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00:01My name's Mike Rowe.
00:03This is my job.
00:06I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10Dude, how did you learn how to do this? I mean, this can't be in a manual.
00:13You learn tricks as you go, I guess.
00:15Hard-working men and women who learn an honest living.
00:18Hey, you didn't do too bad there, Mike.
00:20It's a nice run of leeches.
00:21That's what I shoot for, Jeff.
00:23Right on!
00:24Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:28Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:33Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:35In southeast Oklahoma, some really filthy dirt needs to be cleaned up.
00:39Okay, in a rotary kiln.
00:41But first, the dirt's washing machine needs an experienced welder.
00:44Got you!
00:45Goddamn!
00:46Blind as a mullet.
00:47They got me instead.
00:48Old school, yeah!
00:49I don't know what that means.
00:51Then...
00:52Sometimes they come easy, sometimes they don't.
00:54You gotta deal with a lot of dirt bags in this business.
00:56They're pretty slippery characters.
00:58Oh!
00:59Oh, no.
01:00Now I gotta crawl in there and get it.
01:02And later...
01:03This is egg production at its absolute best.
01:05160,000 chickens all live in one big house.
01:09Where's the poo go?
01:10You're about to find out, Mike.
01:11Where's the poo go?
01:13Right in your face.
01:16Oh, God.
01:17This is what I call dirty dirt.
01:32What makes dirt dirty?
01:34In this case, it has to do with the thousands of miles of pipes that run all across the country just underneath the surface.
01:40I'm talking about the pipes that carry jet fuel and gasoline and diesel.
01:46When those pipes rupture, all of that good stuff gets injected into the soil.
01:52And that's bad.
01:53And that's dirty.
01:54So today, we've come to southeast Oklahoma to clean the dirty dirt.
02:00Don't you love it when a show lives up to its name?
02:03The machinery that cleans the dirt is completely mobile and has come here to clean up a pipeline blowout that injected fuel into an 800-foot-long area.
02:13Instead of being hauled off to a landfill, the dirt will be cleaned and have nutrients added that bring it back to its natural state.
02:21Then, it will be returned to where it came from.
02:24James R. Roderick runs the show.
02:27And this is the show over here.
02:29And this is James.
02:30How are you?
02:31Nice to meet you.
02:32Thanks for having us out here.
02:34And where am I again?
02:35Out in the middle of southeast Oklahoma.
02:37One could confuse it with nowhere at a glance.
02:40It's next door.
02:41What kind of stuff is in the soil that shouldn't be there?
02:44What we have here is diesel.
02:45Yeah.
02:46This is a diesel release.
02:47We do diesel, jet fuels, gasoline.
02:48I can smell it.
02:49Yeah.
02:50It's good.
02:51How much, roughly, went into the soil?
02:54Approximately 2,000 barrels.
02:55Are you literally cooking the diesel out of it?
02:59Yes, sir.
03:00You reach the boiling point of the diesel.
03:02It becomes a vapor and it releases from the soil.
03:04Then we take the vapor another direction and destroy it.
03:07And the sterile soil comes out.
03:08We rehydrate it.
03:09Put it in a stockpile.
03:11Have it analyzed down to a half a part per billion.
03:13And once it's clean, it goes back in the hole.
03:15Sterile.
03:16Sterile.
03:17Sterile.
03:18So it's almost cleaner, I would imagine, than it was before the spill.
03:22Oh, much cleaner, yes.
03:23When we put it back in the ground, we can build it to whatever we want it to be.
03:28So if they want this to be a cornfield, we can build it to a cornfield.
03:31If they want it to be a pasture, we'll make it a pasture.
03:33Really?
03:34Yes, sir.
03:35Well, this is a farmland.
03:36No, actually, this was nothing out here.
03:38This was some ravines and a hunting area.
03:41Somebody must own it.
03:42Yes.
03:43So an individual owns it.
03:45A company had an issue with some pipes.
03:48You're coming in to clean it up.
03:49And now when the individuals retake it, it'll be better than it was.
03:54Yes, sir.
03:55So the first job I do then is what?
03:57Well, we have an issue in the rotary kiln right now that needs some welding.
04:01You've seen my welding skills in the past, I'm sure.
04:03Yes.
04:04I haven't got to patch up your work afterwards.
04:06That's great.
04:07That's over in this direction?
04:08Yes, sir.
04:09Why don't we walk that way and continue saying smart, insightful things as we do so.
04:14So here's how it works.
04:16Dirty dirt is fed into one end of what's called a rotary kiln.
04:20The kiln churns the dirt as it superheats it, vaporizing all the contaminants.
04:24The clean dirt is then extracted from the kiln and taken back to refill the hole it came
04:29from.
04:30The vaporized contaminants, along with superfine airborne dirt particulates, pass through a
04:35conduit to a series of bag-like filters where the particulate and vapors are separated.
04:41The clean particulate joins the dirt pile while the contaminant vapors move to the afterburner
04:47where they're destroyed.
04:49Ah, okay, in a rotary kiln.
04:53Inside the kiln, there are long baskets that drop the dirt in sheets for even heating,
04:58and metal support structures called gussets.
05:01These take a real beating from constant heavy loads of dirt and rocks and need to be re-welded
05:06as they get damaged.
05:07I'll be helping welder Heath Newland do some repairs.
05:10This is your office?
05:11This is my office.
05:12And the gussets, now are these gussets?
05:15Yes, these are welded in to keep the little pieces of steel on the basket flights from
05:19bowing backwards and breaking off.
05:21This is a basket flight?
05:22Yes, sir.
05:23And this is a?
05:24Combustion flight.
05:25Gussets.
05:26Gussets.
05:27That's a little mini gusset.
05:28Yep.
05:29This is going to be the maxi gusset.
05:30This is the kind of thing that you use to make people talk.
05:33Yep.
05:34We're going to do some welding.
05:35You know what I'm going to do?
05:36Can I just slip behind you and watch you do what you do?
05:38Yes, you can.
05:39Yes.
05:40James, you can hit that welder.
05:45Basic welding 101.
05:46I mean, if there any tips you want.
05:47Just keep it in a straight line.
05:48That's the extent of your advice?
05:49That's the extent of my advice.
05:50Hey, you think James maybe just quit, hung it all up, went home, took early retirement?
05:55It's a possibility, because it ain't on.
05:58Is that a signal?
05:59Yeah.
06:00That he hears?
06:01No.
06:02Oh.
06:03Hey, James, how much to turn on the welder?
06:05I got 20.
06:06Barsky's good for five.
06:08So this is where the show ends, basically.
06:11Glad you enjoyed it.
06:13Glad you stuck with us this far.
06:15Next week, tune in and maybe we'll actually weld something.
06:17We'll weld something in here.
06:18Yeah, that'd be great.
06:19That's what we call a tease in our business.
06:24There it is.
06:25That's the sound of the welder being fired up.
06:26That's the sound of the generator slash welder being fired up.
06:34All right.
06:35You can either do this one here, or you can go back over the one I just did and make sure I did it right.
06:40Oh, yeah.
06:41Because when it comes to quality control, I'm the guy you want.
06:43You would be the guy.
06:44Yeah, I'm the guy.
06:45It should fire there, right?
06:46Uh-oh.
06:47It's done.
06:51See, the problem is when you pull this down, it's just as dark as night.
06:54You can't see a thing.
06:58Oh, yeah, I can see stuff.
07:00Morse code.
07:02Got it.
07:03Blind as a mole.
07:04That's it.
07:05Great.
07:06Stupid job.
07:09No.
07:10Keep it back.
07:21Not bad for your first time.
07:23It's not my first time.
07:24Uh-huh.
07:25God, it's a mess.
07:26I tell you what, man.
07:27This welding's a real talent, isn't it?
07:28It can be.
07:29You actually got better on that one.
07:42You can find a way to take some of the shock and awe out of your voice.
07:45That would be great.
07:54Old school?
07:55Yeah!
07:57I don't know what that means.
07:58I don't either.
07:59I see a lot of us fabricating shows and they yell things like old school and yeah.
08:02I don't know why.
08:09He's just going to tidy up my mistakes.
08:15Coming up.
08:16Man, that is one dirty tube.
08:17When you do battle with the dirt vaporizing afterburner of doom.
08:21Holy crap.
08:22Oh my God.
08:23Sometimes the dirt wins.
08:24I'm going to go ahead and head over to the hospital.
08:26It has been a pleasure knowing and working with both of you.
08:32And later.
08:34There's no truck.
08:35Everyone scrambles when there's a chicken poo emergency.
08:38We're going to look into where the truck went.
08:39Otherwise, we're just pumping a couple metric tons of chicken into the atmosphere.
08:50From the rotary kiln, I'm headed to the bag house to change out the filter bags
08:54that separate fine, particulate dirt from toxic fumes.
08:58One of these days, they're going to invent a Tyvek suit that actually fits me.
09:04Why does nothing ever fit me ever?
09:06I don't know.
09:07Alright.
09:08I usually rip them out.
09:09I promise to ask only questions now on that you know the answers to.
09:13This is Mike.
09:14And what's your official title here?
09:17Oh.
09:18You guys aren't big on official titles, are you?
09:20No.
09:21Yes.
09:22Do just about everything really.
09:23Do just about everything.
09:24Alright.
09:25So what we're going to do now has to do with…
09:26What we're going to do now is we're going to get up here, we're going to blow off the
09:29tube sheet.
09:30Right.
09:31All the fine air particles get sucked through the cross tube, in through the bag house,
09:36and come through the afterburner and then out the stack.
09:38Where does the work happen?
09:39Up here.
09:40We're going up here.
09:41These four right here are bad.
09:46And it'd be this one here, leaving a little bit of grass or something that'll come through
09:51there, like a coal or a hop.
09:53Right, like an ember.
09:54It'll just burn a little hole in it.
09:55I'll show you the first one there.
10:00Sometimes they come easy, sometimes they don't.
10:04So that's the cage, it's in the bag, now it's just the bag.
10:07Yep.
10:08We'll grab that air hose behind you there, we'll blow the tube sheet off.
10:10I can do that all day.
10:11Then what we'll do, we'll kind of pry this in, without trying to drop it down.
10:24And that's a bag.
10:25How fine is that?
10:26Five microns.
10:27It seems small.
10:28Five microns is small, but the diameter of a strand of human hair is a hundred microns.
10:36Just fold it and run her down in there.
10:39Just to this lip right here.
10:41Alright.
10:42Just like that.
10:43Just drop her in.
10:48Three hundred eight foot long bags are used to filter out the fine dust.
10:52Now there's a bad bag, that one.
10:54See the grass?
10:55It burnt the bag.
10:56Yep.
10:57Changing filter bags is an as needed job.
11:00If the bags are damaged, dirt and dust will end up in the afterburner.
11:04The only tricky part of this job is to make sure you don't drop the bag into the tank.
11:11Oh!
11:12Oh no.
11:13Now I gotta crawl in there and get it.
11:18Alright, these are the bags we threw down.
11:23Yep.
11:24This is how you get in there.
11:25Retrieving that bag you dropped.
11:27Yeah.
11:28How far back do you reckon it is?
11:31Probably to this first door here.
11:34Couple feet.
11:35Alright.
11:36You'll see it once you get in there.
11:37I'm sure I will.
11:38You know what I also see?
11:41That looks like a thing that if it were to come on, it would be very bad for me.
11:46Yes, it would.
11:50Huh.
11:51Nothing to step on at all, is there?
11:54Yeah.
11:55If anybody accidentally turns the screw on, I'll be, well, I'll be screwed.
11:59Alright, now I kinda understand.
12:01There's the bag I dropped.
12:05And now I'm leaving.
12:07Ow.
12:08It's almost time to fire the kiln up to clean a load of dirt.
12:11Ow.
12:12I've gotta check the afterburner first, to make sure the damaged filter bags didn't dirty it up.
12:17So, this is Tom, and this is the afterburner.
12:20And, um, obviously it's gonna be hideous in there, cause you already got your mask in place there.
12:24Oh, yeah.
12:25Yeah, it's time to get real dirty.
12:26So what are we gonna do in there?
12:27We're gonna clean all the dust out of it.
12:28We're gonna boil all the dust out.
12:29Man, that is one dirty tube.
12:30I remember this.
12:31I remember this.
12:32I remember this.
12:33I remember this.
12:34I remember this.
12:36I remember this.
12:37I remember this.
12:42I
12:47I
12:48I
12:55I
13:09crap that's pretty dirty all of this nasty dirt and dust can be pretty much eliminated
13:16by regularly checking the filter bags
13:46we're done oh my god
13:58that's horrible pretty bad huh
14:09how you fellas doing i'm gonna go ahead and head over to the hospital
14:13i'll look for you we're gonna die right here okay it has been a pleasure knowing and working with
14:22both of you this huge rotating kill is finally fired up and dirty dirt is being fed into it but
14:31the most critical part of the whole operation might be the guy tossing rocks out of this hole in the
14:37wall how you doing how you doing good you bear yeah i'm mike nice to meet you what uh what
14:48you're grabbing rocks and throwing it out the hole pretty simple if it sounds like one you throw it
14:53out moisture gets trapped inside of the rocks yeah once it hits the heat it'll explode like a grenade
14:59so you want to catch rocks any sort of organic fibers roots right anything like that that'll
15:05flash up when it hits the flame literally this is going straight into 1800 degrees right now exactly
15:11how uh how many hours in a day would you say you stand here throwing rocks into a porthole
15:16work 12 hour days usually take 30 minutes to an hour for lunch
15:21you get that what do you do for a lift
15:27no matter what you do people like to understand they're having an impact
15:33even if you're only standing in the same spot for 12 hours in a row throwing rocks through a hole
15:39it matters because if you're bare and you miss a rock well everything blows up
15:49once the rotary kiln's fired up the cleaning only takes seven to eight minutes at 1800 degrees of liquid
15:55propane heat 10 minutes ago the dirt coming out of this kiln was hopelessly contaminated drenched in diesel
16:06now it's been scrubbed and rubbed and sanitized and sterilized consequently it's cleaner than it's
16:12been in the last million years or so take a good look it just might be the cleanest dirt on earth
16:20coming up i notice it's uh moisture coming off the bear i become a chicken poo connoisseur i look
16:31for this that's impressive those are one of the things i look for when i'm hiring somebody which could
16:36lead to a career change i'd like to hire you on mike you're doing a good job thanks put you in touch
16:40with my agent and later time now for the obligatory shower scene it's our first r-rated episode are
16:48you done yet i'm never done and everybody drops trial stay tuned
16:59about 40 miles west of phoenix arizona there's a great place to meet some chicks mature full-bodied
17:05productive chicks who live in huge houses where they create a profitable product what more could
17:10a guy want well that'd be part of the hickman family farm and this would be part of the hickman
17:15family clint hickman yes that's right nice to see you nice having you oh it's good to be had um this is
17:22a uh this is a big operation uh yeah there's uh 1.4 million laying hens here housed here in beautiful
17:30arizona yeah everything the uh brochure promised 1.4 million it's a big number no matter what you're
17:36referring to but when you're talking about hens you're talking about living creatures that make
17:42loud sounds and they're all in a spot together and that must be a that must be a heck of a thing um it
17:47it is i'm we've we've uh grown through the years and and uh took flocks as small as 50 with my grandma
17:55um to where we're at now four million it takes a lot of family members hickman family farm started
18:02with grandma and 50 chickens in 1944 50 chickens in downtown glendale arizona and and now uh it's us
18:10my brothers my sister my parents doing it all with four million four million right you guys have been
18:17busy since the second world war a lot of country out here a lot of open expanse a lot of talk about free
18:22range chickens meat whatever whoa why don't you just let them run around and be chickens you know
18:29just in that uh one square mile you probably have at least 50 coyote dens out there so if we let let our
18:35birds uh decide to run free they're probably going to be a gigantic dinner bell out here you've wrapped
18:40me in this piece of kleenex which i do appreciate it's the first one of the first steps in biosecurity
18:46mike we have to worry about avian influenza or newcastle disease or any type of diseases that might get our
18:51bird sick i want to adhere to all the uh the uh biohazard protocol that you may have and i was told
18:58that you're free labor and we're always looking for that ain't nothing in life free client but i am
19:03a bargain i'll follow you let's go free labor okay this is starting to look like uh something we're
19:17standing in the end of barn 11 and there's 160 000 birds in this house alone this is what's called a
19:23conveyor belt house of which you're going to be very familiar with here as the eggs ride up on conveyor
19:28belt they hit this this is basically the egg gatherer so instead of us hand gathering eggs
19:33they're coming up here they're having a nice little ride come up over the top and ride on this big long
19:38conveyor belt all the way to the plant i see so lots of little conveyor belts all leading into this this
19:44picks up the egg big conveyor belt they go somewhere else all right can we go down here absolutely
19:48let's take off let's do that not a lot of places to hide a cameraman in here it's uh not this is
19:56egg production at its absolute best this would be their feed six times a day these these feeders go
20:02off so always fresh feed that would be their poo that's their poo mike the poo lands on the conveyor belt
20:08and we clean that once a day so on every level there's a belt there's feed and there's a poo catcher
20:15correct where's the poo go you're about to find out mike
20:21yes these are jet fans that pull the cool air through right and blow the hot air out who are those
20:26guys those are the dirty jobs professionals this is cody hey cody how are you all right good and this
20:33is steve how are you doing how about it yeah cody uh what's going on how are you doing i'm doing great
20:40ready for what manure we're gonna run all this manure off the chicken belt i think you just said we're
20:47gonna run all this manure off the chicken belt yeah the the sad part about it is mike the fans happen
20:54to be at this end here so when you start them up you can't help but get hit so one two three four five
21:01six belts each one full of crap right each one coming at us yeah what we have cody in other words
21:07is a preponderance of airborne particulate correct what's the job keep the manure away from the
21:14chickens and get it out of the house and then what we do is we turn it into money after that are you
21:19going to be dressed as i am now at this point in time you can probably take that off if you want
21:24a miserable thing actually driving me crazy yes we got a we got masks for you and uh goggles yeah
21:32do that would you how long you been doing this about two years yeah yep you got a passion for poop i do
21:40we're gonna get along fine
21:42what we do mike is we keep an eye on the belt to see if it needs adjusting
21:54truck out there what they want to stop it because there's no truck out there there ain't a truck out
21:58there
22:03yeah that's a good idea there's no truck i can't believe that we have to find out where the truck
22:09went we're going to look into where the truck went otherwise we're just pumping a couple metric
22:13tons of chicken into the atmosphere
22:19they stole a truck who steals a truck oh there it is oh this is an odd thing to steal the truck full
22:27of chicken crap well see what happened was there's supposed to be a truck parked right under that
22:31conveyor so the chicken poo can fall in the truck truck's not there so we're just going to move the
22:38truck over and then we'll get back with the uh the story well rule of thumb next time before we
22:43start it up mike and it's probably my fault i'm going to take the blame for this let's check to see
22:47that the truck's there first before we start it up i blame myself no well you know what it's no harm
22:52done it's a small pile of crap on a dusty landscape where's the driver at oh here he is can you grab that
22:58truck for us please now that i look over there i see that our camera is sitting there in order to get
23:05another one of doug's famous shots that no one ever uses and i'm wondering now if perhaps
23:11one of my crew instructed one of your drivers to get the truck out of the way to make room for our
23:16camera but why would you have the truck moved given the fact that it's not in the camera this way i
23:21told you that i was going to mount cameras inside on the second belt once we determined what was going
23:25to happen so i had dan shoot out no no no but i told you i wanted to wait to the second belt so we see
23:30what's going on why not turn the belts on during this i got an idea doug can shovel it up later on
23:35huh all right let's get back to this guy's i'm wrong guys let's go let's finish this one okay you
23:40know that's no it is easy we can move on you know that's just such a light lesson in that
23:45doug eats a little crap right now takes photo responsibility and we could have avoided the whole
23:49last 10 minutes all right coming up again hit by any manure it gets pretty deep under the chicken
23:59house absolute hell fortunately i know what i'm doing uh-oh uh-oh big blade and later what do you
24:07think came first chicken or the egg i bring up a touchy chicken farm subject it has to be the chicken
24:12where we're going to lay the egg yeah there's a lot of controversy yeah i know
24:24okay the truck is back where you would want to have a truck in a situation like this now all you
24:30got to do is hit the master switch and everything's going to happen at once
24:35that is a lot of crap when the belt goes back around and then we have to get in there and shovel it out
24:39you're probably gonna hand me a shovel at some point aren't you do you prefer a square square
24:45or uh or round okay all right let me get in there to show you how it's done all right
24:54notice how it blows back in when you put it on the belt really unavoidable i think i get it steve
25:01be careful down here you don't want to get up outside in that truck no i don't okay careful
25:10mike it looks like you've done this once or twice once or twice try to get underneath the
25:14bell a little better can you mike you bet appreciate it if you've ever asked yourself
25:19how much poo 160 000 chickens make in a day the answer is about 26 000 pounds with a three percent
25:26margin of error it's good that it's dry we water it down and heat it up and make it just right this is
25:32something to look forward to i'd like to hire you on mike you're doing a good job thanks put you in
25:42touch with my agent okay i notice it's uh boister coming off the conveyor there's a heaviness to it
25:51i look for this that's impressive those are one of the things i look for when i'm hiring somebody
25:55observational acuity there's a lot more that goes into ordering eggs you know over medium this
26:02this also is involved you really take a holistic approach if i see somebody leave a half a plate
26:08of eggs there i almost want to go over and finish it or at least have a discussion with them i don't
26:13see anything weird about that at all oh well what else you got it's called a high-rise house and the
26:21manure just simply falls through the cage and onto the cement floor and then we go in there with a
26:26uh skid steer or bobcat or can we go to the high-rise chicken house okay
26:34well it does have a uh a certain familiar look from the outside anyway but this that's a whole
26:39different look this is a little different than the belt the chickens are up above and um
26:47everything heads down here and then we have to clean it up with the skid steer oh my god
26:51well they're all crapping right now aren't they yeah you don't want to walk under there mike
26:56upstairs the hundred thousand plus chickens produce about one egg each per day and because
27:01of their generous feeding schedule their daily poo output off the charts so and then you see our
27:07skid steer operator coming here um he cleans it all up uh each and every day we take it out of here
27:11i'm guessing that maybe a guy like me could have a chance to operate a device like this
27:15you're careful yeah what are the stakes here of being uncareful well if you hit one of these beams
27:20here there's a chance that uh all the chickens might have an accident yeah you might have a chicken in
27:25the lamp
27:33i didn't want to point it out in front of steve but i just have to say this is one of the worst
27:36places i've ever seen in my whole ridiculous life nice place steve
27:46the whole thing's just full of crap isn't it the whole thing
27:51i'm informed that before shooting the crew needs a little prep time to rig some cameras and lights
27:58just doing a little adjustment with the lights shouldn't take quite a moment
28:15it's doing some minor tweaking we should be ready in a moment another one another one another five
28:24ten twenty minutes
28:31hey mom now just shooting a show just doing some final tweaking
28:35i think we're on the verge of committing some television
28:51big blade good luck good luck to you too yeah looks good good
29:06you're getting hit by any manure they had to crap it all over me absolute hell
29:24thirteen tons of poo raining right down on you it's kind of like a nightmare
29:28you're going to get down here just use the wall to scoop it up that way we don't lose any of your
29:35hard work yeah a little more and now you got to go to the other end and dump it the other end yeah
29:44same way i came now you can go down a different aisle
29:51can you do it
29:54uh-oh uh-oh i'm afraid he'd take quite a while to do this house brandon
29:59yeah he'd take a couple hours at least maybe a couple days yeah this one this isn't gonna work out
30:03with a continuous bombardment of poo feathers and chicken dander it's like a really disappointing
30:11snowfall under the high rises
30:19once the first load was dumped my erratic driving prevented the guys from telling me they'd prefer
30:23that i stopped so off i went
30:26again here at hickman farms virtually nothing goes to waste so to speak all this poo will be
30:36combined with other egg byproducts and processed into fertilizer pellets that will be sold to golf
30:42courses and anyone else who needs pelletized poo how'd i do you didn't do too bad
30:56that's what i'm cheering for yeah yeah i'm gonna leave it to you to finish up all right all right
31:01sounds good well that was the scene nobody's sure how it went yet because everybody's dehydrated
31:08dave troy doug you're totaled i'm not sure if i have sweat in my eye or chicken urine it's an age-old
31:15question troy coming up are you ready for the big deal the big deal there we go in the egg business big
31:22deal means fast dirty and bloody poop and confusing every hour we change people here you would have
31:28to your people would go insane
31:36all right time now for the obligatory shower scene although in this case we actually need one as you
31:41can see from doug he got completely destroyed shooting underneath the hen house so he'll need to
31:47tidy up and uh over here i think we have yeah let's not use that shot good actually it's uh
31:55also a good time to point out that the showering in this case is not just about basic hygiene and
32:00decency it's a uh it's a biosecurity step that they uh do here at hickman because we're going to be
32:06headed into a clean area of course like any other shower situation the fella has to wait his turn are you
32:12done yet i'm never done he's never done stay tuned oh god what is that
32:24huh how do you like that the dirty jobs crew is now cleaner than you will ever see them take a good
32:31look frank how are you all of the eggs coming from the head house come straight to you and your job is
32:45to do what i'm done my job is to process the eggs to pack the eggs and get the finished product to the
32:50customers we only want perfect eggs right yes i mean like some of these eggs got some poo on them
32:59they're going to get to the washer so this egg's okay we just got to get the poo off all right
33:06all right this one too yeah and that one too the little skid marks on the eggs a lot of cracked eggs
33:13don't make it through the pre-wash they have to be constantly cleaned out the broken eggs shells and
33:20all will be added to the farm's compost dirty screen
33:24after the pre-wash the eggs go through another machine it gives them a thorough scrubbing to get
33:33the really tough poo off from there it's on to the candling station so uh candling yeah right here
33:41you're going to handle the eggs you're going to look for reds i mean blood inside the egg bloody eggs
33:47and what about these just grab them yeah you just grab them and put them in the pocket
33:51coming back there if you see double one you put them in the hole fill them up in the gap
33:55show me a bloody one if you find one well if we're not getting no bloody that means we got a good
33:59quality eggs coming through well that's good are you ready for the big deal the big deal
34:06there we go keep an eye on the on the eggs there we come watch the eggs
34:11candling not only reveals blood but fertilization or any other abnormalities in an egg dirty and bloody
34:17dirty and bloody no that's a jumbo poop
34:26every hour we change people here you would have to your people would go insane
34:33exactly exceptional
34:37what do you think came first chicken or the egg it has to be the chicken or who's going to like
34:41the egg no no there's a lot of controversy yeah i know
34:46so the ones that are going through here that are cracked that the computer catches where do they go
34:51they're going to send to the breaker plan where they're going to make a breaker for liquid eggs
34:55the breaking plan yeah this machine separates the good eggs from bad the good eggs go to packaging
35:03the bad eggs go to the breaker so out there they separate the good from the bad in here they
35:10basically separate the bad from the ugly just because an egg is bad doesn't mean it's inedible it might
35:18just mean it's too bad looking to sell it can have a shot at a life if it gets through this washing
35:24machine one more time and then gets past another quality control spot this woman's very strict but if
35:32an egg can make it to that other side of the wall then they have a shot at being pasteurized if not
35:37she throws them in a bucket like this and it's pretty much the end of the line if you're an egg
35:47the other bit of good news is that this is going to get dumped into the back of that truck where we
35:52shoveled all of that chicken poo earlier then that all gets mixed up into a fantastic
35:58bully a base and carted off to a compost area where it can help grow new and exciting things eggs and
36:05poo poo and eggs it doesn't get much better than that
36:11coming up it's really simple mike it's going to come up all randomly
36:15whole way in the back the oaks on me when i get a little too cocky
36:20no no no no no no and later dude i i i can't keep up that i go head to head with a robot
36:27you know if that gets all the way to the back it stops a machine and then everybody stops working
36:32and really lay an egg this is all you right here where does this stop and start well you seem to
36:36got a little tangle there so the breaking machine cracks the ugly eggs then separates their shells
36:53from the yolks and whites drago's job is very simple he stares into the yolks he's looking for
37:00shells he's looking for blood he's looking for poo and when he sees them that's what he does a little
37:05bit of that the yolks and whites are then blended together and sent through an elaborate maze of
37:12pipes and tanks for pasteurization the solution is then sent to a bagging station for shipment to
37:17bakeries and other food preparation companies all right so you got to put the egg in a bag exactly
37:23it's really simple mike i mean all you got to do is just take your bag slide it over the first
37:28it's going to come up over automatically takes the capsules off and it fills it to a certain weight
37:36at that point we'll take a box so the it goes in a bag the bag goes in a box you fold it up
37:45goes through the taping machine taped and sealed i hate it when somebody says the job's really simple
37:50just makes me look particularly bad when things go wrong seems like my fingers could have come right
37:56off there honestly and then it's just yeah you want to keep it on the table and fill up this moves very quickly
38:03still still it's it's it's it's off-putting
38:17whole leg in a bag
38:23chicken or the egg chicken there's no doubt in your mind no doubt
38:26oh no no no no no no which i mislined it i mislined it yes you did believe me i don't want to
38:43there you go perfect
38:49i guess the only thing left to do is ask you where
38:51in this giant facility are the perfect eggs right next door over at the grading plant
38:56you're gonna be okay without me i'll be good all right all right don't get any whole
39:01runny egg on you i'll try not to
39:04the perfect fresh eggs finally end up here where they're graded and packaged and shipped out to
39:09egg lovers everywhere that's what i found boss wandering around what where am i what station is
39:16this this is packing station number nine and i have packing station number ten and you are already
39:24off to a very bad start hey man i'm getting some very spotty direction this is i think the hardest job
39:32in the plant by the way this this thing here is that a hand or a rooster they call him pat get an
39:40androgynous mascot you're uh falling behind i was behind when i showed up why do these things keep
39:47opening back on it how's the computer doing compared to your people lucy doesn't ask for a whole lot just
39:53like with some oil yeah break fluid but she can't put eggs in racks so we're packing uh what is this
39:59there's 15 dozen in each box you're supposed to be packing this both of these lines and i'm gonna
40:05kind of step away right now and let you go ahead and pack there's no way you can do both of these
40:10at the same time come on they say to make an omelet you gotta crack a few eggs maybe my boxes are going
40:21to omelet lovers hey sticker sticker went over there about 1.1 million eggs are shipped from the farm
40:33every 24 hours give or take a few dozen today you know if that gets all the way back it stops the
40:39machine and then everybody stops working that's one packing line i can't keep up that i i in fact
40:44they're bunching up over here and flipping over now i see it okay you know what this is all yours
40:49this is all you right here dude what oh this is a disaster i'm having a hard time caring about it
40:57i mean i want to where does this stop and start well you seem to kind of a little tangle there or
41:02something chicken or the egg i've been i've been sampling i've been asking your employees uh mike yeah
41:10you're a religious man i can be god created all creatures first so i would think the chicken
41:16now if you go the other way yeah an evolutionist would think the egg came first if you tend toward
41:21the religious the chicken fits with the genesis story if you go toward the darwin then the egg fits
41:31the origin of species now you know and if you live in uh the san verdando valley the rooster
41:39i don't know what that means but it's a funny way to say goodbye let's go no no no i want to leave
41:43with the idea that you're still here working i'm gonna leave with the idea that i'm gonna grab
41:47something because i'm sweating now it's good to be the king
41:53well my nerves are fried my brain is scrambled my day is over and it was not easy i would be remiss
42:01though if i didn't thank clint hickman for inviting us out here to the farm and showing us the way it is
42:07it takes some big huevos to do that because not everybody is comfortable seeing exactly where
42:12their food comes from but the fact of the matter is we love our eggs in this country and i'm grateful for
42:20that
42:25good
42:30i'd like to think that over the last couple of years i've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the
42:34dirty jobs are everywhere and that our little civilization is held together entirely by the
42:39men and women who do the difficult dangerous and sometimes disgusting tasks that have to be done
42:46i also think i've proven that we are absolutely helpless to find those jobs without your help so
42:51this is the part where we ask you for help if you have a dirty job or know of somebody who does
42:55please don't wait go to discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs right now and tell us all about it
43:01we'd appreciate it you guys laugh at me i swear to god i'll come over there and weld that camera shut
43:09assuming of course i ain't got an arc
43:11get my back would you oh that's good perfect great thank you that's chicken crap on the lens and those
43:19are flies on the chicken crap and that's the crap dan's got off so far so go on the extra mile bring the
43:26shot to you
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