VIRGINIA Please include job title, company/organization, city, etc. Must be a specific job, and not theoretical ("plumber" vs. "pipe fitter, Pipe City Plumbers, Silver Spring, VA"). Virginia ideas only.
There is a giant rock quarry here in Virginia out near Dulles Airport. I think I saw on Mega Machines or Modern Marvels that they have one of the largest rock crushing machines in existence there.
Anyway, there is a giant machine that crushes rock. I'm sure it gets really dirty and needs maintenance from time to time with lots of danger and small places.
ok I'm not sure the official title to either of these but we have the smithfield packing plant in Smithfield VA where they take the pigs and they become ham and bacon. We also have the papermill in Franklin Va that though I have never been inside it I know it gives off a terrible smell throughout the area. Working with the animals at Busch Gardens Williamsburg is no picnic either. You definately dont want to walk by there if you stomach is upset. Same with the Anheiser Busch Brewery located next to Busch gardens. Yes they create wonderful beer but the smell of the hops is enough to make you want to get sick.
We Have a job we would love for you to come do with us.
We're Dump Diggers, and we are located in Powhatan VA. As dump diggers, we dig around in old dump sites located in the forests, shoveling our way through cold mud, sludge, and insect infested filth! We are looking for valuable old bottles, many of which we then sell. We would be thrilled for you to come dig with us. We sure hope you can!
I work for a company based at Dulles VA that details and cleans corporate jets. Sounds glamourous but we get very, very dirty doing our work. We wash big airplanes:wet and dirty. We polish the metal on the leading edges, tail, and engines:dirty, hot, dangerous chemical residue. We wax the airplanes: hot, dirty, and dangerous. We would love to have Mike down to work with us.
I think Mike should come to Virginia to the Hillsville, VA Labor Day Flea Market and Gun Show. Hillsville is a tiny town of about 2000 people on a normal day, but when the flea market occurs over Labor Day weekend it becomes a giant shopping mall where half a million people come through the town in just four days. It's the largest flea market in the south, right on top of this little town. The flea market itself is not the dirty job. It's the cleanup after the flea market and picking up the trash dropped by half a million people in four days that is truly, truly disgusting. Here is a link to the town's website http://www.hillsville.com/fmarket.htm. Hillsville would love to welcome Mike with open arms, and a shovel so he can help start digging out from the mountain of trash that covers the town after Labor Day weekend!
Cintas in Culpeper VA wait till early summer when the magotts start to get ripe, the bar towels sit in resturants for weeks buy the time they get there from tri state area from semi they are so ripe i quit. The people get paid in peanuts, not to mention the smelly dirty cloths they have to swim in. Im sure someone has mentioned this before but i guese headquarters wont allow the show
Dish wash/Pot wash and/or Coal Burning Steam power plant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Virginia
A litle about the job and me: I am Todd and I am a current student attending Virginia Tech. Yet in order to help pay for my college education I work during my semesters. I am currently in my 3 year working at the largest dining hall on campus. I am an assistant student manager in the dishwash/potwash area. I cant remember if you have already done a segment on dishwashing but I think you should try our job for a shift and see just how we clean 1200-1700 trays of food and plates 3 times a day.
I can suggest another job on our campus here at Virginia Tech which is in our steam power plant. I have been through the plant on a tour and I must say that it is very dirty and hot in there for just being hot water. The plant also burns coal to produce the steam, which adds to the dirt inside.
I have a good job for you. My dad, David, is a machinist at C & L machine and welding shop in Amelia Court House Va. He goes align boring, which is welding up and cutting out holes for pins or buschings in heavy machines. My dad usually comes home totally covered in grease. The job normally takes between 4-12 hours depending on how many holes he has to fix. They also build just about any part you can think of for big machines, from bolts to pins to bushings.
What about trying your patience driving a school bus or fixing a bus? I drive for Chesterfield County School Board Transportation Virginia. I know u would need to have a CDL in order to drive. U can contact Dennis Lewis Director of Pupil transportation @804-748-1887. I sure would enjoy if I got to show u the ropes.
In efforts to bring dirty Mike Rowe and his even dirtier production team to Hampton Roads, we have a novel dirty job proposal list:
1. Considering how much we know Mike loves a lung-full of dust dirty job challenge, we invite him to come find out what it takes to transport coal. Pier VI, Lamberts Point Coal Terminal, is the largest coal-transloading terminal in the Northern Hemisphere. Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates this Coal Transloading Facility on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia to transfer coal from rail cars to ships: annual through-put capacity is 48 million tons.
2. If coal isn't your cup of tea, at the Home of the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk and the heaviest concentration of military bases, you may find dirty jobs on the likes of Destroyers, Amphibs, and Air Craft Carriers. Relatedly, Northrop Grumman, a ship building company located in Newport News is currently putting the finishing touches on the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Air Craft Carrier. Sure a new aircraft carrier would still have a few dirty spots hidden away.
3. The options are endless here, truly, as we also are home to the largest natural port system and 3 major International Marine Terminals. Due to the ship traffic and the abundant bodies of water, we maintain 4 tunnels, 3 of which are bridge-tunnels, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, 24 miles long, that connects Virginia Beach to the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
4. Last, and most dirtiest least, thirty minutes to the south is Smithfield, home of Smithfield Ham – bacon! However, that job might buck the Dirty Job pig mascot. So, a bit closer twenty minutes south, is Planter's Peanuts, in Suffolk Virginia, home of the Peanut Festival. Roasting nuts, a job I hear is a little… greasy.
We have it all here in Hampton Roads Dirty Jobs... come check us out!”
Hi all...right now I work for Bank of America mortgage, but I used to work for Colonial Marble in Petersburg, Va and still have contacts there if you'd like to check out that dirty job:
304 E Bank St Petersburg, VA , 23803-3324 Phone: 804-861-3199 FAX: 804-733-4936 Toll Free Phone: 800-842-9215 Business Activity: Manufacturer
Not only is the building an aged warehouse in old towne Petersburg -surely 100 years old (with old elevators work on a pulley system), the job is especially dirty. Using special polymers, powdered marble is mixed either in small batch upstairs for specialty pieces (which is where I used to work), or in a giant hopper for the more expansive pieces (tubs, sinks, etc.). You are guaranteed to experience a truly remarkable process - from the mixing (either into the giant hopper - 50 lb. bags a piece - yup I did that - or into the smaller mixer upstairs) to the setting up of specialty pieces with wax on buffed tables to the table spraying (which keeps the marble from sticking), and then the laying of the marble in these trays. Then you attach special air compressed vibration clamps to the tables to shake the air bubbles out. As soon as it sets, its ready to be removed but WATCH OUT BECAUSE ITS SHARP!! then the pieces go to be sanded. after completion of this process, then you can go out on a visit to an institution where the marble is being installed and see/participate in the installation first hand. I just could picture this being a VERY INFORMATIVE AND WICKED FUN EPISODE. Let me know what you think! I was amazed when I worked there at just how interesting the process of creating synthetic marble is.
Hello to all.... I doubt Mr.Rowe will see,or read this,but here goes.Mike needs to try tiling....He will not only be very dirty,he will sleep like a baby and cry for days about his aches and pains.I would love to have Mike be my helper for the day.Jobs performed by Mike will include heavy lifting,mixing mud,thinset,grout,as well as applying these materials to walls floors,etc.Oh yeah dont forget the clean up,and band aids from cutting tile/stone.Hope to see ya soon Mike. Thank you for your time, Maury p.s. I can be reached @tileman757....i also have a 360page@yahoo you can see some of my work.
Second I have got a nice dirty job for you. My dad is the President of Dunmar Moving Systems in Richmond, VA. It is a fairly small company which is based in Richmond, Roanoke, and Norfolk. I have worked for Dunmar for about 8 years now during breaks while I was attending high school and college and working at Dunmar made me realize how important an education is. Through the 8 years I worked for Dunmar I have moved around different division from the warehouse of the household goods, office moving and then to the records management division. Now most people may no think that moving furniture is a dirty job maybe just hard work but let me tell you about some of the jobs that are associated with running a moving business.
1. Given that cardboard boxes and paper are used to move most people Dunmar tries to recycle just about all of its boxes. To do this the boxes are compacted in bailer once they are brought back from a job. Most of times customers like to use these boxes as their trash cans. In the 2 years I worked on the bailer I ran in to normal household garbage all the way to used baby diapers.
2. In the warehouse people’s household goods are stored in vaults that are made of wood that are about 5’x7x7’. Now there are a couple tasked associated with these vaults. The first is the construction of these large wooden boxes. They come in panels and we must construct them into the usable shape. Next is the actual use of these vaults when a person’s household goods are stored. They must be “palletized” which requires padding all furniture and then placing them in this vault along with the boxes so that there are no voids in the vault for the goods to be shift around during transportation or storage. This may sound simple but "palletizing" a vault so that you can maximize all the space is really a true art. Finally the last general task associated with the vaults is the destruction of old ones that are no longer sturdy enough to support itself. Now to this requires a sledgehammer and a forklift. Basically one person knocks all the sides loose from the base while the forklift supports the sides so that it does not fall on the person. Then the forklift will raise up the vault and then drop it causing most of the sides to collapse and the rest of the vault is basically broken and then stacked and banded together to be shipped off to be recycled. 3. One other forgotten job associated with moving trucks is the fact that they must be weighed. Well to that you need a truck scale and like everything else a truck scale must be cleaned. The cleaning out of the bottom of a truck scale especially if in the summer is like digging up a muddy ditch while being in a sauna. It is by far the worst job in terms of dirt associated with the moving business.
Now the job of a mover in general is both hard and dirty job ranging from lifting pianos down stairs, loading 15,000 lbs of peoples goods into tractor trailers in the dead of summer or brutal winters or pulling record boxes in either the coldest or the hottest of temperature depending upon the season. In all a mover is a dirty job and if there where no movers how would anyone be able to move from one place to another within a reasonable amount of time. Plus you get to see all the crazy and cool things people have. So if your every in the Richmond area stop by Mike and Dunmar will be sure to get you a little dirty and definitely make you break a sweat.
I'm the leading enlisted guy of the fuels division on the mighty USS Nassau, unfortunatly known as "The Big Nasty". I know you cleaned the fuel tanks on an Air Force Tanker, but you've never gone inside the aircraft fueling system on a Navy ship. It would be a pleasure to have you aboard to replace filter elements or clean a tank. If you've never smelled JP-5, I'd love to introduce you to it!
My name is Connor, im from the Virginia Museum of Transportation. I am teh volenteer archivest and yardmaster, we figured it might be fun for you all try the museum business. This more then likely including...
Archiving Oiling (It might happen, you never know) Cleaning (Ooooh boy... are certian things dirty and painful to clean around here) Manual movement of both light and heavy items (Such as track tools, engine tools, so on...) and we can find lots of other intresting and 'fun' things to do in our railyard
..It dont sound so bad, but i'm a water meter guy from wytheville VA. there is no poo or oily toxic crud involved but i'm here to tell ya, diggin out these meters is a dirty job. For the next few months were changing out some water meters at a complex with no water cut-offs!! its muddy, cold, and very wet but we have lots of fun......covered in mud! we would love to have mike come diggin with us for a day, we're all big fans of the show. if need be, just contact me through E-mail.
I used to set mobile homes in VA. During the winter we work in mud, snow, sleet, shine what ever the weather is we work. We have 45000lb homes setting in 13" of mud, and the best part is we get to crawl in it. Also we deal with alot of sewer problems and water leaks which just make it more fun. We would love for you to come and work with us. DC moving is the place and we work out of Bedford VA. 5405830065. If you want to get a peak at what is the southeast biggest and dirtiest job, then come have fun with is.
House cleaning We work for One Clean World a green cleaning company in Charlottesville Virginia. Sometimes we have a home that needs lots of attention, maybe it's last cleaning was over a year or two ago and it's our job to give the home owner a clean and safe environment. House cleaning is a very dirty job at times.
Hello, I'm Dean, longtime fan of Dirty Jobs, and I've got a job for Mike.
Job: Gas Inspector City of Richmond Richmond, VA
My father-in-law, Terry, is a gas inspector for the City of Richmond. His crews move around the city digging up, inspecting, and replacing the aging gas network. More importantly, though, Terry is a great guy and would be absolutely ecstatic to be on TV. The whole Dirty Jobs crew would have a great time, I promise. Additionally, Terry's got a lot of family and friends in WV, so he might be able to help you check that state off your list as well
Hey Mike
