My husband is a Pipefitter for American Sprinklers here in Yuma, AZ. Talk about a hot, nasty job. Especially during the summer. The pipes are mostly steel pipe and they have this oil on them that stains your clothes, hands, etc. Then if the Sprinklers have been in service and they are doing repairs or service work on them. The systems are closed systems and the water stays in them sometimes for years...nasty, oily, stinking water...Kinda dirty ya think?

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Hey Dirty Jobs,
In Rainvalley, Arizona there is an extremely dirty job. My parents own a up and coming vineyard called Hannahs Hill. Dirty Jobs has already done vineyards. But a new one is a whole different kettle of fish. One job we do is called rocking. Our vineyard is located in the Grasslands Desert, the heat is astounding, the wind is constantly blowing up the loose dirt, and you are moving large rocks. I dare you to last a day!

Mormon Lake Lodge
Mormon Lake, AZ
Mobile Food Service Crew Member

This is a position that is on the Mobile Food Service crew that Mormon Lake Lodge owns (MLLMFS). They are contracted through the National Forest Service Fire Crews. When a fire crew is dispatched out on a fire, somewhere through out the US, MLLMFS packs up and heads out where ever they are dispatched. They set up camp at a base camp for the fire crews, miles from the fire to stay out of danger. The then become the only source of food that these fire crews have. Breakfast and dinner is prepared fresh and hot for the crew members, with the day starting at 330am. Each day, the crews of MLLMFS make sack lunches for the crews to take with them out in the field. After every meal and through out the day the MLLMFS crew sleeps when they can and cleans up after the fire crews. This process can be for as little as 2 days or on one fire they were dispatched out into Idaho for 4 months. It's a long time for the entire crew to be away from their families, regular jobs and friends and normal life. They have rules while on the crew such as NO DRINKING, they can NOT leave the base site for ANY reason and no "fraternization" between the crew members. This because 90% of the crew is male and only a couple females. Mormon Lake Lodge Mobile Food Service was established and created by 2 brothers named Scott and Shawn Gold. Scott is the General Manager. Shawn is in charge of the Mobile Food Service Crew entirely. They operate from June 1-Aug 31. This would be a GREAT job for you to dig in and take a look at, give yourself an opportunity for something new and different. Good luck!

Hey Mike! I have a few ideas for you! 1) pool plaster prep, Falcon Pools, Tucson AZ; 2) mechanics helper in the Mine Mantance dept at Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold, Grn Vlly AZ; 3) Taxidermist - any one in Tucson (have a few in mind, let me know); and 4) maintance helper in the Crystal Plant at Freeport-McMoran mine in Grn Valley. Hope these help if you get stuck on ideas!!! Btw, come down to Tucson in June or July - it's the best time of the year then!!! Hope to see you down here gettin dirty!!!

I work at a family owned manufaturing company that makes erosion control blankets, straw wattles, potting soils and soil ammendments based aroung buffalo manure compost, and buf mulch. We are the first in the industry to make hydro-mulch with buffalo manure in it. Most all hydro-seeding operations use paper mulch, wood fibre mulch, etc. These only keep moisture in and stabilize. Our product does both of these but also ammends the soil. This product has been shot side by side with our competitors and has been proven to grow faster and greener grass. The process to make the mulch is a very dirty one and uses many big pieces of machinery. The baffalo manure comes from a 25,000 acre family ranch in south dakota. There are many win-rows of buffalo manure that are more than 15 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Even the buffalo themselves are raised a certain way so as to produce the perfect organic manure. Besides our "BUFF" based products we make straw blankets and wattles. I seen a dirty jobs episode where mike installed these products but not one where he produces them. The machine that akes the blankets and the wattles is very cool, cery expensive, and very dirty. We make many more very cool and very organic products based around buffalo manure. I think people like the idea of buffalo manure because the buffalo has been around since the native americans and is a very sturdy animal. The Bufalo manure works better and faster than beef cow manure in a side by side comparison. Our plant is located in Minnesota. I beleive that any one of these products would make a good dirty jobs show but all of them together would make a great one. I am a huge fam of the show and look foreward to hearing from you.

Thank You,
Jeremy Limpert

i think that mike should come to glendale and be a carmen for a day. the hitch lubes are by far the dirtiest job when working on rail cars.

Hey Mike, I've had this idea for awhile but haven't submitted it because i don't personally do this job. But someone has to do it...and it's definitely a dirty job. I work in a laboratory as a cytogenetic technologist. In our laboratory we receive all sorts of samples including feces, urine, body parts, blood, bone marrow, amniotic fluid, spinal fluid, etc. Our department alone personally disposes of urine, bone marrow, blood, fetal remains, tumors, amniotic fluid, plueral fluid, etc. The smell from lysed blood is awful. There is always an odor in the biohazard room where there are stacks upon stacks of full biohazard trash cans. Nearly every day these cans are carted off to who knows where. All i can say is that i feel sorry for the men and women who have to deal with biohazard waste disposal. I couldn't do their job; there's the smell factor, the gruesomeness of body parts, there is a leakage factor that the company that disposes of our biohazard waste has informed us of and has implemented new measures to help prevent it, and of course the danger of infectious blood borne pathogens. I'm not sure if you'd be interested in this job, but i thought that it was worth mentioning. Love your show!

i have a job for mike in arizona i do bath tub repair and it cna in clude getting very dirty if you have to stripp out old repairs i have trashed out apartments just from the dust alone if you would like to se some pics let me know

Here is a dirty, greasy nasty job for you. Cleaning the cutting oil and rock sludge out of the rock saws at the Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Club in Quartzsite, AZ. A rock saw has a diamond blade that runs in a bath of cuttig oil. over time the oil becomes filled with debris and sludge from the rocks being cut, the oil and sludge also sprays around the housing of the rock saw making the entire saw a greasy mess that needs to be drained and scrubbed every week or so, and filtered to remove the rock grit to recycle the oil.

After seeing Mike speak at the National FFA convention I thought of a great dirty job. Have him come spend a day with an agriculture teacher. We wake up early in the morning to check on our gardens, greenhouse, and animals. Then we teach a full day of school. Teaching high school students can be a pretty dirty job. My day would also include 3 agriculture construction classes, animal science, and intro to agriculture. After teaching all day then we go back out to the landlab to manage the animals and prepare them for show. I think this would show the world that some teachers are actually teaching students about those hard work types of jobs. He could come spend the day teaching classes and then he could go out to the landlab and see where we get our name for having a dirty job!

Operations Volunteer
Phoenix Comicon, downtown Phoenix AZ
(May 27-30, 2010)
Contact: anabel@phoenixcomicon.com

For a non-traditional "dirty-job," I'd like to pitch the task of volunteering with the Operations Team of a (multi-genre) comic book convention. I recently joined the volunteer staff of Phoenix Comicon, and I was blown away at all the work that goes into this kind of event. The Operations Team in particular has the active challenge of maintaining the safety and positive experience of 10-12k unique attendees, of various ages and tastes, to an enclosed convention space. It's a case of witnessing "Murphy's Law" trampling on "Geek Culture," and being an Operations Volunteer is usually an invisible job that takes care of these problems. (Guest cancellation at the last minute, with 500 costumed fans waiting in the room? How do you keep a Zombie Beauty pageant running smoothly? How much work really goes into setting everything up and tearing everything down?) I think showing a behind-the-scenes perspective would be fantastic.

Hey Mike I really love how you're not afraid to mention God in your show, it's becoming less and less "politically correct" to do mention His name, but you ignore that political correctness nonsense, God bless you Mike keep doing that and God we'll keep blessing you. btw I love your show! oh and sorry I don't have an idea for a dirty job right now but I certaily will be looking for one.

Geez! What a lot of work to just give an idea! no wonder you don't get more of them, Mike! Maybe just have an email address! That would have taken me 3 minutes instead of 3 years. That's how long my son has been bugging me to submit this idea to you that we haven't yet seen. Although it's close to your bell creation, we'd like to see you work in a bronze foundry, esp in Arizona. I'm from B-more and my boy was born here in AZ. We love your show! Check this out:

http://www.azbronze.com/services.htm#7

And keep getting dirty! c.

Yuma rocks!! The Dole bagged salad factory is a job that gets a person super dirty. The clean up crew has the dirty job of making sure everything stays clean. Let me tell you follow the lettuce from when it is picked in the fields to bagged in the plant and you will have a new respect for salad next time you buy a bag. AND the best part is Mike can eat the stuff!!! Plus you can probably find 100 shows to film in Yuma from battery factories, cleaning the colorado river, to American Pipe fitters.