Dumpster Diving & Curbsiding "It'll Ruin Ya'!”
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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!
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A broken spring on the curb marks clearly the start of springbreak...
@ppiechnik
Жыл бұрын
Now THAT...was hilarious!!!
@robinscarborough6969
Жыл бұрын
Clever isn't he
@franksworld9922
Жыл бұрын
Ha! I see what you did there!😂
@karbear26
Жыл бұрын
Haha!
@maureenbell8355
Жыл бұрын
You rock dude 😎
The rope you found in the chain dumpster is a dynamic pull strap depending on the length that’s worth over $1000 go back and get it
The most entertaining person on YT! It's not the diving. It's the personality.
@jenniferaltizer4434
Жыл бұрын
Yes he is!!! He is the type of person you would like to be friends with!!
@ericredbeard7009
Жыл бұрын
I agree
@beccamac3520
Жыл бұрын
There is a magnet fisherman called The Fisher who has a similar vibe..very upbeat & goofy with lots of energy. They would make a hilarious duo.
@aarongrabowski3775
Жыл бұрын
He is very charismatic, and funny.
Mike, i choose you over anyone on youtube! My #1 favorite youtube channel!
@aarongrabowski3775
Жыл бұрын
I will second that!!!
@MikeTheScavenger
Жыл бұрын
Thank you much! I really needed that. Been questioning/doubting myself lately.
@irenereeves5037
Жыл бұрын
@@MikeTheScavengerNever doubt yourself. You have one of the most enjoyable channels to watch.
@nachodamiani5457
Жыл бұрын
@@MikeTheScavenger nah cmon, for real? Bro, Im watching you all the way from Argentina, think about that, and I watch every single one of your videos. Keep on doing what you do my man!!!
@kimberly1273
Жыл бұрын
@@MikeTheScavenger well, we are here to tell you that we love you, your videos, your enthusiasm and all that you do! So, stop doubting yourself!
The green dolly is used to store/empty out 55 gallon drums of whatever type liquids.
Combo ride along are the best...thank you..❤😊
Holy crap on the mower! The battery alone is almost worth the complete mower setup Believe me, I had to buy a replacement battery
Woo Hoo 🤩another great curbside scavenge and dive😘
Keep that chain!!! That stuff goes for way more than metal weight
Yay! Mike is here today!
This is the most eclectic collection of recyclables you have collected. ♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️♻️
Peacocks are famous for roaming. They can go for miles!
Hey Mike! I live in a 55+ community, I'm a picker from way back! Great scrapping! But beware of valuable antiques in the gise of scrap! WTF A PEACOCK😮😂 Stay safe and healthy ❤
@pr9177
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking that as well. That brass chandelier might be worth a lot.
Great to see a Mikey video. I’m a ham radio operator have been for 20 plus years
I believe that rope you found is parachute rip cord. That's worth a lot of money and it's good stuff. You can use it as is or you can leave it together and make it ten times as strong as it is.
The green dolly allows you to take a barrel from the standing position and using the dolly as a cart, place the barrel in a horizontal position allowing the tapping/ draining. I like the big blue totes. I hope the mower is good for you.
Spending another enjoyable day with Mike the scavenger look forward to your next 1
Great time watching you find all sorts of spaceship stuff. Be careful on the lifting. God bless
Good to see you back I know the rain kind of slowed you down
I bet that old vacuum still works. My grandma had the same JC Penney vacuum for my whole life up to 25. I have had a dozen or two in the next 25.
Hey Mike. Great job. Please take care and stay safe. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎
Great stuff!!
Some awesome finds today! That May is going to be a game changer for sure. Sure does beat standing on concrete while working in the garage. Thanks for taking us along and stay safe out there!
That big ole piece of rubber looks like one of the diaphragms we used, to make flat belts at a Goodyear belt factory!
Great haul! Thanks for joining me on lunch break. Cheers from Wisconsin.
Mike Mike Mike!!! Thanks for taking us along!!! I appreciate you so much!!! Stay safe stay great and keep up the good work and stay weird!!!!!
Hi Mike,hugs from Portugal!
That white rope material looks like some good hammock making material to me :)
Glad your doing better.... Love all your video's! Keep up the awesome work , we all love ya !!!!
HAPPY DIVEING WAY GOOOO BROTHER !!
Keep doing what you do brother, I'm a scrapper from upstate New york and I'm subscribed to a lot of scrap video creators and the vids I look forward to the most are yours. There is nobody ive found on here that has the energy, drive, and comedy that you do. Now when I watch your vids I hit that like button before the video barely starts because you've never made a video I didn't like
@petergreenwald9639
Жыл бұрын
Hey. Upstate eh. Moved away from Delaware Co. in 79. Miss the Cat's but don't miss the taxes! Hope you are doing well. MN now.
I put some galvanized fencing material on the curb for my in-laws yesterday before bulk pick up in our town, hoping a scavenger would come by. It’s already gone. 😊
Very good finds, we rarely find such finds in Kazakhstan👍🙂✅️
My FAV channel!! Take care a you!😊
Hi Mike You can make a nice table with that chain 🙂. Charl from South Africa 🇿🇦
Thanks for the adventure! Still not sure how I ended up in this part of youtube, but happy I did!
My favourite episodes are your neighborhood clean ups. Lots of stop and go for you and Dottie-appreciate the effort.
Hey Mike, take a look at the sweeper. If it is a rainbow sweeper you can part it out and get a good money for it.
Another good haul. Missing the "screams" for the ceiling fan blades!
@beckyjones2240
Жыл бұрын
Me as well like the sound effects
@judithjanes5738
Жыл бұрын
You should have seen the recent one when it sounded like a massacre...
Mike the scavenger ❤
Thanks for the ride Mike
I can imagine a crafty person crocheting that rope into something as long as its not fiberglass.
Waited a long time for this adventure!!!!Thanks Mikey!!!Awsome finds!!!
@MikeTheScavenger
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
I have never had so much fun watching someone do what you're doing on KZread, you are truly entertaining. 🤣😂😅🥰
Sooooo happy to hear that voice again!!! I love, love, LOVE at the end when you yell at the top of your lungs "Well,alrighty scavengers!!!! You're definitely numero UNO !!!🥰🥰🥰
That hand truck-looking item is a 55-gallon drum transporter and side storage.
Lots of treasures on this run Mike. 🙏👍
The bed parts you found by the side of the road were from a sleep number bed. Even used single pieces can have nice resale value. The pump, remote, power cord, the plastic frame, etc. Even used sheets, a new set can cost hundreds. Looks like that was a black base P5 model, not the top line but still could cost several thousand $ new
I've been watching your channel from the beginning and I have to agree with everyone else, your channel is #1 always funny and entertaining. I always hit the thumbs up before I even watch the video.
Now I can officially start my week. Thanks Mike for giving me strength and ambition to move forward today. The green cart is for barrels.
@MikeTheScavenger
Жыл бұрын
You got this!
@garyarmstrong7007
Жыл бұрын
@@MikeTheScavenger keep up the good video
Hi Mike that cb does 10M,11M & 12M. They have a good resale value. That large fan might work well. Enjoy.
Thanks Mike! Thank you for the energy, the positivity and the kindness. Not sure if you feel it, but your helping people. "Gotta keep'em separated" = the guy from The Offspring though of that song while doing medical science stuff and having to keep substances separated in the lab :) You were close with metal and plastic :)
@angiriberdy5094
Жыл бұрын
The singer is Dexter Holland and he has a PhD in molecular biology.
You have the best route. Always a good time with Mike. Thanks for taking us along.
Hey Mike- the green dolly or something looks like it could be an electrical contractors wire cart. Tough to tell from my view but certainly possible
That silky rope stuff would make beautiful throw rugs if you knew a weaver
Mike good haul!!! Love your videos 🙂👍🙂💕
Great scrap day Mike.😊❤
good afternoon ...another fun ride with you lol
Awesome score. I like that barrelcart that could come in handy
The peacock alerts people when someone is around it's house. One of the best animals for that,better hearing than about anything.
@laulio7823
Жыл бұрын
When I was 18? I worked in a Birds Only Pet Store in Manhattan NYC. Went into the basement to get food - Boss Lady didn’t warn anyone a male & female peacock were rescued from a tiny apartment during the night & Bronx Zoo was coming to pick them up. Either way, I was the first to get jumped by the Male 😡 I was 🤬
@toxicgracie3772
Жыл бұрын
@@laulio7823😭😂😂😂
Dude I dumpster dive bc of your videos! I look for stuff to resell mainly though. As soon as I get a truck I'll be scraping too tho.
Very cool stuff in those dumpsters!!
Keeping America beautiful, one dumpster at a time!
Love the curbside pickin . The White string looks like fiberglass strand but not positive. And the green cart was a drum cart . You do great work with cleaning up your neighborhood and making money doing. Maybe that little Ryobi will be enough for your new yard . Be safe and have fun
Hi Mike and Laura. Peacocks are beautiful and graceful. I want to wish you all the best for the coming holidays. Good friday and Easter and Passover holy days. I wish you and your family a safe and Happy holidays. Not long ago we used vacuums like that at the casino. Just because its an old style doesn't mean they don't use them still. Old school are still highly used. I wish I knew how to upload pictures to you but will figure it out.
It was a beautiful day Mike. I like happy dogs.
I found a working great UNIDEN C.B. Radio Receiver only,one time in the 1990's and I used to listen to crazy funny conversations and police conversations and man what a BLAST!!
. Love all your video's! Keep up the awesome work , we all love you
Some awsome finds Mike
Thank you for recycling, clearly the neighbors don't mind! ❤
The dumpsters were very giving today!!
Lovely Peacock - wow ! Good Street Scrap - love that Electric Lawn Mower and it Works ! Huge Horse Mat for Your Garage/Workshop - what a Brilliant Find ! Cheers from Australia !!!!
Cómo estás Mike? Acá entretenida con tu contenido. Te sigo desde La Rioja, Argentina!!
@CreatureOTNight
Жыл бұрын
Hello from Great Britain, you the ones back in 82..
@henryrollins9177
Жыл бұрын
@@CreatureOTNight no, that was the military junta that committed genocide on our people and also send our kids to die in the islands. Nothing to do with us argentinians...
Glad to see you mended and out and about, your videos come out just in time for tea time in England, keep up entertaining all your fans, you have such a British sense of humour and give your babies a hug from me
Hey Mike, that soft rope is for macrame. Your wife could make you a hammock for the backyard. Love your channel and videos. Take care and be safe.
@perstaffanlundgren
Жыл бұрын
The polyester strands could be used for something like that, yes ! a shame they will be on the land fill instead. That material is very strong...
A lot of cool stuff !!😊😊😊😊
That rope seems to be something a crafter would love. Yard sale stuff!
Awesome I get to watch a new video of Mike the scavenger I love watching your videos keep them coming because with me be on medical leave I have something to watch , be careful out there buddy.
@dianewilliams1125
Жыл бұрын
Hey Mark! Get well soon 😊
Good find like that matt and the chain nice haul mikey
Got me through a bad day thanks mike
Mike just want you to know you're the best scrapper on here keep up the good work and say safe
When I was little, our neighbor 'round the corner had peacocks that were always getting out of the fence. One was in our front yard, and my older brother dared me to chase it away. Well, those things can get aggressive. He turned, spread his feathers, and chased me back to the house! I was like 7.
I liked those bins. So versatile.
The green thing is a barrel tipper. You put a full barrel of whatever liquid, like oil, on it's side on the frame with the barrel bung hole on the botton facing the curved end. Then when you want to pour out the material, you rock it over on the curved part. Very handy.
WOW, Mike.. you’ll be at 500K subscribers before Summer! Heavens to Murgatroyd, nobody on this platform works any harder for their daily bread 🇺🇸❣️ ….or more positive and hilarious. 💯
@sheeplebeware9511
Жыл бұрын
I run into your comments in the oddest places. Not much of what I used to watch is still here on YT.
5:01 my brother had peacocks in his neighborhood in San Antonio. Beautiful.
Nieghbor about half a mile away had 2 peacocks many years ago. I could hear then very easily. you are the wirest finding dude I have ever seen.
I was beginning to wonder if you had a relapse. Glad to see you!!!!
@fringeminority150
Жыл бұрын
relapse?
Dang, Mike! Shame on you for scaring that rope and making it all 'fraid lol. Glad to have you back out on the street.
Thanks to you for cleaning up one neighborhood at a time.
Good finds
Good show, love them Mike. Nice load, you have an awesome day catch you later.😎👊🏻
It is so wonderful to have you back Mike. You are just a breath of fresh air. 😊😊😊.
Always makes me laugh watching you hunt . Keep up the hard work mike
❤😂Dude! Your voice lives rent free in my head 🤯🤩
Grabbed a crusty old Weber grill yesterday. Had a really good amount of stainless and brass components.
Love watching/listening to your videos.
Man that Ryobi lawnmower is the perfect size for my tiny little yard - I didn't know they made them so small
@lukelegg9915
Жыл бұрын
I have one of those electric Ryobi lawnmowers, they're junk
Regarding that silky rope, I knit and crochet and I would have taken that rope and used it to make a blanket or a rug for the bathroom floor, you'd be amazed what can be done with synthetic fibers, if it's within a certain size range.
great curbside , love it love it