/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Tonight is garbage night, so I look forward to walking around my neighborhood to see what we've got.

Last week I found a decent sized cork board and would've taken it had I not already have two in my room. And a long while ago, I found a battered book self that was similar to a couple I owned, and I snagged a couple shelves to create more space.

I'm just gonna poke around tonight, but I'm currently looking for coke bottle tops to redeem those iCoke points (much to my dismay, this neighborhood is a bunch of pussy pepsi drinkers). I'm still trying to build up the nerve to hit up a local Staples, which I've heard so many good things about in the last thread.

Last night:
2 Diving Bags, pic related. what i have for diving now
A bunch of books
Mini-mustang that still works

Night before:
Travel Backpack
Scarf (CLEAN!)
Assorted Cords AC, AV, Cables etc
Small Flashlight, works but I use a brighter one.

Still loads of stuff I left and garbage day isn't until Thursday. But I'm a walker so just taking what I can carry.

when's the best time to look in general?

can someone give me rules for dumpster diving cus ive always wanted to do it

>>76861
>go in a dumpster when no one is around
>find some useful stuff
> take what you want
>???
>profit

>>76873
and they wont call the cops for trespassing?
what are the best places to dumpster dive?
target,walmart,bestbuy?

>>76889
>when no one is around
Derp. Run away if a security guard comes.

>>76861

Start fucking reading >http://rustysoutdooradventures.blogspot.com/search/label/Dumpster%20Diving

I'm too beta as fuck to do this.

I pick up shit from the curb but actually hopping in a dumpster? I don't think I have the balls.

Also I'm pretty sure security can't do anything, maybe issue a do not trespass notice so don't go around there again.

my best and only find was going with some friends to home depot and i took home a huge (1/4 filled) sketchbook with figure drawings from a 40 year old woman.

me and my friends have found computers at our university
the engineering loading dock was the best

The only time I made a profit was from some old cds I found in someones trash.

There was a rare Banjo Kazooie soundtrack I sold for $50 to some dude in Japan.

not 100% dumpster diving, but met this guy while i was going trough a dumpster, and we got along pretty well.
he ended up giving me a car that ran and was licenced.
it cost me $20.50 to change the licence to my name.
i made $25 from the nerf guns in the boot
then i made $50 selling the car to the wreckers
the car battery is still in my other car, saved me $80 in buying me a new one
sold the speakers in it for $10
2 good tires, also on my other car.

it was a great car.

dived in an car audio shop, found nothing but milk bottles (wtf?) there was like 40 of them.

the other audio shop i was scared off by a barking dog

Dumpster divers always go through my trash.
Took a dump, put it in a PS2 and screwed it back together.
mfw they took it home

>>76945

best find so far is an Acer monitor in perfect working condition

office building trash ftw

>>76945
>>the smell after they plugged it in trying to get it to work.

I saw a dryer next toan old broken down washing machine. It looked intact and was a hig-dollar model. I took it home and it needed a new cord, which I replaced with a kit from the hardware store ($15). Works like a champ.

>>76945
Glorious. For every 10 items I dive from now on, I will leave one troll item.

Scored 2 x P4 computers out of an office dumpster, worked perfectly once I added hard drives. Sold for 50 bucks apiece.

Bang & Olufsen Stereo system (minus speakers) sold it on craigslist for 200 bucks.

Recently I found a brand new Jacket which fits me perfectly, and a cute little plastic box to store my electronics in.

>>76990
>P4s

sounds like you got the troll item

Anybody here dumpster-dive in the 760?

The WORST thing I found?

PS2 with feces in it.

The worst stuff is always things that look alright - good enough to take home - but appear FUBAR upon closer inspection.

Picked up a complete oak bed for my in-laws. Put the whole thing together, turns out it was in an early stage of woodworm infection. Thing was swarming with them soon after, it was like swiss cheese. Such a waste of effort.

Stores throw away things that can be easily fixed. What if you went into a store, damaged something EVER so slightly that they decide to throw it away? You could make the damaging look like it was an accident. Then you go dive the stores dumpsters later on and there it is. It's an idea I had. There must be a way to do something similar to this...

>>77073
If you get caught on camera you're fucked. Also many stores sell slightly damaged goods at cut prices with a disclaimer, or return them to the manufacturer for a partial refund.

>>77080
That's why I said you could make it look like an accident.

>>77073
depends. If you damage a product from a large retailer like best buy or walmart, they'll send the merchandise back to a manufacturer or warehouse marked as damaged. If you damage a store fixture, they'll either toss it or send it somewhere depending on company protocol. If you damage something from a mom and pops store just to reap their loss, then you're just an asshole

>>77086
Yeah I would never take from a Mom and Pop kinda place, that's fucked up. Anywho I was just thinking outside the dumpster.

Hm. I got one from last year.

So my buddy and I were walking around the apartment complex, and it was towards the end of the month so there was a bunch of shit near the dumpster. But this particular month, we had an awesome find. There was a giant television and it was waaaay to heavy to carry back to his apartment. We were taking a risk, it might have not even worked, but we were destined to find out. This thing was awesome. So we got his long board, propped that motherfucker on there and rolled it all the way back. Worked like a charm. Plugged his PS2 in and played seemingly all night.

Next day we found a bunch of wood and worked in the 98 degree heat for 4 hours to build a ramp. The ramp eventually cracked in half when we got too crazy.

Next day walked over that way again and found two adorable, 5 week kitties. I guess their mom abandoned them. He got the black one and I got the white one. Still have Charlie, but he had to give his away because he couldn't take care of it.

And it goes on and on. We found so much shit at that dumpster, I really don't remember.

We found a couch that wasn't infested with bugs and maggots and we put it in an abandoned apartment then invitrd friends over and smoked some. Was pretty good.

Alright that's all.

>>77089
It's fucked to do it to anyone you little shit. Either take legitimate garbage or buy the thing new.

Ausfag here.

Best find via curbside rummaging
>seemingly brand new mountain bike. No scratches, tyres pumped, glorious gel seat.

Sold that sucker for $750

>>77100
Sorry, Dad. :P

"Legitimate garbage"

>>77102
Seriously what the fuck is up with you people
"its ok to steal from X but not from Y"
I've been freecycling and dumpster diving my whole life, I've never taken anything that wasn't legitimately in the garbage.

>>77111
As opposed to "my friend who works there 'drops' a few items and sticks them in the dumpster out back," type garbage.

>>77115
Okay, calm the fuck down. Everything is going to be okay. It was an IDEA. And I never said it's "okay to steal from" anything. Get your panties out of a bunch.

I found the perfect song for you guys.

http://grooveshark.com/#/search?q=garbage+picker

It's the top one, you have to drag it to the play button at the bottom of the page.

best find thusfar:
>high end mid 80s road bike sitting near dumpster
>looked abandoned (flat very rotted tires)
>stripped it down to frame
>sold components
>bought all new Shimano 105 for the money made off the old ones
>been my main form of transportation for 3 years

>>77198

What was on it that got you full 105?

>>77211
A strange blend of mid 80s super record/dura ace. I also was working as a bicycle mechanic at that time so got the new groupset at cost.

Does anyone know about diving into phone company Central Office / Carrier Station dumpsters?

Do they still contain Unix manuals and hilarious memos and shit like that when they were in the 1980s? There's a huge phone station building like a block in the half down from on my street. I've been wanting to raid their dumpsters for years.

>>77115
I see nothing ethically wrong with stealing from corporate entities. I don't recall having a say in their existence, nor their stealing from my neighborhood, nor their raping of planet. I don't think I should have to ask permission any more than they asked for my permission. The only reason you shouldn't do it is because it's illegal, and as we all know, you can't discuss illegal things here. However, there's no reason to feel bad if some unknown person you don't know (and is totally not you) damaged the packaging of something in a store, and you happened to dumpster dive it later. In other news: moralistic fucks are still trying to shove their bullshit fiscal values down others' throats. omigoodness what? Go buy more plastic things, the economy needs your money more than humanity/life needs to avoid that bullet slowly entering its brain! FOR ALL THE THINGS!

Been diving since /diy opened it's doors, it was something I never thought to do before. Anyways, I've been mapping out my area on a map with a grease pen, just checking off areas I've been, and leaving myself notes on places I should check on the regular, industrial places, state buildings etc.

I'm a tinkerer, so anything I find, I can either fix, or use to fix other shit. I've been slowly expanding my grid for the passed couple weeks, found some killer shit. Monitors, computers, Brass bar stock, sheet brass. Any type electronics that looks too broken to be salvageable gets the power cord/any other cords/knobs knicked off of it. Rope, always take rope. You never know when you need rope. I usually use my pickup truck, I'll drive to a place, park it, dive on foot, pull shit out, leave it beside the dumpster, then harvest it with my truck. I take it back to my shop, strip everything I want, box it, then toss the refuse in the gigantic open top dumpsters in my complex.

It's great fun, I like getting dirty. My brother started riding along with me, running lookout/helping me with light and whatnot.

It's a total blast, and completely interesting. Good 'ol late night fun.

Only downside... fucking dumpster bees and wasps. One fucked my shit up earlier tonight, I punched it to death. Cocksucker.

best thing i ever found

a hubcap
a MINT harvard fooseball table

Went for some curbin' found some books from the 70's

>>76530
Dont hit up a fucking neighborhood its rude and those fuckers dont need your creepy ass looking through their garbage making noise.

went to some stores last night found some books left them because I didnt have my supplies

first dumpster dive: snagged an arcade chair thing (posted about it in last thread)

secondly, i dont think this really counts as dumpster diving, but deserves honorable mention:

thanks to /diy/ dive threads combined with watching too much american pickers/storage wars, me and my gf decided to go bargain shopping (we've been going thrifting at flea markets and whatnot for months now, decided to hit up some really random places this time)

what we discovered: random hole-in-the-wall "stores" are better than business type thrift stores (goodwill etc) and flea markets.we found some place called the Bargan Barn, it was literally a family house with a barn off to the side that they had just a MASSIVE amount of random shit laid out. we walked it for a good hour digging through things, came out with:

-a food strainer ( i think thats what it is, oddly shapped, like a cone, not a pot)
-3x hot plate skillet things (know how when u order fajitas at resturaunts they bring it out on a cast irons killet w/ a wooden "plate" bottom? yeah) 1 brand new in box, 2 that looked like they were used once
- a bathroom set (lotion despenser, generic cup, and toothrbush holder, good stainless steel, great condition, and nice and heavy, not cheap ass walmart stuff)
-furnature mover pad thingies to make it easier to move big things like dressers
-really nice heavy brass oil burner

total cost: $16.50. -easily- 60-100 bucks worth of stuff.

she just moved into a new appt and needed most of those.
I was completely ready to go into haggle mode, but when i asked how much they were, she'd look at the price tag she had on it, cut it in half, then second guess and give me another dollar or so off. shit was cash.

>>77414
More like shit was NO CASH

The dumpsters and store unit places can have awesome stuff in them sometimes. Mostly is old mattresses, busted furniture, boxes and crap but every now and then something nice.

Things I have found:
Baseball glove in good shape.
Folding wine rack
Nice lamp
Board games (all complete, some never opened)
Tons of books (traded in to used book store for credit mostly)
Older Makita cordless grinder with charger and 3 batteries!
It works but I don't know how well or how good the batteries are since I never use it, but hey, free!

So, when people throw stuff away in dumpsters do they not put anything in garbage bags?

I would agree. Don't do neighborhoods unless it's on the front driveway or something. I was taking a walk once and I saw a dumpster diver in my whitebread neighborhood. Not soon after I see two cop cars enter my neighborhood. Pretty sure someone called the popo on the guy.

last week i found two working PCs, a monitor, computer chair, a drill that needed a new plug, a scooby doo alarm clock, and a bag of 90's Teen Titan and Firestorm comics at my girlfriend's complex

>>77552
I seem to have lucked out, I live in a small town and a lot of people leave anything that might be useful out on the curb AFTER garbage day so people have a week to find/take what they like, half of my kitchen appliances are novelty items like a george foreman rotisserie and a billy mays slider station that I got from curbs

Professional hauler here. I am getting pretty good at convincing people that what they have is junk and then turning around and selling it for immediate profit.

Last week I got a Coast Guard approved floatation suit which I turned around and sold for forty bucks in an hour on Craigslist.

I also had an interesting find. I guess the guy that owned this house worked for Homeland Security. Found a whole box of earpieces with their silly little logos on there as well as boxes of their propaganda they hand to travelers. Makes you feel real safe when you know they just toss that stuff around. Probably will end up just throwing it away as they get so butthurt and ass sore about the least little things.

Also found a couple of lap tops. Usually if they are more than a few years old I just sell them for ten bucks in parts on Craigslist.

new york here

i found countless televisions, coins, cash, and other valuables the trick is dont dive in the dumpster but help the person misplace some items from their home if you catch my drift

Few years back, I found this Amiga 500 computer and a commodore 64c, cleaned them up and have kept them ever since.
I collect heaps of pc's and consoles now, I have about 55 at the moment.

I found a PS3 in the dumpster of gamestop one time, took it home and took a look at it. The shell was crack and power supply was dead. So I order a new power supply and put it in there. Now I am the proud owner of two ps3's. Last night I found pretty much a brand new rubbermaid garbage can, the 25 dollar ones. Score on that.

Any ausfags dived a bunnings ?

let me start off by saying that when university is wrapping up for summer, campuses are the best place to score EVERYTHING

you can get months of food, office supplies, stereo equipment in the huge dumpsters they scatter though out campus.

where i live now has organic composting, so lots of food scores now
all my clothes (boots, shoes , pants, jackets) except band t shirts, are all from dumpster.

some cool scores i have had
electric guitar ( with acoustic stings wtf)
practice amp
endless stereo equipment
some valuable records
more stuff can';t think

if you have a truck, i would recommend collecting scrap metal on heavy garbage days. it's good cash for once a month

Funny fact: i use to find endless amounts of shoes downtown where i live, and i used to have one wire i used to throw them all on.
peoplegetmad

happy hunting!

>dumpster diving thread
>two days old
>no http://trashwiki.org
>mfw

>>78526
because by now, this being far from the first thread, everyone here is already aware of that website

>>77333
You...punch...bees too?

>>77092
You bastard, I had a cat named charlie. Found him about the same way at about the same age, some douche in my neighborhood catnapped him :( I miss that motherfucker so bad

>if you have a truck, i would recommend collecting scrap metal on heavy garbage days. it's good cash for once a month


How the fuck no one has suggested this shit yet the world may never know.

Down here in south FL I always see dudes with big ass trucks overflowing with metal scrap. By the end of the day they're probably making 100-300$ cash. Thats a pretty decent fucking salary when combined with free food, and other awesome shit.

>>78627

300$ salary
- 50$ in fuel
- 10$ @ day in truck costs
= 240$ for 8 hours work btw 2 men (usually) = 15$ one day a week/month= CRAPPY SALARY. We have these guys around here too. Notice how they are hardly ever driving a new truck or have a corporation? Cuz its NOT good money stop thinking like that.

I'm thinking about diving and there are multiple colleges and universities in my state.

When does the next semester usually end so I can get my truck ready?

>>78629

It is good money when your poor and cheap, and trying to pay your way to a computer engineering degree. On a side note I've never bothered doing this, as I ride a bike.

>>78629

From working in a scrapyard in the UK for several years:

For light iron [i.e shit made of metal that isnt pure steel/iron...lawn mowers, old bikes etc.] we charged £50 a ton.

To make more out of it, you get weighed in with all your shit and then tear it apart. We paid £5 for small motors and £10 for car batteries. Power cables for electric appliances got copper prices [which is a lot more than £50 a ton...iirc it was ~£1500 a ton] and even though power cables dont weigh much its still an extra £5-10 or so for a decent length of stripped cable. Catalytic converters went for £15.

Of course, this is if you take it apart yourself. Otherwise we wait for you to leave, pay you £50 a ton and then harvest all the shit and profit. Also, when people scrap whole cars they often sit outside soaking the car seats in water/filling the boot with bricks or w/e to bump up the weight so instead of having 2 ton of car, its now 2.5-3 or w/e...can be profitable, but get caught doing it and we wont buy it and will tell any nearby scrapyards that you are a dodgy little gypsie...also more prone to calling the police and checking out the legitimacy of the car [i.e if its stolen].

Also, a car without a crash mark or w/e on it will get raised eyebrows if you try and scrap it. Expect many questions [at least if the scrapyard is half honest.

>>78548

Fuck yes I punch bees, if they sting me! You don't slight me and get away with it, you bumblecocksucker. FEEL THE WRATH.

Scrap guys usually don't have any bills, here in Florida. It's mostly geriatric black dudes and their friends trying to buy beer for the day. It's a decent way to make your daily eatin' money, but not much else. I don't do it because I don't wanna take food off their tables, most of them are super sweet older dudes with awesome stories.

The Pro-hauling business is what I'd like to dip a finger into, there's a lot of people who run one/two man operations hauling away people's junk in those big fuckin' junk trucks, FOR PROFIT + THE ITEMS. I'd love to volunteer or work part time cleaning out garages, getting paid. I love junk hunting.

So my dad found my loot.
Well not all of it, just a backpack and a backage thing with the wheels.

He thinks I'm moving out now.

>>78744

>Fuck yes I punch bees, if they sting me! You don't slight me and get away with it, you bumblecocksucker. FEEL THE WRATH.

Ever try punching a vulture? They usually hang around food dumpsters. Anything I can take, or have no interest in thats food, I'll open the package so they can get at it easier. Way i see it they're recycling this shit too, might as well let them eat all the shit they can rather then it be disposed of.

>>78757
Yeah, it kind of sucks because it draws in mice and rats too, but it's better than letting perfectly good food sit in a land fill for a few thousand years next to lead paint and mercury filled TVs.

Went dumpster diving at a local men's tailor shop. Got me 3 suits (all of them worn out and didn't fit).

Still pretty neat though.

>>79094

Only mouse I've ever seen near a dumpster was behind it.. I've never encountered any wildlife other then cats, and vultures.

I went in dumpster and found cat. It hiss at my penis

>>78757
I wish to be king of the vultures, honestly they're my favorite animal and I'm not quite sure why.

No Racoons? Those little bandit-lookin' fuckers are all over my usual haunts. Some of 'em ain't scared, either. You aren't supposed to fuck with them, a lot of them have rabies, but some of them are kind of sweet. They'll let you pet them, if you're careful. They just scurry off with something delicious in their jaws.

TL;DR don't pet the wildlife unless you accept the consequences.

Went out tonight, rummaged through an open top dumpster, nabbed a spool of speaker wire and a bunch of zipties. I was just walking around, and saw it. This is fun.

>>78629
>own 4cyl ranger with dat 23mpg city so fuel costs aren't bad

you got to know what to look for too.

god tier:clean copper (uninsulated wires, electric motors), copper alloys (brass, bronze), cat converters, precious metals.
good tier:heavy aluminum, lead, dirty copper.
meh tier: light aluminum (cans), red iron, steel

look out for:
washers and dryers because of the copper in the electric motors, dirty copper in the wires, etc
hot water heaters b/c of the brass fittings and the steel
>AC units these contain a lot of copper and aluminum and can be worth upwards of 50$ depending on the size.
Refrigerators are usually nasty an smell like shit, but can be worth a bit because of the copper piping, just look out for the ones that have plastic piping, those are worthless
old aluminum ladders
automotive parts
old lawnmowers/pressure washers can usually be sold on craigslist as is for 20-100$ depending on the brand and quality

Yesterday I picked up a pair of rear tail lights.

I'm pretty sure they're for a Mitsubishi Lancer.

I'm not sure which year/model tho, I'll need to research on eBay.

But they have no damage - had plastic bubble wrap around them AND came with half a box of light bulbs.

Copper can be cleaned using flux and a heat gun.

Copper is getting crazy expensive. You can burn the vinyl off copper wires, too.

>>79230
>>79230

I just took in a small box of copper pieces and got thirty bucks for it.

The whole load was sixty bucks. Just shit I had been picking up here and there over the past six months.

Aluminum tire rims, pots and pans they take it all now.

The weigh station said they even give like six bucks a piece for washers and dryers now. Not much but if you had four then that is beer and gas money for the day for running around.

>>79230
the place i go to doesn't pay you for clean copper if you burn the insulation off. you'd have to strip it by hand and that's oo time consuming

Thinking I'm going to start getting into this. Does anyone know of any dumpsters in the North Eastern parts of Maryland?

I just recently transferred to a new university and feel like I hit the jackpot. Furnished my living room with and old table, 3 new chairs for the patio, and even a sick new stereo system. Probably worth about $150. The beginning and end of school are prime for roaming apartment complexes ^_^

>>79164
Oh god, I've had run ins with so many fucking racoons. I hate them. Why the hell would you pet them? Fuckers are vicious. Around here they grow the size of medium sized dogs, and aren't afraid of anything.

>>79168
>>79230
>>79235
>>79253

Scrappers General thread on /diy/?

I usually look for move-outs. Or... clean outs. You find where a renter died with no next of kin, or got sent to prison.. The landlord sometimes just puts everything out on the lawn for pickup. I have gotten... full sets of cookware, frypans etc. garbage bags full of towels (beach and such), stacks of porn tapes, cardboard boxes full of old porn magazines. Basicly, anything the landlord didn't think they could recoup their money owed from they stick out on the lawn when they die.

(They usually grab stuff like electronics, tv, washers, etc...) some people are idiots though so books and such get tossed... or anything they think is morally bad... found zippo lighter collection once... guy cleaning gave it to me because he didn't believe in smoking (lol) pre wwII flip tab style... still have a couple, sold one to one of those travelling collectable buyers places that set up in hotels for 300 bucks, and decided to hang onto the rest for awhile...

>>79350

City Raccoons aren't horribly vicious, in theory, we're just doing the same shit...

>>79350
I think raccoons is pretty cool guy. Eh grows the size of medium sized dogs, and doesn't afraid of anything.

Can anyone tell me how I might get started dumpster diving, browsed 4chan for a while, but just found this. Now, all I wanna do is dive...should be easy since i live in Philly

I found a pool table sans legs. The felt was nice and not ripped. Going to try to machine some legs for it, get it cleaned up, maybe varnish/stain it.

>>79685 go here >>76903

>>79774
or go here >>76873

Thought this might help. If you've seen any of these on dumpsters but never had any idea what they meant, you do now. Help your dumpster bros by marking experiences you've had with certain places with these signs. And spread the pic around to spread the knowledge.

>>77414
That "cone" strainer is called a chinoise. They're godly for pastry people. They make your custards beautiful.

>>79817
That's too damn adorable. I love it, will spread.

>>77552

This sorta stems from a Supreme Court case. The police had taken a suspects trash, and the suspect tried to get the rap thrown out because it was illegal search and seizure. The Supreme Court ruled that once someone puts trash onto a public right of way (like a street a/or easement), it's considered "abandoned" and fair game.

HOWEVER, the ruling does not cover trash receptacles on private property (like Dumpsters) and local municipalities can pass regulations and laws where going into trash cans is illegal.

WORST THING:
I found an abandoned baby in a dumpster. I was interviewed by the local news too. I think the kid suffered some injuries from being there for a couple of hours.

BEST:
perfect condition del monte fruit cans that would expire in 4 weeks. Everything else I found so far didn't seem too shocking.

Recent find was a stack of old playboys. I just created an ebay listing for the issues that weren't damaged by the rain.

I don't keep the things I find. I usually think of ways to improve the value and sell it.

I can't imagine finding a live baby in one. dead yes, but live? mindfuck

>>76925
>rare Banjo Kazooie soundtrack

J-Jesus! I'm gonna have to give this a chance.

Bump for an awesome thread! I've heard Wal-Mart and shit keeps their stuff tight-down...my local GameStop switched managers lately, and instead of giving their extra swag away they THROW IT THE FUCK OUT. I was thinking of swinging by and seeing what I could find.

This is hilarious. My garbage company has periodic "put your junk out" days. They are picking up metal and electronics tomorrow morning. I put a bunch of junk out this evening and went inside to fill out the form I was supposed to leave with the stuff and by the time I came back out somebody has already pulled up with a truck and started loading the stuff up.

You wanna hear some heavy shit /diy/?

I work for a charitable organization (I'm paid).

We throw so much stuff out you wouldn't even believe it. Its fucking ridiculous how much donated stuff we throw away. The organization is full of lazy people who cant be bothered fixing small things, bagging up small items together or sometimes they just plan don't want to put it out because of the charity's own stupid rules.

They have ultra strict rules that state we can't take anything that gets thrown away, we can't put in money/donation to save the item being thrown away... It makes me sick.

>>80179
Dude...just, fuck the rules.

>>80179
after hours load up as much of the stuff that gets thrown away and redonate it somewhere else

>>80179

I'll do you one better.

You know Barry Weiss from Storage Wars? If you notice thru many episodes, Barry has this habit of cherry picking thru a storage locker for THAT ONE ITEM/few items he wants, and leaving the rest of the stuff behind. It's like the idiot has more money than brains.

Guess which episode features my workplace? I'll give you a BIG HINT: He threw a box of glass items at one of his co-stars. And guess who had to clean up his mess which got strewn across the roadway because Barry refused to clean it up himself?

>>79895
>>79895

What did you do with the baby?

Was the fruit in the same dumpster?

found a perfectly good foosball table about 2 weeks ago on the side of the road

it didn't have any legs though, so i'm going to Home Depot at some point to get some wood and gorilla glue to fashion those

>>80248
I just watched that episode, weird. But yeah he was being a total jackass, and he didn't even clean it up? Man.

When you guys run into a locked dumpster do you just walk away or try and get it open? I was going to check my local staples dumpster last night but it had a giant lock on it so i left

>>80464

Generally I just avoid locked dumpsters. I can pick locks, but considering the likely hood of getting harassed by the police when diving unlocked dumpsters, diving a locked one is just asking for trouble.

I admit I've considered picking a lock, and deposing of it and claiming the dumpster was unlocked when I got there, but I don't want to be caught messing with the lock if the cops drive by.

was able to go into a uni dumpster

most expensive item

a laptop with a cracked screen and no HD.

>>80464
I ran into a dumpster that was unlocked. Couldve taken the chain and lock with me. The only thing I walked away with was a few bags of beer bottles. Brought them in and ended up with a little under ten bucks.

Also, the rest of my haul from last night is as follows

From a goldmine of a dumpster
>an air filter
>glass jar
>travel bag
>plastic storage container

From a box in an alley
>tupperware
>a dress

Next to someone's garbage can(s)
>microwave
>two nicely fixed up chairs (only took one)

In front of someone's garage
>an old car cassette player

This was my first run, and honestly should have gone back to that dumpster I first mentioned. I got kind of spooked after a while after making more noise than I thought was exceptable. I stripped the motors, copper wires, and metals from the electronics so they wouldn't be so cumbersome.

I was surprised that this stuff was in such good condition. Will most likely do this again.

>>80451

I have to say, Barry's behavior on the show is sickening to some degree. The guy has oddles of cash to throw around, yet doesn't even make a half-hearted attempt to try and minimize his loses. I've seen at best him making two attempts to try and wring out as much profit from the lockers he buys (One was because Dave Hester Jr. asked him to to see if he waas willing to consign items Barry didn't want, and another because he had buyers remorse). He's in it for the ultimate payday, at the costs of some storage unit worker having to cleanup his shit that he leaves behind. He almost reminds me of old people who have money problems. Only in this case, he wastes the money on buying storage lockers instead of being conned by someone else.

What's even more sickening is that people love him and will defend him on A&E's message boards from any sort of negativity. Blind faith I guess.

And the most interesting part is that Barry's ways aren't unique. I can't begin to tell you how many items are left behind by bidders, only interested in the good stuff.

I've done some Storage unit auctions, usually lots of scumbags there. I just pick out the guy I don't like the most, and bid him up a few times. I got my hands on a 12x15 unit for 90 bucks one time, ended up with a load of old stamps, newspaper clippings, family photos, a bunch of jewellery, tools, etc. It was cool.

One dude bought a 12x30 locker for 500 bucks, it was filled to the roof with clothes, I stuck around to see what was up after the sale. He dug through and found a Blue Corvette under it. The hardtop version of this.

Bastard.

>>80924
i was under the impression you cant keep one of those cars found in a locker, you cant just title a car that is titled to someone else?

>>80968
Cant tell me its value is 0$ either

>MFW 3rd world countries are way more protective of their trash than, you know, US or UK or Japan or Australia
I am living in Bizarro World.

>decide to go dumpster diving
>find a sweet ass couch and matress
>go back home
>get my dads pickup
>load the couch and mattress
>take it home
>put it in the garage
>setup a man cave
>invite bro over
>smoke and play N64
>fall asleep on couch
>wake up covered in worms
>wood from couch is rotting and the worms are all over me
>fall over in a panic
>land on the matress
>baby roaches spill out in hordes
>the squished worms are causing the roaches to get stuck to me
>rolling and screaming
>friend wakes up
>he runs outside and grabs the hose
>sprays me down

Fuck dumpster diving its fucking terrible

>>81110

>Fuck dumpster diving its fucking terrible
>Fuck dumpster diving
>Fuck I'm and idiot

fixed it for you

>>81110
You're just lucky it wasn't scabies. Never use cloth furniture without fucking irradiating it first.

>>81111

>and

really hope that and was there to emphasize how much of an idiot >>81110 is

>>81110
All of my nightmares. Fuck you.

From the dumpster, to the grave!
We'll never be a system slave
We'll take our food from garbage cans
While they're starving in a foreign land

Do the dishes in the sink
Scoop the grease-trap, take a drink
Clean plate club keeps us alive
Every time we dumpster dive

And from the dumpster, to the grave!
We'll eat your trash and misbehave
We all wallow in loneliness
Then wonder why we're so depressed
Digging through your toxic waste
We find the crumbs to suit our taste
Our guts are an abysmal cave
From the dumpster to the fucking grave

From the cradle to the end
The pigeons are our closest friends
We'll forage always after dark
Then chill with squirrels down in the park

From the dumpster to the stench
Fine dining on a city bench
With gourmet finds it must be true
That america is paved with food

And in the gutter where we lay
No health care, not a dollars pay
We'll take our food from garbage cans
While they're starving in a foreign land
Starving in a foreign land
Starving in a foreign land
Starving in a foreign land

So from the dumpster, to the grave
We'll never shower, sometimes shave
We never fucking wash our clothes
All stinking drunk at punk rock shows
Digging through your toxic waste
We find the crumbs to suit our taste
Our guts are an abysmal cave
From the dumpster to the fucking grave

And from the dumpster to the grave
We'll eat your trash and misbehave
We all wallow in loneliness
Then wonder why we're so depressed
Digging through your toxic waste
We find the crumbs to suit our taste
Our guts are an abysmal cave
From the dumpster to the fucking grave!
To the fucking grave!
To the fucking grave!
To the fucking, to the fucking, to the fucking grave, fuck you!

>>80968
>>80968

There are ways to get around the title issue, but it's VERY complicated, and requires you to attain an even greater risk.

>>81120
Stza is a pretentious faggot.

>>81125
Agreed. He vomited on me once, then proceeded to tell me it was my fault. I still like the song.

are the gamestop dumpsters usually unlocked i know i used to have a hastings(videos-books -games etc) and a bunch of high schoolers usually dived for porn and shit

>Randomly stop by /diy/
>see this
Sounds fun. I think some shops near me would be great for this if they're not locked, but I'd probably have to foot it. Any advice for footing it?

>>81164
I'm assuming by "footing" you mean walking (I've only heard "footing" used in the context of "footing the bill")
In which case, backpack? really its not much different. I always either walk or ride a bike, and I bring the same stuff either way.

http://ia600409.us.archive.org/5/items/RecipesForDisasterAnAnarchistCookbook/recipes_for_disaster.pd
f

dumpster diving guide on page 219 (both hard and soft pagination)

I know it's an Anarchist Cookbook, but it's actually a good one (with articles on stuff like how to build a record player out of a bicycle, and nothing on making "bananadine") and in this case is perfectly relevant. So plz don't ban me mods, or delete this post.

Taste of information inside: Did you know, when the power goes out at a supermarket, they have to throw out everything in the frozen goods section? Get there fast enough and there will be a mountain of frozen food in the dumpster

Found a perfectly working computer monitor last night, also an old Dell which I scrapped for parts since it was covered in some kind of gross shit. Working my way toward making an arcade computer and cabinet with everything found while dumpster diving, Mad Max/ Fallout style. Everything besides maybe the buttons and joysticks.

Also a Gameboy Color with Mario Bros. Deluxe. That was a pretty cool find.

I found a piano from the 50's- i think. Pretty good condition just needed some exterior touch ups.

>>81253
no they dont. i work at a grocery store and iv never heard anything like that in my life. they have generators to keep freezers going in the event of an outage. the only time it would be thrown out is if the power was out for days, and then you have bigger issues on your hands than some food

>>81110
well thats your own damn fault for not inspecting it at all, much less carefully. if you get something out of the trash, inspect it minutely before use. also bleach. had you done ANYTHING before just using that shit, that wouldnt have happened. fucking idiot

I don't dumpster dive that much but I've found a lawnmower and a hedge trimmer next to the same one with a few months separating them. Near working condition, just a few small repairs needed.

Makes me want to do it more often.

>>81253

>Did you know, when the power goes out at a supermarket, they have to throw out everything in the frozen goods section?

Er, no.

>>81110
>taking a couch and mattress from a dumpster

Yeah the blame is on you for this one.

>>80968


Don't know what he did, he left with the car, though. What's the rule if the title isn't present/owner is deceased? Don't know if the car had a title, but the owner was definitely deceased.

>>81859
I'd consider a couch, it looked clean, but a mattress - fuck no.

>>81834
power goes out = generators stop working. Say a compressor blows in the frozen goods section for example. Then yes, they do, by law.

>>81877
You can't see scabies. anything cloth = bad idea. Even clothes need to be irradiated before they're safe.

>>77100

WHOAAAAAAAH SLOW DOWN THERE, SCOOTER!
Quit being a little fag and develop some common sense.

Biggest most useful find to date for me:

8HP belt drive self propelled mower / slasher. Got a few seasons out of it after fixing it. Currently motor in bits to fix again after my fuckup adjusting valve clearance.

>checking curb side hard rubbish throw out in car
>see it
>drive home
>get truck
>load ramp boards
>go back
>load
>take home
>fix (main fault stopping it working at time, dirty ignition points)
>make and replace a couple of missing part
>mow grass

>>81988
Lrn 2 steam-clean.
Also scabies mites can only survive for 36 hours without a host, so just dont sit on the couch for a couple days.

>>81973
I too work at a grocery store. Our generators run on gasoline. So in case of a power failure the generators are their to provide electricity for our freezers and coolers. The power would have to be out for days and even if such a thing happened, they would just put more gasoline in the generators to keep them running. The only way we would throw our stuff away is if we were unable to get more gasoline.

>>80924
How common are storage unit auctions? How would someone check some of these out?

>>82198
they're all over the place, but i think the days of good deals are probably kinda gone

I have a question.

How legal IS dumpster diving? One must worry about security and police, but what can they charge you with? You're recycling unwanted items (that is, they have given it up as property) that would just sit in a landfill, if you're quite and cleaning up after yourself you're not being disruptive, what's the problem?

Is it just trespassing? Would the cops/security like some of your loot if they find you (coughbribecough)? Or are they just stuck up and think you're scum for taking things out of the trash?

>>82205
*quiet.

lived 5months just outside of copenhagen, was awesome:
- specialized bike with thrashed reargears, got it fixed for 50euros
- tv
- 3 2persons airmattrass with build in electric pump from a local shop
- some furniture for our rooms
- bags full of empty glass bottles from the local supermarket, went back the next day to change them for money
- food

was a nice way to save money in scandinavia

>>82205

I second this. I'm new to the DIY board (And DIY in general), dumpster diving sounds right up my street though.

>>82205
The legality really depends on the jurisdiction. For example, where I live, you need a waste disposal permit to collect garbage from anywhere. This means taking an item from curb-side or a loading bay or whatever is actually illegal unless you are registered to collect. Its also illegal to remove items from containers provided by registered collectors to a business or private customer. These regulations are really in place to protect public safety, but they mean dumpster diving is technically illegal. There's also the obvious trespassing and occasionally breaking and entering comes up if there happens to be a hole in the fence or whatever.

>>82217
duvel and Jupiler beer.
Awesome

You guys are just pathetic, look at you, diving in a dumpster to find what you cant buy!

Get a job!
Fuck!

>>82373
I have a job, and a damn well paying one. But why would I pay for something when I can get it for free and have a little fun fixing it up? It's just 'stuff' anyway. I'd rather spend my money on my family and making them happy than collecting expensive 'stuff'

There should be a law forcing companies and supermarket to keep their dumpster into a secured area or locked. Really, why a hippie fuck could be allowed to own something that have been trashed or not properly destroyed while honest /working/ people are going to pay for it?
I'm going to poison what I'm trashing from now and hope some pathetic loser will choke on it.

>>82377
If faggots like you stopped throwing away things that are still usable or easily fixable, no one would dumpster dive. Its morons like you who think that it makes more sense to buy, buy, buy instead of fixing what you have that fill up the dumpsters anyway.

>>80561
Put on the dress because it will boost the value of the loot you find.

>>82377

1/10.

You are either a really shitty troll, or lost. It's fairly tragic either way.

>>82381
Excuse me but I can afford my shit, and I am not criticizing people who are able to fix their own stuff but getting into dumpsters to retrieve food or unwanted goods is really the most miserable thing someone can do in this country. Then it's retards like them who are going to complain because they lost their job or the economy is going bad.

>>82411
>>82377
>>82373
The fuck are you so pissed off about? It's just garbage. No one wants it and it gets used rather than sitting in a landfill wasting our limited resources. Did a dumpsterdiver kill your wife and children or something?

>>82418
Amen. No one else wanted it; what's the fucking problem?

>>82411
people who lost their job don't dumpster dive. They collect well fair checks.

>>82418
that piece of shit is talking about "working class" his fat ass sits around a computer and probably doesn't do shit all day but talk about how to drag in young folk into his fucking scam
>>82397

>>82411
>>82377
>>82373
>RECYCLING IS STEALING
wat.jpg

Also I got a 3000 dollar a month job and I still dumpster dive because it's fun and you can find interesting things. So fuck you.

The closest I ever came to genuinely dumpster diving was when I was 16 or so and my parents hauled over a dumpster to get rid of shit from our house- they threw out a lawnmower, a set of encyclopedias, and old TV- shit, I was pretty pissed at them just for that. But my mom tossed a typewriter that I thought was cool, though it wasn't really an antique or anything.
Anyway, once night came I needed one of the encyclopedias for my homework (go figure) so I hopped in the dumpster in my jammies and bare feet, dodged around mower blade and glass and snatched the encyclopedia and the typewriter. She found it and tossed it a couple days later.

I also went to some family party, you know, the kind of people you're not sure how they're related to you or what most of their names are, mostly older people, but one of them had found some newspapers from the 20s and a LIFE magazine from '56 in a garbage bin on the way over. I got to keep the magazine.

>>82467
wtf even is this "Part of your comment isn't allowed to be posted :(" shit
I was going to describe all the stores in walking distance of my job but fuck that.

Here's that magazine btw

>>76393
>also curb-side cleanup
I'm going "junk inspecting now". Taking camera. May dump pics when I return.

Probably lots of sucess around this part of the year: most colleges let out for winter break in these/coming weeks.
And people do some minor house/dorm cleaning before heading home.

I'd absolutely love to try diving, but I'm a bit afraid to do it. I don't want to be going through a bin and have some fat overzealous rent-a-cop taze my anus, or have a cop run up and hit me with trespassing and stealing. Could anyone elaborate on the legality of it? I live in Massachusetts btw.

went on my first dive run tonight as there's a few industrial parks within driving distance of my house. picked up a trash bag of clean fuzzy blankets for my cats, an almost new piece of wheeled luggage, a bunch of plywood and pine scraps and a half roll of industrial pallet wrap. also found some office chairs a ton of pallets and full sheets of plywood, fibreboard and flakeboard but they wouldn't fit in my car.

also, i shit you not, some construction company had a two story shipping container house assembled in their parking lot, already framed with windows and doors.

>>80179
>>80179
>>80179
>>80179

I got some even heavier shit. I used to manage a warehouse for a so called non profit charity. We had something like fifty storage units filled with shit. And I mean fucking filled.

The last manager couldn't take it and ended up quitting. When I took over there was a fucking new sheriff in town. Turns out the reason was that why it all piled up was the ridiculous amount of paperwork needed to give the shit away to the needy. So many fuck stick Catholic bureaucrats covering their ass that shit never got done. One of the main job duties I had was reducing the amount of storage even though we were accepting truckloads of donations every day.

I ended up just not doing the paperwork and giving the shit away. I figured out which needy people could keep their mouth shut and hooked them up. This was an organization that did refugee resetlement and a lot of other cultures don't blab everything like Americans.

Not just that but I got my own storage lockers and took some mid grade stuff that was buried and stashed it and sold it after a couple of months. They started to get suspicious and started to arrange for really, really expensive shit to get 'donated'. I made sure I 'donated' it to some kid that had stepped on a land mine or someone who was really in need.

There wasn't much they could do as the political out cry would have been too much and the bureaucrats would have started to answer some high up questions.

After a while the stress got to be too much so I got the system streamlined and gave them a month to find a replacement to manage what I had created.

They of course went out and found the biggest douce they could to replace me and the system started anew.

>>82501
>>82501

That has been addressed several times in this thread.

Laws vary by locality. And not just the laws on the books but you have to look at what is enforced. For instance without even looking I would bet that almost every municipality in California has a law against dumpster diving. But to think a cop going from a shooting, to a mugging to a high speed crash is going to go spend an hour processing someone for dumpster dive is just ridiculous.

You pretty much need to do your own research to know what goes on in your area. Some towns actually have organized clubs for this.

As for security guards I wouldn't worry too much. I used to work that shit job and know from experience that the number one thing the owner said was to never touch anyone. Companies are afraid of lawsuits big time. You really think a million dollar corporation is going to risk a lawsuit over some trash? And knowing a little bit about this sort of law you can't detain someone for trespass. Once they leave then there is no crime. I used this more than once when some out of control rent a cop tried their stop come back here bullshit. If you aren't damaging property, hurting someone or trying to start a fire there just isn't much a renta cop can do.

And like the others said don't mess with cutting locks and what not. It is illegal and gives the rest of us a bad name. Also keep the area you work neat. The only reason that laws were passed on dumpster diving was the sheer mess that some bums will leave behind.

After doing this for a few years I have quiet arrangements with a few businesses that leave stuff out so they don't have to pay the trash fees. Outa site outa mind goes a long ways in this trade.

And a trade it is. When you really score big you will know what I am talking about.

>>82476
I'm back.

Didn't take that many shots out on the road. CRT tvs everywhere. Could have got 100s but have enough already. Some with remote controls taped to the top.
>I has new flat tv but please take this

Two here but non of interest to me. Got some parts from the fridge I'm hoping will fit one I have here I've been fixing.

The tuner I got. Left the rest.

That box is full of negative ion generators. There was lots of good stuff here but not much that interested me. There were these jewellery boxes lined with red cloth and tea sets and all. I'd say some fag had tried to sell these and failed.

Too bad I can't hand this through the screen to Radiofag.

Too big to bother with.

Thought hdd could be worth grabing.

Insert joke about shit tier rubbish here.

Some complete some not. I think some are newer than this machine I'm on now.

>>82737
I wish I could buy the right beige one off of you. I'm looking for a case to do a sleeper gaming pc build, and that looks like a decent one.

Could come in handy if I can fix it otherwise will use blade.

>>79096

>>82741
General location.

Money may not even be involved.

Have a few already but why the hell not. Some I have have dead LNBs so if that works :-)

Don't expect to restore this but could be handy for parts for another I have.

They threw this out. Can you believe it?

Saw tonnes of other stuff too. The amount of thrown out goods is amazing.

Now I'm going to have a play with some of this stuff.

>>82741
Yeah and if you happen to be local (Ausfag) its yours. I have even more vanilla looking cases from previous times too. I like the old cases that were made of proper metal.

>>82764
where abouts in aus?

please say perth

>>82786
Melbs I'm afraid

>>82788
lol fair enough

seems the only people that live in perth are dero's and coons :/

i just want a buddy to dumpster dive with

>>82790
Hey, another Perth /diy/nosaur here.

>>82791
hey, what's your asl?

moving to perth january next year.

18/m/cannington

>>82809
well cannington will be where i am living next year, derp

My furniture is from diving. No seriously, and its pretty nice too.

Did curbside collection for the council last year. Pay was pretty good, great workout, just kinda pissant. Anyone who lives on the Gold Coast, QLD Australia, YOU ARE A FUCKING IGNORANT PIG AND I HATE YOU. That said, thanks for all the nice shit you threw out!

God-tier finds
>Antique table valued at $400
>Two enormous boxes full of working Scalextric
>Vintage XXXX tin 'poster' sign
>Numerous spritzer bottles in perfect condition

Ok finds
>Enough computers to scavenge a bunch of drives, HDD's etc from. Got a few working and were completely insecure, tax details the works. Fucking weird booting up and seeing a desktop photo of someone's kids.
>10lb Bowling ball
>a pile of electron guns from old CRT televisions, great for modelling (shameless fa/tg/uy)
>Projector with some issues with blue
>Enough copper wiring/coils/hoses to buy beer every week when sold for scrap

Shit-tier finds
>A duffel bag filled with household waste and rotting meat
>Tree stump partially encased in concrete
>Lawn clippings just dumped on kerp
>Enough asbestos to choke a small nation
>Piles of green waste with sections of tree stump hidden in the middle (blow your guts out your ass when you try and lift the whole lot)

The annoying part is a lot of the shit-tier stuff we still had to collect, asbestos, household waste and loose greenery were explicitly prohibited so we could leave those, but stuff like the fuckhuge tree stump we had to try and lift into the truck. I should mention it still had a tow cable around it. The owner came out (the smug prick) and told us she needed her 4WD to drag it out the front

Anyone know some good places in the east bay area?

Hayward mainly.

>>82824
>>a pile of electron guns from old CRT televisions, great for modelling (shameless fa/tg/uy)

What do you do with them? Got pictures or links?

Curious fag is curious.

>>82411
>Keynesian 'spending drives the economy' bullshit

>>82845
If you can keep them largely intact you've got a nice array of rounded rectangles with wires and bits (see pic) that make great bases for large weapons like Volcano cannons. Pieces of them, with the rounded recangular shape, make great Plasma Cannons with some carefully-applied IDE cable for GW's signature plasma-weapon appearance.

>>82855
UGH, fuck I suck at attaching pictures

>>82857
Ah kewl. I've seen plenty just never thought of using them like that. Have you seen the round geta ring. It has some chemical stuff on it and when you wet it it sizzles.
TVfag by trade here (don't know how much longer though). Have smashed loads.

>Dumpmaster of CRTs.
>truck comes
>tip
>crush
>boosh, boom, bang poof!!!!!

Moved shop once and its fun to drop old crts off the mezzanine floor into the dump master. Best one was face to face hit.

>>82750
Got it going.

>Petrol tank had water in it
>Carburettor had water in it
>Clean out carb and connect external fuel line
>First pull runs

>>82791
y u no reply

>>82916

>>82921

>>82922

I'm happy because I'm stupid.
Scared of spiders, scared of flying.
If I wasn't so happy,
I wouldn't be so scared of dying.

>>82926
So just be gentle with me
And I'll be gentle with you
I'm not as brave as I thought
Cause my heart gets broken so easily.
So just be gentle, be gentle with me

I've seen lawnmowers thrown out in the curbside because the blade was dull, I shit you not.

That was my first salvage.

>>82927

IM GLAD I HITCHED MY APPLE WAGON TO YOUR STAR~!

>>82905

Being a victor it shall give you many years of mowing, you'll be able to hand it down to your children.

Nice pick up.

>>82931
dat song

>>82927
n legradat

>>82941

>>82943

>>82929

>I've seen lawnmowers thrown out in the curbside because the blade was dull

I joined a local facebook group in my area and someone offered a free lawnmover in good working order, recently had a service, but 'doesn't cut the grass as nicely'.

I went to pick it up at this guys fancy house, came with the grass catcher and half a bottle of new oil, owner said it got serviced by some Mexican he had working at his house (possibly an illegal), but he likes his grass 'razor trimmed'... he gave me a soda for the trip home.

Got it home and flipped it upside down - the lawnmowers the blade edge in the wrong direction (no wonder it was making a mess of the guys lawn). Took 5minutes to unbolt all 4 blades and put in the right direction and it cuts perfectly.

The lesson of the day?
>Don't let Lorenzo Ricardo service your lawnmower, Do-It-Yourself

>>82916
Oh, sorry. Skyrim. 21/m/near Freo.

>>82954
Lolz at blades upside down. Lawndigger.jpg

>>82932
Not so sure this one will do much mowing. There are parts missing all together. The blade disk is rusted to the shithouse. Imho the blade disk was a bad design. Pressed steel and powder coated with a kind of air fins on the edge to blow the grass. The powder coating lifts off and keeps water underneath accelerating the rust. The ignition cut off switch (if you can call it that) is a bit dodgy too. I picked it up more as spare parts one for another one I have. That said the one part I want is crook too (blade disk).

>>82742
I was expecting stuffed brushes in this but looks as if the gears are stripped. Will look more anther day.

Got a chalkboard tonight from Staples. 24x36
Saw an LCD Monitor in the dumpster too, but someguy came along so I had to get out of there. Going back tomorrow night to pick it up and continue my search through Staples.
Shit's cash though. Time to get some chalk

>>77414
this place wouldnt happen to be in maryland would it?

I went for a jog this morning and cut through a back alley behind some shops (off-licences mostly) where trucks drop off stock etc. I had a peek into a bin and it was filled with food drink. I grabbed a couple of powerades (went out of date 'Nov 2011') and am going back tonight for more. It's literally 2 minutes away from the student accommadation im in.

anyone in the Buffalo Ny area wanna go diving together hit me up. ricerandproud@gmail.com thats a dupe email so It might take a day or two for me to get back to u

>>82185
>>a compressor blows or something
>add more gasoline!!!

I think you might not be understanding something here.

>>83048
Turns out it wasn't an LCD Monitor, it was a black picture frame. Guess I couldn't make the connection.
Oh well, as I always say; Don't come home empty handed.

Oh yeah I got chalk and was asked if I was a teacher. Happy /diy/ving.

can i build a house with pallets

I want to ask a few questions to all you divers.

What exactly are you doing with all this collected stuff?

Are you just filling your backyard/house with horded shit?

Or are you trying to make something or trying to sell it?

I'm not trying to offend anybody, but if you collecting this shit and not doing anything with it, why take it in the first place?

I had a room mate who worked at a bakery, he'd get stacks of the end of day stuff, donuts - eclairs - loaves of bread... you name it pretty much.

It was pretty awesome to begin with (3 of us all enjoying as many donuts as we liked) - but he was just fucking going overboard bringing this shit home... who honestly needs 8 loaves of Soy & Linseed bread Every-Single-Day... He'd bring home 1 or 2 black garbage bags filled to the brim at the end of each shift and there was just no way of keeping up, he just didn't want to throw it away, but in reality it was just getting thrown away at our place... have you ever had to compact loaves of bread into a garbage bin by jumping up and down on the fucking bread?

Don't be that guy /diy/... if you have no use for it, let it go... maybe another diver will get it and actually use it...

the tool i get i fix and sell, keep to use at work, or donate to the local hacker space. food i rarely find I keep. alot of tech I find that I can use I keep or sell, if not then to a hacker space it goes.

>>84074

Sir, I give 10 internets

>>84074

Usually I just look for food (like the coffee cake im eating right now), and wont pass up the chance to get three garbage bags full of goodies (like yesterday) but i don't hoard the shit. My uncles, and aunts know I dive so we give a lot of stuff to them (within reason), and whatever I know i wont eat ususally goes to the ducks behind my house. I don't hoard shit but I am starting to accumulate too much stuff; So if i cant sell it its getting donated to volunteer bike collectives or something.

anyone in Birmingham UK?

>>80968

>>84074
You could feed birds with the bread, at least. I know a lady who does that with cast-off bread from the local bakery.

I have a question. What is the legitimacy of selling items you find dumped? If it's not okay to just sell it right after you dump it, what if you fixed it up first?

Like lets say I'm driving along, and somebody tossed a perfectly good desk away. I take it home, sand it down, maybe fix a wobbly leg, and put new varnish. Could I legitimately sell it then?

>>84292
You can sell anything you want, if someone wants to buy it.

Picked up a sweet iPod dock from a dumpster, it still had batteries in and pretty powerful speakers.

>>84074
>>84074

I have been doing professional hauling for a couple of years now. Dump runs, apartment and eviction clean outs and the like.

If I don't need it, or can't sell it then off to the dump it goes. I have gotten pretty good at walking into a house and immediately knowing what is of value.

I live in a poor working class area and this helps too. Sometimes I will get a load which is almost all reusable but not worth much for resale. So I have a free pile in front of my house known to the regulars and place a lot of stuff there to save on the dump fees.

It is a hard life but also addictive. Sometimes I will be broke in the morning and have a couple hundred bucks by afternoon.

If I come across something and I have doubts about its value I go on Ebay and Craigslist. Then I price the article one half to one fourth its worth just so I can sell it in a couple hours and keep my yard tidy.

I also give a lot of stuff to my landlady for rent. This along with fixing up and maintaining her place pays my rent.

The only problem has been that she is somewhat of a packrat and it is often a chore to tell her something needs to go to the dump.

As for wasted food I also started raising earthworms in the basement and all the food I come across goes to them if it is not fit for humans. I then sell the worm tea and worms to others in farm and garden.

>last night
>best blunder
>Recycling for rechargeable batteries inside main entrance
>wii sitting on top
>look at security people inside second set of doors
>make eye contact
>I shrug
>he shrugs
>free wii

Turns out it just has a broken disc drive in it. Bought the necessary screwdriver on ebay for $3

IF you can, try for CVS pharmacy because they throw away good, non-used products if they're out of season. It's because it's cheaper to toss it than it is to store it for next season so if it's been marked down for a while look for it in the dump after it's gone.

When I lived in a neighborhood with a dumpster, I went weekly. A week or so before Christmas ('05/'06 I think) one dumpster was nearly full of treasure. I found 6 or 7 issues of Playboy in the plastic, a Marvel Zombies comic book (one large hardback, and one small paperback), and some new looking clothes.

>>84629

Jilted girlfriend it seems.

>>84623
Sounds a bit dangerous.

bump

>>84377
>>84377

A couple weeks back I did a dump run for a guy that apparently worked for Homeland Security.

After doing this for a couple of years my moto has become to not throw anything away if I don't know what it is worth. I had a few finds on the run but the strangest was a fake gun. It was solid metal and apparently the type they use to slip in bags to test screeners.

I figured being government surplus it must be worth something. So my buyer rolls up today and it is a cop in a car. He was all like hell yeah ten bucks I'll take it. Those things aren't cheap. They use them in martial arts classes for recruits. That plus a few other things makes the runs worthwhile and doesn't really take any time out of my day.

I've been really curious about doing this, is there any good locations in Milpitas, CA?

Staples and the grocery stores nearby have locked dumpsters, though it's nerve racking for me to look through dumpsters in broad day light.

Also I still pass for a 17 year old skinny asian, and I don't really have any friends that want to do this, so I'm doing this alone.

>>85893
Maybe try finding your local anarchist community, I'm sure there's a few since you're in the bay area. Also, even locked dumpsters are typically left open the night before trash day or the night of, so figure out when that is.

Also, head south to the outskirts of san jose and I'm sure you'll find some stuff, I have a few friends who live there and I've spotted some decent shit.

I just got back from my first ever run, thanks to you guys and all this inspiration.

Found myself some unused University software, and a heavy-as-fuck blackboard that I carried all the way back to my place.

Any special ideas on what to do with the blackboard?

>>85928

Write "The only good nigger is a dead nigger" and leave it on your front lawn.

>>85966

You really don't want me alive, do you?

>>85928

>>83048 here
Do what I did and write some ridiculous Quantum Mechanics, Quadratic Equations or some other hard mumbo jumbo.
I'd take a picture of mine but I don't have my camera here right now.

>>85977

Cool, I remember reading your post and thinking about it as soon as I saw this blackboard. You're my hero. Not really, but still... thanks.

>just read this whole thread

>shit was beyond cash. too bad i dont have any friends to do this with

I got a rare case of managment approved dumpster diving today.

End of my shift was near, and our assistant manager came in, and we took the trash from the night out to the dumpster. We were shooting the shit, laughing it up, and he points out this set of shelving by the dumpster. He'd been thinking of keeping it for himself since there was nothing wrong with them other than we didn't need it anymore, and I mentioned the fact I'd been hunting around for some cheap shelves for at home. He ends up letting me snatch it up and I drove that bitch home and set it up in my room as a DVD rack. My assistant manager is a total bro.

pic related, it's the rack in question

I love finding vacuums there is rarely anything wrong with them a clog,belt ect but can always fix em I give them to my family latest one still on the shelf at walley world 150$ the problem a Bobby pin in the hose !

here it is

>>86912

That's awesome!

Bump, this thread is beyond amazing and I totally plan on going dumpster diving next chance I get. Man I love this board.

remember to use the symbols ppl
>>79817
I don't see them used nearly enough. This whole movement is based on mutual aid and reuse, support other divers!!!

ps: If you're wondering where they originated from, it's a hackbloc HTZ issue from a couple years back. Or maybe just last year? I don't know, I lose track of time.

So I've been flirting a bit with diving. First time out best thing I got was 2 boxes of scones from Starbucks. This last time I got 2 pillows which were kept out in the rain. Brought them home and washed them and they're pretty great. Overall it's a neat thing to do. Have yet to master what bags to look in for neat stuff.

>>77111

>jackie-chan-meme.png
>not posting pic related

get out

>>87990

Well shit I just fucked up the whole argument.

Some friends of mine raided a little caesers dumpster once and got 10 pizzas that had just been thrown out maybe 10 minutes before they got there. I guess at the end of the night the employees just threw out fresh pizzas that they couldn't reheat the next day.

I recently found a PS2 with over 20 games in the Gamestop dumpster. It wouldn't read discs, but It was a fucking sinch to fix.

Makes me wonder why they threw it away, anyway...

>>88018
because good luck selling a PS2 when the PS3 is five years old.

To put some perspective, the PS2 was 6 years old when the PS3 came out. So the labor cost of fixing it was likely to be greater than what they could sell it for minus space occupied.

>>88150
It's math like that, that makes me wonder how anyone can go along with the sick joke "not enough resources on earth for us all" we don't have a resource problem we have a management issue. Guerrilla recyclers know this better than anyone.

>>82929
I got a mower once. The problem with it? They replaced the sparkplug with one that was too long so the piston hit the bottom of the plug. Put in the proper plug and it worked great!

It's sad, but some people are truly useless idiots when it comes to fixing (or even maintaining) things.

>>88153
Feeding, clothing, and sheltering the poor is a horrible business model.

>>88163
I got a lawn mower 3 years ago right before I bought my own house. One of the wheels broke off, The bag hinges were bent, and the air filter hadn't ever been changed. Changed the filter, and threw on a wheel, set it to mulch (fixed the hinges, but fuck bagging) and it hasn't let me down once. I let it sit for 6-8 weeks at a time, and don't touch it over the winter, and it always starts up with the oil topped off, and fresh gas.

>>88153
Yup, it's one of many reasons I hate capitalism. When everyone works to their own advantage with disregard of others, they end up fucking *themselves* over. Well, here's to the demise of consumer culture.

From the dumpster, to the grave!

So on my second day of dumpster-diving, I found box loads of computers.

The only problem? I have 0 knowledge of hardware.

I could imagine they could be sold for a decent price, but all of them were partially disassembled.

So, I can't describe the components to potential buyers, and I don't even know how to set them up to test if they work. And I assume nobody wants to buy a non-fixed computer except for scrap or their own projects.

Thoughts? I'm really at a loss on how to pull a profit from something that seems like it would easily net a few grand from someone more savvy.

>>88514
They're pretty much worthless. If its anything older than 5 years old, $50 is the most it will pull in perfect working order, and at 10 years, good luck trying to trick someone int giving you $20.

Corporate computers have a 4 year lifespan. People that know about computers don't want them because they're dated and underpowered, and people who know fuckall about computers don't want them because they don't come with a warranty.

You're in the zone of pain. Best find something to do with them yourself.

>>88627

ayeeeeeeeeeeeee

why aren't you on /o/ h/o/mo?

Any recs for the Fox Valley, WI area? I've mostly just been eyeing up the dumpsters at my apartment complex and getting the coke points caps/containers, too pussy to try anything at the mall.

A while ago I was dumpster diving and I as I pulled a box off the top of the pile I saw a tiny foot connected to a leg, I went into complete freak out mode for about 5 seconds until I discovered it was a doll.

... Thought I had found a dumpster baby.

>>88514

Short of turning them into E-waste recyclers: Scrapping them yourself.

Dismantle computers into several key components: Metals, Plastics, and Circuit Boards.

Most computers nowadays are made of ABS/PP plastics, and have little to no recycle value. If you can't find a way to recycle it or sell it, trash it.

Metals are split into several distinct groups: Steel, Copper, Gold, and Lead. Steel will comprise frames; copper is wires and dynamos. Gold is either etched onto the circuit boards a/or in the chips. Lead is solder that binds resistors and whatnot onto the circuit boards.

Steel and copper can net you fast cash. Check your local scrap yards on their buying policies. General rule is that stripping copper wires of plastics will net you better prices at yards; either invest in a wire stripper a/or burn them and clean them up with a cloth.

Circuit Boards is another matter. You could undertake the process yourself, or sell them as scrap on eBay. Google "Computer Gold recovery" for an idea.

>>88661

That is the kind of scare that would make a lot of people stop dumpster diving for life.

dumpstered several textbooks once, sold them on amazon for a total of about $250

all of my jackets and coats were picked from dumpsters after school moveout days

ive survived at school this year on a diet of 90% dumpstered little ceasers and pizza hut pizza. feels good to pay less than $5 a week for food

wait, really?

It's 2011 and you people are going into other people's trash? What kind of faggots are you? If I ever saw you faggots I would shoot you with the gun I have in my truck. Because I hate faggots, and especially faggots like you faggots

Burn in hell you wastes of the word scum.

I once went dumpster diving.

What I found was kind of macabre in hind-sight.

They where some heavily damaged but still functioning floppy disks unique to Windows 98. Once I put them inside my desktop, it was a bunch of gore and weird .txt files with a ton of addresses.

>>89595

You're a faggot. I bet you're a kike too.

Faggot.

One time me and a mate found a bunch of old party lights and an old Super 8 Camera, but found out that super8 processing was in one lab in the world which was shutting down. Still cool though.

And the other night I found a pretty sweet road bike next to a dumpster, was sitting there for two nights in a row around 3am so I figured it was all good, nice condition just needs some paint and a new seat.

I live in a pretty small town so there are slim pickings, but thankfully I think I'm the only regular diver around these parts so loads of dumpsters are left open.

I'm in NZ btw. Will post pic of bike later on.

here in Norway, electronicstores are obligated to take in old electronics. So people leave all their old electronics behind the stores. So once a week i take a drive to the biggest electronicstores. And you wont believe what people are leaving there. For now I've found 3 32" lcd/palsma tvs. And every time i raid all the computers standing there. Always take a screwdriver with me. I take out all the ram, hdd, and any other parts worth anything, sometimes i find high-end graphic cards, and more often i start to find BD-drives. And any good mainboards or cases i find, i take with me. Normaly i can make 2 worthwhile pc's a week. So i sell them online, so thats almost 400dollars extra each week. I just hope this lasts a bit longer, before anyone else finds out about this.

>>88514
keep the fans.
you can easily just cut off the power connector and rewire them to any power adapter and they'll work.

hmm I just threw away shitload of good clothes that I never used...

maybe somebody pick it all up after all :)

That feel when you live a semi- third world country where few people throw out still useful/working condition things and/or there are a lot of poor faggots actually making their livings of recolecting anything and everything worth anything.

Every once and a while, I drive to dive over to Boca Raton, an extremely wealthy neighborhood here in Miami.

I have landed some godly finds every time I've gone over there. The best was a minty 2008-era Macbook Pro with a broken LCD. $30 fix, free $1000+ computer. The specs are really nice on it, too. 4GB ram, quad-core processor, the works. Battery was practically new.

I also found a Herman Miller chair with a small tear in the leather but otherwise like new, a large crystal-cut chandelier that looks very well-made and expensive, an old, working Honda Rebel motorbike, couple of nice Waterford champagne glasses, a working Royal typewriter that just needed new ribbon, tons of old computers, a rosewood china cabinet, and a few other odds and ends.

The legend about nice finds in rich neighborhoods is logically true. Boca Raton is awesome.

>>90758
wow an anon in SoFlo
where you at, if you're still around this thread?
N. broward here.

>>90762
Hialeah.