Trash Day 2006 - The Mother Load (HQ)

[CorMc09]

You filmed your rubbish being put in a bin lorry.......

[djzee1000]

Hope you gave them a Christmas Tip...

[FBCDS82]

jesus.. and my garbage collectors complain when there are rugs longer than 4ft or if you have more than 4 bags.. gotta love the sound of crunching plastic..

[shelledfade]

how the fuck did you accumulate ALL of that? do you own a store?

[Begbucks]

I saw some good eBay items there such as HIFI radio receivers

[packrat79]

Have you ever tried selling Canadian-branded hifi receivers on eBay? Good luck....

[Begbucks]

@packrat79 I sold everything Cape Cod has many transitional residents & yes in fact I had lots of Canadian brands, such as Raleigh Sports 3 speed bikes rebranded as "Glider" for the Eaton department stores. not quite the original but still slid along nicely.

[BedfordMarcus]

Do those go to recycle or landfill?

[shinyfuzzy]

all that copper :o

[bryan1282]

and anyway, that pile is sweet sweet overtime for me, lol

[bryan1282]

some areas of the country dont recycle certain things. my town only accepts 1 and 2 plastic, paper, and metal food cans. but no cardboard. the town next to me recycles 1-7 plastics, cardboard, even plastic toys, and electronics, but cant recycle black plastic, but my town does. its a state to state, town to town programs.

[Mullendroid]

What a waste of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bowling123ism]

me too

[greekstephen]

Two dislikes were from the trash men doing all the work.

[TheEPROM9]

Haven't you herd of recycling over there?

[robloxpwnmaster3]

nooooooooooo why i could of smashed that stuff with my favorite rock

[robloxpwnmaster3]

hey i wish i lived near you i would have sold the working ones and smashed the broken ones with a hammer or rock

[maccollectorZ]

aaaah, I would have kept those awesome 80's TV's :(

[packrat79]

I still have about 75+ other sets I kept for my collection, ranging from the late 40's to mid 80's. They'll probably end up in the landfill too, unless I find someone who wants them.

[maccollectorZ]

@packrat79 hmm. that's cool :)

[xXxchipperchopperxXx]

@packrat79 ummm ever hear of recycling the scrap metal inside?

theres a good bit of copper in all those tvs

[SeberHusky]

If you would have taken the time to test the electronics, you would have gotten more for resale value than just destroying them.

People throw that stuff out now because they don't want it, not because it doesn't work. I've gotten 15 TV sets for free, and all work just perfectly.

[5france3]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!! :(((((((((

[kittyfanatic1980]

its amazing the stuff u will find and its resale value. but i thought it was illegal(even in 2009) to send tvs and electronics to the dump bc of lead mostly.

[phonejoey]

i wouldve kept the computer moniters

[packrat79]

Too bad you don't live handy, I could have given you dozens of them.

[cuginetycoon]

awww this made me glad, and then im balling my eyes out

[savagenomore]

thats a scrap man's dream right there

[ash4245]

is that truck a heil???

[vintageceilingfans]

Quit A few Antiques on these videos that should have been put on ebay instead of the junk pile

[teamscrewed42]

There goes some antique's

[ElAlegreHombre]

That was someone who was running a home based business, and sticking it to the trashman; no way is that residential...

[th02051986]

stop with the FF bullshit

[Larre500]

Indeed... Where I live there is a recycling facility near the transfer station, so much gets recycled around here.

[bandbgamesroom]

hey tell the garbage people that it's my job to smash things lol!

[bryan1282]

i would love to have a pile like that to pickup, i love when the tvs explode when you pack them up. a big tv would shake the truck and blast you with a burst of air.

[dave2kgti]

@bryan1282 TVs dont explode as they are a vacuum inside the tube so no not even a 'burst of air' im afraid

[1234build]

im guessing that with all that, in metal value that would be 500-700 dollars- just guessing

[packrat79]

More like 500-700 cents. This stuff was mostly plastic, glass, and wood... it wouldn't have been worth the time to recycle the steel. I did, however, remove most of the copper and aluminum.

[savagenomore]

@packrat79 so you had already taken out the good stuff before this, steel here was $12.50 per 100 pound last week..

[daveykoper]

@packrat79 There is about 5 dollars worth of copper in each one of those tv's. Big or small, they still have about the same amount. I used to work at a scrapyard, and older tv's like those are like gold to us.

[packrat79]

As I said before, recyclables like copper and aluminum were already removed. Old microwaves are by far the best source of copper, if you have a way to cut the transformers apart and remove it.

[Cargo1273]

At 7:34 that was a Nice console TV. Looks like a 27-inch Zenith Sentry 3 from 1991.

[packrat79]

Bingo. This was a weird set because the chassis was made by Mitsubishi, and it had that infamous problem with the electrolytic caps leaking onto the board. I had fixed this for a customer but he never picked it up, and since it had no resale value (the CRT might have lasted another year at most), I decided to give it a starring role in this video instead.

[eviltrucks101]

i would die for alll of those elctronics lots of value still with copper and metal.

[DOUGIE1979]

for someone who apparently knows about electronics you certainly dont seem to know how to fix much stuff!! Americans!!!!

[packrat79]

Actually I could have fixed 95% of this stuff, but I didn't because NOBODY WANTS TO BUY IT! Everyone would rather buy the latest Chinese junk instead, putting people like me out of business, so they're the ones to blame. At least I bother to remove the recyclables, which is more than the average consumer who tosses stuff to the curb without a second thought.

BTW I'm Canadian, though I realize we're no better than the USA when it comes to things like this.

[DOUGIE1979]

board already

[pranklover11]

ive seen a bunch of ur vids, where the fuck do u get all these electronics? u own a future or something and just throw out all the old items like this? lol

[NamelessOnlineFreak]

That's the American Way of Life - big skyscrapers, big burgers, big garbage piles (big landfills, big environmental problems...)

[picklesrule69]

You gotta love the crushing noise (Y)

[gunnlover]

i dont know of any city in the US that would agree to do this even if you paid them. they would make you take it to a recycling center or leave it sit on the side of the road

[heiltruckfan]

This Heil 5000 packer does a better job of crushing the bulk than the EZ-Pack I've seen in your other vids. All the EZ-Pack does is push the trash out of the hopper.

[trashratt]

@heiltruckfan yeah those Heil 5000 are starting to win me over, pretty decent trucks! Where is that thunder storm guy? heard from, him lately?

[heiltruckfan]

@trashratt Nope. he hasn't posted any videos lately.

[smashingstuff09]

were do you get all of this stuff???

[bdmcneilusmsl]

That is ALOT! Great job!

[MitchellM15]

I am amazed, I thought I've seen some nasty clean-up piles... but this officialy beats them all! Where did all that come from?! After all the compaction that occured, this must've filled at least a 1/3 of the truck?! You have some awesome clean-up videos, keep them coming =]

[packrat79]

I repair/refurbish used electronics, or at least I used to before the market collapsed, and the stuff in these videos were the rejects. I strip the recyclables (copper, aluminum, etc.) and some other components before discarding them.... so nothing of value ever gets wasted.

[MitchellM15]

Ohh ok that's very good. Resource recovery and get some money out of it too then? All the rejects make a good video hehe

[mikemihh]

@packrat79

Which country is this? USA or Canada? I live in UK and I know for sure, that if you piled up your old electronics here, bin men, wont pick them up. Here we gotta take all electronics to the recycling centre. Pain in the butt, to be honest, especially with our petrol prices. I normally try to hide all of my electronics in my wheely bin, so that bin men don't see it and take it away. Nice video!

[packrat79]

That's because the environmental agenda is out of control in the UK - they've even banned leaded solder for crying out loud. And I think the gas prices there have been hiked up just to push people towards hybrid or electric vehicles. So glad I don't live there.....

[mikemihh]

@packrat79

Well, if you go to Europe, it's even stricter over there. Especially in Germany and Scandinavia.

I wonder how much tax you pay, for all that stuff to be collected? I pay 1200 pounds a year as a council tax. That includes trash pick up, general street cleaning, landscaping and emergency services call outs.

My binmen pissed me off last monday - I've put my dog's toys in the bin, including some tree branches... My bin was not emptied because of this!

[garbagemaster1234567]

packrat79 please please please respond...how in the world did you get all of this stuff in all of your videos? Is it through work or something. I don't know if I mist something but this is incredible. Thanks and fantastic job as always.

[packrat79]

Electronics is a hobby of mine, and at one time I repaired a lot of TVs etc. for people. Which meant I had a lot of stuff in storage, and every spring I'd round up the junk units, strip the copper & aluminum and some components, and pile them up on the big trash pickup date. In '06 I was clearing out a lot of stuff to make room for more. Now business has slowed so I don't have as much trash anymore.... I'm glad I videotaped this so I can have a memory!

[garbagemaster1234567]

Alright thanks man.

[arkansastrash320]

Wow thats a lot of stuff nice video!I know myself i sure would love to have looked throught that stuff for the metals and copper and even a vcr that mite still work...

[packrat79]

you'd have been disappointed... everything useful or recyclable was stripped from this stuff.

[arkansastrash320]

Oh ok so i guess the copper was got too?

[robinsonm08]

was the truck empty looked like they were starting to pack out

[furbyone1]

..many thanks for that real great video... and merry christmas!!!

[Wmdude1998]

Nice merry christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SquishDoll]

Great vid, 5* & fav!

Merry Christmas!

[trashratt]

Merry Christmas Youtube buddy! Hopper New Year.

[bdmcneilusmsl]

I will rate this vid 5* because there is alot of cruching but you arn't good on the earth!