i was laid off from work about 2 weeks ago. I had a long career as an AutoCAD craftsman. I recently came across this channel. I honestly think I want to scrap for a living. Mike seems soo free and happy. i also want to have the feeling of freedom and enjoyment with what i do. i am just as excited as he is when he pulls up the the trash cans lol!! I think some one upstairs wanted me to see this! going out today to do my first scarp run. i might never go back to a desk.

@gemmamudd7167

Жыл бұрын

Good luck it is not easy I have been doing it for 30 years

@jeffstewart3342

Жыл бұрын

It is enjoyable. Ive been scrapping for over 20 yrs. Once you learn the metals and how to seperate everything you will not want to do anything else. Good luck Sal happy scrapping

@lonniehill3455

Жыл бұрын

If possible, do what you love.

@paulneron375

Жыл бұрын

When you go to retire, you can't. Self employment doesn't really pay into a retirement program, and you won't make millions to save or invest. I wood however go scraping til you get your next drafting position, but don't do any bragging, there are people that will drag you down. Keep your day job.

@AbachrielPuastologawa

Жыл бұрын

That's look so happy to do scraping job at u're country but not really at my country ...if I watch your video that's so easy and happy...

It is crazy what people throw away. So much new stuff. So much waste that can be recycled. Thank you for keeping it out of the landfill.

The tread off the treadmills makes great work bench matting.

@frankforrest1597

2 жыл бұрын

That's an awesome idea, thanks ✌

@jeffffro7674

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly why I love a channel like this one! There is so little nowadays that is actually trash, if you compost your food scrappity scraps, and recycle all you can, we find that we don't need weekly trash service!!!!! Then you've got the creative aspect of it....a bench topper from the treadmill, that's using the nogan!!! Beautiful suggestion!! Thanks for sharing!

@carolynmott6672

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankforrest1597, you’re welcome ☺️

@carolynmott6672

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffffro7674 you’re welcome ☺️

@jeffffro7674

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolynmott6672 I go to the dumpsters for cabinet shops and furniture places, pull their "trash" and turn it into heirloom custom furniture and other stuff, little jewelry boxes, wooden toys, wood prices are so crazy!! I also made kind of a signature style of table tops when gluing up 35 pieces for them from 6 different types of wood. These days, dumpsters hold all sorts of treasure if you have just a little bit of creativity in you!!!! Another good SECRET!!!! SHHHHH....... I'll go to floral shops and pull tons of flowers!!! My mom worked doing arrangements when I was a kid so I'm pretty good at it too, I make a dozen arrangements and give em to lots of different people and places to bring some cheer to faces! Folks think it's a dirty thing but specialist places like floral shops and furniture places have nothing but that stuff in the dumpster, it's not dirty, it's free!! Less for the dang landfills while we're at it......

That pyramid of motors must have taken you quite a while to stack on your tailgate!! That was the 3rd epic scrapping run from you in a row!!! You're on a winning streak Mike!!! Better buy a few Powerball tickets!!

Wow! You definitely won that game of dumpster Tetris.

@joanmcmorris8791

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly, that he must really be good at Tetris!

I screamed when you opened that red dumpster 🤣😂

@pamn9954

2 жыл бұрын

When he does the cat screaming one too it scares the crap out of me and I jump!!😂.

Full respect to you for hauling all that stuff out of Landfill. I find myself "cheering" when I see you open a box that's FULL of anything you can take. I hope you never have any nasty leg gash accidents. Must be a certain amount of risk when you can get glass and cardboard mixed together.

@ronnierush3028

Жыл бұрын

Yea I'd definitely wear some robust protection on my legs

The things people throw out never cease to amaze me.. Nice haul!

9:41 I don't know why but that scared the living shit outta me. I jumped a mile!! lol

You should make a time lapse video of you going thru and sorting all of your scraps. I love watching the organizing of the chaos of all that mess

You don’t realize how many motors you scored until you stacked them on Dotty’s tail gate. Bravo!

@jeffffro7674

2 жыл бұрын

What should he do with those motors? It's gonna be such a chore to take them apart for the bounty of copper inside of them, I feel like you're gonna loose so much money if you give em to the yard as is, that's a tough choice there huh??? Either way, yeah, SCORE of a night!!!

@gamecockmike175

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffffro7674 I would stick them on ebay. People are always looking for these small motors for different experiments. There's no way I could scrap it. No Way!

@gamecockmike175

2 жыл бұрын

As a matter of fact if I knew what he would sell them for, I would buy quiet a few from him.

@davidgephart7886

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffffro7674 not hard to take apart 4 bolts 4 nuts, cast aluminum on the, it's better off to take them apart like that cut the wire off of them first

@DeeMoback

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamecockmike175 EXACTLY

I like how Mike doesn't bother saying "Don't try this at home" but just goes straight to "Hey, be careful"

Mike be like: Hello are you there 🎶🎵 lol

I can feel it when Mike says "Watch yo head!!!"

@zaptainkuboom5520

2 жыл бұрын

I can feel it when he jumps out of the dumpster, my legs tingle.

@meemou

2 жыл бұрын

I always duck!

Literally every video I'm thinking "Mike grab that!" When I think you're about to miss something and you grab it and for some reason it gives me a mad dopamine rush. Lol Mike you're awesome. Keep up the vids dude.

Two weeks ago if someone would have told me I would be watching videos of a guy going through dumpsters, I would have laughed, but I am absolutely hooked. You have to admire anyone busting their butt to make a living

@schokey3513

2 жыл бұрын

I knew of a young waste mgmt company owner who inherited the company and married. The young wife wasn't really keen on what he owned - she certainly wanted no direct part of it. The guy decided that he would open a thrift store to offer for sale some of the stuff the trucks picked up and he wanted the new wife to run it. When she saw what was coming through the store, she was apparently hooked from that point. She was at the piles straight off the trucks, digging through, looking at what they just hauled in. She had to be warned several times a day by the staff to watch out for the trucks. A front end loader once pushed a sway car out of the way in the yard and she started screaming cause she was inside it and didn't know what was going on.

Scrap gods smile on you, Mike!!! It is amazing to watch you find these loads of scrap.

WATCH YOUR HEAD! WATCH YOUR HEAD! Grand Slam Brutha! WOW! CONGRATULATIONS! 💰💰💰💲💲💲

When you started with all those carts we knew it was going to be a great dd/scrappin' adventure!

It started organized with the motors until... “oops it landed on my box”... then motors everywhere. 😂😂 Scrappy af Mike! 🙌🏻

Oh my them carts look so useful wow 🤩 cool

You've got some really big stuff that's cool ;) & if you don't mind can have some motors for free ;) Haha...

Whenever I throw metal stuff in the dumpster I always make it as visible as possible and hope a scrapper will come along and grab it

@frankcastle4715

2 жыл бұрын

All the hoodlums in my neighborhood love scrap metal but also the pipes in your basement .. they aint picky ...

@tjjordan7074

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankcastle4715 sounds like around my way in Baltimore MD

I thoroughly enjoy your videos Mike! I hope you never stop what you are doing and if you don't hear it from your love ones, us common folk cheer you on every day... I recent left my job to follow my dream to complete my dream desert cabin and find myself just as excited and full of energy when working on it. May the dumpster God's always bless you.

That last dumpster was a heck of a lick! Right on ⚡️

Wow nice score on them carts wish I was there I'd buy them from you those are money makers more than you would get from scraping them. Awesome video thankyou

I used to do that and I loved every minute of it. I'm too old to do it now and I really miss it.

Love watching your side hustle. People think Americans are lazy, but so many of us work anft job and have side businesses. Keep it up Mike, you motivate me!!!

immer wieder nett anzusehen und Mike hat einen Scherz nach dem nächsten, weiter so TOP Yeah

@Apophis1966

2 жыл бұрын

ER MÜSSTE SICH NUR ABGEWÖHNEN SCHEISSE ZU SAGEN^^

Love the videos . Pure addiction ... The dumpster diving ones are the best . look forward to watching everyday . thanks Mike 😁👍

Nothing wrong with those motors, probably just a new manager "cleaning house" and getting rid of some previous guys project. I'd test them then put them on ebay for half the price of any other seller, and triple your scrap price.

@lamiglass1

2 жыл бұрын

Or it was an incorrect item that they couldn’t return

@bouyant8659

2 жыл бұрын

INDEED

@dcocz3908

2 жыл бұрын

I think you could ebay them just fine. They look like engine fan motors like you'd have on the front of your car to cool

@Graff-Art

2 жыл бұрын

They weren't bad before he threw them around. His total disrespect for the items he finds is totally in line with his work....

@DustinRodriguez1_0

2 жыл бұрын

I figured it was probably a place that manufactured the motors and maybe those were ones that failed QA for one reason or another. Would have to test them to know.

I'm sure you bonk your head alot, I love it when you recover with "watch yo head" you are so fun to watch.

*Damn mike youneed Some BODY ARMOR like IRONMAN...Your getting HURT ALOT!!!🙃*

bro will live to have one of them carts blue one lol

@mikemitchell5871

2 жыл бұрын

Bro no carts for u they are all mine lol

Hey Mike , If you ever get a treadmill that's busted but the motor is still good ,it makes an excellent generator . Mount your wind blades on it ,mount on a pole and you can power a couple of outdoor lites.

I do woodworking, the way I like to roll, I go and hit up the dumpsters at cabinet shops and other related places, you would be shocked at how much wood and good, BIG pieces of high quality plywood I can pull from those places!!! The wood is only 3 inches wide, at most, sometimes I get lucky and pull big chunks! I carefully mill and glue it together to make table tops or box sides, bottoms/tops etc, it makes for a really cool look and it also makes for totally FREE materials!!! When you can sell a table for hundreds of dollars after paying nothing but your time to build it, works out rather well!!!! We've become so dang wasteful lately and it's very cool to see that there is a pretty big interest in dumpster diving! Take it back y'all!!! Take it back!!!!! Every little bit counts!!!

The happy sounds of the scavenger!

Thumbnail is cooool! 😂🤣🙋🏻

Awesome haul Mike with those trollers and motors. When will you be blessing us with a scrap yard run? Still love to know how much you got for those safes. The doors themselves probably were a good money earner.

I'm watching this and I'm just amazed by your constant jumping, climbing, heavy lifting. You are in great shape, my man.

Any garage will take those carts off you at the right price!

Drop the carts at the storage unit and keep going brother

@Jimbo_McBacon

2 жыл бұрын

storage place is only accessible til 11 pm.

If I lived closer to you, I would take one of those carts. Those would be awesome for my craft room. Awesome find Mike. 😁😁😁

Good job Mikey love it when you have a night like this one you work so hard you deserve to have good hauls every time .Stay safe

Nice score on the carts, should be some good bucks there. Could use the blue one myself, but I'm just a little bit far away. Nice little run on motors, too.

@joan7823

2 жыл бұрын

Worth selling not scrapping... ✌

@cpandjr

2 жыл бұрын

Can you stomp on a couple of cans and throw them in For Me please 😊

@flyer617

2 жыл бұрын

I sure would like what was in the blue taped drawer on that cart!

@dianna3157

2 жыл бұрын

@@cpandjr I like to believe he is leaving those intentionally for the people that rummage through dumpsters exclusively for cans. Maybe I’m just hoping that’s true anyway. 🙂

Congratulations Mike!! That's one of your best hauls too. I'm putting this out on FB. Those carts are really awesome. Great job!! ❤

@ladislaoortiz8420

2 жыл бұрын

Except the bulbs he is breaking up contain mercury.

It's amazing how much scrap they can fit in an empty dumpster!

I miss the scrapyard videos, would love to know how much this load is worth.

@udavidism

2 жыл бұрын

It's all lightweight sheet metal. So at most he made 20 to 25 dollars, if that. Subtract his fuel and the value/use of the truck and he would have made ten times as much bagging fries at McDonalds and not have to climb into nasty dumpsters.

@lionheart9692

2 жыл бұрын

@@udavidism what about the motors

@jasonflay8818

2 жыл бұрын

@@lionheart9692 my local place redeems motors $1/ lbs I'm guessing each box was 30-35 lbs apiece so I'm thinking about $150 ish? Also he'd make more throwing those carts up on marketplace at $25-$40 a piece, especially that blue one. I'm thinking with the wire all told maybe a $250-$300 night

@BFlynn-tl9pg

2 жыл бұрын

Well if he The strips all the copper himself will have at least 5 or 6 lb at like $200 a pound.

@udavidism

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonflay8818 Scrap dealers take advantage of everyone. He got lucky finding motors on one night that will help pay for his gas and time all those nights he found nothing of value. They pay only pennies per pound for unstriped thin gauge wire. Stripping heavy wire pays more but is very time consuming. Many restaurants have a starting pay of fifteen dollars an hour now. If someone else is throwing it in the trash, it has almost no value.

Morning Mike The Scavenger

Hi Mike, thanks for the show, watching you all the way from South Africa.

Loving the excitement of a good night scrapping!

Greetings Mike. So happy that your family is safe with these storms & hurricanes. GOD BLESS your family always. You will have no problem zelling those cart treasures. Metal, motor's & wires, yippee. Mike have you found sone much metal or wires and you made a second trip the same day. Please let us know. Mike you've got to be CAREFUL out there getting those treasures out. Stay humble and kind. Be safe,healthy &blessed always family

You've been blessed for sure!

Mikey is gonna have to get a bigger truck or a trailer.... Great finds

Hey Mike, Do you have an Amazon wish list? I know we can buy your merch to support you, but it would be fun to be able to send you something as another way to say “thank you!” for all of your hard work on these videos. You bring a lot of enjoyment to many people. The wish list could be gloves, dog biscuits, bandaids 🤪, or tools. Just a suggestion from a fan!

@tjdacatlady1920

2 жыл бұрын

I love this idea! Mike used to have a P.O. Box (I think) but got mad at the USPS and closed it.

@TheNightowl001

2 жыл бұрын

@@tjdacatlady1920 He was a few days late with his payment for it, and they closed his box account. He mentioned it in another video. As far as I know, he hasn't gotten another PO box anywhere yet.

@jimmyhendrix4495

2 жыл бұрын

Send him a dumpster

Never a dull moment with Mike the scavenger

Another successful day. Good to see you out there hitting it hard Mike.

I believe you could gert 20-30 each for those carts and 45 for the blue one

Dude, a most excellent dumpster run. Where I use to work we had similar carts/work centers. Company paid $290 each, without the power strip! Best wishes to you, the wife and doggies. Awooooo y'all! 👊👍✌

Its so exciting when you find tons of tge same things like all those motors. Love seeing that. Thanks Mike.

Wow all those motors, that's awesome 👌 👏 👍

Wow what a great run Mike. I love to see you do good.

Watch your head mike watch your head great video very enjoyable too watch thanks for sharing lance and family

Mike…you have been blessed! Thanks again for the great adventure

KILLER scrap run!!! One of your best for sure!!! Those carts are awesome!! Sell em for sure!!

rock roll" good videos

Hi MTS👋🏻! Yes Mike it was as good for me as it was for you! 😜

Hi I am from Uzbekistan🙋‍♂️

@jotterson1156

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Uzi

@davidbecher7322

2 жыл бұрын

Hi from Germany to uzbekistan

@JJsAdventures777

2 жыл бұрын

Hi bro im from 🇬🇧

@Mike The Scavenger How's your leg? Dooya have a huge scar? I gotta tell you, I was scared for ya when I saw that fall. Blessings to you, your family and your 2 new furballs.

0:11 that blue cart is your go to toolcart. Super handy in a shop or your own garage.

I haven't had a good wiregasm in quite awhile & due. I am used to nights like you had in this video Mike. Ty for taking us along

This is an epic night to remember 🙌

Take those toolboxes from the last video and put em on one of those old printer cabinets and use the flip out for a workbench!! Of course I'm the wierd one that put a old bench top battery charger I had on an old housekeeping cart.. it works great!!

I never had the energy Mike has. I'm glad he does. He is really doing a good thing by recycling all this. I hope he makes bank.

Congrats Mike. Awesome finds. May God continúe to bless you.

I jumped out my chair at that empty dumpster

Can we have a scrap yard run? Would love to see one on this please. This would make an awesome one! Hope you did. Thanks MTS👍

Now that was an epic haul. Good job and congratulations.

I love his enthusiasm and lingo lol

That blue one is worth more than scrap.

@SJ-Equipment

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah those are good carts. I can sell those for $50+ depending on the casters and how solid they are

@derrickforeal

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah id buy im looking for 3 of those atm

@jesterscriptscrapper8349

2 жыл бұрын

@@derrickforeal y

@charlesyoungblood731

2 жыл бұрын

Next video. You should show a cash in. I know you can make bank.

now that is a load ! Nice work Mike !

“Not mota”!!! Hahaha. This was great! Very inspiring.

WOW, JUST WOW! Now that's what I call a stupendous scrap adventure. What a great haul for you Mike. Congratulations on what has to be your most epic adventure to date scrapping. Thanks for sharing with us. We love you and the missus and the girls lots. 😛😛😛💜💜💜 P.S. Give the girls skritches, hugs, kisses and treats (in that order). 😺😸😼😽🐶🐩🐕🐎

What a awesome finds Mike 🙌

Mike,. When you get a dumpster that seems to have allot of wire snipets,. Would a simple nail bag like you can get at Home Depot make it easier. You raise up and down allot and I just hope that does not hurt you in the future. Save that back. Mine is busted to pieces. You don't want that. As always I love your videos. Stay strong 💪 🙌💪

@denisekidder2261

2 жыл бұрын

My back is just as bad and every time he jumps out of a dumpster I cringe when I hear his feet hit the surface. Stay strong, safe and healthy 🙏 🙏

Those carts were heavy duty, awesome find!

If only these motors were in a box! Opens box of motors and then tosses it out the door. Lol! You really crack me up

Feels like a scavenger Christmas!🤗🤩😎😍👌👍👏👏👏💖🌟💣🔥👑🙏😁😉

bro will love to have one of them carts

"Be a good scavenger". Got to love it!

9:43 First time in my life I have a jump scare and laugh hysterically right after

Come on, man. We gotta see the scrap run on that haul.

@SIXPACFISH

2 жыл бұрын

If he tells how much he makes, he can't fudge on his taxes. Don't blame him at all.

Man you hit the jack pot with everything tonight. Way to go dude.

Mike, you are hilarious with all your comments and "working noises". Keep up the dumpster diving. 😃😃

This was a good night. Lots of goodies.... Love the channel. God bless.

Them computer keyboards have plastic mylars in them that are worth a little. The mylar is 2 sheets of plastic with silver in-between. Not much silver, but some. Something to think about when you find a keyboard. Smash it open and keep the plastic mylar. Get a collection going.

Well done good and faithful scavenger, getting all the great stuff. Go on another mission soon as you are the best scavenger here on you tube, yes.

Mike you on top of that open top dumpster that was full. I was dizzy as you were moving around….😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Tonight was just like Christmas....nothing but goodies everywhere!!

Good job