Greetings from Sydney

[Inner City Recycler]

Hi
My name is Brad. I live about 5km south of Sydney CBD.

The streets around here are lined with scrappers gold. I usually just walk a different way home from the station each day (almost 2 km) and keep my eyes open.

Yesterday I got 5kg of Cat6, a fan motor, 3kg of extension lead a small clock motor and some brass.

I'd post a photo of what I staggered home with but am not sure how photos work on this forum.

[WEEE Ben]

Hi Brad, welcome.
You can post pictures by clicking on the advanced editor it's the A tab you see on the right of where you type a reply, next to smiley face

[Chris]

Welcome Brad,
Yep - pics are great! We always enjoy seeing what people score on street scraps. Ben has a good following on his youtube channel for that exact reason!

[Inner City Recycler]

This is the back of my car after my first "intentional" day of scrapping. I went dumpster diving while walking through the industrial estates about 2km from home. I filled my backpack and geo-tagged the heavy stuff and went back with the car.
With the seats down I have 1000+ litres of space.
There's an AC unit, a solar PV inverter (10kg of copper & 6kg of extruded aluminium), some totes, hessian coffee bags, coffee bean mulch (I'm a gardener), wire, refundable bottles, microwave oven components and a 30kg compressor motor that I still haven't torn down.

[Inner City Recycler]

This was the 1.8km walk home from the station after work in my office clothes.
I had my backpack full of wire and an 80cm x 80cm x 15cm box full. I still had 1.5km to go and boy my arms were tired at the end!
All the yellow stuff was Cat6

[Chris]

Nice work Brad.. it's amazing how much good value stuff is just thrown out sometimes!

[Inner City Recycler]

Nice work Brad.. it's amazing how much good value stuff is just thrown out sometimes!

A few weeks back I found this 1.5kg stainless steel counterweight for a photographic harness. Sold it on eBay yesterday for $24. It cost hundreds new but the buying market is limited.

Yesterday I got a few kg of LGCu wire, some stainless steel cookware and 2 car batteries. Couldn't carry the batteries so i hid them behind some bins and geo-tagged them. Picked them up later when going shopping.

This was the big find:
Feb 1940 reference for a worker on the commissioning of the new Holden factory in Pagewood, NSW. Will put it on ebay this w/e