Dumpster Diving "I Found The Devil In A Dumpster Tonight"
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- 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!
How many of ya'll scavengers out there hooked on these videos? I know I am, can't get enough, love to watch these day and night. Mike is a character very entertaining, my wife goes around singing his song and I don't think she realizes she doing that, very addictive. Mike the Scavenger is the new You Tube Drug.
😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏
I know, he is entertaining, non- political, a gentleman, and environmentally friendly. Who could ask for anything more!
Got my scavenger fix
I've watched every video he has. Now I have to wait like a dog waiting for dinner for him to post a new one. LOL 😆
I stop what I am doing to get my fix of MTS!!!
Mike the Scavenger, you are a SUPER STAR!! The woman who recognized you was like" Your are my Hero", I watch all your videos to get tips on dumpster diving, and you even told her to go get the dumpster findings in the next one. What a nice man. You are number one.
Favorite moment when girl jumped out to give Mike a hug! Stay humble Mike - you do more for people than you can imagine. 🌸kindness matters🌸
The lady calling you her hero made my day. You are a hero to many and such an amazing person, Mike! Keep doing what you do because we love you!!
The little exhaust stuff does hook up to the exhaust the little endless are for deisel go through so it don't freeze up
Mike that is a oil cooler for diesel engine
Perfect timing to avoid chores. Loving the new second camera angle!!
Hey Mike, adding that second cam angle has got to be the coolest thing ever! I love it when you go all Tasmanian Devil and stuff starts flying over the top, cracks me up every time 😂😂😂
Great call on not taking the disgusting fridge. I didn't open a fridge one time and when I got to the junkyard it opened and they were pissed. hahahahaha
What was in there
Never open the Fridge!!!
Mike The Scavenger is awesome. So energetic with a great positive attitude. Makes it fun and entertaining to watch.
Hey Scrap Man! Your respectful treatment of your Scappity-Fan was super chill. A blessing on you even as you are a blessing for others.
Mike knows his limits, the fridge is not going for a ride!!!
I was giving a refrigerator our local salvage would not take it unless I power washed it out they said it brings in rats
I love the excitement in her voice.
You can`t understand how much you have envoled in three years in your videos, and scrapping thingsm . Do you remember those 3 years ago? But you are fantastic in what you are doing. thank you for that, in Finland we dont have that possibilty , we recycle allready 90% off all our trash.
Those office dividers are often framed with extruded aluminium, worth taking apart if you have the time/space. The backs of the processors are copper, btw. Usually they can be popped off with a knife blade or scraper blade. Your power supply boxes have small transformers in them, easy enough to break open and pop them out.
also most plug prongs are brass
The linear power supply at @4:10 has a BIG classic transformer full of copper wire... and the black heatsink on the back is also aluminum. If that power supply works you could probably sell it for around 30 on e bay... if it doesn't work, you could still make 10-20 bucks selling at as spare parts ... they're quite easy to repair and they're good equipment to have.
Mike's e-waste dude is going to be one happy camper! Happy to see a fellow scrapper out hunting tonight too.
I just learned what an aluminium sheet looked like and now I’ve progressed to hard drives and compact Dix!
We are all learning together. 😂
That lady was amazing “you’re her hero”❤️
You are one in a million Mikethescav, one in a million. ❤️
This may be 2 years ago, but! I’d never seen one of your videos with the camera angles showing you! So funny to watch the dark dumpster with all the scrap flying out of it! You’re such a kind soul and I’m totally addicted to watching these videos! Bravo for you Mike! 👏‼️
I always heard that the devil was in the detail, now i hear that he is in the dumpster as well.
Those spaceship parts are actually EGR coolers for diesel engines
I think you found the stash of an electronics hoarder. Someone tossed "all that junk" after something happened to him, perhaps. I'm happy you will recycle it. I had an uncle (a nuclear physicist) who filled a whole basement with such treasures, though he did build things with it. :)
That Lady Scrapper was so excited! Love that! Such a nice person! Great haul! Congratulations. Oh! WATCH YOUR HEAD! WATCH YOUR HEAD!
LOVE the extra camera. When he stuck his head out of that dumpster to put stuff on the ground he looked like an old school miner! Love it.
That was so cool for her to come up & say hi! I can't afford a truck, but you've inspired me to at least collect wires to bring in & scrap!
Unfortunately she is wasting time ,gas and wear and tear on a vehicle by just collecting wire unless you're finding a lot of it. It's not easy covering your expenses when you take almost all metal, I can't imagine just wire. You might have a chance if you are stripping it and saving the copper for the future when maybe it's worth a lot more
I wish her luck though.
If you are going around collecting wires with a bicycle or a scooter, or something like that, strap on a GoPro and make videos, if you have the gift of being able to talk to yourself and make it interesting for others to watch.
@@patprop74
The gift of being able to talk to yourself 😲
Man this is called craziness in my country but I do it very often anyways 😅
@@E-hab lmaooo yup it's a one way trip to the loonie bin here also, but we like to live life dangerously haha
I used to go around with a shopping trolley all day, every day. I earned good money. I had my different routes and different companies who would save up scrap for me. You’d be surprised how much metal you can fit in a shopping trolley!!
Mike BTW I like your new format of how you teckrd yourself in the dumpster and then switch to another record angle. Keep up all the hard work you do to stop batteries winding up in landfills and other items as well.
Have a good weekend to you and yours.
Mike, that shot with the legs up in the air will make a great dumpster diver tee shirt!!!
Toooo funny!
I just want to say thank you Mike. My husband and I have been dumpster diving for years together. It's just something that we like to do with each other. We also love watching you together. Thank You for all the laughs and new info. Keep it up buddy.
Samantha and Sonny!
You sound like such a cool guy to be around. Do you ever get tired of talking to yourself?? 😂 I never do. 😂
I feel very alone if I'm not talking to myself.
@@wheelitzr2 i talk more to myself then to real people
Great minds are self entertaining!
Hell I talk to all 3 of us ,and even get answers !!
Someone needs to do a drinking game. Everyone Mike says "and such" you take a shot. You'll be messed up within 10 minutes. 🤣🤣🤣
Also "stuff"
Omg that's perfect. Pick someone to take shot when he says ish!! Everyone drinks when he says get cozy!! Empty dumpster means whoever drank last had to let the dog out/ in!!! Sooo fun
I feel like you could likely single handedly end the automotive chip shortage with this haul Mike! LOL
You are a beast, Mike. So funny to watch the scrap go flying out of the dumpster. It’s like the Tasmanian Devil got into the bin. 😂
He had me cracking up doing that.
I couldn't stop laughing at the 'fridge segment...I was a painter for 35 yrs., and painted lotsa eviction apts/houses and learned early..DO NOT OPEN THE FRIDGE!
Even just being in the kitchen, I could still smell it...especially if there was meat in the defrosted freezer.
Yep Never open the Fridge !!!
Bonnie found Mike At the dumpster! Praised by the competition, way to go Mike! 😀👍
From the dotty cam angle it looks like the dumpster is throwing up! Lmao!
Aww that was so cool of a fan to roll up and tell you how much they admire you. 🥺
Sell it all in one lump and make a hundred or so. There’s not a lot of scrap value if you clean it up. And it takes an awful long time, too. Man, ten years ago, I would be foaming at the mouth over that stuff! I would have it scattered, wall to wall, in my house, trying to figure out how to make a spaceship out of it! Such a cool find!
The part you are confused about is a simple shell and tube heat exchanger for what ever it was designed for.
Mike don't trash shred. the converters are metal inside, like brass and copper. bust one open and see. I'm talking about the stuff you are cutting off of the wire and throwing away. Some one was saving Gold plated pins, and heat sinks, both are sellable, Great video.
Absolutely loving the new camera mike
I half expected that lady to jump out of a dumpster screaming mike I just love you, your my freakin hero, woohoo
I think Mike would crap his pants!!( Maybe) he has run into racoons though!!!
@@elainephleps4705 raccoons love Mike the scavenger, that last raccoon hit 7 dumpsters before catching up to Mike, he didn't have a truck either and had to hitch a ride on a trash truck, lol
Why can't I "Like" this 100000000000000000000 times??!! You're awesome Mike! Great video!💪🏾👍🏾 🍺
WOW what a find tonight, tons and tons of electronics, wish i could find stuff like that around here
Love the camera work and commentary, you make me smile Mike
Hahaha the lady recognizing you and getting all stoked about it was really awesome.
Anyone Else Yelling "Nooooo!!" when mike tosses out the Linksys router? There's gold and Copper in them Mike! Also, You left some computer Mice back in the dumpster. they're not worth nothin for scrap, but they might bere-sellable for $1 to $2 each.
He tossed it into his truck
He left mice in many videos
So glad you passed on that horror of a refrigerator!!! When you opened that door i was chanting “ no no no no no!!!!”
Mike is someone's hero!
Hell, bust open those little transformers. Toss the plastic. You get a better price for the innards.
Mike you are sooooo sweet you made that ladys day!Thank you so much
that new Dottie cam gives a whole new perspective of you, Mike, at one point, watching you hurling stuff from the dumpster, i thought, "Oh my...he is looking like a manic bin chicken!" (which is what we, here in Oz, call those black and white Ibis birds, because they are always diving in the garbages for food)
Manic Bin Chicken - my new band name, called it 🤣
@@TheAshesvondust has to be THE manic bin chickens...since as a band you can't just be one!
@@TheAshesvondust gonna play backup to Mikey and the Twatslappers, innit?
Your cracking me up with that stuff flying out of the dumpster. Lol
Wow really when I'm going back from lunch aw man... I gotta be strong 💪🏾
So cool to see your face and of course we all love your videos! Your awesome!😊
Mike, that core i5 box was the cooling fan for the CPU. the older CPUs like 386, 486, Core Duo, and Pentium CPUs usually have more gold in them than the newer CPUs like the i3, i5, i7, i9. that large gold/orange thing was a high wattage resistor. Mike if you find a person who is an electronic tech those bags with parts in will be worth $$ to you because they are new spare parts
Also, Mike, I do not know who told you about the old CPUs being worth less but they do not know what they are talking about. in addition the thickness of gold on the pins is more than what they are now. The reason is when these were made (286, 386, 486, etc) gold cost was only about $20-40/ozt vs $1790/ozt now.
Thks Mike for doing all this scraping and recycling to help the planet.
Makes me feel like someone's father did electronics as a hobby and might have passed away and the family had no clue what to do with it all and just chucked them out. for guys like me, you just found an Aladdin's cavern of cool electronic stuff. As for the pipes, I am guessing that is some sort of heat exchanger of some kind, maybe for making hot water on a boat when the engine is running or something.
my grandfolks lived through the great depression. nothing was wasted. if they understood what you were collecting, they'd probably stand there astonished.
green thing? maybe soylent?
Yes on the heat exchangers.
The pipes look like shotgun condensers, for distilling
I had the same kind of truck load of crap when i had to clean out my husband's computer work corner in the back corner of our house when he passed away a few months ago. I hope the stuff was taken to a scrapper, not a dumpster. Keep up the good work saving our landfills.
I would recommend selling the electronic components as a package. The scrap value is very low but an electronics technician would be happy and also spend money if you can read the names and numbers on the pictures.
I'm the person that would appreciate small components. We would build power supplies using(2) 117 vac lights bulbs in series and measuring the voltage in ac.
We would build the rectifier and build a simple circuit using light bulbs instead of using transformers.
WHOAAA! FUGLEY, MAN! WOW! YOUR ARE A DUMPSTER STAR! YES, THERE IS PLENTY FOR EVERYBODY!
Time changes prevent the carpets and drapes from fading.
LOL
Mike, we follow and know you not only in the USA, but also from Turkey.
Exhaust gas coolers. It takes a fraction of the exhaust gasses, passes it through a chamber filled with engine coolant to get the exhaust gas temps down before the gasses are reintroduced to the engine intake. They're a sore point of failure for a lot of diesel engines, especially the 7.3 and 6.4 Ford Powerstrokes. The coolant passages get blocked, the unit overheats, the tubes inside expand and break at the ends, and that forms a coolant leak into the exhaust. If you ever see a Powerstroke with white exhaust, the EGC is toast.
That other dumpster where the fan found you must have been an electronics hobbyist cleaning shop. Some of those books would fit nicely on my bookshelf.
mosfets
Those procs are all 15+ years old, so, yeah, just ewaste.
Those are called protoboards. Breadboards are more plastic and you can just jam the component leads into them and certain rows or columns are all connected. Protoboards requires soldering and almost none of the pads are connected. Breadboards are for developing electronic circuits, protoboards are for building working prototypes.
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor. MOSFET. Those are not MOSFETs. Those are just anonymous integrated circuits (ICs). Those heatsinks are mostly for transistors. Some of them are definitely CPU coolers. The things that look like tubular heatsinks with leads coming out the ends are most likely high power resistors. The "do not remove" jar looked like it contained a handful of surface mount devices, perhaps transistors. A lot of those warts in the middle of power cables contain transformers. That's a lot of thin copper. That copper clad photo-etch PCB being from London cheese it that that weird power plug was a British standard plug.
WOW!!! You got some smart cookies out there Mike!
@@cheryldarke8540 I'm an Embedded Systems Engineer. I better be smart. In fact, as a ham radio operator, a lot of that RF stuff is very attractive to me. If I were in Mike's neighborhood, I'd have no problem pulling my truck up next to his and haggling for most of that particular dumpster's contents.
Yeah you are the Men! Trashjumper! 😂👍🙋🏻
At the R&D dumpster, every "empty" box you tossed into the dumpster sludge was in reality boxes of new electronic parts, most likely from Digi-Key. Some really great money can be made on eBay by selling the parts just like the parts selling there right now, check out the part numbers @ eBay or Amazon and look into the sold items.
Mike, I find you getting overwhelmed at times that you really need to slow down and get it all, as any one of those "empty" boxes could contain hundreds of dollars in computer chips. A find like that could mean the difference between a few bucks and a pocket overload of real money.
Best of luck to you and DUDE..... SLOW DOWN IN THERE,
Mark
Hundreds of dollars? Please articulate.
I kinda doubt that, Selling on ebay is a slow process even if you can off load it at all and a lot of the time it is not worth the effort unless you don't mind a slow return.
Hey Chris, you would be very surprised how many high school and college aged kids in engineering classes build projects for grades, and not to mention all the so-called "inventors" the world over. Offer your parts at the lowest price as new, and you will sell out of everything very quickly. I know because I've been a seller since '97, and I've sold just about everything that could be sold through that site, including a $419K 4 color printing press that I bought from work for $10.
@@Ghoulstille The thing is, you have a lot of items to sell so that little bits turns into a big bit every single day, and soon are clearing thousands a week. The majority of what I sold was from dumpster diving, just like mike here.... Test things out and if they work or are brand new in the package then put them in an eBay or Amazon pile and the rest is then taken to salvage or sold to guys like the ones Mike knows that buy electronic scrap. The money is there but like everything else, you will have to work for it.
Mike often disregards stuff that he knows nothing about.
Excellent Video Mike, Especially When That Lady Approached and gave you some love 👍
To the scrapper lady: check those hanging file folders, some have metal strips in them. It ain't much but every little bit helps
Loving the second camera. Have to say, I watch most of TH-cam at 2x speed, that second camera is epic at that speed. A complete hoot. Please keep it.
loving the multiple camera angles . Nice upgrade , very refreshing !!!!
I like Mikes "Trash Panda External Vision" camera. Gives us a new look at him doing his business..
Omg that knarly fridge 😜
Is the box that says nothing on it a
Electric fence? Reminds me of one
Thank you, mike. You cheer me with up your enthusiasm. I look forward to your videos.
heat exchangers
with the box of chemicals
I was yelling don't open that refrig!!! Don't open it!!! Omg gross!! Keep on scrapping the scrappy scrap!! Angel from Norfolk VA!!
“Was ist das?”
Mike is improving his German!
Sehr gute! 👍
Achtung - Fertig - Los !!!!
what is this!
Wow! You just gave a whole new meaning to "finding the Mother Lode"!
Free German lesson: Next time you find something incredible try "Scheiss die Wand an!", literally "Shit at the wall!" (imperative) but meaning "damn that's cool, I didn't expect that" or "that's amazing" ^^
This is how I spend my breaks.. Drinking my coffee and watching Mike The Scavenger... WHAT WE GOT HERE Y'ALL....
Thanks for wearing the puncture resistant footwear; now you need Kevlar socks. Second camera adds a new dimension to these videos. Thanks for sharing this insightful video. You need to paint your channel on the side of your truck to build your subscriber numbers.
Stay safe out there Mike. Wishing you and your family a prosperous week. Peace brother
The laptop find & all the electronic stuff was a great find! Even if the laptop was a bit old!
Howdy mike
Hey! Hey!
Another great video. I love that you were so nice to the lady scraper as always a classy guy. ♥ Watch U'r head 🙏🥰🙏
Those are not catalac converters they look like heat exchangers
I agree
Mike you are truly blessed 💞
Here we go again...
When it rains, it pours. But in this situation, the pouring was GREAT. Again, love your new camera. We really get to see you when you are doing your joking around. LOVE IT!
Ov 💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
Thank you for not taking that fridge lol Mike got bum rushed by the comp lol nice lady ✌️
I’m thinking of doing this, and I do live near a computer repair shop that has a dumpster, should I go there and do it?
Go!!
Shark scrapper does computer break down on Wednesdays. Grab the stuff & watch him. I know nothing about computers!! 🤔
Hall of Fame for Dumpster diving. Mike the Scavenger to be the first recipient
I'm glad time doesn't change here
Dude, you're a total trip !!! Love it...
Those paper tag things would work good for tagging your wifes resale furniture or yard sales 😁
Love the new additional camera 🎥 best video’s on TH-cam! Great job
this is the first time I saw Mike face😁
you are so funny... I'm so jealous of that woman.. she sees you in person 🥰 love lots Mike!!!
more goodies to come!!!!!
What a score AND a fan....good night.
Such an uplifting video. You are so excited and thankful for others “trash” ! Fun to watch.
Hey Mike,good to finally see your face.😃
For the last month, i have pretty much watched Mike all day, every day. This video is by far, my favorite. Being able to see the scrap flying out of the dumpster like that was hilarious.
That stuff is better than dirty magazines
Those stainless steel pieces are heat exchangers possibly for a boat. Great video there Mike that was a good hall
Electronics Dumpster Goldmine - Brilliant Finds - lots to go through and to sort ! They take Ribbon Wires as Wires ! A very Successful Dumpster Diving Evening with 1000's of small and large Electronic Spares ! Lucky You ! We love it and many Cheers from us in Australia !!!!
Mike, loving the new angles of the video ❤
Odličan ulov! Pozdrav iz Srbije! Evropa!