Hey mike got one for you
I work on my aunt and uncles produce farm. They grow a wide range of crop including sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, pumpkins and a lot more. Let me tell u that picking sweet corn is no easy job. And not a clean one either! Between the muddy rows form the rain the night before and the pollen from the corn things can get kinda messy. To avoid the 100 degree heat and the 90% humidity that come july we usually start picking around 3:30 in the morning. But the work isn’t yet done once the sun comes up its then time to pick everything else. This isn’t much better. Bending over in the sun all day can leave you feeling pretty sore. That’s when it is time to start loading our retail trucks and other venders who buy from us whole sale. With 5 fork lifts and 4 tractors driving in every direction thing can get pretty crazy and a lot of stuff gets broke. Then it time to take our produce into town and sit under a tent and sell it to people from the community until we pack up around 6 o’clock. All in all its makes for a pretty long and dirty day. So I hope to see u around the here on our farm next Summer and show u what Nebraska does best. CORN!
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Ok...Aside from being Mike Rowe's number 1 fan, I've got the perfect idea!!! My Dad has owned his own traveling carnival for over thirty years now. It is called Sam's Amusements. We are based out of Oklahoma, but spend most of the summer in a number of small Nebraska towns. We have a very nice carnival, with approximately 30 rides, plus games, and food concessions. Mike could play carnie for a day, and do just about anything from setting up rides, to selling tickets, to making cotton candy, caramel apples, corndogs, funnelcakes, etc. Mike and his crew could spend the day filming and having fun with us at Sam's Amusements. My email is kimkimmykimberly@yahoo.com. We would love to hear from you. My cell phone number is (405)343-8090. The season is about to start next month. We also host two very large rattlesnake festivals in Oklahoma. Now that would be an adventure! There are various rattlesnake activities carried on throughout the week, including sacking contests, rattlesnake hunts, etc. and everyone walks around gnawing on some fried rattlesnake meat. Ok...well let me know what you think! Kim Hardy

We live in Sioux City, IA. and do alot of work in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. We clean out vacant houses for mortgage companies and you would not believe how nasty some people can be. If you want a taste of what we do go to youtube.com and search for NASTY HOUSE and PUKING CRAP by Tmaester01. These have been a house and a toilet that have been cleaned by us. Our company name is Walker M&M out of Sioux City, IA. 51106. We would be cleaning out a house in Omaha, NE. and we would be cleaning out a house that someone has vacated and left it in a nasty mess. You will be able to see it transform into a sparklingly clean house.

Job Titles: General Labor/Batch Plant Operator/Quality Control Technician

Company: Panhandle Concrete Products

City: Scottsbluff

Details: We think Panhandle Concrete Products would be a good fit for one your episodes. Panhandle Concrete Products is a family owned company that produces precast concrete products. Some of the products that we produce include: septic tanks, manholes, grease traps, box culverts, and many other products.

All the production is done at our facility and then shipped off to many surrounding states. The work our employees perform is dirty and requires hard work. Some of the duties performed by the employees are as follows:

General Labor: These employees set up large metal forms for the concrete to be poured in. They apply oils to the form. They pour the concrete into the forms. These employees also apply tar based sealants to some of the finished products. These employees also operate large forklifts and overhead cranes to move the fresh concrete and finished products.

Batch Plant Operator: This employee oversees the production of the concrete mix. He runs the computer operated machine that adds aggregate, water, and cement into the mixer. At the ed of the day, this employee cleans out the 2 yard mixer.

Quality Control: This employee takes samples of the fresh mixed concrete. Tests are then performed on this concrete to determine strengths, air percentage, and workability.

All the jobs at Panhandle Concrete are jobs that interact with dirt. You are ensured to get dirty and learn a lot about this industry. We are a very outgoing and fun group here. I hope you will consider us for one of your episodes.

Please feel free to visit our website at
http://panhandleconcreteproducts.com/

Come help us for a taste of the Old West! A traditional Nebraska branding in late March/early April. A very DIRTY JOB as you slop through the corral, sorting cow/calf pairs, catching/throwing calves, branding, vaccinating, castrating, and dehorning. Lots of fun and plenty of DIRT!

all right people i got it for nebraska its called swift an company its a beef slaughter plant an average of 5,800 to 6,000 every day its in Grand island ne i work there my job is a head dropper an what that is where u decapitate the heads off the cows an hang them on hooks this a job u have to see to belive pluse what the rest of the pant does its where u get your BEEF from

I have to whole heartily agree with getdizzy on this one. I am stationed at Offutt AFB a few mile to the north of the rendering plants and when the wind blows right the smell is amazingly bad. It gets so bad you cant be outside for very long before you want to vomit. Its to bad we dont really have any dirty jobs on base. I have been in all the scary places and they are just rooms that need ot be cleaned.

First Grade Teacher,/Bellevue Public Schools, Bellevue, Nebraska

Ever wonder how many fingers go up tiny noses all day and then what those little fingers touch? It's a dirty job!

I was thinking about Mike visiting the diesel locomotive shop of Union Pacific's in North Platte. He could see how locomotives are serviced, traction motors changed, brakes changed (very dirty!) etc... Having been there before, it is very interesting to see just how a 485,000 lb. locomotive gets worked on.

I come from a family of Water Well Drillers. They always came home dirty.

My cousin is the only one in my family who still performs this job, but he loves digging holes in the mud/cow pastures.

Why not highlight the process of farming, corn in specifics. Come on, I mean the Nebraska Cornhuskers! It may not be as good as farming in Hudsonville, Michigan, the Salad Bowl City of America, but it would still be great!

If anyone has been around semis that you know that when polishing a semi's crome is not a clean job. When my husband has to come home and use make up remover or baby oil to finish cleaning his face because soap wont touch it then you know it is a dirty job. He drives flat bed for Don Hagan and Sons Trucking in Culbertson, NE.

Sewer Bursting, Eyman Plumbing Inc, LaVista (greater Omaha area), NE

There is a power plant just west of North Platte. You would have to coordinate with them and a contracted company like Philip Service Corporation. When they have an outage at the plant, they get a company like PSC to come in and remove the excess ash from the ducts and hoppers. It is extremly dirty, dusty, nasty and HOT. Sounds perfect huh? Ok, hope you like the idea.

MIke why dont you work with my father with the deparment of roads. you know could do piling or assfault. many things they do that stink,dust dirty. why dont you help them clean up and contruct a bridge in omaha.

Have thought about it a little more and with all of the road grime (oil, dirt, sand, tar, ) bugs, maybe animal fur, all the new road de-icer) it takes a lot of muscle and elbow grease to get those semi staying clean & shiny. Take your own vehicles dirtiness and times that by 4.5 (or close to that) and you will know exactly the road grime that is on a truck. My husbands company does not make them polish them but with some of the company drivers including my husband it is a sence of pride for his job and truck they would have it no other way then to have a shiny truck to be proud of. And to the look of my husband and others that take the time to polish these trucks, They make you laugh when you see them the first time after they have posihed it is a sight you dont forget when you see them with their big raccoon rings around the white of their eyes, the greasy matted dirty hair and the black soot that covers them and everything around them. >

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If anyone has been around semis that you know that when polishing a semi's crome is not a clean job. When my husband has to come home and use make up remover or baby oil to finish cleaning his face because soap wont touch it then you know it is a dirty job. He drives flat bed for Don Hagan and Sons Trucking in Culbertson, NE. contact Don Jr. at 1-800-346-8341 tell Don that "OLD LADY GEE SENT THIS IN!!

Yep - Omaha's Henry Dorley Zoo is most definitely DIRTY. And, if you do it during the summer, really SMELLY too! If you descide to do this, may I suggest doing it during the College World Series(June 14-25, 2008), which is held at Rosenblatt Stadium ACROSS THE PARKING LOT FROM THE ZOO! Then, you can do TWO Dirty Jobs at basically the same location. At the CWS, you could be a field raker, janitor for stadium/dugout, anything with the teams (college players are not known for their cleanliness!). Hope this helps!

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Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
Possible ideas: Zoo keeper,janitor....etc
It's a very dirty job

Hi my name is David. My business is Knepp's Interiors. I do grocery store floors. Once a year we need to strip and wax each floor. I live in Kansas and most of my accounts are in Kansas, but I do have an account in Franklin, NE that will need stipped and waxed soon. I also posted in show ideas.
A strip and wax is a very dirty and smelly job. We basically flood or completely cover 2 or 3 isles with stripper. We do that by filling 5 gallon buckets and dumping them on the floor and then spreading it out so that everything is covered. It emulsifies the wax and it becomes extremely slippery. We have to scrub the floor, doodle pad and scrape the edges and all the time keep agitating the stripper with mops, trying not to fall.(notice I said trying) We then use an autoscrubber to pick up all the stripper and old wax and start the next isles. Then not only do we have to repeat, but we have to keep the edges clean from what we already stripped because stripper will run back on the floor from under the isles. When all the isles are done, we have to go back and clean any runoff, which by now has started to thicken. It becomes gooey and messy. Then we scrub the whole floor again to clean any residue. Finally we put down 3 coats of sealer and 3 coats of wax. And all of this needs to be done in about 8 to 9 hours. It is hard, messy work. You almost get completely covered in wax and stripper that has dried on your shoes and in your shoes, pants, shirts, sometimes hair. It dries out your hands. One time I was working on a bad spot and was soaking paper towels with stripper and letting it soak on the spot. I kept putting my hands directly into the stripper. It completly killed the outer layer of skin.(I know that was pretty stupid)You have to move fast, work hard and do it right or you will have to do it all over. We would love to have you help us.

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joey11
Junior Member
Posted 02-19-08 09:36 PM
Mike,
I just got through watching your episode that exhibited your excellent fork lift driving skills down on the rice farm. I loved the candor shown that not all farms have the newest equipment. It reminded me of my brother's farm equipment. He never has to worry about someone "borrowing" his equipment--they wouldn't know how to start it! The choke has to be just so to get the skid loader going. I think you get the idea.

To help eleviate the "jam" your show is in I invite you to visit an eastern Nebraska farm that raises cattle, sheep, and grain. Right there we have an oxymoron since cattlemen never associate with sheep herders.

Your show needs to come watch my brother and dad round up the ewes in January and February to be sheared before they give birth to their young. That alone can be quite comical when the ewes don't cooperate. It's a little late this spring to catch the show but there will be next year.

If the show comes to the farm, you can watch the bucket brigade as each single pen of ewes with their lambs get fed individually. Oh did I tell you, he'll lamb out about 200-250 ewes each spring. I think at one time he had around 300 head but he's not as young as he use to be and has down-sized. My 80-year old mother still walks out to the barn to give the orphan lambs their bottle of milk.

For more material we could show you the mucking of the barns and running the cattle and sheep through the chute for their shots. There is plenty of dirty work on the farm. Just stay on for the planting, putting up hay in the silos, irrigating in the heat and humidity, and harvesting the crop in the fall. Take your pick -- each one is not pretty. They're all dirty!

Picture this...Beautiful country in Northeast Nebraska (Crofton to be exact), just miles from the South Dakota border and the beautiful Lewis and Clark Lake. You, on a cattle farm in the dead of winter (middle of January preferred). It's calving season! Tempatures drop to 10 below zero at 1:30am and you have to go out and check cows. You notice a Heffer having problems calving so you get down with her and pull the calf. Covered in the slop from helping the heffer, you are freezing only to realize that in another hour you will be up doing the same thing, but if you are lucky you can just pull up a straw bale and take a little snooze right there with the livestock. By the way, this will go on for about 3 more months. Now, I think this is a DIRTY JOB and would show the Cornhusker State at its finest.