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Kimco
omaha nebraska

My mom is a lunch lady at a middle school in Bellevue (just south of Omaha). All the ladies LOVE Mike and watch all the stuff he's in, including his QVC days. They would love to show Mike around the kitchen. There is a daily discussion about his body!

I work as an operator at an ethanol plant located in Sutherland NE. Our shut downs are one the dirtiest jobs I have ever seen. I am required to enter confined spaces that are 130 degress plus, full of mash that is extremely sticky, smelly, and causes the sufrace to be slick. We enter our grain bins during these shut downs and run sweep augers that stir up so much dust that you can barely see your hand in front of your face. We also enter our distillation column during these shut downs. The column is 118 feet tall and approximatly 8 feet in diameter. We are required to climb to the top of this column and enter a man way approximately 3/4 of the way up. Once inside the column you have to climb douwn a rope ladder through 4' by 4' spuares. The column has several tray located inside it that look like giant cheese graters and they are approximatly 18 inches apart. Oh yeah, 2 guys are required to enter the column and try 2 clean out the left over mash and all te mash that has been burnt onto the side. There are several other extremely disgusting jobs required during the shut down and they must be completed in less than 24 hours. I watch dirty jobs religiously and I think my Job is still one of the dirtiest that I have seen and that Mike Rowe would enjoy it

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afrom
Junior Member
Posted 02-21-08 01:21 PM
If you want dirt, poop, smoke and lots of fun and a great group of people I would say a branding would be the dirtiest way to see nebraska. At a branding you would set in the dirt that cows have been pooping in all day, then wrestle calves that are being drug in the poop to you to be branded. There is lots of smoke bugs and dirt. there will be blood from the castrating of the bull calves but its not that bloody. everything is done by man and horse power. It is a ton of fun and lots of hard dirty work, it takes practice to be a good wrestler, and the atmosphere is that of good freind good food and lots of been after the branding.
The sandhills of nebraska are a pretty as it gets and we could hook you up with the perfect branding Amanda From
308.249.1824

In omaha, nebraska mike should come to Image Market. We are one of americas largest screenprinting shops. Jobs here include printing t-shirts with silkscreen, very messy since we use hundreds of different ink colors. We have automatic t-shirt machines as well as manuel machines. Plus there are many other dirty jobs at image market.

You should definitely check out detasseling.
(detasseler,S&J Detasseling, Glenvil, NE)
Working out in the field there are plenty of opportunities to get muddy and dirty. It's a lot of walking, and the corn leaves aren't the most comfortable thing in the world.

We think that this would rate as Nebraska's dirtiest job. My husband and I built a truckwash from ground up 1 1/2 years ago in Freomont, Nebraska. We specialize in washing out livestock semi trailers that have hauled cattle and hogs from all over the United States. Our employees become quite buff and only the toughest survive more than a couple weeks. Besides washing out trailers our guys often are seen scooping and wading in manure. Our guys dress in hunting/fishing waders and a raincoat and are covered from head to toe with crap and woodchips. It's not a job where you want to talk much as it requires to keep you mouth shut so you don't get a mouthful. It is a very interesting place to experience with so many types of good hearted "bull haulers" from all over the country. It is a fast-paced atmosphere as we have the capacity to washout 4 trailers at one time - up to 60 trailers a day at about 1 hour a piece. We are located in Fremont, Nebraska, and hope you'll come for a visit.

Here's a really good idea for a new dirty job in Nebraska for Mike Rowe: Detasseling, w/ S&J Detasseling, Grand Island NE (Barr Crew), end of June-almost all of July

Detasseling is a summer job where kids (12 or older) go and work in the corn fields. I myself am one of those "kids" and have been doing this for 6 years now. I will tell you the details about the job since you asked for them.

Detasseling is where people go into the cornfields and pull the tassels off of the top of female corn stalks. We do this to keep the female corn from cross-pollenating with the male corn to keep a pure strain of hi-bred feed corn. Here's a discription of what a typical day is in the life of a seasoned detasseler...

Detasseling consists of rouging, first pulling, or clean-up. Rouging is where 1 person walks thru the cornfield watching 12-15 rows of corn for rouge corn plants and then cut them down with a bean hook. First pulling is where a crew goes into the field and put groups of atleast 4 to go down 4 rows and pull tassels off corn & get hangers. This is done after a mechanical puller goes thru the field and pulls 95-98% of tassels for us, so we have to go get the rest. Clean-up is where the more seasoned kids go back to a field already first picked and gets everything that was left behind, watching 2-4 rows/person.

Some things we deal with daily is: high heats (90-110* F), high humidity levels, sun, heat rash, being wet for hours, corn rash, sunburns, heavy thick mud, lots of bugs, pollen, and walking on uneven terrain usually up hill both way just to name a few!

We start work at 6am, go to a field, walk thru mud all day that cake onto ur shoes and weigh them down, and getting soaking wet in the morning. You become covered in mud, dirt, and pollen and become filthy dirty. The heat is extremely hot and high humidity levels dont help.

We walk anywhere from 0.5-1.0 miles a round! (which is to the other end of the field and back) and do usually 3-8 rounds per field, sometimes even 2-4 fields a day! We cant take our sweet little time either! First-pull rounds are suppose to take anywhere from 45 mins-1 hr, clean up is usually 30 min rounds top, rouging is about the same.

When youre walking thru the field you have to keep people together so that no one gets lost. You walk under and over irrigation pivots, you have to constantly watching for tracks from the irrigation pivots so that you dont trip and fall.

Thats about all the details i can think of...its very hard and dirty manual labor and it would be a great job for Dirty Jobs to do in Nebraska. I hope you seriously consider it!! Thanks!

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Vision
Junior Member
Posted 02-27-08 10:45 AM
Hi my Name is Don I use to work at a place called Nebraska Boiler (6940 cornhusker hwy) I would come home covered in sweet, dust and dirt and if you had to go in a drum for a reroll hope you have an extra set of clothes. they other is across the street form Nebraska Boiler it is called Deeters foundry they make manhole covers and some other stuff but I never worked there but those guys would always come out covered in black sut

Hey,

In the summer I work for a crew that sand blasts and paints industrial steel. From Anhidrous Amonia tanks (very potent) to large fuel and fertalizer tanks ranging from 300,000 gal., and smaller to over 2,000,000 gal. tanks. With this job it is usualy very hot. Fling debris from the process of using sand to strip paint or rust from steel. The sand must be dried and shoveled into the blast pots. During this you hope for the work to be down wind or you will eat dirt all day long. The person doing the blasting has to wear an air supplied helmet due to the amount of dirt and debri in the air. The paint we use is some good stuff and if you do not get it off of you before it sets you could be wearing it for a week or more. This is a Dirty Job and I think you would enjoy it. The crew travels to the job sites and stays on the road when any significant distance from home. It is done by 3-4 people and you would be surprised how much we can do. If this sounds like an interesting job let me or the owner of the company know.

Sandblaster and Insustrial Painter, Wilkinson Sandblasting and Painting, Gibbon, NE

Bryan Sherman

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrewMasterWalts:
I work as an operator at an ethanol plant located in Sutherland NE. Our shut downs are one the dirtiest jobs I have ever seen.


I was on the crew that painted the storage tanks there a couple of summers ago, BrewMasterWalts makes a good point about working at an ethonol plant. The mash is sour and can deffinatly be a nusence. These are the types of places I also work while sandblasting. Among others.

solid surface and stone countertop shop foreman
Premeir Countertop Omaha Ne

hi i work in a countertop fabtication shop which deals in both solid surface (very very dusty) and quartz and granite (very wet and also ties into the show where he worked in the quarry) if it works here's a picture after i routered a counter top

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here is one that I know he hasn't done before.....Stripping and waxing of VCT tile in grocery stores and other places.....
Floor Technicians of Lincoln, NE
Brian Lindell Proprietor

I have seen Mike work on farms and in sewage plants other dirty jobs.. Alot of the ones being suggested. I think he should go do what my Husband does for work every day. He works at Lindsay Corp. In Lindsay Nebraska... My husband works on a tube mill and when it comes time to muck the mill my husband comes home black from head to toe. My husband describes it as the messiest stinkiest Job he has ever done. My husband has worked with cattle and pigs and on road construction and alot of other messy and smelly job so when he says it stinks he means it... SO MIKE how about trying this out.. I DARE YOU!!!

How about cleaning up Memorial Stadium in Lincoln after a home Husker game?

David Ludwig, Columbus, NE

Hi, Mike
If you want a dirty job, we have a good one here in central Nebraska. My brother (Rodney Lamb)owns a herd of 250 cow/calf pairs that every spring we have to brand the calves. Trust me, it's a really dirty and fun job. There's much more to it than it seems. We would love for you to join us here in the spring, and if the branding isn't dirty enough i'm sure that we can find something that will satisify your love for dirt on our family farm, ranch, and feedlot. (LOTS OF DIRT)! You can contact me at 308-870-3601 or my email j_lamb03@yahoo.com.
Jason Lamb

As a fellow Nebraskan, I think we can really make Mike work for his dollar. We have an outfit during June-July were we castrate stud horses by HAND as many as 15 head in a days time. Its bloody, nasty and rank.

Ringer Horses. Contact Hollie Ringer or Jack Gier. North Platte, NE
We also need help catching wild horses for the old time Wild horse races. Were three people have to halter, saddle and ride a WILD RANK horse around a barrel back to the chute for entertainment. Sounds Fun, but really breath taking. LITERALLY!

Computer Repair tech/Cable Runner, Personalized Computer Services, Blair, NE

One would never know the dirt and filth contained in a object every one of us use every day... your using one right now to post here.
have you ever opened your computer? have you ever thought of cleaning it out? did you know that cleaning out your computer is required for the longivity of your computer. Heat Kills Dirt builds heat, when you clean the dirt leaves the computer and ends up on you! SMOKERS beware... for if you smoke you are not only filling your lungs but your computer with chemicals. along with cleaning computers from physical filth we clean your computer from Electronic Filth, work in a business with more than one computer. or a computer with a network. someone had to first run those cables so you could have your phone, your internet, even your power. we run Data and phone cables in any enviroment (within NE and IA) we consider our job one of the dirtiest jobs because as Mike's shown us all, Dirt likes to hide in the most fithiest of places.

At Offutt AFB I was always amazed watching the hydrolics guys working on 135 aircraft. The worst (or best) I've seen was when they change a landing gear strut. They are literally bathed in hydrolic fluid? I've never seen anything like it. Not as bad as a rendering plant but these hydrolics guys really earn their pay

Kennel Assistant, Paws & Claws Adoption Center, Columbus, NE

Mike's been to lots of zoos, farms, and sanctuaries, but he's never cleaned up after our domestic furry friends at a shelter. Cleaning up after cats and dogs 365 days a year is also a dirty job.

Steph