Thanks for the cameo, I shared it on Facebook. :)

I take my scrap in every 4-6 weeks. Keep it moving, make money, stack in savings, paycheck is for bills. Scrap is for savings. But that's my giddy up. Keep doing the thing from Sacramento, CA USA.

The feeling when Finding a dumpster like that is probably something like what the miners felt when they struck gold.

Keep doing the thing

Mr Thub, you did nothing wrong with taking scrap from that dumpster, it was full of garbage and going to the dump, so you sir saved all of that beautiful metal from being dumped in a hole never to be seen again, good job man!

I could feel your excitement through the screen on this one. One of you best informative youtubers out there. Thanks for doing the thing man!

Really informative and wonderful tips you provide within your videos. I am retired US. Coast Guard, and worked a lot of environmental issues and I appreciate you making people aware being environmentally safe, we only have one world and we must take care of it. A person doesn’t have to belong to particular political party to be environmentally smart. Thanks You for your videos and sharing your knowledge of scrapping. God Bless You and your family!!!!!!!! Thomas W. Jones Retired Command Senior Chief US Coast Guard

"Not an Economist, just a guy digging through the Trash." Haha.. I'm going to use that one! Hillarious!!

Hey thub if you got a chopsaw you can get aluminum and steel cutting blades for it which would make cutting up all that aluminum faster and easier on you. And if u dont got a chopsaw pawn shops usually have used ones for a steal and they come in handy when working with wood. Great video! You have been hitting the jackpot lately kudos!!

@ 4:49 "They're filmin' something... THEY'RE FILMIN' MIDGETS!"

Sell! Pay off your debts, or your loosing money to the bank or whoever. Dept is a liability on yourself and all your hard work. Then store up. There will always be more to find. Keep doing the thing!

I dont think it was wrong either that dumpster was full of what appeared to be garbage from demolition of an aluminum framed building. So whether the legality of it is questionable the reality of what you're doing by recycling metals that would otherwise get mixed in with garbage in a landfill is in my opinion the right moral and ethical thing to do whether its legal or not!

Buddy 👍😁👍!!!! Very good my friend 👋👋

Hey thanks for the positive videos every time!!!! This world needs more of you old friend

No doubt , you can do it man.Thanks for responding! very cool. I cant wait to get my license back so I can get back to the scrap life. If I see a microwave or something copper or brass that i can carry or book bag home I grab it. Takes forever to make the load worth the trip. Its just so enjoyable though.

Dang man the trash fairies really sprinkled that dust on you real good today! I hold onto my stash of bare bright copper because its the easiest to store and I figure the price will only get higher if a guy is willing to play the waiting game. Great video! Keep doing the thing!

Your energy is amazing. You seem like you're always in such a good mood

Piece of advice for cutting extruded aluminum . You can get a nonferrous blade for ether a miter saw or a skill saw.

text in from the UK. Thanks for the knowledge

Went from not doing metal to making bank lol great dumpster haul!!!!!!!! I need to go throw my cooper and clean it and if it goes up again def going to sell.Hope you and the little mans all good! Have a sweet weekend!

those square lighting fixtures and filters were aluminum too. i wouldn't have left until it was all mine. but what a score. who throws stuff like that away? totally agree with your logic, considering the drywall and lumber in that dumpster, it was definitely going to the landfill.., so hats off to you for recycling it and making some money doing it.

Sold 224lbs #2 copper last week....still have a few hundred pounds as a “bank account.” Lol easy to gather when you’re a plumber. Good videos!

Excellent haul Thub.. well done to you and the fairies! My advice - sell everything if you have debt hanging over your head! Owing money not only costs you interest wise, but also weighs you down mentally! If you have no debts, then save high value stuff that's easy to store and worth shifting with you when you move house. Sell low value stuff which presents storage problems as you get it (which includes aluminium)! That keeps the cash ticking over and gives you scrapyard content! 😊👍

I wish I had this guys energy.

$250 from one dumpster? That's fantastic! Always eat a good breakfast before going scrapping. You never know what will turn up! Try using a Diablo carbide metal blade in a circular saw to quickly cut oversize metal or to clean up metal. I take my copper in whenever I go to the scrapyard because I have enough stuff around without storing copper as well.

Nice AL haul, As for copper don't wait until 2023✌🤪

I usually hold on to as much copper and various other types of scrap to build my volumes, then scrap it. I use the money to buy my fun things, video games, consoles and stuff like that.

The most organized junkyard ever

Sweet haul! Hot tip: for long runs of bx cable, crack off 6 inches on the overlap end, put the wires in a vice, pull the casing right off from the other end. I've done 20 foot lengths that way. Some are easy to extract, some are impossible. Lol. If the wire twist alternates, forget it. Just a tip. Thanks for the great content

Great job . Inspired by your hard work! Props from a humble scrapper myself

Awesome Find Thub! I was shocked about a week ago when I came upon a dumpster overflowing with pieces of extruded the same size. It was all from a custom window frame/ shutter company here in Fl.. I just found out that company’s open tops were full and needed to throw it somewhere down the road.. into someone else’s bin. Now that I know where they are located, You can imagine where my next adventure will be--To their actual location, lol!

Dude! That seriously looks like a SpaceX helmet in the beginning.

Sold all my copper Thursday. It was a nice payout :)

Circular saw with a wood blade cuts through aluminum like butter

Just watching I know posted a while ago… Scraper from same city as you… The aluminum is from office cubicle system from a company that makes it called “dirt” the resale value is wayyyyy higher then scrap value for future reference

Hello Thub. It's not only electric cars pushing the copper price, it's also the wind energy. If you want to produce 1Mw of wind power you need 3 ton of copper.

I've saved mine for about couple years igot 2 55gallon drums of clean number 1 wire cleaned and 30 gallon of number 2 55 gallon of clean brass and still cleaning

Portaband is a wonder tool! You should get you one.

Congrats on the load! I LOVE YOUR VIDEO.S

Nice score there Drake! As always, love how real your videos are. Be good chief.

Congrats on the load! I sold half my copper I’m gonna hang on to the other for a while

Congratulations on a great find!

Nice shot with that rotor.🤘

I've been hoarding all my copper for months now. All anyone is talking about lately at the electrical supplier is price increases. and prices across the board in construction. I'd say expect a minimum 10% increase. And congrats on that sweet haul!

What goes up.... One in the hand .... 🤷🏻 😁

Stack as much copper as you can afford to, l mostly scrap e-waste when l get larger chunks of copper (crt yokes and degaussing cable mostly as well as transformers) l sell that but l keep small transformers and coils, l usually sell around 40-50 pounds of copper a week and keep around 6-8 pounds, it will only ever go up in value, electric transport and wind turbines will take care of that

You will get used to every thing..the more you do! It is very good that you ask fellow scrappers for advice Remember to take what you like and leave the rest! Hope y'all have a great time celebrating Wubs birthday 🥳🎉 l bet he is growing 👍🙋🧚🕊️🌟

Your right there’s a ton of other junk in that dumpster so go me if free game

The World Will need more copper in the Next 25 years than the before 500 years i heard in an interview the Other Day . You Are right about the Fiat money . Stack silver and copper

Buddy you need a miter saw with a aluminium blade that is an absolute chore to cut it that way.You could have done that in 5 minutes time is money in the scrap game my man

First, I want to compliment you. You do it, the "thing" in an educational and self-defecating manner that this environmental professional can respect. As for copper, in my opinion all you have to do is look around. Is construction still ramping up? Surely there are/will be more repurposing of existing real estate as we emerge from the pandemic. There are no voids in nature. How are near-term projections? What level of seriousness do governmental agencies have in regards to the grid in relation to the inevitability of a major restructuring for EVs' charging stations? Hang on to your stack for a month and put your finger into the air.

Devaluing the dollar, most certainly.

Nice viedo bro love it☺

This just made my Friday night. Friendly advice.....based on the 56 of your videos I have watched so far.... 1. Copper - sell half 2. Get set up with a easily portable tool box that can be moved from vehicle to vehicle to shop. Or get three sets of the same tools. Oh...or a tool belt. 3. Growing up with a deaf father is not fun....get some hearing protection, please. 4. You so need a Leatherman or similar multitool. 5. On long hair - I had it(cursed baldness) and both my sons have long hair - Rock On!!!!! 6. I'm not really familiar on Canadian tax law, But I wonder if you incorporated, could you deduct your vehicles, any tools, milage, house space as work space, and come up with a loss on taxes? 7. Have professional business cards printed to give to people, to let them know - a. why you are skulking in their trash b. as a source so they can call you when they need all their aluminum siding and other goodies hauled away. 8. I wish you lived closer.....I have a large pile of stuff you could have. Keep doing the thing, Thub Groupie Fan Club, Dave

SAVE THE COPPER MANY YEARS AND WATCH THE VALUE ANDV THE STACK GROW

Nice Score! great vid

Everything is goimg to go up. Id save that copper for awhile longer. Me im stacking silver :) i do have to say i read where a guy said pay off your debts. I do agree. Ive paid off car. No credit cards. No debt besides the monthly fun of bills raising kids. I decided awhile ago to live alot cheaper than I used to. Where my friends are eating out every weekend or even all week and hitting the bars and golfing I've been stacking the last few years. I've found I have a nice pile of silver to show for it. They have nothing but fancy truck payments.

Trash fairies were very generous! Nice score bro!

Sell, sell, sell! LOL

Great score

Awesome found the scrap nice video

Stashing your copper this year is like a chunk of money in the bank gaining 25% interest.

Whatever you do with the copper i think you should keep the pile together

Hey Thub, I did read that copper prices are so good because the quality of the copper now being mined isn’t very good. Apparently the best quality copper is all mined out and recycled copper is actually better quality hence the price being so high. Not sure how true this is but if it is true it only means good things for the price of copper at least staying where it is if not getting higher. I’m sure some of the value is to do with the pandemic as well though. Keep doing thing, leave it better than you forbid it 👍🏻

good haul!

Holy heck Thub. An entire dumpster full of extruded aluminum. And 6 foot lengths of copper! SCORE

Tell that snobby neighbor to get lost lol....

yeah man next year or so copper close to 9$ a pound i am holding and adding daily thanks for awsome videos definitly 👍

Very firm believer that if it's in the garbage, it's not theft. The original owner no longer wanted whatever was thrown in the trash. I'm really surprised more people aren't recycling anyways - ESPECIALLY RENOVATION COMPANIES THAT THROW THIS STUFF AWAY ON A DAILY BASIS!

I usually save my copper till winter. The only time I can get it out of my area.

I just collect, and when I have a couple of buckets full,I just take it in Your win some times, my yard will keep the price up if I turn up a day or two after it's dropped Make a good relationship with your yard and sometimes I may take a case of beers in for the lads!

koppa is inching up lately. I'm waiting for US4.5 copper spot before i turn in my koppa. Spot koppa jumped to 4.34 today but as u already know, scrap yard is slow to raise price

Recycling never wrong !

Thub its great to save for rainey day but if your moving Far "GAS" can make up your mind quick Sad to Say !!!; )

Hi, I sold all my copper this week (Spain)

1 more thing friend I use a cheap butane torch to separate the solder joints from copper and brass be careful

use a propan torche to heat the metal and to unscrew thos cap

Well happy birthday to whoever is turning a year older i had a birthday this week and i was not happy to turn a year older plus a friend of mine who was more like my brother than just a friend lost his life to covid this week so my birthday wasn't a celebration at all.

Bloody hell mate, a once in a lifetime dumpster find

keep half of anything always. for that rainy day

Helluva great score on the aluminum. Personally, whatever nonferrous metals I find, I melt into ingots and stash them all for a rainy day.

Score !!!

I was actually thinking about the subject of copper earlier today. I'm just getting what I have ready to go at a moment's notice and keeping an eye on the prices. Hard to argue with $450/drum of #1 pipe, but the prices are trending upward. I follow @iscrapapp on KZfaq and they do nothing but give out national average price trends and advice on scrapping. Worth the time if you have it.

Awesome adventures 👍

Hey Thub, nice aluminum score! I took it that dumpster was a general construction debris on, NOT a metal recycling one. I would've been all over that aluminum like a hobo on a ham sammich!!! 😀☮️

It's kind of tempting to sell, I have more than 1000 lbs of bare bright copper, + a lot of ,#1#2 and wires I've been saving for the last 2 years!! But I'm going to wait,, I keep hearing copper it's going up and up 👍

M8 cheers on your finding. The dryer that you recycled ♻️ is worth , electric motor ,copper wire , heating coils ( also known as nichrome ) the rest is light iron and sometimes change or jewelry can be found inside where the motor is located . Your load of 6063 was amazing and finding copper tubing a big plus : but now reality strikes to sell or not ? Your money is only good as long as you can invest it to make more , so you sit on it hoping and praying to gain more , but in a crunch you don't have it liquid and have to sell for a lower price. So you rather invest your cash in something that will generate more or sit on it and wait to see what happens ? Keep up the good work and hoppy boithday to whomever is celebrating today. God bless y'all.

Copper is going up but I'm thinking it's a controlled upward hike. It was genuine but now the big bankers have got involved and I also hear they are not investing in new mines. I don't believe that. I think its near its peak. So it's a good time to sell. I sold half of mine so sold 100kg. Pay of you debts if intrest is increasing the sum.

I’m pretty sure you nailed it when you said the fiat is devaluing. Where will it cap? Who knows. But is a fistfull of Canadian Copeks now, is worth more than two in the Bush? The ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda’ mentality could cost a little bit, but if you aren’t in dire need for the money, let it ride and when it starts dropping 7%, time to cash in. Just my thinking, I am not a: financial advisor, professional scrapper, demolition expert, cobra whisperer, lawyer, doctor, or anyone that you should listen to. A scrapper down in Australia melts his copper and hand pours ingots, and sells the ingots for more money than scrapping it.

I have an 800 lb copper hoard that I started a year ago when it was priced really low. Now, I'm selling a 5 gallon bucket of it each week along with that weeks haul so as to average out the value. I don't want to hoard it anymore as its impossible to predict when it will top out. You might consider averaging it out in some way, in weekly or monthly increments.

Great score on that run

I'm keeping my copper for videos. Videos of smelting projects will be fun to make, and will probably make much more in Ad revenue than selling the copper would... plus, if I'm happy with any of the things I create, I have a few options: Do giveaways, and/or put the creations up for sale. Several of my viewers have already said they want to buy whatever I make.

Copper . I sold my bank of copper last week it’s down 80 cents to 3.00/lb . I would say whatever makes sense to you. I know I will get more and it comes fast . So I figured I would offload almost all of it(100lb) not sure what the price is in your area compared to when this video was posted

I hope you went back and checked the dumpster again for aluminum cause that was a great find

Empire metal is my go place

Do what ever you can do to get rid of your debt, then everything you earn is yours

The copper question seems easy to me, I am writing from the future. Sell it now! Pay your debts! Once your debt is paid, sure save copper as long as you can. sit on gold and silver too. Those are worth the space in the house. I am not so sure copper is good to sit on though. I rather trade the copper in for silver, personally. I'd also trade it in for a kick ass birthday party for my kids too

I guessed $236...so close. When is the next yard sale? Is it weird that I like those vids?

Looks like a big ass brass key

I think you should save it save all your copper to get about 300 lb and keep tabs on the price and just as you can look at it don't you just know any awesome just to go look at your copper and just know that you got a shitload