RMS11 Mainline rail grinder maintenance crew, HTT, mobile equipment, travels through many states, including Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota.

Dangerous, DIRTY (Really DIRTY), grease, long hours, harsh weather at times. Did I mention DIRTY?

Mike, you need to return to your roots in the Theatre and go on tour with the Centennial Singers from the University of Wyoming. Though not your dirtiest job, crawling around on light booms and catwalks, getting into orchestra pits, and moving equipment will get you plenty dusty. Give us a try!

How about docking lambs the old fashioned way, with your teeth instead of elasticators. The ornery old man that runs the ranch is very picky on how things get done around there. Either he bites them or has his daughter do it.

Wildland firefighter, US Forest Service, Bridger Teton National Forest, Jackson Helitack. Whether prescribed fire or a wildfire, it is a dirty job. Digging in the dirt, working with chainsaws, cutting brush all next to a wildfire. Dependent on mother nature of course, but a job that can tire you out in a hurry and keep you dirty for days on end.

Mike,

I know you have done lots of construction jobs, but since i don't have a TV and can only watch your show on occassion because of said lack of TV i don't know if you have done this or not.

Anyway...Head on down to Ol Cheyenne and look up a feller named Jim Johnson from Johnson Masonry. He is a jolly old swedish mason who i know would love to put you to work as a hod carrier. As far as the construction trades go, this has to be one of the dirtiest and toughest jobs out there.

Tell old Jim you want to be paired up with Dog Jones and Screamin Eddie Fisher. Those two are a pair of characters you or your audience will not easily forget.

Thanks for the great shows. I have enjoyed every one i have had the opportunity to watch.

i used to be a sheep shearer in Wyoming and surrounding states. University tests place it as the hardest physical job in the world, average man burns more energy than a marathon runner each and every day. Add some extreme heat, dust, cold, mud and the typical poo, blood sweat and pain and its gonna sort Mike from the real men who do it. I have contacts to my old boss and his team that currently work there still. It is a life style for many and worth your time investigating it.Very Interesting.

I once lived in Gillette Wyoming selling cars at the local Ford store (Thunder Basin Ford). I'd see people after they got off work from the coal mines, oil and methane fields etc. Wasn't uncommon to talk to someone covered with dirt. But I'll share the hands down the most memorable that I can't get out of my mind today. Two guys walk up just smelling rank and covered head to toe with grease. I'm standing there talking and the job comes up. Apparently these 2 work at one of the Coal Mine plants (Wyodak, Antelope not sure) Anyway these guys title was "Greaser" (no kidding). I asked what does that entail? They said that there was a round vat about 30ft across and 3-5ft deep that had a bunch of huge gears or bearings in it. Periodically they pull the cover off and have to change the grease in the vat. Stuff was not like cooking oil but like grease out of a greas gun. Their job was to jump in about 3ft deep of grease and scoop all the grease out in 5 gallon buckets and put fresh grease back in! And here they are standing in fornt of me after doing that wanting to test drive one of my new Ford Super Duties covered in grease...RIIIIIGHT!

For a dirty job in Wyoming, you could always try OCI Chemical, which is a trona mine a few miles west of Green River. There are many dirty jobs out there, but a good job to see would be the Mine Engineers/Surveyors out at OCI. They have access to the mine and surface and get plenty dirty.

To see what the mine is about, you can check out www.ocichemical.com

R and D steet sweeping and asphalt maint.
crack seal/seal coat/street sweeper Rock Springs,Wyoming

crack sealing is super hot molten rubber that you have to spray in the cracks in ashpalt
seal coating is this black goop you have to spray on the road and spread out with giant squeeges you get covrered with black crap and a mouthfull of dirt by the end of the day

pretty unique job

Thanks Mike

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jkcijnb
Junior Member
Posted 04-07-08 09:39 PM
My husband and I have been the owners of a small motel for the past two years, by now we are never surprised by the messes that people will leave. It is truely amazing because it seems at times that they truely do not know any better and are never ashamed by the state they leave the rooms.
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My dad has a large sheep ranch in a small town in Wyoming...Ten Sleep. Docking lambs is one of the dirtiest jobs ever! Mike would be covered from head to toe with blood as tails are cut off with a pocket knife. Males' testicles are also cut; my dad pulls them out with his teeth and drops them into a bucket! I'd like to see Mike try that out!

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Casper/Mills/Evansville, WY

SchweisserMann
Member
Posted 07-04-08 09:06 PM
I build big earth haulers. Job title is Fitter/Weldor. Description: You build it, you weld it, you clean it, you sell it. Lots of education and hands-on opportunity.

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grandmaplus8
Junior Member
Posted 08-02-08 03:13 AM
My son works for Epoch that is a subsidiary of Nabors Drilling. He works all over Wyoming and he gets filthy quite often. He works setting up monitoring equipment for oil wells. Not the same as a rough neck. He installs highly technical equipment on, under and everywhere on the rig. I have personally seen him climb the derrick when the wind was blowing so hard you couldn't stand up outside. I sat in the pick up and got really nauseous watching the rig sway in the wind. Check it out and see what you think. He does this job 24/7 for 3 weeks at a time and the job is rough when you include the travel, especially in the Wyoming winters.