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I don't understand this guy
yoshmyster
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Somehow I ended up watching this dumpster diving scrapper who reminds me of "Joe Dirt" constantly yapping. So he gets all jazzed when he finds aluminum bits but he passes on aluminum cans. Aluminum is aluminum, right when you take it to the scrap yard. He'll also dig deep to get a few inches of wire. That can't add up to much for the effort.
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Not sure about this guy, but there is definitely opportunity out there if you’re willing to do the “diving.” I saw an interview with a guy that did it on the side. Said he didn’t do any “digging” unless he could see from first glance that there was valuable items. Said he put his four kids through college from his dumpster diving profits alone.
JMHO I think big city area with lot of retail stores industrial areas shopping mall areas
I have seen a few on you tube that find some amazing items and follow a route to their normal spots same with the trash day followers
Where we live the small towns close by I have noticed most are locked or behind fenced areas and I would wager all trash any way
Never looked just short cut behind the stores to avoid traffic
Years ago a coworker in Dayton oh
Had accumulated a real nice tool collection at the Time he had worked for sears on a previous job all the returned tools went into their dumpster
End of day he would pull them all out go down the road to another sears and exchange them but that was 40 yrs ago
Where I use to work early on some fellow had worked a deal out with the plant and stopped a few times a week to pick up all the pop cans
he had made a huge wood framed chicken wire trailer and did well the company had about 12 hundred people working there and he had a lot more places saving them I think he split the money but I never knew for sure
Some yrs later waste management took over all the recycling and trash putting his cash cow out of busness at least at out plant
My son's friend has one of those, hall your stuff away businesses. Cleans out houses for Rel-estate agents / renovators.
hey pay him to haul it off.
He comes up with some neat stuff. New stuff still in Boxes (hoarders). He cleans it up and sell on that other site.
One time a Bunch of Gun stuff, Grips, Parts, old Catalogs. I got the call on that stuff. Split what I sold it for 1/2 with him.
I know a guy that grew up poor,went to work and retired from Ford,sold his home in Michigan and moved to this area in a $400,000 home. In a few years his home was worth 2 million dollars.His favorite activity was dumpster diving.I always admired a guy that drove an old Honda,lived in a 2 million dollar home and was still a dumpster diver.
I know you can find cool things dumpster diving. I'd do it if I had a stronger stomach and had one of those collapsible ladder just in case I got in too deep. I've been waiting for him to get trapped.
KenK/84Bravo - I was taught never to buy dented cans.
hoosier - Those haul your stuff is a good racket. One can get in to some good stuff and they pay you to haul it away on top.
He's mainly looking for scrap (as in weight) but iron is way too much bulk for return compared to aluminum cans but he passes on them. Which to me is odd. Iron is like what a nickel a pound? While aluminum is 50 cents a pound?