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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:13I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:17Is my bandana still on your head?
00:19Yeah, but my face isn't.
00:21Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:23Oh, my God.
00:25Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:29Now get ready to get dirty.
00:35Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:36We're taking the wall out.
00:37We're taking the wall out.
00:38Taking out a solid concrete wall.
00:42Everything is going to plan.
00:43Good, good.
00:44And possibly taking myself out in the process.
00:48Senseless way to go, huh?
00:49It's dirty and dangerous, and there's no margin for error.
00:52Oh, we quite didn't.
00:53What did we do?
00:54What I did is what I call a rookie move.
00:56Well, that's big of you to admit that.
00:57So it's critical to have good communication.
01:04And later, in Colorado, there are a couple of ways to shear a sheep.
01:08But when it comes time to testrate them, there's only one with your bare hands.
01:12What the hell are you doing, man?
01:14And one other body part.
01:15Just goes to show that you don't need sharks to make a job that bites.
01:23I'd rather do this than crawl down some of those sewers.
01:26I miss the sewer right about now.
01:27Oh, God.
01:43Today I've come to an automobile dealership here in trendy Newport Beach in beautiful Orange County, California.
01:49In just a few days, if you're a man of means, you'll have your choice of any number of beautiful luxury cars parked right here on these brand-new marble floors.
01:59Today, though, if you're a man of action, you can tear down a wall.
02:04I like the way wall sounds when I say it in here.
02:07Wall.
02:18Yeah, for me, behind the scenes is always a little more interesting, even in an automobile dealership.
02:23And we are truly behind the scenes here with Steve and Kip.
02:26How are you guys?
02:27Doing great.
02:27What exactly is being built here?
02:31We're basically cutting a wall opening for a wash bay that's going to be placed right here in this general area.
02:36A wash bay.
02:36So this is essentially part of a, what, like a service area?
02:40Service area.
02:40Every car dealership needs a service area?
02:42Because even when you sell the fancy ones, sooner or later they break, and then this is where they're going to fix them.
02:46Going to fix them.
02:47But they can't do that until you fix this.
02:48Are we going to be working at all with that?
02:50No, we're not.
02:51Our general work area is going to be right here.
02:53These doors?
02:54Just around these doors.
02:55Around the doors?
02:56Yes.
02:56We're taking the wall out.
02:57We're taking the wall out.
02:58That's a concrete wall?
02:59Yep.
03:00How long has this project been going on?
03:02About a year and a half.
03:03When will it be done?
03:05Good question.
03:05That we don't know.
03:07I love an honest construction worker.
03:09This is a wall saw.
03:10A wall saw.
03:12Below the wall unit are five foot tracks that this unit will actually mount to.
03:17This doesn't seem sharp.
03:18It's not sharp.
03:19Diamond blade.
03:20Real diamonds?
03:21Real diamonds.
03:22So diamonds are a saw's best friend.
03:24There you go.
03:24This will come into play after we lay out for our anchors and set our track.
03:29What's an anchor look like?
03:30An anchor looks something like this right here.
03:33It's called a drop-in anchor.
03:34A drop-in anchor.
03:34How many of these go in?
03:35We will use probably around 12.
03:38Let's lay out some anchors.
03:39All right.
03:3910 feet wide, 12 feet tall.
03:41What I have over there set up is two five-foot tracks and one two-foot track.
03:46We're going to set some anchors for our plates.
03:48Right.
03:48It's basically a plate that we use to sustain the wall as we're cutting along.
03:53I'm sure it'll all be made clear to me as we go.
03:56This is going to be our cut line right along this door jam.
03:58This way?
03:59No, this way.
04:00This is going to be our vertical cut.
04:02How come the line goes this way?
04:03This is the far we go on one of the tracks.
04:05We're going to be setting three pieces of track.
04:07For our anchor, you measure over.
04:09It's five and three-quarters of an inch.
04:11One anchor will go there.
04:12Another anchor will go there.
04:13From this, we do another five and three-quarter.
04:16What I would generally do is use a two-footer and then another five-footer.
04:20And we go up from there.
04:22If I had more advanced mathematical or cognitive skills, I'd probably understand what we're doing right now.
04:27Right there.
04:28So we're right on.
04:29Cool.
04:30I think the next part might have something to do with making holes for the drop-in anchors.
04:34What we will use is the drill bit.
04:37The tape is there to set our depth.
04:40Right.
04:40We want to drill up to the point of the tape.
04:42If you go two beyond, then we're screwed.
04:44Okay.
04:45We're not screwed.
04:46We're drilled.
04:46Well, there you go.
04:47Center yourself.
04:48Do the X.
04:50Get it started.
04:59Clean out the excess dust.
05:01Sure.
05:03In order to get the drill track secured to the wall, 14 holes need to be drilled for the drop-in anchors.
05:09Uh, then what we do, we take our anchors, and I just pop them in there, as so.
05:25Oh, now it's set?
05:26It's not set yet.
05:27We just, that's, we're just putting them in.
05:29Seemed awfully easy.
05:33Uh-oh.
05:34That was kind of crooked, huh?
05:35No, actually, it's just that there's still a little dust in there.
05:38Little dust.
05:39My bad.
05:39Yeah.
05:40Inside here, it's threaded, so what you want to kind of do is, as it's setting it, you don't
05:48want to ruin the threads.
05:50Right.
05:59Ah, darn.
06:01Safe yet blind.
06:07Certain predictability about the job at this point.
06:09Grill, stick, set, et cetera.
06:12Now, the plates that we use to hold the wall, they're quarter-inch steel plates.
06:18They are pre-punched at a 12 and a half inch, uh, center to center.
06:22Uh, so what I do, one mark, 12 and a half over.
06:25Four more holes need to be drilled for the quarter-inch plate that will keep this 10-foot
06:29chunk of concrete from falling in on us.
06:35So we've drilled 12 holes and set some anchors, made some holes, set some more anchors for
06:41the plaques, and we're going to put some track on.
06:45Is that right, Steve?
06:46That's right.
06:47That's right.
06:48This tooth guide right here is what the saw actually rides on.
06:51These right here are what secure the track to the wall.
06:58We are going to cut today, right?
07:00We are going to cut.
07:03Seems like a couple of well-placed sticks of dynamite would make quick work of this, but
07:06what do I know?
07:11Huh, we quite didn't...
07:13What did we do?
07:14What I did is, uh, what I call a rookie move.
07:17This one right here should be over.
07:19Yeah.
07:19So we are going to have to drill one more anchor.
07:21Okay.
07:22I think we all knew this was going to happen.
07:23Yeah.
07:24I mean...
07:25I'll go ahead and grab the stuff.
07:26Oh, okay, good.
07:27Since it was my mistake.
07:29Well, that's big of you to admit that.
07:30Really.
07:31Really.
07:31Part of my job here is to assume responsibility for all remedial error.
07:36Uh-oh.
07:36How about there?
07:39Uh, well, let's put a measurement on that.
07:42We don't want to make another mistake.
07:44Remember what happened last time we measured?
07:45Exactly.
07:46I thought of reminding Steve of the old adage, measure twice, drill once.
07:51That'd be like salt in the wound, though.
07:54Okay.
07:55We're almost ready to cut?
07:57Just teasing me.
07:58No.
07:58Coming up, the bobcat and I have a, uh, long-term yet uneasy relationship.
08:05Breaking up.
08:05Whoa!
08:06All right.
08:07Can get emotional.
08:08Damn it!
08:09Get the hell down there.
08:11Then.
08:12You mean you let the bum lamb nurse from a goat?
08:15Yeah.
08:15Lambs nursing off goats.
08:17Do I have to suck it for you, too?
08:19Leads to utter confusion.
08:20What's the sheep doing in here?
08:21It thinks it's a goat.
08:23A heck of a way to go through life.
08:25And later.
08:26Run after them, snag their back feet.
08:27If you're lucky, we can get close and you don't have to enough.
08:30Oh, my career has been defined by luck.
08:33A wild sheep chase.
08:34Oh, jeez, I caught a lamb.
08:36Crap.
08:36Caught a brush.
08:37All right, they moved faster than I thought.
08:39That was a very valuable learning lesson.
08:48This is called a wall saw.
08:49Wall saw.
08:50Got a side plate, which holds it, which goes on.
08:55This will be our water.
08:56Water goes in.
08:57This will be our pressure side of our hydraulics.
08:59This is our return.
09:00There'll be lots of hoses stuck to this thing.
09:02Three hoses.
09:02Okay, so we'll just take one hose at a time in.
09:04Since we are cutting this opening right here in that man door where we came out.
09:08Why is that one the man door and that's just the door?
09:11They're both man doors.
09:12I'm still, I mean, I want to get it right.
09:14When I'm at work, I call them man doors.
09:16But you're able to turn it off in your home.
09:17Exactly.
09:18You simply go through the door.
09:19That's it.
09:19Knock on the door.
09:20Yes.
09:20Okay.
09:21We'll want to go through the other door.
09:22This one, yes.
09:23Sorry.
09:24Man door.
09:24Ah, damn it.
09:29Come on with me through the man door.
09:31Watch your step, though.
09:33Our water line will hook up.
09:34Okay.
09:51Right now, he's on.
09:53Ah!
09:54Ah!
09:54Keep on, keep on.
09:56Ah!
09:57Got a pressure problem?
09:59Missed a switch.
10:00He forgot the high pressure switch.
10:02Good night.
10:32It's a dirty saw.
10:34After a cut, the saw track can be safely removed.
10:39Everything is going to plan. Good, good.
10:43A senseless way to go.
10:49Got a little bit on me there.
10:55Steve did the horizontal cut.
10:57It's a little trickier.
10:59That's what he told me anyway.
11:02That corner from the inside looks different.
11:07It looks like the two lines actually meet cleanly,
11:10but they don't because the saw is round.
11:13You can see that the cut wasn't made all the way through.
11:16When we finish roughing out the whole thing,
11:18we'll go in with a chainsaw, finish the cut,
11:21then we'll pull out these little chisels here.
11:24Whoops.
11:25And then we'll undo those little safety things.
11:27And then this wall is going to fall in this general direction.
11:31Right around here.
11:34Is that 12?
11:35That's exactly 12.
11:36Well, Troy, you've taken some electrical tape
11:38and you've put one of our cameras onto a brick, haven't you?
11:40Mm-hmm.
11:41You're going to sacrifice the camera.
11:43Maybe.
11:44We are giving this camera a chance.
11:46The wall should, in theory, fall about right here.
11:49It might bump the camera, but it should not kill the camera.
11:52Mm.
11:53Who measured, you or Steve?
11:55Steve.
11:56Looks like a regular chainsaw, but it's not.
12:05Could you use this on a tree?
12:06On wood?
12:07No, you cannot.
12:08One thing diamonds don't cut.
12:09Wood.
12:10Wood.
12:11How strange.
12:12So close.
12:13Trash can cam.
12:14All right.
12:15We've got this rigged here with a nice fish eye.
12:16We've got Greg here with his big, giant, expensive camera.
12:18We have a worthless camera strapped to a worthless brick.
12:20And that camera, up top there, pointing down.
12:21And then we have, of course, Troy's camera pointing at me.
12:22And, of course, my pathetic little camera has been strapped to a tripod, which is probably
12:27worth more than a tripod.
12:28I can see how they're going to get into it.
12:29He's going to take it back.
12:30All right.
12:31I'm going to take it back.
12:32Let's take it back.
12:33We'll take it back.
12:34I'll take it back.
12:35We'll take it back.
12:36Let's take it back.
12:37We'll take it back.
12:38So close.
12:39Trash can cam.
12:40All right.
12:41We've got this rigged here with a nice fish eye.
12:43We've got Greg here with his big, giant, expensive camera.
12:45We have a worthless camera strapped to a worthless brick.
12:46My pathetic little camera has been strapped to a tripod, which is probably worth more than the camera itself.
12:51We have every piece of technology at our disposal focused right now on the wall, except the one Troy's pointing at me.
12:57So if I were to stand here right now, I could say with absolute accuracy that all of our cameras are in play.
13:06And that is the last time that Mandor will ever be seen in its current state.
13:11Here we have a sixth one on a little mini tripod, and here we have our seventh one on a maxi tripod, otherwise known as Barsky.
13:20And of course, there's Troy again.
13:21So we literally have eight cameras, gentlemen, pointed at this piece of concrete.
13:25There's nothing holding it but the braces.
13:28So the idea then, of course, is to get the inner bolts off.
13:31Correct.
13:31So it doesn't fall on us.
13:33Correct.
13:33I'm trying not to push on it.
13:42Got its own momentum right now.
13:43It really does.
13:43I've never came up with one.
13:45Oh, well, how about timber?
13:46I'm pretty sure there was a brick here with a camera on it.
14:06Twelve and a half feet, huh?
14:07Twelve and a half feet.
14:09I'm pretty sure we lost the camera.
14:10So that's the business end of the breaker, Kit.
14:17Yep.
14:17Right?
14:18And it's hooked up to a regular old Bobcat.
14:20Yep.
14:21Just like a big jackhammer.
14:22Man.
14:23Yeah.
14:24The Bobcat and I have a long-term yet uneasy relationship.
14:32Woo!
14:34All right.
14:36Damn it.
14:37Get the hell down there.
14:39Let's see about that.
14:40Easy, Sparky.
14:51Easy.
14:58Watch out for the wall behind you.
15:00It's cracking when you hit it.
15:03Hit the wall?
15:04Hell yeah.
15:04Yeah.
15:04I found it, Troy.
15:17Here's your camera.
15:21Both the rebar in this wall and the concrete will be recycled.
15:25The concrete will be crushed into one-inch pieces.
15:28Tough wall.
15:29Those pieces will become part of asphalt bases used for roads and highways.
15:34The Bobcat in the hands of somebody who knows what they're doing.
15:38Thing of beauty.
15:41And so we learn that the future of our roadways is paved with good intentions and concrete walls.
15:51Coming up.
15:52I think she's enjoying this.
15:54She's looking drowsy.
15:55A sheep's version of sheer pleasure.
15:57Act like she's getting a massage or something.
15:59Oh yeah, this is a spa day of going horribly wrong.
16:04And later.
16:05Well, I don't want to die.
16:07After castration, frustration.
16:10Can I watch you do it again?
16:11Because something, I feel like I did it wrong.
16:13You know what I did?
16:14I closed my eyes and I couldn't see what was happening.
16:15Okay, so we're here.
16:29Here is, uh, well, over there and over there and, yeah.
16:36It's pretty much the middle of nowhere.
16:39Actually, here is Craig, Colorado in the Rocky Mountains.
16:43It's so remote, we had to arrive the day before the work started at a 13,000-acre sheep ranch.
16:49You figure we'll just start shooting a little early.
16:51You never know what you're going to get.
16:53You're having fun and not having a plan.
16:57We're here to do a few things with newborn lambs.
17:00One is docking.
17:01Got no idea what that involves.
17:03Another is castrating.
17:04On that, I'm crystal clear.
17:06We're also aiming to shear a few adult sheep.
17:08And though the lambs may be cute, working with them can be a very dirty job.
17:14Come on, let me show you where I'm staying.
17:15Or at least where I think I'm staying.
17:17These are sheep trailers and I think they're, uh, circa 1930 or something like that.
17:22Let me take you inside my quarters tonight.
17:26Here's my sleeping bag.
17:27Look at this.
17:27This is great.
17:29The guys are really looking out for me.
17:30This is rated to 50 degrees.
17:32Right now it's 40 degrees.
17:33And tonight it's going to go down to approximately 25 degrees.
17:38So that'll be good.
17:39There's no electricity in these, but you've got a stove.
17:43You have the promise of electricity, but there is none.
17:46Most importantly, you have all-purpose flour.
17:49All the flour I can eat.
17:50Well, it's dark out here.
17:56And by dark, I mean, it's quite dark.
17:59Um, everybody's kind of gone to bed.
18:01These people over here, I think, are sleeping in a...
18:04Yeah, that's a school bus.
18:05This is Dave.
18:08You decent?
18:09Yeah, very good.
18:10What the...
18:12What are you doing?
18:13You're on the way of the fire.
18:15Dude, you're dying, dude.
18:16This is bad for you.
18:18All right, that's enough.
18:20Dude, get out of there, man, while you can.
18:22It'll be all right.
18:23You might want to keep the door open.
18:25All right.
18:29Come on in.
18:30I'm going to hang like this.
18:32Get as much sleep as I can.
18:35Say a little prayer for Barsky.
18:38See you in the morning.
18:49I had moments of satisfaction regarding my slumber, punctuated by moments of extreme dissatisfaction.
19:01I did find, however, through a certain maneuvering combination of good luck, that a man in a partially horizontal position can pee out of that window.
19:18Oh, here we go, then.
19:29Five-star living in Colorado.
19:31In a couple hours, I think, I'm going to meet a guy named Albert.
19:36Albert got up this morning, I'm told, at 3.30 or 4, and he went out to get sheep.
19:42So we're waiting for him to come back with the sheep.
19:44In the meantime, another fellow named Jim is inside of the bus.
19:48This would have to be the bus.
19:51And I'm going to slip inside and say, hey, see what the day has in store.
19:57Jim?
19:58Good morning, Mike.
19:58How are you?
20:00Oh, mostly just tired.
20:02I feel that way all the time.
20:04How old is she?
20:05It was born probably last night, and it's got hypothermia.
20:09And this morning when we brought him in, his mouth was ice cold.
20:12Yeah.
20:13And if you stick your finger in there now, it's warmed up.
20:15Right.
20:16And he's actually trying to suck.
20:17It's got the sucking action, and it's not ice cold.
20:20We're actually better off to try to bottle feed it.
20:22I have probably 12 or 14 bum lambs or orphaned lambs right there, right now out on goats.
20:29Your orphan lambs are called bums?
20:31Yeah.
20:32I'm not sure that's PC, but I like it.
20:35Bums.
20:36And we bring them in, and we put them on goats.
20:38When you put them on a goat, you mean you let the bum lamb nurse from a goat?
20:43Yeah.
20:44I think that's about all we're going to get downer.
20:46We also, you know, and I guess it's probably weather dependent, we may dock some today.
20:51Docking is cutting the tails and castrating.
20:54Somebody takes this lamb and holds it like this.
20:58The other person will take and snip the end of their scrotum.
21:01Then you take your fingers and work the nuts out.
21:04Uh-huh.
21:06And then you grab them with your teeth.
21:09What?
21:09There's other methods.
21:11You can use, there's these little rubber bands.
21:13You can put on them.
21:14Okay.
21:15But when you have 1,000 sheep, potentially 400, 450 lambs there.
21:20Pulling them with your teeth is the quickest way.
21:22They make a pair of pliers you can use that cuts them and then pulls them, but it's slower.
21:27Since sheep have been domesticated thousands of years ago, this is the way it's been done.
21:31Lambs are docked to keep them healthy for outdoor living.
21:34And males are castrated for selective breeding purposes.
21:37But you can't dock or castrate them when it's raining.
21:41You must be Albert.
21:43And those must be the bums.
21:45These are the bums.
21:46Good girl, fella.
21:48Oh, and these are all like a day old, right?
21:50Oh, no.
21:51No?
21:51Yeah.
21:52We're not, we're what, ours?
21:53These are a day old.
21:54These are last night's bed gun, actually.
21:57Oh, so here we have our goat full of milk.
22:01Yes.
22:02And here we have some bums.
22:05Put their head up to their her tip.
22:07Now, this one is a smart lamp.
22:09It doesn't need any prompting.
22:10It just went right to nursing.
22:12Smart or hungry?
22:13Well, both.
22:14Yeah.
22:14When you put them on a goat, you can't not, you can't tell them from the herd lambs.
22:18They do have a bit of identity problem because they'll think they're goats.
22:22We've actually had them leave the herd of sheep and come stay with the goats.
22:27This goes here.
22:28Teeth goes there.
22:30Man, this lamb is, you know what you got here.
22:33Not just a bum, a moron.
22:36Come here, stupid.
22:38Is this, is this honestly how I have to feed you?
22:40Man, I'll come back later today and try and make it crap.
22:43Maybe I'll have better luck.
22:43Here, you take it.
22:45You're going to have to suck it for you, too.
22:48Oh, yeah.
22:49See how easy that is?
22:50Piece of cake.
22:52You just had to jam it clear down into its gullet.
22:54We need another goat because we have two more lambs.
22:57Roll your tongue and go.
22:59Do that again?
23:03Better dump that grain and do it louder.
23:05Holy smokes, let them come.
23:09Dump that grain, you're going to get attacked.
23:17Goats.
23:18Grab this goat right here.
23:20All right, should I let her eat some first?
23:21No.
23:22No, the heck with it.
23:22We'll feed her over there.
23:23All right, sorry.
23:23We basically duped you.
23:25What's the sheep doing in here?
23:27It thinks it's a goat.
23:28That's the one it's been?
23:29It's raised by a goat.
23:31All right, heck of a way to go through life.
23:35Come on.
23:36Try to squirt the milk into its mouth.
23:38Do you know how to milk something?
23:40You bet I do.
23:41Okay.
23:42And I was just...
23:43You're...
23:43I can milk, believe me.
23:46I can milk the crap out of anything.
23:49It's just trying to make me look foolish is what it is.
23:51I've seen that this has happened before.
23:53Other types of barnyards.
23:55I found myself, the animals conspire.
23:57They were probably reading Animal Farm before I showed up, having a few laughs.
24:00Here.
24:02Let's play musical lambs.
24:03Oh, I got pay dirt over here.
24:06This was on fire.
24:07The fire was about to get doused, though.
24:09Remember when I told you about lambing season and rainy season?
24:12It's raining pretty good.
24:14Which means we're kind of screwed.
24:16A lot of stuff with lambs you can't do in the rain.
24:19So we're kind of hanging out here next to the bus.
24:24Hoping it stops.
24:27The weather report was no cause for optimism.
24:29At 1 o'clock, thunderstorms.
24:312 o'clock, scatters thunderstorms.
24:333 o'clock, scatters thunderstorms.
24:365 p.m., scatters thunderstorms.
24:386 p.m., scatters thunderstorms.
24:397 and 8 p.m., scatters thunderstorms.
24:42The weather brought us to a screeching halt.
24:44We can't dock a lamb when it's wet outside because the mud can lead to infection in their
24:48tails and scrotums.
24:50We can't shear sheep in the rain either because the wool gets too wet and heavy to ship.
24:55It's time to admit defeat.
24:56We've caught our losses.
24:58I know when I'm beat.
25:00Colorado beat me.
25:01Beat all of us, in fact.
25:05The rain, what are you going to do?
25:07We'll be lucky, in fact, if we can make it out of here with our gear in one piece.
25:11But I'll tell you this.
25:14We'll be back.
25:15That didn't mean I was getting out of biting off sheep's testicles.
25:21This meant I'd be delaying the pain for a while.
25:24The immediate challenge was getting out of Craig.
25:26That's a big hole to your left, dude.
25:27Oh, no.
25:29Oh, no.
25:32How did you do this?
25:34Get out?
25:35No, I can't get out.
25:36Well, how do we get this car out of this rut?
25:38You don't.
25:39Coming up, it's back to Colorado to finish the job we started.
25:44We have returned to the scene of the crime.
25:46But the sheep have other ideas.
25:49Don't you do it.
25:50Don't you do it.
25:51Oh, crap.
25:53Oh, crap.
25:54Yeah, I didn't say this would be hard.
25:57And later.
25:58Don't let it kick you.
26:00I imagine it might want to kick you.
26:01Seeing is believing.
26:03And in this case, bewildering.
26:05What the hell are you doing, man?
26:06You pulled the testicles out.
26:08What are you doing?
26:35Yeah, it's all coming back to me.
26:39We have returned to the scene of the crime here in lovely Craig, Colorado.
26:43Been three weeks since we were driven out by the rain.
26:47The mud has been replaced by dirt.
26:49The days are longer this time of year.
26:51Hopefully, we can find some sheep still up in these hills somewhere,
26:56ideally with their testicles still attached.
26:59Otherwise, I don't know what we're doing here.
27:05My bad memories of the mud and rain three weeks earlier were gone.
27:11In fact, all of my memories were gone.
27:13They'd been replaced by the anticipation of testicle biting.
27:16But before that, I was going to meet Albert Ballard and do some shearing.
27:20And in order to shear a sheep, you first have to catch one.
27:23Run after them, snag their back feet, hang on.
27:25Well, if you're lucky, we can get close and you don't have to run after them.
27:28Oh, my career has been defined by luck.
27:32Walk up this way.
27:33Uh-huh.
27:33And I'll work them up in the corner once I get them kind of bunched up.
27:36Do your thing.
27:38And this, by the way, is my thang.
27:44Yes, sir.
27:46Three bags full.
27:48All righty.
27:51Go!
27:51Oh, jeez, I caught a lamb.
27:59Crap.
28:00Caught a brush.
28:01All right, they move faster than I thought.
28:03That was a very valuable learning lesson.
28:06Why are their butts all black like that?
28:07Well, that's one reason we need to get them sheared.
28:09The manure's sticking to it.
28:11That'll work.
28:20Hey, buddy.
28:22Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
28:24Okay.
28:25Oh, man, he's furry.
28:27Or bully, I guess is the word.
28:29Go ahead and make her lay down for a minute.
28:32Lay him down?
28:32Yeah.
28:33Then snap the hook off.
28:34Let him go?
28:34All right.
28:34And we'll do a sheep herd or not.
28:40Put it around their leg.
28:41Uh-huh.
28:42And then you slip the knot on the end of the rope.
28:48Run with her.
28:51Easy there.
28:54I'm with you.
28:55Right with you.
28:57You don't want to go this way, do you?
28:59Hold on a second.
29:01Where's that front part of her?
29:04I feel like if I get in front of her, it'd be more sporting.
29:16I think the men...
29:17Sheep's making me look foolish, Al.
29:23And you get them sitting up on their own.
29:26Oh, that's very dignified.
29:28Oh, now she looks like a kindly old grandmother.
29:34I think she's enjoying this.
29:36She's looking drowsy.
29:38Sheep need to be shorn at least once every year.
29:40I can't hurt her, can I?
29:42Nah, probably not.
29:43Otherwise, they can become uncomfortable and possibly sick, especially in warm and humid
29:47weather.
29:49It takes about six weeks for the fleece to grow back enough to insulate the sheep effectively.
29:54This wool, along with the wool from several hundred other sheep, will be sold in bulk to
29:58textile producers to make into clothing and blankets.
30:01You'd have better luck with the old hand clipper.
30:05Want to try?
30:07Well, that's old school.
30:08That is old school.
30:13Grass and hay can create gas that backs into the sheep's lung area during shearing, causing
30:18what's called a gas burp.
30:19If this happens, the sheep needs to be put back on its feet right away, or it'll suffocate.
30:24I'm pretty sure I'm doing a bad job.
30:28Maybe the worst ever.
30:29Thankfully, the sheep we were shearing hadn't eaten too much before.
30:33I don't know.
30:34I don't know what I'm doing now.
30:35Experienced shearers can shear about 150 sheep in a day.
30:38Hey, sorry.
30:39Sorry.
30:40They're sharp.
30:40Had that coming.
30:41That's an average of one sheep every three minutes.
30:46Just do us all a favor.
30:48I'm going to end this now.
30:49I'm bad at this.
30:51Bleeding all over your sheep.
30:52Act like she's getting a massage or something.
30:54Oh, yeah.
30:54This is a spa day gone horribly wrong.
31:08Coming up.
31:09Sorry.
31:10Forgive me.
31:11Biting off more than I can chew or would ever want to.
31:14Damn it.
31:15Ah, that's just wrong.
31:17And later.
31:18What do you do with the tails?
31:19We keep them separate so we can count them.
31:21Know exactly how many lambs we've done.
31:23Being dirty doesn't mean you can be disorganized.
31:26Oh, I put the ear in the testicle bucket.
31:27The sheep had to be herded into a pen so that we could separate the lambs for docking.
31:44Albert's wife, Melody, was there to lend a hand.
31:46Why dock lambs?
31:51Well, if the tails are left uncut, they become encrusted with poo, which attracts flies.
31:55Flies lay eggs, and the eggs hatch larvae that burrow into the lamb's skin and cause infection.
32:02I think we did it.
32:03Oh, crap.
32:09Oh, crap.
32:16Back along the fence.
32:17Hey, hey, hey.
32:18On the backside of them.
32:20It's complicated.
32:21Yeah, I didn't say this would be hard.
32:23So this is the whole gang.
32:36You've got Kyle and Melody, of course, and Albert and Jim and me.
32:39And I've been given this.
32:41What is this called?
32:42Cover holes.
32:43This is just a smog.
32:44Protection.
32:45Of all of the sheep that we have, how many need to be docked?
32:48All the little ones.
32:50All the lambs.
32:50Hopefully there's 150 or so.
32:53150.
32:53How long would it take us to do that if we weren't here?
32:57Maybe an hour, hour and a half.
32:59All right.
32:59We're going to need more time than that.
33:02A good sharp knife.
33:05My preferred method.
33:07Set him down on there.
33:10And don't let it kick me.
33:12I imagine it might want to kick you.
33:14That's the scrotum.
33:15That's the scrotum.
33:15How old is this lamb?
33:18He's probably close to three weeks.
33:21Those are the testicles.
33:24Those are the testicles.
33:25You get in here and you squeeze them out.
33:27Oh, my God.
33:29What the hell are you doing, man?
33:30What in the name of all the holy have you done?
33:33You pulled the testicles out.
33:35What are you taking?
33:37Lambs are castrated to make sure that only sheep with desirable wool or bread,
33:41healthy males with the right coloring, are left intact.
33:44Jim, get over here.
33:45What happened?
33:47He docked the lamb.
33:49That's docking?
33:50For real?
33:50The docking is actually cutting of the tail.
33:53Yeah.
33:54And that's...
33:55God damn!
33:56That's...
33:56Okay, now go ahead and flip him kind of up.
34:00Sit him on its tail.
34:01That way it'll kind of...
34:02Like this?
34:03Cut the bleeding off.
34:05Good.
34:05And then while you do that...
34:07What the hell?
34:08I do the earmark.
34:09Right.
34:10Kicked out, we're going to go ahead and set him back inside.
34:13Just put him back down?
34:14I'm going to put the lamb down.
34:16With my sincere apologies.
34:19Sorry about the balls, sorry about the tail, sorry about the blood, and the ear.
34:26This is how it's been for centuries.
34:30Pretty much.
34:31The earmark identifies lambs not suitable for breeding or producing wool.
34:35In sheep ranching terms, these are not your keepers.
34:39I need to better understand why you pulled the testicles out with your teeth.
34:44They're slickery little suckers.
34:46That's a good way to get a hold of them.
34:48I usually pull them just enough to get my fingers in this way.
34:53Use the teeth to pull them out enough to get my fingers right there.
34:57Those are testicles, right like that.
34:59Look at that.
34:59Then you can get a grip with your fingers and pull them the rest of the way.
35:02Is this one...
35:03Female.
35:04That's a female?
35:05That's a female, but not a keeper.
35:07I would...
35:08You'll learn.
35:09A female, but not a keeper?
35:10Female, but not a keeper.
35:11So what do we do?
35:12Put those testicles on her?
35:13Send her out trick-or-treating?
35:15No, you get a hold of her the same way that you did the last one.
35:17These, we just do the tail and the ear.
35:20Tape!
35:21And on the ear, you've got to be really careful not to move your thumb.
35:26Oh!
35:27If you slide your thumb, you're going to slice your thumb.
35:34Don't let it go!
35:35What's that?
35:36Don't let it go.
35:37No, I'm not letting go.
35:38I'm just trying to stop the blood flow.
35:40Oh, they quit bleeding really quick.
35:43Not quick enough.
35:46She's a keeper.
35:47She's a keeper?
35:48She's a keeper.
35:49So what does this mean?
35:50That means we'll probably keep her to raise as a replacement for hiding you.
35:56Well, I'm not sure what just happened to the female that wasn't a keeper.
36:00Why was she not a keeper?
36:01Black face.
36:03We like the pure white ones because you've got the better quality wool.
36:06Uh-huh.
36:07If you get the black face, the wool's a lot coarser.
36:11Okay.
36:11And then it's got black fibers.
36:13And you put your knife on, and you'll feel it drop in a slot like on the vertebrae.
36:19Now, that's what I say, then kind of roll them up on their tail.
36:23Right.
36:23It helps stop the bleeding.
36:25What do you do with the tails?
36:26We keep them separate so we can count them.
36:29Know exactly how many lambs we've done.
36:32They're really slicker.
36:36Like I say, I do just enough to get them out where I can get a grip with my fingers.
36:40Uh-huh.
36:40I've seen you do worse than this.
36:44No, you haven't.
36:44Oh, yeah.
36:45No, no, no, you haven't.
36:46You've never seen me suck the testicles out of a creature.
36:49I'd rather do this than you crawl down some of those sewers.
36:53Teach us home.
36:55I miss the sewer right about now.
36:58There's nothing about this in Mary Had a Little Lamb.
37:01Not at the moment.
37:02The police was white as snow.
37:03Everywhere that Mary went, oh, she bit the testicles off.
37:07Coming up.
37:07Now, do you typically wipe the poo off the scrotum?
37:10Nah, she says.
37:12Peep.
37:13Peep.
37:13Turns out there's more than one bodily fluid to worry about on this job.
37:17What happened?
37:17He almost peed on you.
37:18Yeah, he did pee on me a little bit.
37:19He peed right in my mouth.
37:21And later.
37:22This is what they look like, all seasoned.
37:25This might be exciting if it's too hot.
37:27We took them, so we might as well cook them.
37:29I haven't seen this many testicles since the, uh, well, it doesn't matter when.
37:37I don't like it.
38:07I don't like that.
38:09Do you feel kind of drop into a notch?
38:11Dropping in a notch, yep.
38:13Go over there.
38:14Yeah.
38:18Well, I don't want to die.
38:20It's just how I do it.
38:21Okay.
38:21What the heck?
38:23You're going to do it just like that.
38:25Well, who wouldn't do that?
38:27Why?
38:28Why do you do everything the hard way?
38:30The teeth and the risk and the craziness.
38:33Can I watch you do it again?
38:34Because something, I feel like I've been it wrong.
38:36You know what I did?
38:36I closed my eyes and I couldn't see what was happening.
38:43Oh, jeez.
38:46How hard should I be pinching?
38:51Maybe that's what gave me a problem.
38:53The first time you bite through them, you'll know you're a bit too much.
39:02No, you should be doing that trick.
39:05Damn it.
39:06Ah, that's just wrong.
39:11Typically, the dancing's not necessary.
39:13It goes a little faster.
39:14No, you do it your way.
39:15I do it mine, okay?
39:16I know you're not much for the foreplay, but I like to have a little afterglow.
39:23Any questions?
39:25I hope we can still be friends after this because I feel terrible.
39:29Oh, I put the ear in the testicle bucket.
39:53Now, do you typically wipe the poo off the scrotum?
39:58Nah, she says.
40:00Pee.
40:00Pee.
40:11Pee.
40:13Norkel.
40:14We bit it in half.
40:15Oh.
40:16Now you still got to get it out.
40:18I don't want to.
40:19I don't know how to do that.
40:20Just grab it with your fingers.
40:20Ooh.
40:21No better?
40:33Not much, no.
40:34Put your feet on.
40:36What happened?
40:37He almost peed on you.
40:39Yeah, he did pee on me a little bit.
40:40It peed right in my mouth.
40:42Sheep ranching is a dirty job, but it also puts clothes on our backs and food on our tables.
40:46Docking and castrating is considered humane for sheep that will spend their lives outdoors
40:51in a herd.
40:52The method used at the village ranch is the quickest and least painful way to do it.
40:57Well, it's dinner time here at the sheep ranch.
40:59You don't have to be a genius to figure out what's on the menu.
41:02Remember this place, my hotel?
41:04Come on in.
41:05Have a bite.
41:08This is, uh, this is Melody's mom.
41:10And, uh, those are the testicles that we bit off of the, uh, the lambs.
41:14Take some of this lard.
41:15Put it in that skillet.
41:16This is what they look like.
41:22All, um, seasoned.
41:25This might be exciting if it's too hot.
41:27Nope, not too bad.
41:29Lard and testicles.
41:31Kind of like deep frying, so I don't think you have to turn them really, but...
41:34Yeah, I'm pretty much deferring to your expertise.
41:36I haven't seen this many testicles since the, uh, well, it doesn't matter when.
41:41These big, tough men are scared.
41:49Uh-huh.
41:50Yeah, it's not real bad.
41:51It might burn you a little.
42:02It's like Pete pride anything.
42:05One point exactly.
42:07You'd be wrong not to try one.
42:09Gotta do it.
42:11Tastes like liver.
42:19Oh!
42:21Testicle liver.
42:25Well, this is unpleasant, but I feel compelled to share the facts with you nevertheless.
42:29This is a pile of barf.
42:31And this is a giant dog.
42:34And this dog is eating this barf.
42:37He's too big for me to stop, and it's too weird for me to apologize over.
42:42However, if you don't go to discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs right now and suggest my next dirty job,
42:48I don't mean this to sound like a threat, but I'm going to send this giant animal to your home to eat your barf.
42:57Where are you going?
43:00You've completely destroyed my claim.
43:01What kind of damage do you think a horn could do to a cameraman in a situation like that?
43:09Quite a bit.
43:10Quite a bit.
43:12This doesn't look natural at all, does it?
43:15On a sheriff, I was just helping it over the fence.
43:18There's always that moment at the rental car place, you know, where they say,
43:24you want the extra damage waiver, and you say, how much is it?
43:27It's like a lot.
43:28It's more than you're comfortable paying.
43:31Pay it.
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