Dumpster Diving "20 Boxes Of Gold!"
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2021
- Howdy, y'all! My name is Mike and I absolutely love scavenging for free stuff, random treasures, lost valuables and other interesting artifacts. I mainly rock the dumpster diving scene but can be found digging through trash curbside as well as scavenging the river bottoms for lost treasures in the summer months. Join me on my epic voyages!
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In a nutshell, I ‘m an avid dumpster diver, scrapper, picker, treasure hunter and underwater connoisseur. I prowl the city streets in search of dumpster loot, curbside treasures & scrap metal as well as scour the river bottoms for lost valuables during the summer months when I can scrounge up enough money for gas. Be sure to stay subscribed to stay up to date with my latest expeditions, y'all! - Розваги
I love it when you score big, you do the work, picking through the grunge, you deserve all you can grab / recycle.👍👍
*Those gold boxes are selling for $50 to $100 on ebay rn. Confirmed via sold comps*
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Mike, check prices on the steel pot rack and lid holder. You'd be surprised. Clean it up and repaint them and you're looking at $100.
Don't strip and repaint it. That antique finish is worth more.
@@donaldcarey114 True. I was thinking of the condition of the finish. If it was scratched up. The antique finish always looks good.
That's a beast of a worker right there. And saving the planet.
creating piles of plastic from breaking down ewaste and stripping wire for what peanuts in scrappables is the norm for all those I know who have made scrap a job. They have to collect for a monthe to make it worth it thesed days due to businesses locking bins up or scrapping materials thenselves cause the owner say videos on UA-cam like this one "Fuck that we can scrap all that left over copper cable ourselves and put that money back into the business to create a buffer from going into the red financially" . This is a trend that is catching on though alongside dumpster security / locking for the sole purpose of keeping scrappers out. Now plastics do tend to always find it's way to a landfill despite if you recycle or not. maybe not you local landfill it may wind up in a 3rd world countrys landfill full of toxins and ewaste. Once you get rid of it you have no idea where it goes, all you have is the recevers word of mouth and they themselves may not know but the reality is we all know where it ends up, in some hole in a landfill or incinerator producing acrid toxic smoke in a poverty stricken part of a city or town.There is a small amount that gets repurposed recycled but only certain types at times that demand it.
So glad - there are (thrifty) people who work HARD; (after hours) to ‘recover’ the re usable materials that are discarded, and thrown into trash bins!? ✅ WORK SAFE guys❣️
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That which is not scrapped or still working will go to salvage reclaimers that restore rent n sell it on a lot goes to prop buyers for tv it’s amazing
This is a great thing! I've picked up some good stuff myself. City governments cover up so many things the disposal service buries in the ground..and even call themselves "environmental services" ..they are criminal to do so. Its people who recycle that are absolutely "environmentally friendly".
I just started watching Mike last week and I'm totally hooked. I love to see him score something good just because it makes him so happy and he deserves it for his hard work. He's saving the planet in his own way and if he makes some money along the way so much the better.
Watching this makes me want to go dumpster diving again ... Love it
Cleanest damn dumpsters I have ever seen...
Yeah, he's not wasting his time on general dumpsters. He's obviously got a "route" where he's hitting specific dumpsters (like he mentioned at a HVAC place, etc). Works.
Probably avoids resteaunt dumpsters
Industrial Park dumpsters usually are. The worst thing you deal with are lunch room/ fridge leftovers. That said I would go near a restaurant dumpster.
Hey, those floodlights you looked at in the 2nd dumpster are each worth ~$40; plus they were a relatively recent model, so they probably still work... electric panel boxes are each worth between $80 & $190 depending on the boxes amp/space/circuit setup... electrical breakers are worth anywhere from $5 to $160 each...also, if those detectors work, smoke detectors are each worth ~$10 for the battery-powered only models, ~$20 for battery backup models, and ~$40 for smoke/carbon models...the Sprint boxes boost data signals to increase up/download speed, accelerate data, and increase connectivity - they're each worth ~$50.
You pass up a lot of valuable stuff and undercut yourself by scrapping items with greater resale values!
And, if you don't want to resale that stuff, donate that type of things to nonprofit habit groups, who can either use it or resale it themselves...plus, you'd still get a tax deduction from the donation!
The Sprint Magic Box Gold unit is placed on the windowsill to receive the signal from outdoors and boost it indoors.
They're also now useless after the t-mobile merger. I just took mine in.
I love that he cleans up when he makes a mess or if they is rando trash outside the dumpster!
Definitely saw the 4th hook. Go back to 10:07 you will see it in a quick flash under the plastic!
Yeah you r right
Dude, didn’t have “dumpster juice” all over it!!???
You got very good eyes, girl! And you were counting the time! Waw!
Those long pieces I think a louvers for a building vent that are controlled by a motor and work like horizontal window blinds
Robert, that is exactly what they are.
"This is property of sprint " ...I was thinking nah bro that's your property now
“....Yup they or whomever threw it in the dumpster.
Sprint: please return our property?!
Finder: ok let me call OSHA & find out is there a reward for these electronics found in a dumpster en rte too the landfill...how long will it take these too decompose?????
Sprint: that’s ok, that’s not our property!!!!
Finder: I thought not!!!
G-Mommy
You impress the crap outa me, you are clean up whatever mess you may make or even if you didn't make it you still clean it up.. rock on brother..
You gotta give him credit for his ambition.
Awesome how he enjoys the little victories
Your saving the planet!Keep up the good work, brother!
I'm a retired Glazier...the u shaped blue plastic pieces are shims to hold glass in position and the black roll of rubber...is VYNAL FOR PUSHING IN TO FINISH THE SEAL ON GLASS IN METAL(ANODIZED ALUMINUM STORE FRONT...OR HIGH RISE GLAZING)
Love reading comments from all the back seat dumpster divers! Most don't have a clue, keep on hustling hustler!!
“....For me I think he’s doing us and the EARTH a very wonderful favor, as well as getting his grind on”!!! “....Whomever threw out the ELECTRONICS should be heavily fined. If anyone caught him I don’t understand why they’d have anything too say, mist of that stuff just gone sit in a landfill waiting (100,00) years too decompose, the EARTH doesn’t need that poison ☠️ “!!! G-Mommie
Magic box going for 50 bucks each. Great find.
Go back in for the fourth one, it's in there!
Yep
This planet needs many millions of thrifty people like you. Excellent environmental care, and even profitable! There’s so good stuff much talked about saving the planet, but it’s despairing to see householders and businesses alike discarding valuable material resources. Why isn’t the message getting through? Everyone needs to seperate trash into different material piles, Some folks do, many don’t. Extracting metals already affected the environment to process them the first time. Keep it up Mike and every like minded recycler person.
I see dumpster juice thats why it smells nasty. I love dumpster diving you just never know what your going to find. Mike is so fun to watch
The 4th hook was there a glimpse @10:11
I love that you posted this cause I did this many years of my life! God Bless you!💖💖💖💜💜💜💜
I wish I could find one of those "pot hangers" I've been wanting one for the kitchen
Where you live ?
Yup, just knock the dumpster juice off of it
You could use those blades for your spaceship
Best comment 🥰😘😍🤣
Why am I so fascinated over someone jumping into a trash bin while getting dirty rummaging thru crap and finding a buck or 2 worth of scrap?!
good question .......but it is, isn't it?!
I used to go dumpster diving and I'm going to be honest it's fun I will go with my nephew and we would have a blast sometimes you find really good stuff behind like Marshalls or Ross's or Walmarts
@@austinstone8552 It great as long as it gets actually sold. Otherwise it’s just a horde. I know this guy is selling.
Haven't you seen the latest post on how much he makes a month? Between $15,000 and $17, 000. a MONTH? Don't you think that is worth some dumpster juice?!
Fan blades probably from a company call 'Big Ass Fan' for warehouse air circulation.
Exactly
“...🤣😂”!!! G-Mommie
The blades for a brand of fan called "Big Ass Fan" used in Pavillion venues
My work has one for the part of the building that doesn’t have air conditioning.
The small part of the pot hanger screws to the ceiling and then the 4 hooks hold the larger bit to hang the pots on. I hope this helps.
You work really hard saving the planet❤️
I returned a library book I found in a clean trash pile house clean out. 🙄😁 I got a thank you .
Here's your medal 🏅😐
But how did you feel in your soul after returning it. That's what counts!
I admire a man who hustles!
I admire a woman that hustles also 🤛
@@BoxImpala313 I have a female friend that used to be a hustler. She’s to old to walk the walk but the talk still comes out of her! Lol
Those gold boxes have little bits of gold and silver in the boards. I used to break down all sorts of discarded materials for the metal.
Ah yes the dreaded tomato cage, Cousin of the "Foul "Chicken Wire.
10:10 is the 4th hook. Bottom center of the screen.
Yep
@@kaceycarter2972 i saw it too!!
Right by his right heel!!!
Dumpster eagle eye.
good eye! totally missed it
With my luck I would be rummaging around in a dumpster and a torso would tumble out of a bag right as the police were pulling up to see what I was doing. Then come to find out that the chainsaw I found in a previous dumpster was used to dismember after the hammer I happily plucked was used as the murder weapon. "You got the wrong guy officer. I'm the dude."
That one dumpster with the shelves had to be a days pay. Great find
That’s some big money right there Mike the scavenger keep up the good work
I can't believe the amount of cardboard that gets thrown into the dumpsters
Company I work for sends 20 full trailers/containers a day for recycling, and that's after it's been shredded and compressed into bales.
In the UK the majority of waste companies actually take their loads back to their yards and use a mixture of automated and manual sorting to separate the waste into landfill and saleable products.
I work at a top chocolate factory. We go through Soooo much cardboard in a 24 day. 3500-4500 pounds of cardboard go to recycling. Everyday.
In Russia,and especially in Moscow, all cardboard and metal are collected by wipes and sold their dealers.
“....Isn’t it surprisingly a crying shame, goes too the landfill and waits too decompose (100,00) years and will probably still be there instead of recycling in the first place”!!!! “....Whomever threw the ELECTRONICS in the dumpster needs too be heavily fine, they aren’t supposed too end up at the landfill”!!! “....He has done a favor too the EARTH, to people and hot hid grind on, he should be commended for that alone, anyone trying too penalize him in my book is outta order”!!!! “....Sprint want there property back, why it was trash when he found it, rescued it from the EARTH being poisoned anymore, recycling and making a buck....good job of that human”!!! G-Mommie
What I love about this program is the stuff he finds his way cool some of it just like wow that people throw that away Heck if I didn't have way too many surgeries done on me I'd probably be out there digging in it too why not thank you for taking me on your journey Mike you rock 😁
Mike at 10:07 on your vid it looked like the pot hanger hook was right at your feet in that dumpster.
I wish everyone a great 2021!
Thank You Very Much - from Germany - a great 2021 for you too - from Michaela
Thank you and you too!
I WORK WITH YOU ANY DAY I WOULD LAUGH ALL DAY YOUR SO FUNNY THANKS FOR SHARING REAL LIFE GOD BLESS YA
Salvage is a good thing rock on.
I have one of those sprint boxes, they all come with a pretty nice 4000mah power bank
You work SOoooooo hard, I really admire you!!
I looked them up and 4LTE cell signal extenders. Probably obsolete because Sprint got bought by T-Mobile. I would strip the gold connections and processors and melt down.
Those look like those fancy things that hangs over a island in the kitchen where you hang your pots and pans and stuff
I've had several of the magic boxes. Sprint uses a high frequency and it is illegal to boost because the frequency is very close to the emergency band if you boost and interfere with the emergency band you'll get a knock on your door and a free ride to jail and a huge fine. The magic box is a booster but also a repeater it will cover a neighborhood. I bet you there is some gold in it.
Gold boxes are LTE signal boosters
The "fan blades" are parts from an industrial louvered fan vent.
“.....OOOOO, yeah the sight of it just flashed into my head, thank you”!!! G-Mommie
I would never get any dumpster diving done. I would be busy breaking down boxes and moving them to the recycle bin.
You'd be good in a team, then. 2 or 3 person elite scrapping squad, can take down any dumpster in under a minute ( :
You are right we throw away lots of things that recycle, which fuels dumpster divers live Mike the Scavenger! He is essentially a conservationist.
@@cloudstrifeification Whenever anyone questions what I'm doing, I just tell them I'm a recycler. Works every time.
It all ends up in the same hole in ground I’ve seen it
Lol I do the same thing.
I think on the pot hanger, that the small one hangs from the ceiling and the bigger one hangs from the small one by those rods. Probably why it was tossed , someone lost the 4th rod.
4th hanger @10:10 bottom center screen!
@@_Gundy_ I saw it too I was like it’s RIGHT THERE like he can hear me 😂😂😂😂
Yep those Sprint boxes still bring good money on EBay!!
32:10 That’s an actual brand of fan. “Big Ass Fans”
I’m thrilled the metal sent going to the land fills or ocean
It'd be rewarding at the end of each video if you let us know how much it all fetched at the scrapyard - then you'd have more subscribers - betcha..!
As well as a lot more competition, not so good.
@@MisterAMuck ...when one takes in the number of dumpster bins in this world compared to the number of ardent willful optimists - so don't think like y'muthuh...
@@jonathanmallard3965 All it takes is 1 guy to ruin this guys day, and he's got thousands of viewers. World? He only dives in Commercial dumpsters in the U.S. which narrows it down much more. What did he say about going back for those shelf legs? "They may be gone" because of, the "competition".
If he does that, then the tax man comes knocking
@@SJ-Equipment The scrap and pallet man does every time - he must be an honest pillager...
I was wanting to buy those wooden handles you had a few vids back!! I will pay for shipping!
You are correct there, the most un- recycling place I ever saw. No wonder our planet is in danger. Glad you are getting the metal out.
“.....The sad things about it, is that the people in authority are the ones telling us too recycle ♻️ but, BIGG BUSINESS & AUTHORITY don’t practice what they preach, example those “SPRINT GOLD BOXES”, had no business in the dumpster en rte too landfill, whomever threw them in the dumpster should be heavily FINED”!!! G-Mommie
You need to mark your territory to keep those other scrappers out. lol
One man gathers what another man spills
He sounds like me when I come across a decent find
In this struggle 10 cans in one spot a come up
Very very nice load. I bet you smelled like an outhouse. I’ve already told you that you need to keep a pair of rain boots in Dottie for the really wet dumpsters or even all of them. Lol
Stay safe and God Bless
Waders
Those aluminum fan blades look like window shades. We install them on the outside of buildings.
Signal boosters for customers like me who were not receiving signals inside of their solid concrete block construction homes.
Or a mobile home like mine
That's s good thing. Until the signal comes in...then its trapped. Well I dont know how it works so.
@@landofevolution9757 It just boosts your signal a little. I have cell towers pretty close by but I live in a 40 yr old mobile home and for some reason our cell phone signal is poor at best. So I think it helps a little.
Man, I would like to have those shelving units for my shed...
Sprint Magic Box is a wireless small cell that can improve LTE data coverage within buildings and even within a certain range outside.
I looked at completed sales on eBay and “new open box” sold for $104. The average was around $60. Not a bad find to flip! ☮️
I love watching you. You're in my top three have to watch when new ones come out
I love dumpster diving. Find all kinds of goodies
There's a couple of things you can do with the Sprint gold. You said some were selling for $100 on eBay, so sell them on eBay for about $30 to $40/pc. Or just sell them to your electronics guy.
I used to work for sprint those magic boxes were free to customers and they would help boost signals. But sprint no longer exists so scrap them
They do exist, I'm still a sprint/T-mobile customer and I just called them yesterday to make sure my magic box was working properly. They still go by sprint.
Yeah that can’t be true because the last one to sell on eBay was 1/4/21. For $104! People are still buying them.
I work for Sprint in the business department for years. These are in building Network extenders it allows you to get network inside of building that usually you cannot get Sprint network.yes they still are going to work temporarily but Sprint is going to merge into T-Mobile and go to GSM these devices are made for CDMA. So once that happens these boxes will be no good.
Sprint merged with T-Mobile. Sprint's service is very poor where I live upstate NY. When I lived outside Manhattan service was good. Radio Shack sold Sprint and happy to report that Radio Shack is still alive and one of them is 14 miles from my home here in NY.
@@robertschwartzman195 I miss the OLD Radio Shacks, which sold all sorts of repair goodies; but, that was before the "disposable everything" era... :( By the time we lost our closest one (about 25 miles away,) about all they were was a cell phone outlet...
The magic box gold are a wifi booster.
50 to 75 bucks each used.
You really need to find out the retail used value of stuff before scrapping it.
Whats scrap steel worth 5 bucks a ton.
Like somone else said the meter panel can cost 100 to 250 used.
If you sold the power meter box for 50 bucks thats a 1000% more then its value in scrap steel. Know what you've got do your online searches. Find out it use and value.
The large boxes are a large ceiling fan in bigger warehouses, they turn slowly and moths air
The small pot rack is a lid holder.
Those two links should tell you about all you need to know about the magic box gold.
You should have taken the entire wooden spool! I've seen them go for $50. Crafters LOVE them!!!
Back in the early 70's we used them for coffee tables.
My first thought about the blades that they were helicopter blades LOL
You could turn that pot hanger over (fancy scrolled part as legs) put a glass top on it to make a coffee table. Good for you scrapping so it doesn't go in a landfill. Nice.
So I became homeless the first week of april in 2020. The first 3 or 4 weeks into covid when things shut down. Talk about timing right. Anyway, I knew nothing about diving. In my second night out with this guy, I couldn't believe what h had found and graciously have half of to me. I was more concerned with looking for change I. Drive-thrus and parking lots tbh but he puts an envelope with 17 $20 starbucks gift cards in it. All of them active and never used. Like someone put them there. The best buy dumpster had a brand new, still taped shut and everything, sound bar in it. That was $120 online new I believe. But then, at the very end almost and again like it was left specifically for him, we find a manila envelope with two hundred bills in it. Nothing else and nothing on the dumpster to explain why. It was an office buildings dumpster so the envelope wasn't unusual but still. I have thought about that night quite a lot and I've come to the conclusion that somebody had to have been watching him for a few weeks or something because something like that just, idk, slim chance of a coincidence. The man was also very clean and respectful. So was I. In everything I did out there. As much as I could be anyway. There are those who choose the life and stay out there but then you have quite a lot of people forced into it like I was. Once out there, these activities become your only means of survival. Especially during the cold season when moods change and windows roll up. Harvest a crop and rotate fields to make the next crop healthy and respect what the earth gave you, hunt a deer and you skin it with respect and thankfulness for it's sacrifice, and jump in a dumpster to find value in things others would throw away and always make it look better then before you got there out of respect. not just for yourself but for your other fellow homeless as well. And it's common sense just to not crap what you eat. Take care all
City inspectors can give hefty fines to Companies and Corporations for putting electronics and metals in the Municipal Waste. Human error at work happens all the time. Somebody should Thank that Man every day.
Those metal frames are for holding pots and pans and smaller one is for lids. Magic box is for boosting Lte signals. Its free unless you don't plug it in or return it. They charge $140.00. Carrolton, Texas has Epic fan factory that makes those fan blades and helicopter blades.
Holy Toledo, Mike! Nice haul!! Peace....❤💙❤
Did you forget the ceiling fan at the front of the open top?
Kicking dumpster okoli & taking names! Watch your head! Watch your head! Gotta be strong!
really nice tie down strap you left
Sprint box speeds up your internet 200% faster
They should make some gloves with small Neodymium magnets on the finger tips, so you can pick up the small Ferrous scrap that falls on the ground
That would also make sorting ferrous and non-ferrous a snap!
you'd have to figure out how to pull the ferrous stuff off the magnets so you may as well use gloves without magnets. lol.
@@pkneeyahx put the magnet inside the glove, collect the scrap, and remove the magnet, scrap will fall off. steel is so cheep tho.
They do make the gloves you can buy them at Home Depot they're called grip gloves are about $33 a pair got magnets in the fingers.
@@jeffdoran8126 thanks for the heads up, I may pick me up a pair
Please buy a safety shoe!🤭😊
Buy? He will find it)))
- I think a pair would work better.
Your a savage my man. I admire your hustle.
Those blades are just blank extrusions for building ventilation equipment. They cut them down to the size needed, but its easier to ship long blanks like that.
You cut the most expensive thing with the straps lol. I’d never cut what they provided me to tie something down with either.
I am pretty sure those blades were from a warehouse or something similar. They are louvers that belong to the ventilation in the warehouse. There was probably an aluminum frame that they fit in that could be adjusted for airflow in the warehouse. Worked in a big warehouse back in the day, and we had several of those in the second floor of the warehouse. No matter how good your AC was, you need those vents to keep the air moving.
Best answer so far on what those aluminum things are. Aluminum doesn't have the strength to be a fan blade.
@@robertm4050 those actually are fan blades for LARGE warehouse fans.
Mike please( always cut away from the sausage) I flinched a lot, keep safe from England
Been watching a lil What the Hales? 😂
Hey guy whenever you find a paper shredder ALWAYS get the garbage can that goes with it, a lot of times they work and you can sell them on the local yard sale site on Facebook.Them shredders fit on the garbage can perfect. That wroght iron stuff sells good too folks go crazy for that stuff, you make more selling it then scrapping it!
The diving in interesting, however it's the running commentary that has me returning.
Keep up the good work!👍👍
One of those Gold boxes just sold on ebay yesterday for $65 free shipping.
Yup yup good dive on that aluminum can't wait to see what that brings😎🤟
Right on Mike! We need more people recycling but where I live the cops see you recycling ( Dumpster Diving) they throw your ass in jail. Bummer!
“....That’s f. D all the way ⬆️, it’s a good job that others aren’t doing but, want everyone else too do it....SMGDH”!!! G-Mommie