well i know this might be dumb, but i cant think of anything more hot and nasty than laying asphalt. in any state! my b/f did it for years, and he said it was wicked hot, wearing 3 pairs of socks to keep from burning your feet, and just being filthy dirty =) nice . sounds like it would be up your alley for sure. Hoot. downers grove, Il.
mrpackrat Member Posted 05-01-08 05:07 PM Dear Diary, It has been weeks now since I sent Mike my dirty job and still no word. I am beginning to wonder if my job just is not dirty enough and it makes me sad. Every day I deal with rat crap, cactus, heat and undesirable critters cleaning out pack rat nest. To hide the dirt, my shirt is brown, my pants are brown and sometimes even my undershorts are brown when a snake jumps out or a recluse spider crawls down my neck. Does Mike not care? Is it Arizona? Mike has never done a dirty job in Arizona. It could be the heat, doing manual labor when its 110 out might not be Mike’s idea of fun. Or is it working in a place where everything wants to either, bite, stick or sting you? For God’s sake, even the trees have thorns. I am beginning to think it’s me. Just because I have an intimate date each night with my trusty tweezers, carefully seeking cactus spines hiding in the strangest of places. It is strange, but it is my job. Maybe it’s the rats. Mike has done roof rats and sewer rats. Maybe he just thinks a rat is a rat, not understanding pack rats are coolest and dirtiest rats of all. They collect dirt. Their nests are virtually trash heaps. After all, Mike, they are PACK rats! Wendell (an employee) ask me each day, “Has Mike called?” “Maybe tomorrow”, I say, trying not to stare at his “witch’s” finger that never healed quite right after a rattle snake bite last year. Maybe tomorrow. . .
Kris,
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underground27 Junior Member Posted 05-04-08 08:02 PM Field Superviser B-Line Directional Drilling,LLC. Scottsdale,AZ
Mike if you are coming to AZ do it in the summer. Come play in the sun and mud with us at, B-Line Directional Drilling. It's like drilling for oil but we go horizontal not vertical and can steer left to right,up or down. The reason for our job is to cross a spand of ground that you don't want to dig across, being a road,river,canal,railroad tracks, whatever the job may call for. . We use high pressure water to cut the ground and a BIG vacumm to suck up the mud and find the power,gas or any type of utillity that is in our way so that we can go around it with the Drill head. The drill head has a sonar unit in it which tell us where it is. It is turned and pushed by hollow bars of steel that can bend and carry water or mud through them. We make are own drill mud like you have done in previous episodes. The bars connect to a machine that does the pushing, pulling, turning,and don't forget the pumping of mud. It also loads the 10' bars of steel automaticly like the magazine clip in a gun. We use"mud" to keep the sonar unit cool and things lubed up so we can pull the product, back to the machine(product;power,gas or what ever type of utilly needs to be installed.) You will be very dirty,greasy,muddy and sweaty.We are presently looking at a job at the bottom of the Grand Cayon,it would be a good one for HDTV.
Mud Monster Master, Tucson Parks and Recreation, Tucson Az.
Each first saturday in August (the 2nd this year) we host a big Mud Puddle Party. It's free for the kids in our area. For the week prior we mix big pits of mud, build obstacle corses through them, and gerally tear up the park. The day of the event we have thousands of people run through the mud. We need to mix the carefully formulated mud and help people through it. It takes weeks to clean the mud off, and out of, your body. Come on down!
createdbywendy1 Senior Member Posted 08-02-08 01:54 PM
This would be a 2 fold job.
Dismantling of sculptures from a mini golf course and transporting to a park.
And restoration of a park.
Magic Carpet Golf has closed down after 30+ years in Tucson. They have massive steel and concrete sculptures on their grounds.
Most if not all of the sculptures will be dismantled and moved to other areas in Tucson. Possibly outside of Tucson also.
One of the largest being moved to 4th Avenue.
Some are being moved to Valley Of The Moon.
Valley Of The Moon is a park geared towards children and has been around for a long time. It's history is both inspiring and heartwarming. The park is in need of some restoration .
I've included as much info as I can. Maybe this is something that could be covered.
I agree with Mr. Packrat that Mike should check out pack rat nest cleaning. You can do lots of different dirty jobs in Arizona that you can do other places, but this is one job that is pretty unique to the Southwest. Pack rats are very, very hard workers, and their nests get everywhere. Once they are done with them and move out, the nests can be quite an eyesore or even a fire hazard. It seems like you have enought suggestions to do a whole show from Arizona. The Flagstaff job sounds good too.
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mrpackrat Member Posted 05-01-08 05:07 PM Dear Diary, It has been weeks now since I sent Mike my dirty job and still no word. I am beginning to wonder if my job just is not dirty enough and it makes me sad. Every day I deal with rat crap, cactus, heat and undesirable critters cleaning out pack rat nest. To hide the dirt, my shirt is brown, my pants are brown and sometimes even my undershorts are brown when a snake jumps out or a recluse spider crawls down my neck. Does Mike not care? Is it Arizona? Mike has never done a dirty job in Arizona. It could be the heat, doing manual labor when its 110 out might not be Mike’s idea of fun. Or is it working in a place where everything wants to either, bite, stick or sting you? For God’s sake, even the trees have thorns. I am beginning to think it’s me. Just because I have an intimate date each night with my trusty tweezers, carefully seeking cactus spines hiding in the strangest of places. It is strange, but it is my job. Maybe it’s the rats. Mike has done roof rats and sewer rats. Maybe he just thinks a rat is a rat, not understanding pack rats are coolest and dirtiest rats of all. They collect dirt. Their nests are virtually trash heaps. After all, Mike, they are PACK rats! Wendell (an employee) ask me each day, “Has Mike called?” “Maybe tomorrow”, I say, trying not to stare at his “witch’s” finger that never healed quite right after a rattle snake bite last year. Maybe tomorrow. . .
Kris,
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I'm on my friends profile but I am a fine decorative painter and would love to have you tag along check us out taylorfaux.com email to david@taylorfaux.com
My husband and I started our own Window and Door Company in 2003. We are now one of the largest window supplier/installation companies in Arizona. My husband has been installing windows for 23 years and boy is it a dirty, hot, exhausting job cutting into block, stuco, brick, fiberglass, etc with diamond saws! You get covered with the dust of what ever you are cutting into, plus the dirt from the jobsite. It's dangerous as well, have to be careful not to break the windows while you are getting the old ones out and/or putting the new ones in. My husband loves your show and he would love for you to come and join him on one of our installations. Our nephew also does our installation, so it's really a family affair. It would be great if you came here to Phoenix where the 110 Arizona sun reflecting off of the windows while you install them can be a real hot experience!
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There is a farm across the street from my local Target that specializes in cotton. Believe me, I know that not only is cotton picking dirty, it's painful! There are suckers on the bottom of the plant that hurt to touch.
Furnance mechanic, in globe arizona at the freeport mcmoran smelter. where we use a blast furnance to first melt the dirt (concentrate) with the copper iun where it goes to another furnance that runs at 2100 degrees puts off smoke and and dirt dust in the air. i think about as dirty, hott, and nasty as it gets , plus the arizona heat to add to the fire. come run with the smelter rats as we keep this beast smelting and runnning.
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ARIZONA 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, AZ"). Arizona ideas only.
Thank you.
DJModChickie
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Dirty Jobs - I was working at a day labor place a few years back and I was sent to a company that goes into homes after fires and floods, it was a very dirty job. I had to clear out things like the insulation among other things. The smell was really bad and after I was done for the day I was covered in "stuff" it's a thought on a job that Mike Rowe can do in Tucson, Arizona.
I got a job for you how about dairy cattle showing. My parents own shoestring ranch in Marana, Co. My parents and I have been showing dairy cattle for a years. I have gone more into dairy cattle judgeing but my parents still do the showing. The job entails washing, clipping hooves, giving a hair cut, basic cleaning but of course none of this is normal because it entails a 1,000 pound animal that are smarter than most people think and there is no air conditioning in the barn. We are doing two shows this year one in April and One in September. Come try it out you will get dirty might get hurt and we do this for a hobby.
Hi Mike My partners and I have a business (STP Aviation) of dropping millions of sterile Pink Bollworm Moths on cotton fields in Texas, ARIZONA and California from May to late October. These moths are "made" in Phoenix at a breeding facility, trucked to airports where we load them in our Cessna 206 airplanes. Then the moths are released at 500 feet where they fall to the ground and start mating. Since they are sterile they produce no larva so they basically mate themselves out of existence. There are no pesticides so its better for the environment. The reason its a dirty job contender is that millions of moths smell awful and the moth dust is unbelievable. We drop these bugs in the hot Arizona summer out of small aircraft that have no A/C and a bounced around like jumping beans in the air. All the moths don't live, and those that are left have to be cleaned from the aircraft with a vacuum that smells like... and blows moth dust up your nose. Remember this is at over 100 deg in Arizona. Mike I am sure the State of Arizona would let you in to see the moths being bred, shipped to the airplanes and go for a ride while we dump the bugs, of course clean the dead ones up afterward. What do you think? Thanks Dave
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Arizona Renaissance Festival Feb and March weekends "Local Yocals" - an educational historical reinactment group. Peasant village in Renaissance period - no electricity, running water etc. meals cooked for the "royalty" over open fire and in clay oven - as realistic and filthy as you can imagine. East of Phoenix near the Superstition Mountains - Come work with us at our "dirty jobs"
Mike should come to Tucson and work a couple days with us at WORKHORSE of Tucson. We pretty much run the gambit of dirty jobs. Pack rat nests? Check. Plant and remove cactus? Check. Clean out some of the nastiest foreclosed homes in the world? Check. (Just see my thread in Dirty Jobs ideas for an idea. The thread is called "A job so dirty you'll lose faith in humanity.) It is only the rare workday when we don't get back to the office completely covered in filth, grime, thorns and needles.
Trust us, we'll get Mike filthy.
David [Owner/President of WORKHORSE of Tucson]
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Optician University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory. Tucson, AZ
Power-wash,clean, and inspection of astronomy mirrors.
After the 20 ton mirrors are cast and cooled, each must be cleaned and inspected. The cleaning requires power-washing more than 1000 pockets of the mirror.
Why not get with members of Lockheed Martin Corp at cape Canaveral Air Station at Cape Canaveral Florida and ask if you can help clean up after a missile launch
Job Location Luke AFB by Phoenix, Az Job: working on jets
Hey Mike,
Here's one for ya. How about working in 115 degree weather on a jet? I'm sure some of the maintenance guys here would love to show ya around. I don't personally work on the flight line but from what I see they get very dirty. That or the fuel folks.
