DELAWARE 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, DE"). Delaware ideas only.
Police Officer, city of Wilmington DE, get down and dirty on the streets and fight some crime with the Wilmington Police Department in the first state or Police Departments in the surrounding areas. Wilmington DE, is a under estimated city that is small but has big problems. Wilmington DE, about 20 minutes south of Philadelphia, PA.
I can speak from experience that biohazard and crime scenes ARE very dirty jobs. Probably a sensitive area, but you may be able to avoid the homicides and deal with biohazards.
During a regional law enforcement conference I learned of a company named Nationwide Crime Scene Cleanup. Their site; http://www.delaware-biohazard-blood-crime-death-suicide-cleanup.com/ didnt provide a local address, but it does provide a telephone number 1-888-431-7233. They specialize in Biohazard, Blood, Death, and Suicide cleanup.
My family owns Wampler's Clothing Restoration. We restore clothing items to their pre-disaster condition. We deal with retrieving clothing items that have been affected by mold, fire, flood or any other disaster that may occur to homeowners. The job can be very dirty at times, as we need to pick through burnt houses and rubble to recover clothing, pillows, stuffed animals and other cloth materials in homes. In addition to the disaster, we have to deal with the condition of the homes prior to the disaster. In the past, we have had to pick through mice nests, human and animal feces and years and years of filth from owners that do not clean their homes. Now, not all our jobs are dirty but some definitely are downright disgusting.
Once we collect all salvageable items, we bring them back to our plant in Wilmington to begin the restoration process. We then return the items to the homeowners in their pre-disaster condition. Insurance companies use this service to save in the cost of replacing items and, most times, homeowners would rather have their items back than have them replaced.
Tugboat Repair/Floating Crane Repair My husband would like to take Mike Rowe out on the Delaware River or Chesapeake River where he fixes the Tugboats and Floating Cranes for Corman-Imbach Marine Construction. Main office is located in Baltimore Maryland, but they have construction sites in Baltimore, Annapolis and Delaware. Oh, yes, it's a dirty job! Thanks! Keith and Suzanne Coyle
Job Title: Live Bait Specialist aka Minnow Catcher
Company/Organization: Cedar Creek Bait and Tackle
Location: Milford, DE Mispillion Inlet, DE Bay
Meandering through the muddy ditches of the backwaters of the Mispillion River is where I discovered a sure-fire way to become encrusted with stinky, black mud that even a scrub brush has to work extra hard to remove! We first prepare the bait by cutting up and squishing buckets full of slimy, stinky bunker fish and dead blue crab. Then we cruise in a small boat with dozens of traps that are oozing fish blood, fight off our infamous green flies, and lastly, drag ourselves up a muddy ditch before the "fun" even begins.
When Mummichog/Mud Minnows "pot", you gotta move fast; from the time you remove them from the pot until they are purging in a holding tank is a dirty battle against time. I cannot count the times Tom has said, "Mike Rowe shoud do this"!
My name is Judy and I LOVE my job! At the ripened age of 43 I found my calling and Mike, you'd love it too! If you're too chicken to schlep mud and minnows, we could always use your help repacking 18" ink-loaded trolling squid, going through a burlap bag filled with green crab to find the stinky dead one, bagging slimy bunker to freeze, or filleting a customer's fish guaranteeing no bones. If you take us up on our offer, we promise to take you fishing on the DE Bay.
Come spend the day with us in Lower, Slower, Delaware.
Hey Dirty Jobs this is William I'm 22 and I am an indoor air quality technician. I work for County Environmental Company located in New Castle Delaware and we have some dirty jobs for you guys. Are company does a variety of work ranging from Scraping the grease ducts clean in are local hospitals, Emergency response water restoration, and smoke and fire restoration, Mold remediations(using various techniques including the dry ice blasting method), Residential and commercial duct cleaning, Residential and commercial unit cleanings, Demolition, Crawl space cleanings, Commercial coatings, Air quality testing. Other parts of our company also do Asbestos abatement as well as lead paint removal. We are Haz-mat certified and use all the proper PPE for all of our work. Our company is also attached to Count Insulation if you would be interested in laying some insulation or building some scaffolding. Our contact number is 1-800-326-8946. Thank you for you time. William Buehler
My name is Earl and I work for Amtrak and the dirtiest jobs we have are the people that do the major overhaul on the equipment at Bear, DE (among other locations throughout the System). The job classifications are such as Electrician, Car Insepector, Laborer, and - for the dirtiest - the people that clean up the shops each afternoon / evening.
This one should be available in Delaware and any other state. At asphalt mixing plants (where the tar, rock and dust are mixed together) there is a mixing box made of metal near the middle of the assembly. Inside this box are huge metal paddles that stir all the hot mix elements together. These parts must be cleaned daily. We used kerosene at one time but likely now something else is used due to OSHA regulations. THEN, after cleaning about 1-2 times a week a welder must climb inside this metal box where the temperature is still quite unpleasant and the fumes are unbeleivable. The welder builds up the paddles (which are worn down by the products they are mixing) by applying bead after tedious bead of weld to the ends of the paddles and chipping off the slag. I can't think of a dirtier, more unpleasant job anywhere short of the battlefield.
The Wilmington & Western Rail Road Runs a caol fired steam train. IF you want to get dirty, and live out a chilhood dream, Ask them to let you engineer one afternoon. Now there's your Delaware Show!
They even have Old West Train Robberies from time to time, what fun!
Mike I've got a job that at times can be very dirty and at times it's not. Home Theater Installer. On any given day you can be in attics that are hot and full of itchy insulation or in small cramped nasty snake, rodent, and insect ridden crawl spaces under multi-million dollar houses making you wish you were in the attics instead! Most of the time it's not that bad but occasionally it's makes me wish I would've stayed in the Marine Corps.
Chris Preston Lead Installer Rehoboth Beach, DE Home and Company www.home-and-company.com 302-227-4200
I am the owner of Piranha Sports, LLC, a Delaware based multi-sport event management company specializing in Triathlons. We currently produce 7 events in Delaware and would love Dirty Jobs to come and work with us on one of them. Although all events have varying degrees of ickiness, the Delaware Diamondman® Triathlon, Lums Pond State Park, Bear, DE is probably the dirtiest of all of them. There are a multitude of jobs that need to be done within two fast paced days. The first day involves setup for the race and the second day includes managing the race as it happens and then cleanup. We never know what we may encounter when preparing the course for the race, poo from various animals, road kill along the bike and run course, and varying amounts of debris, all needing to be cleaned up before the athletes begin the race. During the race there is the water and sports drink tables that need to be manned with cups and other trash needing to be cleaned throughout the event. Removing the timing chips from the athletes is also a nasty job especially when our athletes are feeling a little under the weather when coming over the finish line. Post race cleaning up includes cleaning up all of the trash left by the athletes as well as breaking down all of the equipment needed to manage the event.
If you decide to come to Diamondman®, maybe we can convince Mike to sing the National Anthem for us as well.
Here’s our information: Neil Semmel, Race Director Piranha Sports, LLC www.piranha-sports.com nsemmel@piranha-sports.com
Im a suspension mechanic for merkin auto spring in wilmington de and there is days where i get extremly dirty from time to time. We change springs , repair springs, lift and lower vehicles, install lift gates, mount and balance tires, alignments on all sizes of vehicles rangeing from cars to trailers so if you want to get dirty this is the job for you.
My dad works on the Port of Wilmington fixing the refrigeration units of semi trucks for Chiquita. His hands are always black from grease, and the guys he works with are characters. There is a lot of heavy lifting, grease, oil, and work!
I have a show idea from Delaware. My husband is a blacksmith (not a ferrier). He makes forged iron creations in his shop, Preservation Forge. If you want dirty, you'll come out of his shop looking like a coal miner and have a chance to bang on some hot iron! He is quite a character and is fairly well known in Delaware.
Delaware is well know for its chicken/poultry production; Perdue, Allen, Tyson, Mountaire to name a few. I do not work in this field of business, though work and help to treat the employees and hear their stories.
How about a Mushroom Farmer? There is a whole lot of stink when these guys have to clean out the mushroom "houses" of their "poo." As I understand it, the mushrooms are grown on poo and straw, and when the useful nutrients are used up, the houses have to be cleaned out and a new nutrient rich batch has to be brought in. All a very interesting process so that we can get our delicious mushrooms in the grocery store.
Thanks for a great show that never fails to entertain!
As mentioned above, the chicken farming/processing industry is large in southern (Sussex County) Delaware. A specific dirty job, and believe me, I've dealt with the workers on several occasions, is chicken catcher.
Most people outside of the industry do not know these people exist, let alone what they do. Pre-dawn, they enter the chicken houses and manually capture and cage the chickens for transport to the processing plants of Perdue, Mountaire, Tyson, Allen, etc..
It seems to be a truly filthy and thankless job, well worthy of your attention. I believe they are contracted through private individuals, however, any of the aforementioned companies should be able to put you in contact.
SlyGuy72 Junior Member Posted 02-27-08 10:54 AM Mike,
A major beach replenishment project is underway from Bethany Beach, Delaware, to Fenwick Island, DE. Over 3 million cubic yards of sand are being pumped from up to 2.5 miles offshore back onto these beaches -- your job: Beach Replenishment technician. Get wet and sandy with the barge crew and the pipeline 'dogs'. This project is being conducted by the Corps of Engineers and the Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. The contractor performing the work is Weeks Marine Inc. of Covington, LA. Contact number is 985 875-2500. This project will be concluding quickly so if you like this idea, move fast!
