Author Topic: Dirty Jobs (Read 7005 times)

Mooseherder · « **on:** January 21, 2007, 07:38:49 pm »

Mike Rowe of Discovery's Dirty Jobs show will do a segment on Mule Logging this Tuesday night, Jan. 23rd @ 9pm. Must be some pooh involved.

barbender · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2007, 08:54:05 pm »

I think there is a poo requirement on every episode. You gotta hand it to that guy- he tries everthing they put him up to on that show. Last episode I watched, he was paddling a jon boat around a manure effluent containment pond picking sticks out of it, he almost fell in. It was nasty!!! I love that show, but theres been a few things that were bad enough that I physically gagged, and I don't have a real weak stomach either.

Bill in U.P. · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2007, 10:19:00 pm »

Lets hear some of the dirtiest, nastiest, wouldn't want to do that every day, jobs that you guys have done that stand out in your minds. Mine was was working construction in the winter at a condominium site. I had to scrap out straw from all the basements. The basements all had 3 to 4 inches of water and ice. The straw was all wet and encased in ice. Most of it involved breaking chunks of straw/ice off and loading into trash cans, taking up the stairs, through the garage and dumping into backhoe bucket. I was soaking wet, cold hands, and sweating for about 9 hrs. Not exactly "dirty" but definately the one that stands out as being miserable in my mind. Did sleep good that night and only had about 2 hrs. of it the next day.

Samuel · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2007, 11:51:34 pm »

Quote from: Bill in U.P. on January 21, 2007, 10:19:00 pm

Lets hear some of the dirtiest, nastiest, wouldn't want to do that every day, jobs that you guys have done that stand out in your minds. Mine was was working construction in the winter at a condominium site. I had to scrap out straw from all the basements. The basements all had 3 to 4 inches of water and ice. The straw was all wet and encased in ice. Most of it involved breaking chunks of straw/ice off and loading into trash cans, taking up the stairs, through the garage and dumping into backhoe bucket. I was soaking wet, cold hands, and sweating for about 9 hrs. Not exactly "dirty" but definately the one that stands out as being miserable in my mind. Did sleep good that night and only had about 2 hrs. of it the next day.

As an Aux Constable with the RCMP I was on a couple recovery teams for bodies that had been expired per say for some time. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing more disgusting than the human body...

ScottAR · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2007, 02:32:41 am »

Going in a crawlspace to fix water leaks in winter... wallowing in mud/water.
Praying before going in that it's at least a hot water pipe.

Cleaning out rent house fridge. Christmas dinner in Febuary, and the power was
off for a week. Still haven't figured out how the maggots got in there...

The hundred times I've changed a toliet... I poo residue I can deal, I just hate
the wax. Sticky, YECH!

Murf · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2007, 10:31:59 am »

I did a short stint helping out a buddy who was messed up bad in a wreck, I covered for him flying charter in the north country, in a less than reputable part of the country. Not quite air ambulance, but then they're aren't real fussy either, if you can get them there faster, you're it, period.

I saw more messed up drunks who had; a) ran snow-mo-bubbles into trees, trucks, rocks, whatever, b) decided they should play with a chainsaw, c) pick a fight with someone a whole bunch bigger, and a lot more sober, d) passed out outside and in waking up, and then getting up, had not stopped when they realized their ear, nose, scalp, or whatever, was frozen into the ice they passed out on.....

Samuel, you are sooooooo right!!!

palogger · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2007, 10:42:30 am »

when I was going to school, I worked for a company who cleaned railroad cars. You had to climb in with a shovel and loosen everything up for the track hoe to scoop it out. We cleaned everything from rotten watermelons to pig manure in a days time. Let me tell you neither smell to rosey in the middle of July.

KGNC · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2007, 10:52:28 am »

Helping cleanup after Hurricane Floyd near Rocky Mount NC. There was a chest freezer in a garage that was full of rotting meat and nasty flood water 2 months after the storm. I will never forget that smell. There was no easy way of dealing with it. we tried to move it and just sloshed that nasty water on yourself. Finally got a chain around it and pulled it out with a truck.
Needed a long shower that night.

Jeff · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2007, 10:54:03 am »

I like that show, and he does seem to get in there and do the stuff for real. The dirtiest job I seen him do was the charcoal factory in Missouri that I still wonder if is the same one that Bro. Noble sells his slabs to.

If you ever tailed a commercial mill where you always worked short handed (read alone) and the chipper happen to be broke down and you were not only stacking lumber, but stacking the slabs as well, and sawing logs that would make 16 or 20 4 by 4s at one time at the rate of 1500 to 2000 bf an hour on a hot summer day, you would consider that one of the nastiest jobs ever.

Burlkraft · « **Reply #9 on:** January 22, 2007, 11:25:13 am »

One of my customers in Madison has a Honey Wagon septic business. They came and did a show about him. The people who set it up wanted him to save his nastiest jobs for filming. Well when they got to the nastiest jobs he had...when it came time to donn the chemical suit and oxygen tanks to go down inside a tank at what used to be Oscar Mayers and is now Craft he said.....NO..

The tank was too gross even for the dirty jobs guy. They ended up just doing septic tanks and a waste food tank at a school in Fitchburg. Les Swanson is the Honey Wagon guy and he said that the filming was fun, but it was by no means the nastiest he had....

Les...He's a retired social studies teacher who find this job much more rewarding.....

metalspinner · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2007, 11:52:54 am »

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There was a chest freezer in a garage that was full of rotting meat and nasty flood water

Imagine not only the workers that were cleaning up New Orleans after Katrina, but the home owners that came back to there neighborhoods.

The home owners practically threw a parade when the front end loaders finally showed up to take away all those freezers and fridges. This of course was in the non-flooded areas. I'm sure the flooded areas were much worse off.

Warren · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2007, 10:20:01 pm »

Worked EMS for 15 years. Agree with Samuel and Murf on the human body... Nuff said...

ScottAR · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2007, 02:05:36 am »

Burlkraft, you and I are in the same biz more or less...

After dealing with irritating people all day, poo is not that bad...

Maybe I've just had a bad week...

fuzzybear · « **Reply #13 on:** January 23, 2007, 02:49:13 am »

Murph, sounds like you were stationed in the Yukon or NWT.

As far as dirty jobs the worst for me is picking mushrooms after a forest fire. Great money but alot of black oily soot. At the end of a couple of days you shower wondering how the @#$% did that get in there!

And never mind when you blow your nose

Burlkraft · « **Reply #14 on:** January 23, 2007, 07:13:43 am »

Quote from: fuzzybear on January 23, 2007, 02:49:13 am

As far as dirty jobs the worst for me is picking mushrooms after a forest fire.

I wanna hear more about this....Why would ya be pickin' mushrooms after a fire....ain't they already cooked..

Norm · « **Reply #15 on:** January 23, 2007, 07:17:43 am »

Growing up in farm country manure is a every day smell.

One of the dirtiest jobs I ever had the pleasure of doing was helping out cutting some piggers that should have been done some time ago. They were too small to chute and almost too big to hold.....almost.

I'd squeel like that too if someone with a rusty scalpel was removing my pride and joys.

Cedarman · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2007, 07:22:41 am »

Norm, yup, its messy and squeely, but the reward comes at dinner that night.

Faron · « **Reply #17 on:** January 23, 2007, 07:41:24 am »

I too got into lots of rough and nasty situations during my years in volunteer fire and rescue.
I played high school basketball as a kid. Lots of Saturdays before games, we had to cut pigs. Two problems with that- While the town kids were resting for the the night's game, I was rassling pigs.

I could never find anything that truly removed the smell in the hour or two I had to get ready. I would think I had the smell killed, then soon as I got hot and sweaty......

But for being really nasty, nothing beats rotting soybeans. Get them down in the bottom of a hopper tank where you have to remove them with your hands... yuck Once we were looking at a grain dryer that was for sale. It hadn't been taken care of very well, and the well was full of rotted beans when the owner opened it up. He raked the stuff out with his hands, and then , without thinking, smoothed his hair.

I'd have just had to shave my head after that.

leweee · « **Reply #18 on:** January 23, 2007, 12:19:44 pm »

Faron....I know farmers like that.

If you didn't like bad smells, you wouldn't be a farmer.

Cedarman · « **Reply #19 on:** January 23, 2007, 01:42:55 pm »

I bought my 1 ton Dodge over 2 years ago. Was winter. One warm day I got to smelling some "money". Hmmm. Checked the title where it had come from. Pig farmer in Iowa. Even now, when the inside gets warm, there's that aroma.

thurlow · « **Reply #20 on:** January 23, 2007, 04:29:14 pm »

How about them cows that retained the after-birth; I was always had a wait-and-see attitude. Usually the problem would take care of itself; every once and a while you'd get one that needed some help, you'd have to run her into the pen, into the head gate and put your hand/arm in there.

stonebroke · « **Reply #21 on:** January 23, 2007, 04:49:54 pm »

hey cedarman easy solution to that , You just have to drive around with your windows open for about two years.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #22 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:54:11 pm »

It's on soon.

thecfarm · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:56:45 pm »

Thank-you for telling us.I would of missed it.I do not watch much TV.

Ivey · « **Reply #24 on:** January 23, 2007, 09:13:33 pm »

Know all about them hog farms, owned one until "99" exwife wanted half,
another story. sometimes would have to stick my arm down the flush drain that led to the lagoon. Sometimes a pig would die and get stuck, backing up the water and manure.

Had about 70 head of beef cattle, lots of times I would have to help a hefier
deliver her calf (head to big or turned wrong), and yes sometimes that ment shoulder deep! I know what you mean thurlow, but sometimes you got to do what you got to do...

Furby · « **Reply #25 on:** January 23, 2007, 09:59:36 pm »

Now that's a show!

Love the truck!

Dan_Shade · « **Reply #26 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:02:02 pm »

that was the best dirty jobs I've seen!

that truck was nuts!

Mooseherder · « **Reply #27 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:02:34 pm »

That was great. The wine barrel making was bonus.

mainiac · « **Reply #28 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:14:37 pm »

Did you guys notice the lack of safety equipment?

Chaps, Face Shield, Ear plugs. And how about that drop start of the chain saw?

Other than that, it was very interesting.

Mainiac

Dan_Shade · « **Reply #29 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:19:07 pm »

yeah, I noticed that. I also didn't think it was too wise to have a novice felling trees... but it did hit where it was aimed, so he did something right

Furby · « **Reply #30 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:21:25 pm »

Too bad they weren't using a LogRite canthook either. $:-\$

I'm thinking that may have been one of the longest single subject segments they have aired.

sandmar · « **Reply #31 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:22:07 pm »

Me thinks this guy better stick to his poo jobs.Not sure he is cut out for mule logging

I would give $100 for the truck and not even check the tires!!
Sandmar

Furby · « **Reply #32 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:24:45 pm »

There was poo......... and a real ~~ass~~ mule to go with it.

Spent Carpenter · « **Reply #33 on:** January 24, 2007, 09:19:29 am »

That show made me register here after lurking for a long time. Was that mule on a hair trigger or what?

WH_Conley · « **Reply #34 on:** January 24, 2007, 09:54:28 am »

Welcome to the forum Spent Carpenter.

Some of the experts will chime in here later to let us know for sure but I had the impression that those mules either had not been worked for a while or were to pulling in competition, as soom as hooked take off. It has been a long time since I have been around mules in the log woods but the last ones were well trained and worked everyday. When you hooked those mules up you had to look to make sure they were still awake, tell them to get up and let them walk out of the woods on their own, you stayed, the guy at the skidway unhooked them and sent them back.

As a disclaimer the mules I was around were probably some of the best trained around.

sawguy21 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 24, 2007, 10:00:43 am »

I started wrenching at a farm equipment dealership, was the snowmobile mechanic. Being the nooby, I got the jobs the apprentice would do if they had one. The worse two jobs were steam cleaning the frozen manure covered equipment and draining and refilling the fluid in tractor tires. The switch did not work so I had to disconnect the pump and reverse it. Calcium chloride is hard on clothes and miserable in cuts or burns.

Before that I tailed at a commercial mill when it was around 0 degrees F.

thecfarm · « **Reply #36 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:02:22 am »

I really enjoyed the loader on that truck.I wanted them to spend more time on how the loader worked.Now there are 1000's of people all over the US thinking they know how logs are loaded on to trucks.I never seen one like that.Wonder how often the tails lights have to to changed on that truck?Quite a jarring that truck took on the first few logs.I would have to say the mules were not always in the logging business too.A little to quick on the draw for me.

Mr Mom · « **Reply #37 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:14:02 am »

A good friend of mine logs with draft horses and they are slow and do what ever he wants them to do.
I have seen him at a pull and they walk to the sled and wait for the hook up then they stand there and wait to be told what to do.
Other guys have to have three other to help hook up. There horses are jumping and prancing around and they take three or four times to get hooked too the sled.

Thanks Alot Mr Mom

slowzuki · « **Reply #38 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:28:03 am »

I've got a section of direct burial cable that was salvaged from a pig farm and every time I open the electrical box it stinks of pig. Its been 5 years in our place and 10 years since it was around pigs! I washed it twice with soapy water when I got it.
Ken

Quote from: Cedarman on January 23, 2007, 01:42:55 pm

I bought my 1 ton Dodge over 2 years ago. Was winter. One warm day I got to smelling some "money". Hmmm. Checked the title where it had come from. Pig farmer in Iowa. Even now, when the inside gets warm, there's that aroma.

sandmar · « **Reply #39 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:42:20 am »

Welcome aboard Spent Carpenter,glad you came out of lurking! I agree those mules need to learn the command STAND in the worst way. I kept waiting for someone to loose a finger with the log hooks when the mules jumped. Guess my patience aren't as good as theirs.

Sandmar

beenthere · « **Reply #40 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:46:14 am »

slowzuki
Canna hardly believe dat

Da pigman gets scrubbed up before da piggy roast, and we donna smell a thing......

Spent Carpenter · « **Reply #41 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:56:38 am »

Thanks. What i could not understand is how come nobody rode the mule same as powered equipment. Those long plow leads looked like complete BS or should i say poo to me. Why in the world would you want your feet several feet back from the front of the log. I would have broken ankels before sundown

Furby · « **Reply #42 on:** January 24, 2007, 02:11:01 pm »

I was in Cedarmans truck last summer.
He pointed out "the smell", but I really didn't smell it. $:-\$

Cfarm, The truck on the show had the windshield cracked, the passenger door missing and the truck had been rolled twice........ I don't think they worry much about tail lights.

Bibbyman · « **Reply #43 on:** January 24, 2007, 07:06:22 pm »

Quote from: WH_Conley on January 24, 2007, 09:54:28 am

Welcome to the forum Spent Carpenter.

Some of the experts will chime in here later to let us know for sure but I had the impression that those mules either had not been worked for a while or were to pulling in competition, as soom as hooked take off. It has been a long time since I have been around mules in the log woods but the last ones were well trained and worked everyday. When you hooked those mules up you had to look to make sure they were still awake, tell them to get up and let them walk out of the woods on their own, you stayed, the guy at the skidway unhooked them and sent them back.

As a disclaimer the mules I was around were probably some of the best trained around.

I'm not an expert but I have owned a mule trained to skid logs. (But didn't use him very much for that.) He didn't work the same as these mules. He knew "Back", "Stand", "Step up", etc. The bad thing was, he could fold those ears down and go under brush you'd think a rabbit couldn't get through.

But one of my uncles skidded with mules and I watched him work many a time. The big mule was named 'Old Fox'. Uncle Ed would drive him up to the first log and set the tong and give him the some command and he step up and set the tongs. He would then take the lines off him and Old Fox would take the log to the truck or landing by himself. He'd line up the log with the others and then step back to let the tongs fall free. Then he'd head back into the woods to find the Uncle Ed and be hooked up again.

You're right. These mules acted like pulling mules. I've seen that before - when they hear the hookup, they're off!

mike_van · « **Reply #44 on:** January 24, 2007, 08:54:38 pm »

3000.00 for the pair is a lot less than a skidder, and 10.00 a day for "keep" is less than fuel, but boy i'd be exhausted the way they were fighting those mules. A well trained pair would be a lot easier to work. That was pretty clean ground too, not all snags & brush. The poo pots from last week - I know that guy Matt FreundCowpots Website , he helped out last year building the arena for the high school robotics team. Nice people - I hope his business does well as a result of the show - Free nation wide advertising is hard to come by.

timberjack240 · « **Reply #45 on:** January 24, 2007, 09:03:00 pm »

yea anyway.. it might be cheaper but when i wanna back up i back up and i dont get drug throught the woods either. the only jack im runnin is a timberjack

. for 10 bucks a day you hafta think is it worth tehat headache

. i told my dad when we were watchin it.. i sed theyd do that once and that wood be it and id ahve a skidder..... i can see mule logging inst for me

... although i did like there truck never seen one of them

Faron · « **Reply #46 on:** January 24, 2007, 09:16:49 pm »

An Amish crew has been logging near my place with horses. Most days they run 3 teams. One Saturday they had 5 teams. The horses seem to know what to do, but each team does have a driver. These guys ride the logs quite a bit. They have moved an awful lot of logs out. I think they are probably the only loggers in the immediate area able to skid logs due to the extremely wet conditions this winter. Amazing how little damage they are doing. I have heard of mule teams from the past around here that worked like Bibbyman's uncles' mule.

Furby · « **Reply #47 on:** January 24, 2007, 09:19:47 pm »

Horse/mule logging is something I've been considering for a while now and I plan to keep looking into it.

Don K · « **Reply #48 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:04:31 pm »

I agree that the mules would be a pain jumping the hookup like that but hey, if they were well trained it wouldn't look like a dirty job would it? I loved that truck. I wish I could crawl all over it and see how it works. Having seen many old paperwood trucks that were homemade I think I know a little of how they built it, but the double cable is interesting.

pigman · « **Reply #49 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:31:53 pm »

I just have to point out the errs of the people that said pigs smell bad and it was a dirty job raising them. When I was in the piggy business, the manure did not smell bad, the pull plug pits never got stopped up with a dead pig, pigs never die in the pens and are found the next morning half eaten and other dirty stuff they talked about. I am also good at telling a bold faced lie with a straight face.

When those pigs were selling for 60¢ lb live wt and it only cost 30¢ to raise them, all those little problems were ignored. When they were 15¢ and it cost 30¢
to raise them, I noticed all the problems.

Bob

Mooseherder · « **Reply #50 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:34:40 pm »

I went to the Discovery site to see if there was more information or talk about the catapult logging truck. There are alot of postings criticizing the lack of safety practices from last nights show. One in particular has a re-posting of Mike's take on safety. http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6941971108/m/7611959468

Furby · « **Reply #51 on:** January 24, 2007, 11:46:00 pm »

Gotta give him credit.............. cause I agree with him!

logwalker · « **Reply #52 on:** January 25, 2007, 12:40:57 am »

No glasses, no ear protection I could see, limited chainsaw instruction, several close calls with the mules. Not a very good reflection on the industry. My wifes comment made me laugh. She figured "the Jackass was behind the mule".

Jeff · « **Reply #53 on:** January 25, 2007, 12:46:01 am »

I like the host's post on safety and I also have to agree with his assessment. Its his job to go in and do what the other guy is doing. Who is he to tell them how to do it even if they are a joke to that particular profession. It makes good television. Its got us all entertained and its one of the few shows I enjoy.

Bibbyman · « **Reply #54 on:** January 25, 2007, 04:09:03 am »

I still cringed the whole time I was watching the chainsaw and skidding parts. For sure, Mike had no preparation to what was going to happen and what his appropriate actions and precautions should have been taken. I don’t think this depicts real life on any job.

Take for example, when he was felling the tree. He says something like, “How come this things not falling?” Then, “Oh. There it goes.” and just stands there. Bubba Butt says, “Ah. Now would be a good time to get out of here.” YEA!

You’d think they could have had a thirty second huddle and tell Mike. “Now look. When this tree starts to fall, shut off the saw and proceed with urgency to a safe spot.”

And letting the idiots ride on the log while it was being skidded. What’s up with that? I didn’t see Bubba and Leroy do it. I’d bet that the tongs or hitch had a swivel on them so the log could roll and not twist up the tugs on the harness.

farmerdoug · « **Reply #55 on:** January 25, 2007, 12:10:43 pm »

Riding on moving logs sound like a good way to get maimed or killed.

Doing on the river is bad enough but on Land is crazy.

Furby, If you start a business of horse or mule logging let me know. I sure would like to put a Forum member at the top of my list for horse logging.

Farmerdoug

pigman · « **Reply #56 on:** January 25, 2007, 02:08:37 pm »

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I sure would like to put a Forum member at the top of my list for horse logging.

You want me to break the other leg don't you.

When I was a lot younger we would drag in firewood with a horse. One brother would hitch, the other brother would unhitch and I had the job of riding the horse back and forth. As older brothers would do, they would give me a hard time about getting the horse in the exact spot they wanted. If they got on me too much I would let the reigns loose just as they were hooking or unhooking and the horse would act like the fast mule on the TV show.

Bob

farmerdoug · « **Reply #57 on:** January 25, 2007, 04:40:17 pm »

Sounds like you wanted to break their legs.

Just how did you break your leg? I think maybe your brothers had something to do with it.

Farmerdoug

Engineer · « **Reply #58 on:** January 25, 2007, 04:44:55 pm »

Quote from: logwalker on January 25, 2007, 12:40:57 am

No glasses, no ear protection I could see, limited chainsaw instruction, several close calls with the mules. Not a very good reflection on the industry. My wifes comment made me laugh. She figured "the Jackass was behind the mule".

It was all of them. I was making enough comments about the show that my wife told me to just shut up and watch. The drop start I'm guilty of, however. Always have started my saws that way. But the complete lack of safety equipment, wedges, or any other tools was a little surprising. The only thing I saw that those guys did right, is bore cut the trees.

He oughta do a segment on "regular" logging on a cold wet snowy day here in New England, with a logging crew that does everything properly.

WH_Conley · « **Reply #59 on:** January 25, 2007, 07:25:25 pm »

Engineer, won't happen, wouldn't make for sensationalisn(sp) TV.

Haytrader · « **Reply #60 on:** January 25, 2007, 11:59:11 pm »

Norm............I'll bet you would have as much "wiggle" as an 80 pounder does too.
Ever get any "pig doo" on your hand while you were holding one and need to scratch your nose?

Quartlow · « **Reply #61 on:** January 27, 2007, 07:22:07 pm »

I can' believe no commented on the fact that one mules name was Roxie

beenthere · « **Reply #62 on:** January 27, 2007, 07:55:06 pm »

NO ONE would dare to bring dat up.......

pigman · « **Reply #63 on:** January 27, 2007, 08:08:03 pm »

....execpt Quartlow. I know someone that is going to be in real trouble with a certain person from Pa.

fuzzybear · « **Reply #64 on:** January 28, 2007, 03:22:22 am »

For years a neighbor had a Belgum Draft horse skidding logs for him. Sampson was a very fussy horse. He would come up to where the logs were laying and wait to be hooked up.
Once he was hooked up he would skid the log down the trail to the landing.
Once he was at the landing he would drag the log into pinpoint position. Each log was seperated by only one inch and the buts were perfectly aligned with each other. If they were out even a little he would circle back and do it again. Then he would stand and wait till he was unhooked. If you moved the log out of alignment he would not move until you put it back where he had it.
Sampson did this for about 7 years before he was retired to the pasture. But he still moved all the barrels around and lines them up perfectly, never saw a horse that loved his job as much as Sampson did.

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #65 on:** January 28, 2007, 11:08:45 am »

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I can' believe no commented on the fact that one mules name was Roxie

WhoooWeeeeeeee, Guess it's a good thing I never got to watch that show.

I wooda loved to mention that

Quartlow · « **Reply #66 on:** January 28, 2007, 06:30:48 pm »

Quote from: beenthere on January 27, 2007, 07:55:06 pm

NO ONE would dare to bring dat up.......

Well some of us aren't to bright

farmerdoug · « **Reply #67 on:** January 28, 2007, 07:00:03 pm »

Especially the one that lives close to her.

Farmerdoug

Quartlow · « **Reply #68 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:12:06 pm »

Eh, she's clear on the other side of PA Doug

I aint skeered

beenthere · « **Reply #69 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:21:17 pm »

Waalllllll, FDH hada leave the country and hide out onna Island somewhere where she can't find him.....

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #70 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:40:01 pm »

farmerdoug · « **Reply #71 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:45:17 pm »

I don't know about that. $:-\$ What is a state to a POed woman. Heck I think that FD has still made a mistake of still being on the same continent as her.

Farmerdoug

sawguy21 · « **Reply #72 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:47:06 pm »

C'mon Roxie, you aren't gonna let these guys get away with this are you?

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #73 on:** January 28, 2007, 08:48:33 pm »

No worries, mates. Roxie's my Buddy, aint'cha Roxie

Quartlow · « **Reply #74 on:** January 28, 2007, 11:25:07 pm »

I figure the reason we ain't heard from her is, she is on here way here to kick my err mule

Furby · « **Reply #75 on:** January 29, 2007, 12:11:15 am »

In this case Quart, if I was your mule, I'd kick your butt!

Roxie · « **Reply #76 on:** January 29, 2007, 06:44:22 am »

Hmmmmmmmm. Some folks appear to be having toooo much fun. Deadheader will tell y'all that he got his comeupance in Ohio. I do travel ya know.

I watched that episode too! Wasn't that fun!!

Quartlow · « **Reply #77 on:** January 29, 2007, 01:22:20 pm »

Aww come on Roxie, you wouldn't hurt sweet ole innocent me now would you?

Frickman · « **Reply #78 on:** January 29, 2007, 08:48:41 pm »

First, I like Dirty Jobs. It's about the only TV I watch. I don't just like Mike getting dirty, I like to see how things are made and work. But, like mentioned above, millions of people now think that this is how wood gets to market. Besides for no training, no safety equipment, etc., did you notice how much wood they wasted? They cut the stumps high, had some fiber pull, and split the ends when bucking. And measure with a stick? Come on now, the hardware store sells tape measures every day. If the logs are valuable, as those were somewhat, it pays to do the job right and measure lengths to the inch. One of the logs they loaded on the truck had a bend about two or feet from the end. The log should have been bucked there and that two feet added on to the next log. They probably had to buck it there to get it on to their antiquated truck. They could almost afford a knuckleboom loader just by utilizing all their wood efficiently.

And how about Mike saying oak logs go for eighty cents a board foot? I hope that some are going for more, and alot will go for less. And how many people in the audience knew what a board foot is? He said that a red oak log, so many feet long and twenty four inches in diameter will bring two hundred dollars, which will be split with the landowner. Probably, but I didn't see any twenty four inch logs there. I know, I know, he's a city boy and was just repeating what they told him, and it seemed to give some background information on what was happening. The loggers should have been a little more responsible and prepared some accurate information for him.

Who sharpens their saw like they did, sitting on a log with the saw in your lap? Maybe some of you do, but not me. I guess it made good tv though.

The last thing that really got me, that hasn't been mentioned yet, took place during the intro. Mike asked what they were doing that day, and they said they were cutting red oak for the landowner. They were cutting some of the big trees to allow the smaller ones to grow. Can you say diameter limit cut? High-grade? That's what it looked like to me.

OneWithWood · « **Reply #79 on:** January 30, 2007, 10:43:52 am »

My observations exactly.

barbender · « **Reply #80 on:** January 30, 2007, 08:45:42 pm »

C'mon you guys- Safety, bad forestry practices, poorly trained mules, these were a couple of guys known as the Butt brothers

David_c · « **Reply #81 on:** February 03, 2007, 09:06:17 pm »

Quote from: barbender on January 30, 2007, 08:45:42 pm

C'mon you guys- Safety, bad forestry practices, poorly trained mules, these were a couple of guys known as the Butt brothers

This abutt sums it up.

metalspinner · « **Reply #82 on:** March 24, 2007, 10:05:41 pm »

Tonight on Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe was hanging out with a mechanics team for the U.S. Army. They had a Hum-V stuck in the sand up to its axel's. They used 7 snatch blocks zigzagging between the vehicle and an iddy-biddy pine tree, maybe 12" in diameter at the base to pull it out. I think it was five men pulling. They said the vehicle weighed 11,500lbs.

That was pretty cool. I need to get a couple of more blocks for my tool kit.

treebucker · « **Reply #83 on:** March 25, 2007, 06:22:55 pm »

I like the show and, even though Mike turned down that one job, I can't help but admire (feel sorry for) him. Growing up on a farm I got volunteered for so many dirty jobs I can't remember them all. It seems odd that when I watch Dirty Jobs I often think to myself 'I've done that!"

Some I remember:

Rotten afterbirth
Scooping manure every day
Pumping manure pits
Pumping human waste from impromptu lagoon (not farming but the town needed our pump)
Cutting pig/bulls/horses
Lancing boils on pigs
Disposing of maggot infested animal carcasses
Unplugging septic/lateral lines

I used to boast to my friends that I could tell what kind of animals, and what sex, a barn had in it before I opened the door. I have since lost that ability.

One of my earliest memories was of a large pig farm my dad did contract work for. He' doze a 1-200' trench for the owner to dispose of the dead hogs in. He' also fill in the previous trench that was full. Real pleasant place to play on hot days.

Pigman's post stirred a memory of something I allways considered a true mystery:

Quote from: pigman on January 24, 2007, 11:31:53 pm

I just have to point out the errs of the people that said pigs smell bad and it was a dirty job raising them. When I was in the piggy business, the manure did not smell bad, the pull plug pits never got stopped up with a dead pig, pigs never die in the pens and are found the next morning half eaten and other dirty stuff they talked about.
Bob

Yeah, count the pigs in a pen the next morning and realize there's one missing. Search the pen and all you find is 1 ham. Were's the head? How did they eat that?

Of all the dirty jobs I've done only one truly got me. I was about 16. My dad ask me to load up 5 hogs and take them up to the vets. Even though it was 5:30 am it was already hot. I had been out the night before and was still feeling the effects. I unloaded the hogs at the vet's office and helped him give each of them a general anestesic, load them on the operating table, clean the area with some very aeromatic aneseptic cleaner and then push their intestines back up into their rectums and sew them shut leaving a small hole for them to deficate through. Ok, ok, it wastn't any worse than other jobs I had to do but there was something about having a hangover early in the morning, it being very hot/humid for that early, the smell of that aneseptic cleaner, and watching the operation that caused me to get a light head. The vet saw this and ask that I step back. I couldn't believe I was having any trouble...I had seen it all before. But I was going down when he grabed me and leaned me in the corner. I was embarassed.

I asked the vet what caused their intestines to turn inside out. He said it was due to them having a diet that was too high in protein. (Don't ask me what we were supplimenting their diet with.

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One trick I used to play on visitors was to show them our unique technique for ridding an area of fly maggots. The pens stayed maggot free courtesy of the pig's taste for them. Where they were a problem was where the manure seeped under the gates. Our solution was to release the gates and move them out a few feet so the pigs could clean them up. This generally left a lasting impression on the visitors.

There's more, but I don't want to ruin your dinners.

olyman · « **Reply #84 on:** March 25, 2007, 08:02:22 pm »

Quote from: Cedarman on January 23, 2007, 01:42:55 pm

I bought my 1 ton Dodge over 2 years ago. Was winter. One warm day I got to smelling some "money". Hmmm. Checked the title where it had come from. Pig farmer in Iowa. Even now, when the inside gets warm, there's that aroma.

know how to get it out?

on some warm day--get a lb container of NEW coffee--put in a foil pie tin--set on seat inside of truck--close windows--and let set for a day--should do it--learned this when worked at car garage--takes care of cigarette smoke also---

oly

olyman · « **Reply #85 on:** March 25, 2007, 08:04:59 pm »

But for being really nasty, nothing beats rotting soybeans. Get them down in the bottom of a hopper tank where you have to remove them with your hands... yuck Once we were looking at a grain dryer that was for sale. It hadn't been taken care of very well, and the well was full of rotted beans when the owner opened it up. He raked the stuff out with his hands, and then , without thinking, smoothed his hair.

I'd have just had to shave my head after that.

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amen to that faron--ex farm kid--dang!!!!!!!!!!! course cleaning under chicken roosts aint much fun either----

sawdust · « **Reply #86 on:** August 29, 2007, 10:22:05 am »

I'm with Warren and the crew. Walkin talkin 3rd degree 90 percent welldone human has a smell that stays in your nose hairs for days. Longer than the hotdog had for sure.

Ps don't use your torch in greasy old coveralls.

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