Dumpster Diving - Trash Faeries Taking Care of Us!

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2 жыл бұрын

Another excellent day dumpster diving! After a guaranteed start we found a spot where we filled up the truck with scrap metal of questionable value. Unsure of the decision we continued, and found some pretty great payoffs pretty quickly. Sometimes it doesn't seem so random after all!
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@mollynakamori 2 жыл бұрын

This video had it all! Bottle picking, bunny, keeping volume out of the landfill, Thub nearly getting stuck, freeing up bin space, fun treasures, bonus time with Thub! All you missed was the little lion for Pretty Girl, and the Formica samples for me to make a backsplash. Well done!

@jonnymac9251 2 жыл бұрын

The black hat stitching said faith replacing the a with a heart!

@rudel451 Жыл бұрын

saving the planet one piece of scrap at a time !!!!!!! continue on my friend....

@TileReseller 2 жыл бұрын

That box of gauges is a $30-50 marketplace sale to anyone who likes making those steampunk lamps

@locknload9143 2 жыл бұрын

Those "thingys" are called light ballasts. Also BX Cables 😉

@fromthewoodshed 2 жыл бұрын

Thingies= Ballast

@richardwarnock2789 2 жыл бұрын

Scrapping is Great When there's Stainless Steel Oh Oh Oh Yeahhhhh!!

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been loving the stainless lately! Good weight and decent price 👍

@natetransitions8379 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes life tries to get us to give up by giving us these little issues like the mic cutting out, what's important is you persisted and still made another great video. Thank you and keep up the great work friend.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

It does seem to challenge us on purpose sometimes lol

@bigdogcountrymusic7146 2 жыл бұрын

Those things were Ballisters for Florissant lights.

@junkfinder3168 2 жыл бұрын

I call them the Scrap Gods.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

One and the same I’m sure 😊

@trevorwallace7315 2 жыл бұрын

Those thingys are called ballasts. Watching in U.K

@jlynnthompson319 2 жыл бұрын

The trash faeries definitely showed me love today and right when I needed it most! A nearby school is doing some remodeling/ upgrading and I found water fountains - stainless steel, copper wire, tube and pipe, electric motors and extruded aluminum. Then a little more digging uncovered 35 desk top pc towers so far, an overhead projector (been wanting one for my art) computer peripherals, , cables.... so excited! Someone recently stole all my sorted scrap, my art as well as all my tools so I definitely needed this! Happy scrapping and diving everyone! May the trash faeries always reward you!, P.s. Hey Thub, thanks for all the great videos. They've been a huge help. I have a belated "50k' congrats gift for you. I need to hurry and get it to you or I'll keep adding stuff and it will be too heavy to ship. Lol!

@aaronhoyes1781 2 жыл бұрын

I got my biggest copper wire haul to date from a dumpster last night. Probably close to 50 kg, all type 1, easy stripping wire. But instead of getting busy on it, I'm putting it off by watching other people dumpster dive, lol. Its just so much and I know I'll be at it for days!

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Still, that’s a fantastic find! Can always strip and watch vids at the same time 🙂

@aaronhoyes1781 2 жыл бұрын

@@thubprint I couldn't believe it! Still cant. Anyway, I got busy and did the thing. Now I have a five gallon bucket full of bare-bright! I'm going to weigh it tonight, guessing around 100 pounds. Thanks for making these videos, they always provide the impetus for the next scrap run!

@maxwilkerson7622 2 жыл бұрын

Transformers are so easy to break open And you almost get a pound of copper each one It’s always a waste when you see someone throw in shred

@saadrazzaq1946 2 жыл бұрын

Love it brother

@MissCanadian 2 жыл бұрын

Some nice fines my friend

@killjoy987987 2 жыл бұрын

You’ve struck gold

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty jazzed on this one!

@DIYwithBatteries 2 жыл бұрын

It sucks when there is water in Dumpster

@davidmiller6726 2 жыл бұрын

You'd be a fun friend to junk and dumpster dive with!

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@billhuman-ss5zd Жыл бұрын

NICE AS ALWAYS

@Oldgrumpyvet67 Жыл бұрын

Water in the dumpster is dumpster juice 😂

@richavic4520 2 жыл бұрын

Take a look at the ballast. Older ones have PCBs. Just a heads up.

@eagleeyes5638 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings Thubprint. Let's go have some fun & find treasures. Another fantastic adventure. Leave no metal behind mate. Thanks for taking the time/care of sharing,passing knowledge/blessings forward yippee. PLEASE be CAREFUL. Stay inspirational, humble and kind always. Be safe,healthy &blessed always family

@marthashipman9010 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed! Glad you could get outs that dumpster.lol

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Me too haha!

@fdfghg9838 2 жыл бұрын

Gauges may be steel on the outside but inside brass and copper

@OriginalNethead 2 жыл бұрын

Love the rampaging bunny rabbit! He's been running loose for a while is my guess. Send somebody back with a baited critter trap and see if you can catch a pet rabbit? He looks like he needs a nice house for the Winter. Hope someone rescued the Decaf too. Even if it's useless it doesn't belong in a dumpster. My 91 year-old mother drinks decaf. (I'm more the double-caffeine kinda gal.)

@iffy9776 2 жыл бұрын

Take the copper out of the ballasts..I do maybe the ones you have are harder to take out. Its amazing because there is no money in cans or bottles here in the UK, h0w much is laying around, I prefer stainless steel to aluminium. At the moment I'm getting £1pound and 30pence per kilogram.. I was skip diving and there must have been around 30kgs of cat 5,6 wire I managed to pull it out and was told to put it back by the owner even though the day before the builder said take it. It was very annoying

@larrybuckles5180 2 жыл бұрын

Great Finds!!!

@masterofnone11 11 ай бұрын

I have an old boat ladder ima start using for getting out of those dumpsters 😅😅

@robreed5209 2 жыл бұрын

You should do some research on selling pallets to pallet suppliers or some recycling places take pallets

@zacharykorbet9690 2 жыл бұрын

Let me make a little list for you the first thing was the fire sprinkler second thing fire extinguisher third thing exit sign and emergency lights

@vincedibona4687 2 жыл бұрын

Those are ballasts for florescent lights. My local scrapyard buys ‘em same as sealed units, 18 cents a pound.

@zacharykorbet9690 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this video gave me really bad anxiety knowing that people through away the one same things that I wish I had

@kevink.2719 2 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing finds

@jadrewscrapper8081 2 жыл бұрын

Great job. Keep it up

@steele7609 2 жыл бұрын

Ballists are the thingies

@turtlebee1776 2 жыл бұрын

I love what you do! Liv'in the life! Keep it up!

@servedarkness 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff, inspiring video! Thank you

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out and saying hi!

@danielwggudan2 10 ай бұрын

Yooooo ya got the beef n broccoli lol

@jerryjennyc5352 2 жыл бұрын

Hey thub

@livvyweimar7362 2 жыл бұрын

Man, that was fantastic! Hope we get to see the Wii working.

@alfazio047 2 жыл бұрын

Dude the old VHS tapes are like 10-15 bucks on ebay lol

@alfazio047 2 жыл бұрын

Really I sold mine for 10 bucks lol maybe she just really wanted it 😂

@LittleMikeStarCraft 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the stuff he is finding in there, is better than the stuff you find at thrift shops, lol.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

😁 to be fair thrift stores have started to suck sometimes

@guabojones 2 жыл бұрын

Decaf, right back in the bin where it belongs

@patrothwell9138 Жыл бұрын

Looks like u got a heating and cooling hk up Too👍

@hoon2806 2 жыл бұрын

Noice, you're spoiling us with all these videos!

@ceciliaatkinson5092 2 жыл бұрын

Those are called regerts

@UltimatelyEverything Жыл бұрын

Yep not taking the trailer was a bit of a mistake but it's ok there's still some good scrap there and i'm sure if you had the time and it was worth it you would have gone back for more.

@scrappirateroberts 2 жыл бұрын

At 32:34 ish These are called BX cable casings I think..... Comes in steel or aluminum flavor!

@davidmiller6726 2 жыл бұрын

The circuit boards with Dihedral Oscillators are a sought after item! :)

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Oh? I’ll have to look that up

@TheUltimateRecycler 2 жыл бұрын

My yard in Melbourne buys ballasts as transformers which are paying around $1/kg. Their weight adds up really quickly!! Thanks Thub, another nice adventure! 😊

@andrewcannon587 2 жыл бұрын

you hit on a jackpot buyer. My scrap buyer see ballast as garbage

@TheUltimateRecycler 2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewcannon587 That's a shame. I'm not sure why as they contain copper pretty much exactly like a transformer!

@andrewcannon587 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUltimateRecycler the tar goo up any recycling machine. Also the tar prevent checking if the coil is made of copper or aluminum

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like an alright price! Last time I checked mine was paying 8cents/lb

@andrewcannon587 2 жыл бұрын

@@thubprint maybe your scrap buyer don't want to disappoint thub or else thub won't come back ;)

@ellisstan Жыл бұрын

So your blind to the boss on those gauges and you picked up a large metal hose connection and just passed over another !!

@greatitbroke 2 жыл бұрын

Electronic Ballasts. They give me electronic scrap for them 3 cents a pound. Not a lot. We don't get deposit in ontario on Cans and Bottles only in Alberta.

@TechCellfish 2 жыл бұрын

Those gauges @ 21 minutes usually have quite a bit of brass and copper in them. You could see the brass connector on the one you picked up.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

True, I have broken open a fair few. I was just being lazy lol

@fingerlakesfindsmetal-dete2972 2 жыл бұрын

those "thingies" are ballasts

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, those thingies!

@ohdannyboy4727 2 жыл бұрын

Those Disney vhs mighta been worth. I know a few years ago they were selling for hundreds or thousands of bucks depending. The diamond Disney logo on the side is what the news said was going for the best bucks. Of course, that was a few years ago so I dont know what those vhs are selling now. Anyway a bummer to see people throw out so many movies games and books. Glad to see you rescue that game system tho. At least some of it won't make it to a landfill.

@jerryjennyc5352 2 жыл бұрын

No it was all a big scam and there plenty of black diamond youtube videos showing how people were laundering money thru ebay with those tapes or making 2 accounts and bidding them up they are garbage or at every thrift store for 50 cents maybe

@ForeverAlansGirl 2 жыл бұрын

@@jerryjennyc5352 yup..all vhs, doesn't matter what kind or limited edition or whatever is garbage. I work at both Goodwill & Value Village & they stopped taking them. The DePaul sells them for $1.

@jerryjennyc5352 2 жыл бұрын

@@ForeverAlansGirl only rare horror vhs are worth money now adays

@ohdannyboy4727 2 жыл бұрын

@@jerryjennyc5352 didnt know all that. it makes sense.

@javajeff3772 2 жыл бұрын

Finding a case of decaf coffee is like getting underwear for Christmas … but the coffee flavorings were probably still good even though they were out of date

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

I like getting underwear for Christmas though 🤣

@cheryldempsey1248 2 жыл бұрын

Right after @21:29 you reached right past and even touched another one of those stainless hose ends to grab a plastic bottle and then a can. I thought for sure you were about to grab it both times. Can't believe you didn't hear me yelling for you not to leave yet. 😁 Maybe next time

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

I saw that when I was editing the footage 🤣😭 it’s so funny how we can miss things that are right in front of our faces sometimes!

@majesticbuffaloman4327 2 жыл бұрын

1:30 I would not be able to fit through that one, glad you did and had nooooooooo problems at all "Ducks under mirror!" That's a lot of metal though! 8:43 AHAHHAHAHA Steeel! COCO BROOKS

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

It was a pretty dynamic run after all haha!

@stevesrt8 2 жыл бұрын

all that gross black stuff is from the ballasts leaking out. probably got hot.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh, good thing they aren’t the cancer kind!

@drdaver 2 жыл бұрын

Someday when you are uber rich from your scrapping empire... you should build your mansion out of recycled metals and trash bins.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

I dream of it often 😉

@L3V1T8-84 2 жыл бұрын

Found my first computer, Dell brand has windows 7 sticker on the front and the side of the tower says inspiron.... the monitor is busted but still some goodies inside it to claim... I think it will work out great since it was free.

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Sure it will! Even the older ones sell just fine, but I try to put them together with a mouse and keyboard and monitor that I find for free otherwise there isn’t much profit left

@L3V1T8-84 2 жыл бұрын

@@thubprint awesome, I found recently another Dell monitor it's a 15" so going to sell as a package deal..... what do you think of $150 price?

@gussuperman7565 2 жыл бұрын

M8 cheers on your findings. May be next time you come across clean books your local library can use a donation ( tax deductible) and you make hoppy readers . Keep up the good work. God bless y'all.

@saltyassassins5816 2 жыл бұрын

I'm getting 5 cents per pound for shred in my area. I get discouraged when so much work goes into collecting very little money. Yet ewaste on my end of things is worth while

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Are you in the states though? That would be about the same I get for my shred. The prices are all over the place of course

@saltyassassins5816 2 жыл бұрын

@@thubprint I live in Minnesota and go to north Dakota to cash in on scrap

@tinathompson2877 2 жыл бұрын

Do you strip wire or just turn it in like is? I love to watch wire stripping for some reason

@L3V1T8-84 2 жыл бұрын

8:33 you left the pewter bits...

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

WHAT

@L3V1T8-84 2 жыл бұрын

@@thubprint the piece of BX cable is held on by a pewter coupling... it's no major loss but there was pewter brother.

@stephensmith3708 2 жыл бұрын

Bro, if that was me I would be cussing up a storm. I like your demeanor. Still an awesome find and a blessing. I bet Scrap and Pallet Man. Paul is looking out for you. Edited time, haven't seen or heard of the lovely couple Freeisbetter86. I miss their spunkiness of there findings. Have you seen any new blogs? Or do they still live at the same address? I have something to give them. I have already sent a gift to brother Paul. Its a bronze mold plate with a maple leaf that came from a bottle manufacturing company. Let me know m'k, okay?

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

I haven’t really had much conversation with freeisbetter, I hope they’re doing well!

@keith102955 2 жыл бұрын

There is a five cent deposit on our cans up here what do you get for each cam there I am in New York

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Alberta it’s 10cents for everything below 1L and containers larger than 1L are 25cents

@Swescrapman 2 жыл бұрын

Do You have a 7-16 jobb ore can you survive on skrap? :)

@thubprint 2 жыл бұрын

For me this channel is my job, but it isn’t quite enough so the scrap pays the bills

@L3V1T8-84 2 жыл бұрын

8 hours late wth.... there has to be a way to fix this issue lol

@E-BikingAdventures Ай бұрын

I'm in Canada and those bottles and cans are not worth 10 cents each.

@thubprint Ай бұрын

I’m guessing you’re in Quebec? Here’s the video I did a little while back explaining it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5mBhbCfnpvTYKs.htmlsi=LL6_wu66S8CqnjWd Around the 3:00 mark I outline the differences across regions

@E-BikingAdventures Ай бұрын

@@thubprint . No. Im in Ontario. But I will check out your link. Thanks.