Dumpster Diving Street Scrapping - Got a Soaker!

[@Detts1990]

I love your vids. I’m a fellow scrapper. Wish more people in the scrapping industry were as nice and genuine as you. For the most part it’s a rugged community. I’ve learned a lot from ur vids. Keep it up!

[@robertbedard-h9t]

even a small amount ends up being well worth it in the end,plus it stays out of the landfill!!!! great video

[@jimmy75256]

Watching these videos reminds me of the time I helped clear out a friends dad's shop. He is a sparky and had 100's of old toasters, kettles, irons ect

[@mananbhandari-ed5hm]

Petition to get more than one video per week.

[@johngastineau653]

If you want to have both hands available when using the wire stripper, get a sewing machine foot pedal that has a receptacle connecting the drill to it, having the trigger activated.

[@danielsteward5090]

I did a 37 lane bowling Alley demo back in the 80s' and that job got me about $2,000 in scrap back then. Fun stuff. I even got to throw a cer frames before I started tearing out the still functioning equipment.sad day but good job. I was also getting paid by the hour for the labor to dismantle it too.

[@JtePetOzen-2]

After i watched ur video i always want more of them Great job 👍 Ty for doing the thing

[@bettergoodhealth]

That is a good way to stay in shape

[@mrMacGoover]

The only scrapper I know that knows how to use a triple beam balance scale. 👍

[@allthingsjack89]

I can't believe you skipped out on taking the transformer apart. (I say this jokingly 🙃) I find that an axe and a hammer splits those things apart easy. Keep up the awesome content thub. I'm scrapping starter motors this morning while watching your vidro 😊

[@RC-my7oh]

Thanks!

[@thubprint]

Thank you very much!! ☺️

[@maxgiese890]

Great videos, always an Adventure. Long time fan of the show, been watching for a few years. Keep adding to the pile and find all the treasures🫡 happy hunting

[@ScrappinLou]

Your commentary is amazing!

[@stephensmith3708]

Super nice fine, my Ctazy Canadian Boheimian Cousin of mine! I know it will be getting snow soon, so start collecting them waste pallets for the heater stove, yo! That being said, I soon will be sending a early Christmas present so the next late spring into summer to take the mini-me and your friends to search for that ultimate TREASURE!!!

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

Really enjoyed this one Thub, thx for taking us all along :)

[@benhumphregys3087]

Amazing video as always, best scrapper in the world ❤

[@InnovationTree]

It's common knowledge that stripped copper wire gains better returns but no one has shown HOW to strip the wire. Thank you for that knowledge as I've been painflly using electrician cutters lol so I gave up after 30 mins. Now I know what faster way there is! I'm female, and took my first sedan full of sorted scrap metal to the place today. I earned $76 all up mostly with yellow brass kept from my faucets in my old 1925 house I'm renovating myself for the past 15 years. That's a good amount of pocket money once every year for me to pay a power bill for a month! I'm glad to be watching your videos most of this evening gaining insight for what metal to look out to keep. Had a good laugh along with you with your video commentary and am enjoying your content. Thank you so much!! I like how you explain what metal it is thatbyouve picked out for beginners like me to begin to recognize. Its appreciated. How about tools like hammers, pry bar and screw metal - what metal are they and are they classified as tin or something else?

[@thubprint]

I’m glad you’re here! I’ve done videos specifically covering wire stripping, and I’ve found that anything smaller than 10ga doesn’t have high enough returns for me personally. It’s not my place to tell other people how to spend their time, but I encourage you to watch those ones and decide for yourself if you really want the $5/hr Talk to your scrapyard about the steel because they’ll have their own grades but for me my yard pays more for “prepared steel” which is anything clean and thicker than 1/8”. The hammer and the pry bar would be prepared steel.

[@Charles-de9xt]

Enjoy your videos!

[@kevinhaid6211]

Here’s one for the algorithm 🤙

[@beerandbrat]

you are so gentle! when i am in a dumpster and i see that, i am jumpin in there and throwing that stuff out of the way! keep up the videos. you're awesome.

[@punkyroo]

LOL! The number of times someone catches you going through their dumpster... 😅😂

[@drp6574]

Nice haul. Hang in there the really good ones will be there in time...🙂🙂

[@Kat-d2u2]

Loved your analogy Of Helium steel!

[@edwinthebirdbee4623]

Nice quote

[@bigcountryscrapper6885]

Great video my friend

[@swifty2844]

I'm happy you took the helium steel, might not be worth much but at least it's now not in landfill for the next 100 years 👍👍

[@williammeeks1283]

I totally agree. I watch other channels and they all leave the stuff for the landfill

[@williamralph8613]

Hidden space used well 😅

[@spotonstupid]

I mentioned this tonight on a video you made a few months ago but wanted to try to get you to see it here: Can you make a video of all types of copper items clean pipe 1 and dirty 2 and clean wire 1 and 2 and maybe even non stripped non end cut wire that you would bring in to the scrap-yard. What I want to see is just how much difference in end product recovered copper there is in practical form for the recovery business between all types. Start with a kilo of each and strip/clean them and then cast them down to their purest bar form so we can see the difference in final product to see why the grade matters so much to recovery. That all could be worded better. Eh, it's 5 in the morning. Yes, I know I am asking for a bigger video but I like your longer videos.

[@thubprint]

No that’s a cool idea! I won’t get to it right away but I love the suggestion, and I really appreciate it!

[@iffy9776]

Hi, the coaxial wire most of the coaxial i find has a copper core . I think it's always worth checking.

[@kevinhaid6211]

Right on. My yard doesn’t buy coax in of itself, and it’s a bit of a pain (for me) to strip but most do indeed have a copper core so I save them up for when I’m *really* bored or dry on stuff to work on.

[@thubprint]

Really? That’s pretty different from my experience, for me the core is almost always copper coated steel 🙃 easy to check with a magnet tho!

[@benc.enlots]

​@@thubprintRan coax for years and you are correct. It is all copper coated steel core.

[@trasieinkersole491]

❤️💙

[@p0ln]

epic, love the dumpster diving

[@JustAskDave88]

Good stuff dude

[@StephenMarks-wo4uk]

Nice load buddy

[@ariesmariano4592]

Very very nice video

[@Irishlove747]

Coaxial can go in the shred pile

[@LittleRanchInTheRockies]

You remind me of myself with the tiny bits of copper

[@samholdsworth420]

Hope all is well thub 😊

[@thadofalltrades]

I think you need to do another quest like you did to fix the truck

[@ABrokenSociety]

Some Coax cable is solid core copper. Typically the ones that say "high grade" on the insulation.

[@benc.enlots]

Never in over 20 years of stringing cable have I ever seen such a thing. All copper coated steel.

[@derekelliott6098]

1:48 looks like an old antenna Question: during your perusing, do you come across solid sterling? Im sure you find lots of silverplate platters and flatware, but what about solid sterling?

[@OriginalNethead]

Not if I saw it first! (LOL) Boxes with flatware or jewelry tend to fly away without needing Thub's help.

[@thubprint]

I’ve actually never once found solid sterling in my hunting! Maybe someday though haha

[@derekelliott6098]

@@thubprint Watch you find some soon since I brought it up. Life tends to happen that way sometimes.

[@johntoldme]

hope your windshield was covered! GL!

[@gregwarne3252]

love the scales you have .guessing you found it

[@lizarddriven4365]

Weekly dose of Thub, hecc yea!

[@thomasl4759]

Where did you get that awesome little wire stripper

[@SpeedsterVlog]

Sweeeeeeet~

[@Warpcaller]

Great job as always, make the night shift go a bit faster

[@MarkH10]

Printers. So 80's.

[@rmil4531]

I like your old weighing machine. Did I miss that you found it? 💕

[@thubprint]

You didn’t miss it! It’s actually the original postal scale from a post office in my hometown, very small town in BC

[@mrMacGoover]

Hey Thub, did you take my suggestion and glue those thick rubber strips you found in a dumpster together to make a mat for your truck box? When you threw the brake disks in the back it sounded like they landed on rubber matting.🙂

[@thubprint]

I didn’t use those, I have a 1/2” rubber mat I cut to fit awhile back though

[@stephankent2955]

You ever tried smelting your own stuff making your own bars etc

[@vinnienowhere1015]

When you dive after a rain storm expect to get your feet wet.

[@timgalloway2566]

Thub where do you find all these bins to look in? You must put in some traveling in your adventures.

[@klu753]

Your videos are perfectly staged Nobody will never know the difference.

[@jerremm]

Adventures don't pay your fines, lol. How did the court thing go?

[@thubprint]

@@jerremm got a first appearance next year 🙃

[@ShotokunWulf]

Where do you find the dumpsters , how do you pick one, just any dumpster?

[@thubprint]

Yup! Just pop your head in and have a look

[@thadofalltrades]

What are you doing with that rotor stash?

[@joshtaylor9157]

This is probably common knowledge, but I'm missing it. Rocking up with a stuckload of material that you dump out, How exactly is that getting measured and paid out?

[@thubprint]

There’s a big floor scale that you drive up onto on the way in and the way out, as well as in between different piles 👍

[@joshtaylor9157]

@@thubprint nice one thanks for the info

[@trench124]

Coax... is it not worth taking to strip off the outer insulation for the woven copper underneath?

[@benbrock4589]

Its only copper coated steel

[@trench124]

@benbrock4589 usual get copper in ours in the UK but if it's steel fair comment

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

In short, no. Better off to leave it as garbage. Which is why the scrapyards often won't even buy it.

[@thubprint]

I don’t think it’s worth it, some of them have a solid copper core and those are slightly better but I’ve found those ones to be so uncommon I’m simply not interested in saving another bin for them. The stripping would be one of the worst returns hourly. The only time I’ll take it is if there’s some seriously long coils of the stuff and I won’t need to take it home

[@DanielHouston-uw3ir]

How come you didn't grab the light switch and the electrical boxes,the switch looked like it still had wire attached

[@OriginalNethead]

If asked "I'm the Dumpster Fairy." Saving them a hundo or so in fees.

[@jansonsynder]

Do you clean it or just send a Water Heater to shred?

[@badeadrian]

What kinda of Go Pro do you have?

[@thubprint]

Oh I’m still rockin the hero8. I’d love an upgrade but the only thing I care about is the audio quality, and they never upgrade it, all GoPro audio tends to suck

[@badeadrian]

@@thubprint i do have a hero 7 white....it does fail 90% maybe more... it's garbage...

[@benbrock4589]

Why do you hang onto rotors?

[@paulblankenship7865]

Prepared steel and/or automotive shred sells for more than regular shred. At least here in Memphis, TN it does.

[@thubprint]

Darn right. They’re decent little bits of money for sure, I’ve just decided I like having them as patio “stones” for the aesthetic, and I’m looking forward to delivering a large number of them at once

[@KevinHarvey-qw5mj]

They closed a k mart store here we got a bunch of new faucets toasters ovens microwave s blenders everything for the house times like 15 sold some gave some away then went back and they hired me and my dump truck to haul out the shelving straight to scrap yard told the guy that hired me said cheaper to throw it away then trying to figure invitory into another store told me he will call me next week cause have more to get rid of and paid this time 2 nd load was boxes of clothes kept for whoever wanted them took rest to homeless shelter for people in need plus woman feminine products they were happy and so was i tt save them money on stuff they usually have to buy 11:11

[@Stray_GM]

Maybe someone can help me understand the legality of this. My local Wally World has giant rolloff bins behind its store. They throw away all kinds of junk in them - wood furniture, scrap metal, plastic bins, cardboard - basically everything I assume they don't want in their compactor. To me this seems like landfill waste. All the scrap metal inside is like, shelving and signage. I've looked inside a few times, and there's usually a good couple hundred pounds of it. Haven't taken anything yet though (got a small car, no truck). There's no "no trespassing" signs or enclosures. There's nothing indicating it's not landfill waste. Would scrapyards question me if I showed up with it? It's all steel shred, so not worth any legal altercation whatsoever. Just wondering because it seems like a pretty consistent spot to find some big scrap pieces.

[@andrewcannon587]

i thought you did a video showing striping wires smaller than 12 gauge is not worth the effort.

[@thubprint]

I definitely did, and I still feel that way! I just thought it would be fun to dig in and see just how much I pulled in the one afternoon

[@MewTube-o4l]

0:06 I see some babies

[@Nas_Atlas]

$20/hour. That's what a guy can make running a stripper with normal material. Anyone who says more is full of shit.

[@julieb.2868]

First

[@samholdsworth420]

Sorry Julie. You're not first but second

[@heathernorman5509]

you are a lazy scrapper . you leave so much behind that would take minor effort to collect. plus it has heavy weight you miss out on.

[@ZoelkarnaenNaen-g1w]

You work slowly old man,,no power hhh,talk too much

[@swifty2844]

? 🤨

[@ZoelkarnaenNaen-g1w]

@@swifty2844 stupid

[@thubprint]

Fr haha, that’s enough internet for today 😆

[@InnovationTree]

His regular commentary is catchy, makes me laugh and puts a sweet smile on my face, I like it as it brings a brighter day. What doesn't, Zoel, is your poor grammar - go back to school.

[@shaystern2453]

where do you FIND so many dumpsters?

[@tammyrouse7422]

[@bobbywilliams3595]

Do you save the thing you putthe light .in .for sacrp