scottybeescrapped4429]

Nice score I would have pulled all the crap out of there and grabbed everything bahaha !! Curious what your #2 wire is there here is .30 cents!!! Cheers 🍻

[@thubprint]

I think I’m getting .75cents/lb on #2? I certainly could’ve spent a lot longer in that bin haha

[@scottybeescrapped4429]

@@thubprint man I get .30 I'm sad 😔

[@BushDogScrapper]

I’m a day later but better late then never! Cheers Thubprint going to take this time to scrap some stuff down going to be checking out a new scrap yard this coming week I hear they pay better then most yards and a lil closer to home kinda haha still an hours drive as I live out in the country west of Edmonton scrap price’s need to go up and fuel needs to go down 😅🤣👍🏻 got a new rig for my iPhone so I hope it helps making better videos came with a led light microphone and a Bluetooth remote to start and stop filming 💚👍🏻

[@thubprint]

Oh I didn’t realize you were so nearby! To me anyway, not the scrapyard that’s kinda buns haha You’ve got lots of scrap space tho! And an improvement to the kit is always fun. Lighting and microphone is key, can’t make good vids if people can’t hear you or see anything 👌

[@BushDogScrapper]

@@thubprint haha yea gotta figure how to get the microphone to work on my iPhone 8 it doesn’t seem to get power with a dongle plugged into the charge port to for 3.5mm plug will have to mess around with that or just use the phone mic haha Cheers maybe one day we could meet up and do a colab haha have a great weekend bro

[@trench124]

Still can't get over how you don't break down microwave magnetometers. There's usually a good chunk of almost solid copper in there even if the transformer is a cheaper ali coiled one. You really should give it a go. Also wasn't that a stainless steel shell on the dirty microwave

[@thubprint]

It was stainless but it was magnetic so my yard will put it in the shred just the same. I’ve opened the magnetrons before but it’s just a little copper coil so I don’t really fuss over them

[@trench124]

@@thubprint not sure how I can describe it. Take off the aluminium fins and look in there there's usually a chunk of copper the size of one of a golf ball

[@gasstationpeanuts1814]

@@thubprint You're thinking of the little copper coils that are called filters, located on the bottom in the filter box, but he's talking about the big chunk in the middle of the magnetron between the two magnets, called the anode. It's nearly solid copper but looks like aluminum or iron because of the coating. I don't mess with them unless the microwave is clearly less than ten years old. After that the stems almost all switched from beryllium ceramics to ceramics made of alumina oxide. Far smaller chance of lung disease if you inhale alumina oxide dust vs beryllium.

[@dalecaruso2052]

Thanks for wasting your time so we don't have to.

[@gguerrero9581]

Muy buena casería!!! Abrazo grande desde Argentina