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Dumpster Dipping (for a small planet or just for fun)

Step 3The tools are optional

The tools are optional
Tools are optional and used mostly to extend your reach.

Most useful:
A good gripper for general picking up of things like books, paper, clothes, desk drawer emptied into a bag, etc
Instructable on making a grabber
A loop and tube (lasso on a pole) for lifting heavy or slippery things like pipes, full bottles, chairs.
Bring your Identification. (The authorities like being able to look you up and let you go.)

Optional:
Some old bike inner tubes to use as bungee cords for lashing down the load.
A box cutter for flattening boxes and skinning broken fancy leather chairs,
pliers, wire cutters, screw drivers, crescent wrench, and
a stick with a nail or screw out the side for hooking items or stabbing and dragging cardboard.
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2 comments
Apr 22, 2011. 8:35 PMraceryz350 says:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Green-Garbage-Grabber%2c-Trash-Tongs%2c-pick-up-tool/
Aug 12, 2010. 5:16 PMRyutso says:
The instructable on making a gripper seems to have...vanished.

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