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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:04I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:08Push your arm in there, see what it looks like.
00:10Oh!
00:12Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:15You can see a lot of his insides really nicely there.
00:21Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:25Oh my God, why is it going backwards, Robert?
00:28What the hell?
00:29You hit the button, man.
00:29I didn't hit that button.
00:32Now get ready.
00:34Wait for it.
00:35Wait for it.
00:37To get dirty.
00:42Coming up on Dirty Jobs, two hair-raising adventures.
00:46Okay, I've seen enough.
00:48First, I spin yarn the old-fashioned way, out of pristine, natural fibers.
00:53That's just pure crap right there.
00:54Yes, it is.
00:55Fortunately, we use safe, modern equipment.
00:58It'll pull you in, and it'll kill you.
01:00Told you it was hairy.
01:02And later, our journey gets even hairier.
01:05Perfect.
01:06As I wax nostalgic with my old pal, Dave Barsky.
01:10This one.
01:10That was beautiful.
01:12Two times the thrills.
01:15Two times the hairballs.
01:21Oh, God.
01:21Dirty Jobs.
01:23No one can see you.
01:24Oh, God.
01:27Oh, God.
01:28It's a dirty job.
01:34Today I've come to the Ohio Valley to work with natural fibers.
01:39I know this because the sign is here, and the sign is also new.
01:44Sometimes when people hear that Dirty Jobs has come into town, they'll put on the dog, you know?
01:50See the fresh dirt? It's obviously just been put in.
01:53I've also been provided with a hat. The picture on the hat is that of a sheep.
01:57It mirrors the picture of a sheep on the far side of the sign.
02:01You'll see that the sheep is conspicuously void of a face.
02:05On the other side of the sign, we have the state of Ohio, which has been drawn but not entirely
02:10completed.
02:11Inside of the state of Ohio, we have what, at a glance, appears to be salt and pepper shakers.
02:16Upon closer inspection, you'll see them to be teepees.
02:19One of them has been knocked down. I don't know what that means.
02:23I do, however, recognize a tomahawk when I see one, or in this case, two, and there they are.
02:28In addition, I've been given a shirt with the same title on it and my name.
02:39I am now ready to begin my day.
02:42Using machines close to a century old, Ohio Valley Natural Fiber provides an invaluable service to anyone who raises furry
02:50creatures,
02:51turning fleeces from all sorts of animals into yarn and roving, which can be used for a variety of knitting
02:58projects.
03:00Howdy.
03:01You're Kent.
03:02How you doing?
03:03I'm great. How are you?
03:04All right.
03:05Before I start with everything that's around me, I want to start with your sign out front.
03:09All right.
03:10When did you put it in?
03:12A couple weeks ago.
03:13Really?
03:14Yeah.
03:14I know this fresh dirt. When did you make these?
03:16Last night.
03:17Okay. When did you make these?
03:19This morning.
03:20See, I knew it.
03:21I knew it.
03:22Do you have sheep here on the property?
03:24Yes.
03:25Do you use their wool in what you do?
03:26Yes.
03:27Exclusively, or do you?
03:28No, no, no, no.
03:29The bulk of our business just comes from people who send in their fiber from their animals.
03:35We process it and send it back to them.
03:38So you can make, you're making yarn, I suppose, right?
03:42We make roving for hand spinners, we make batting for quilters, comfort makers, felt makers, and we spin yarn, yes.
03:48And you can spin the yarn, make the batting, the quilts, whatever, out of any kind of fiber that grows
03:53on any creature with a heartbeat?
03:55Yes, pretty much.
03:56Human hair?
03:57Yes, we've done that.
03:58Have you?
03:59Yes.
03:59Really?
04:00Yeah.
04:00All right.
04:01Also on the sign, I noticed the state of Ohio was drawn.
04:04Yes.
04:04But it wasn't entirely connected.
04:06Was there significance to that?
04:07No.
04:08Okay.
04:09And were those, were those teepees and tomahawks?
04:12No.
04:12What were they?
04:13Knitting needles and spools of yarn and things like that.
04:20Because I swear they look like tomahawks.
04:21Is that right?
04:22Yeah, they do.
04:23No, I don't think we're quite into that.
04:25All right.
04:27I love the hat, but I'm going to put my other one back on because it's so tight and it's
04:31leaving an indentation in my giant head.
04:32We can't have that.
04:34So I'm going to put the skull and crossbones back on.
04:37All right.
04:37Well, what can I do to slow the process down?
04:39All right.
04:39First thing, we have to weigh.
04:41We weigh everything.
04:42We have an entry weight when it comes in.
04:44So we need to take this whole bag, put it up on the scales, and just get the entry weight.
04:56All right.
04:57You have to let it go.
04:58Yeah, I don't want to weigh your hand.
05:04All right.
05:06It's leaning up.
05:07It's got to be, you got to get it so it'll, so it's just.
05:11Yeah.
05:12All right.
05:13Let it go.
05:14All right.
05:15113.
05:16We need to take it, put it down here on the floor.
05:20Yeah, that would be the way we can do it.
05:22Right, I mean, I'm thinking.
05:22Yeah.
05:23And the first thing that we see that we've got is that these are whole fleeces, which means that when
05:29they came off the animal, it's still got the stuff from the rear end and the bellies and everything in
05:36it.
05:37Well, why would they send it to you like that?
05:39Well, because traditionally, that's the way it's been done.
05:42That's just pure crap, right?
05:44Yes, it is.
05:45So.
05:45And it looks like insulation, too.
05:46Although, I guess in a way it is.
05:48First, you separate the traditional poo from the traditional fleece.
05:52If you drop it on the floor and it goes clunk, throw it away.
05:57Any time your poo makes a sound, you know that, see, that's the sound.
06:02If your poo can make a noise when it hits the ground, it's time just to let it go.
06:06Poo.
06:07Yeah.
06:08Poo.
06:09Dingleberry.
06:10That's a disaster.
06:11Poo sickles.
06:14Business is good?
06:15Business is very good.
06:17Why is it?
06:17I mean, everybody else is taking it in the neck, it seems.
06:20Why are you so busy?
06:21Because this is a hobby that produces a usable product.
06:26Well, you're actually making some.
06:27Yeah.
06:27What we're going to do now is the crap pile, we put it into a single bag, and it'll just
06:35be hauled away.
06:36The rest of it, we've got to break it down into five and six pound bags.
06:42That's how it's going to be washed.
06:45Is that a gargoyle?
06:46Because it doesn't look like a sheep.
06:48Who puts sheep next to gargoyles?
06:53I mean, what kind of message are you sending here?
06:55That the sheep got to be protected from the coyotes.
06:58That's not a coyote.
06:59I know, it's a gargoyle protecting the sheep from the coyote.
07:02It's a mythical creature, though, isn't it?
07:03Like a griffin.
07:04No, they're for real.
07:05Really?
07:06Yeah.
07:06See, I'm learning more about Ohio than I ever imagined.
07:09These are just regular washing machines.
07:11You take the fleece, turn the bag outside down, and evenly put it into the washer.
07:21So I get the sense that basically every step along this process today is going to be designed
07:26to get the wool that much better.
07:28That's exactly what it does.
07:31There's another gargoyle, crying out loud.
07:33What is with you and the gargoyles?
07:35Every time I turn around, I get one of these things.
07:37I need protection.
07:38From what?
07:40Well, whatever a gargoyle can protect you from.
07:44He's just been like, you know, I've been sitting up here for years watching wool go in and out.
07:48I was really hoping there'd be something else for me to do.
07:50Look at this guy.
07:51He's just disappointed.
07:53That's a dejected gargoyle.
07:55There's another dejected one.
07:56Here's a squatting one.
07:58Seems as though you caught him in the middle of his gargoyle constitutional, and it's not going well.
08:05After the wash, the wet wool is air-dried for six to ten hours before the next step.
08:10This is where the bulk of the whole operation is, because this is the card room.
08:15This is where the dirty, nasty part takes place.
08:19Another one of your custom tools?
08:20Absolutely.
08:22All right, good.
08:22Who's this?
08:23This is David.
08:24Mike, how are you?
08:26What do you do, Dave?
08:27Well, we'll get ready to pick this, blend it together, and pick it.
08:31Blend it and pick it.
08:32So what is in here relative to what we've seen and done so far?
08:36All right, we're going to actually be running this order.
08:38This is going to be made into yarn.
08:39What we're going to start with right here are large cat's claw teeth.
08:47Well, that doesn't look dangerous at all.
08:49Right.
08:50This is going to be spinning at about 500 RPM.
08:54It's the last thing you ever want to do is to be anywhere near this thing.
08:58If it has a rock or something in the fiber, it'll get fired out inside of there like a bullet.
09:05Inside of there is a small room behind the picking machine.
09:09So the wool, oh, there's a tooth down there.
09:12Yes.
09:13So it's coming straight at us like this.
09:14Correct.
09:15All right.
09:15And it's going to fly up in the air, and then somehow Dave and I are going to do something.
09:18Yes.
09:20And start.
09:29Grabbing a handful of this.
09:33A handful of that.
09:34Just kind of get it blended together right at the beginning.
09:39The picking machine is used to prepare the fiber by breaking up the big clumps of animal fleece into smaller
09:44clumps.
09:45This particular order is a mix of merino boule and angora fiber.
09:50So you pick up everything in there and bring it back out here.
09:52Yeah, and then we got it right there again for just to get a little bit better blend.
09:56Right.
09:59Take the cart and roll it back out in front here.
10:01All righty.
10:02I'll do that.
10:05That's your cue.
10:06Okay.
10:12Okay.
10:17Keep on just putting a little bit of spray on it.
10:19There you go.
10:21Do you want to do it?
10:22Don, go ahead.
10:23Hit it.
10:24That's an anti-static spray that keeps the wool from sticking together, almost like the stuff you'd put in your
10:29dryer at home.
10:30Now, since these have already been through once, the odds of there being like a pair of scissors or a
10:36marble or a rock in here are pretty slim, right?
10:38Yeah.
10:38I just got to stick my head in there and see what this looks like at this point.
10:42Oh.
10:43All right.
10:43Therefore.
10:44Don't throw any rocks in.
10:45I won't.
10:47Yeah.
10:52Oh, yeah.
10:57Once the fiber's been picked and blended a second time, the clumps will be small enough for the next step.
11:04Okay, I've seen enough.
11:07Very woolly.
11:14Please, please, come on.
11:20All right.
11:21Silly.
11:23Coming up, the silliness ends and the incompetence begins.
11:27Look, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
11:30Mike, you got to get it a little smaller.
11:32That's way too big.
11:34Brother, I know how you feel.
11:36And later, I uncover the naked truth about our fearless director, Dave Barsky.
11:42What was your favorite dirty job?
11:44This one's mine.
11:45This is a good one, actually, the more I think about it.
11:47I'm enjoying this one a lot.
11:48This is a pretty good one.
12:00One of my favorite things about the show is that we focus on people who really don't care
12:05about TV or don't want to be on TV.
12:07Now, Ken, he's pretty comfortable being on TV.
12:10But Tracy here, she don't want to be on TV.
12:12She don't want to talk on the camera.
12:14She doesn't want to explain anything.
12:16And it's not because she's scared.
12:17She's just humble.
12:18You're a humble person, aren't you?
12:20See?
12:20Dave is trying to fill her with confidence right now.
12:22So when we actually start shooting the scene, she doesn't throw up on me.
12:27Which has happened before, actually.
12:29All right, we're going to now make some roving for hand spinners.
12:32Roving for hand spinners.
12:33What step are we on, by the way?
12:35It seems like a thousand already.
12:37Well, because you're actually doing multiple orders today, you're jumping around from all
12:44different kinds.
12:45All right, Tracy, this is her machine.
12:47She runs it.
12:48She's an expert at it.
12:50Been at it forever.
12:52Is that true?
12:53A year.
12:54That's like forever.
12:55Yeah, I guess.
12:56Is it dangerous?
12:57Yes.
12:57Very.
12:58Now that we are going to get into the whole dangerous part of the business, anything that
13:03we're around now, you have to make sure you stay out of the way of the belts, the
13:06chains, anything that rotates fast.
13:09The last thing you ever want to do is put your hands, arm, face, anything into that thing.
13:15Because it won't know the difference between you and a piece of wool.
13:19Yeah.
13:20Got it.
13:20All right, so what are we going to do?
13:21This is a...
13:22Well, we dump it into the back of the machine.
13:26This six-ton contraption is called a carding machine.
13:29Built in 1917, the carding machine pushes the fiber through a series of rolls to make roving,
13:35a product that will later be used to make yarn.
13:38So this is spun wool, then?
13:40Yeah.
13:41And then you just kind of start painting it, and it's got to be nice and neat.
13:46Oh, boy.
13:47All right.
13:48So the idea is just to keep it coming steady.
13:51Yeah.
13:52You're doing pretty good keeping it consistent.
13:54You enjoy this TV thing so far?
13:56Yeah.
13:57Told you it wasn't so bad.
13:59Yeah.
14:00Mike, you've got to get it a little smaller.
14:02That's way too big.
14:03You've got to pull it off faster.
14:06And you've got to get it a little neater in the box.
14:08Because this is going to go to a whole other place?
14:11This is going straight to the customer.
14:13You're packaging it right now.
14:14So you've got to get it faster and get it serpentined in there better.
14:19Faster and better.
14:20See?
14:20You told me I was doing good.
14:21And don't break it.
14:22Yeah, you are.
14:23Don't break it.
14:24Keep it skinny.
14:25All right.
14:26Let me watch the way you do it when nobody's watching you.
14:28All right.
14:33So each little piece of this stuff is coming off of the roller in front of it.
14:38And when it comes all the way down on this side, it's just a little tiny bit of it.
14:42But this thing just rolls it, and it gets thicker and thicker and thicker.
14:48And then Tracy gives a little tug, and it all works out.
14:52Why don't you give it another try?
14:54All right.
14:55I'll give it another try.
14:57And you've got to watch out so it doesn't catch on the big roller here.
15:01It?
15:01Meaning your hand?
15:02No, the yarn.
15:04So you can't get it too close to here, or you get oil.
15:06Or if you can't get it too close to there, it'll catch.
15:08So you've got to keep it kind of centered.
15:10And you've got to twist it.
15:12You've got to pull fast.
15:13Hold on, hold on.
15:13Get back in there.
15:14Get back in there.
15:17Once again, what I believe to be a very, very simple job is, in fact, fraught with technique
15:23and difficulty.
15:24Tracy is not just pulling the wool randomly off of the drum.
15:29She's pulling it at a steady tension.
15:32Not too fat, not too skinny.
15:34She's also twisting and laying down the wool fibers in this serpentine design that makes
15:41Kent not scream at me.
15:43All right.
15:43One more pass.
15:45If I keep it centered there, I can't keep it centered here.
15:49You're doing amazingly well.
15:51You don't have to whisper the positive feedback.
15:55Look.
15:56No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:00Hold on.
16:02Go ahead.
16:08Well, you've messed this one up.
16:15I'll fix it.
16:18I think we've learned all we need to learn about roving.
16:23Okay.
16:24So we've got Tracy, we've got Joy, and we've got Dave, and we've got you, and we've got
16:28this whole giant thing.
16:30And what are we going to do?
16:31We're going to make roving for high-speed spinning.
16:34So is this roving different than the roving we made before?
16:36It's much smaller.
16:37Is it more difficult?
16:38Much more.
16:39No, the one we just worked on, that was 19, what, 17?
16:42That one was 1917.
16:44And this one?
16:451916.
16:45Oh, okay.
16:46But it's bigger and three times heavier, and I guess maybe it's somewhat dangerous?
16:51Extremely dangerous.
16:52Explain.
16:54Because if anything gets caught in it, the machine will not stop.
16:58Even after you hit a kill button, it will run for 30 seconds.
17:03Killing you?
17:04Yes.
17:04All right.
17:05So, I mean, so should I stay with you as we do what we do?
17:08We're going to, you and I are going to go from place to place on the whole machine, and
17:13you will see what everybody does and try and help them out.
17:16Do we start by turning it on?
17:18No, we start by loading it.
17:20Okay.
17:21I'll do that, or I'll help.
17:24What will you do?
17:26All right.
17:26What will you do?
17:28I'm just here.
17:30Brother, I know how you feel.
17:33You get your boxcar.
17:34This guy?
17:35Yes, sir.
17:38I'm just here.
17:39Yep.
17:39You'll like that, huh?
17:40I do.
17:41Just push it up tight against there.
17:42Oh, yeah, this is the stuff we mixed.
17:44Pull her up.
17:45Just put it in there.
17:48Now, David, get on the other side.
17:51You're going to grab this belt, brace yourself on the motor, pull it to get this whole thing
17:58started.
17:58We got it.
17:59So, Dave, you bailed out of that thought, didn't you?
18:04What were you saying?
18:05There's a lot of places to take the belt.
18:07Huh.
18:09We'll be all right.
18:10All right.
18:11We'll be all right.
18:11All right.
18:12I've never felt safer.
18:13All right, Joy.
18:14All right, red lights go on.
18:15That generally means we're under some sort of attack.
18:18Pretty much.
18:19All right.
18:20Tracy's going to start the machine.
18:21You're going to help it.
18:22I'm ready.
18:23Now, do I go first and she hits a button?
18:25No, she hits a button.
18:26It'll start to squeal a little bit and you pull.
18:28Who?
18:29Whoever is there.
18:31It's going to squeal.
18:32Don't worry.
18:32You're all right.
18:33The machine.
18:33The machine.
18:34All right, Tracy.
18:36Pull.
18:37This carting machine is over 50 feet long and runs on three separate motors.
18:41And once these heavy wheels start turning, they're hard to stop.
18:45Okay.
18:46It's up.
18:46Is that a little crooked on there?
18:48It'll straighten up.
18:50What's that thing doing there?
18:51Up and down, up and down.
18:52It's operating a comb in the back, which is acting like a smaller picker.
19:00You've already run the picker.
19:01This is going to make smaller clumps out of the big clumps that you made small clumps out of.
19:09Got it.
19:10Okay.
19:11I'm glad somebody does.
19:13All right.
19:14Coming up.
19:15Got my hand caught in there.
19:17It just took everything down to the bone.
19:19It's double the danger, double the dumbness, and double the insults.
19:24You're not fat.
19:25You're just fluffy.
19:29And later.
19:31Our happy-go-lucky director, Dave Barsky, demonstrates that beauty is only skin deep.
19:36This is going to hurt.
19:39And very painful.
19:47All right.
19:48Now, come around here quick.
19:51All right.
19:52You've got to start pulling this up.
19:54As the fiber goes through the rollers of this machine, it's flattened into a fine mesh that
20:00looks almost like a cobweb.
20:02Pull this up.
20:03Pull this out of there.
20:05Pull it.
20:05Why am I doing this?
20:06You'll see.
20:07All right.
20:08Hand that to Dave.
20:09Hand that whole bunch.
20:14What?
20:15You're sticking your hand down there, Dave, in a clip.
20:18Now, you're going to bring it over the camelback lift.
20:23It's going to come down off of here, and you're going to lay it back and forth onto this table.
20:28Like this?
20:30There you go.
20:31All right.
20:32Now, things are going to happen fairly quick.
20:34You're going to be helping this thing around.
20:37All right?
20:38All right.
20:38When I tell you, then, you go over to Tracy, she'll show you how to drop it right down into
20:44the shuttle.
20:45Go.
20:49All right.
20:49Go to Tracy.
20:52All right, Tracy.
20:52The bat will then go into the second part of the machine, where it'll stretch it thinner
20:57and ultimately turn it into roving.
20:59You got it going in there?
21:00What's that?
21:01Going down in the shuttle?
21:02Oh, it's going in there.
21:02Yeah.
21:03You need to take the sprayer and spray each apron.
21:06You have to be really fast and really quick.
21:10Now, wait a minute.
21:11What's coming?
21:11What's going in there right now is coming out like this?
21:15Well, that's yarn, isn't it?
21:17No.
21:17This is roving.
21:18It has no strength.
21:20Right.
21:23Yarn wouldn't separate like that.
21:26So you figure it'd take 45 minutes for this whole thing to run?
21:29For this process, yeah.
21:33I think I got it.
21:34See where it's building up right there, getting a lot of extra in there.
21:38If the fiber buildup isn't removed, it'll get stuck underneath the roller.
21:43This has to be fixed while the machine is still going.
21:53We all get jumpy.
21:55If something crashes, we're in trouble.
21:57Sorry about that.
22:08Do you know what it's like to be in there and have something crash?
22:13Not specifically, but I can certainly sympathize.
22:21This strikes me as an area where a lot of things could go wrong.
22:24Well, and not only should it strike you that way, it does go wrong.
22:29This is the one place where I got caught, got my hand caught in there.
22:34There was some fiber that was caught and needed to be removed
22:39or it was going to ruin the roving as it came out and I got in too close.
22:44So what happened?
22:45It just took everything down to the bone on those three fingers.
22:49Now that's called the liquor inn?
22:51That's the liquor inn.
22:52And you can see it's turning fairly fast
22:55and it goes right in behind the feed rolls there.
22:59And one thing you'd ever want to do,
23:00you don't want to get your hand caught there
23:02because what it'll wind up doing, it'll pull you in and it'll kill you.
23:06What's that drum called that spins real fast?
23:09That's the tumbler.
23:10It takes the fiber off of the breast section
23:13and puts it onto the main cylinder of the card.
23:15You've got to be a little careful here
23:17because you want to make sure you don't ever fall into that.
23:20Why is that?
23:20It'll kill you.
23:23What's this thing here?
23:25This is the board that tells us how many more spin runs we have to do.
23:28At least it's not dangerous.
23:30Well, if that board was to fall over on you, it might knock you down here.
23:36It's going to kill you?
23:37It can kill you.
23:38So what's this?
23:40It looks like an aluminum bar.
23:41Well, it's actually an anti-stat bar.
23:43It helps us even more with the static problem that we have.
23:46It's generating 50,000 volts.
23:4950,000 volts, obviously.
23:51That thing will kill you.
23:53Nah, it won't kill you.
23:56Ha!
23:57Where did you get your hand caught in this thing?
24:01Up there in the rollers.
24:09Up here.
24:10If the fiber builds up on the rollers, it'll break the belt.
24:15So I reached in to grab it off the second one.
24:21My hand went grabbed by the belt and started to go around this way.
24:25Break your wrist?
24:26Yep.
24:27I yanked it back out because there was no way of shutting the machine off.
24:31And sat there and finished watching the rest of the ride.
24:36Why?
24:36It wasn't done.
24:38Because there was nobody else around.
24:39No.
24:40See, that's the kind of dedication you don't see in the average workplace anymore.
24:44At this wrist?
24:45At this wrist.
24:46So I got broke here and it chipped the bone here.
24:50Broke a wrist in two places.
24:52Sat back down, finished the shift.
24:55Somebody has to.
24:58Better keep an eye on Kent.
25:00Yeah.
25:00I don't like to leave him alone.
25:07Wool can keep your body warm in the winter and cool in the summer because it's a natural insulator.
25:13Tiny pockets of air within each wool fiber create a temperature barrier.
25:18Wool also absorbs moisture easily.
25:20Unlike cotton, it can retain body heat even when wet.
25:30Midway through the process, the carting machine needs to be shut off to deal with fibers stuck under the rollers.
25:36It really does take 30 seconds to slow down, doesn't it?
25:39At least.
25:42Do you like the taste of the rabbit?
25:44I feel like I swallowed a sweater.
25:48See how that one group is white and not silver?
25:50I do.
25:51You need to come in from the other side.
25:54Uh-huh.
25:54Uh-huh.
25:55And reach up through the tapes and actually peel it out of there.
25:59I have your sacred word.
26:02This machine won't spring to life.
26:04I'm positive it won't.
26:09I'm going to fit through here.
26:11Sideways.
26:12Head first?
26:13That's the best way.
26:19It's not really a job, is it, Ken?
26:21Yes, it is.
26:22So.
26:28Are you seeing where any of the fibers caught in them grooves?
26:32Um.
26:34No, not yet.
26:35Hold on a second.
26:37Uh, grooves.
26:38This one's jammed up.
26:41Yeah, that'd be where we're having the trouble.
26:43Well, what a happy coincidence this is.
26:47So that little bit of stuff is causing all your problems?
26:50Yes.
26:51You've got 96 little grooves here, and each time one gets clogged or stuffed, you've got to turn your whole
26:58machine down.
26:59Yes.
27:00When the machine is down, from this angle anyway, it sounds as though nothing's going on with the cash register.
27:07You got that right.
27:08We're not making no money.
27:09Right.
27:10So as I continue to talk and make the same point over and over, you're going slowly broke.
27:14Yeah, we've lost a lot of money today.
27:16I know that.
27:17Our motto is, if the machine ain't running, we ain't making no money.
27:21How about, like, we won't pull the wool over your eyes?
27:24Those would be good.
27:25Or...
27:26You're not fat, you're just fluffy.
27:32I knew he'd come through with something.
27:35All right, well, it seems like a whole lot of wasted time, but, you know, I mean, if you're going
27:41to stick with a machine that's 90 years old,
27:44I guess you've got to take your cue from it, right?
27:46That, and the customer wants all of their fiber back that they can get.
27:52Yeah.
27:55All right.
27:56I thank you, Mike.
27:58You're welcome.
27:58It saved me going under.
28:00I'm happy to help.
28:01It's unpleasant down there.
28:07Turn it on.
28:08Turn what on?
28:09I don't know.
28:10How do I do it?
28:11Just think on?
28:11Pull it towards you.
28:13Oh.
28:14Twist.
28:15There you go.
28:20Holy crap, look at that go.
28:22This is the first phase in making three-ply yarn.
28:25The roving is twisted and spooled.
28:27And once that's ready, the spooled bobbins then come to the next machine.
28:31So am I right in thinking that when the bobbins are full of yarn, this is what they look like?
28:36Yes.
28:37And they, you...
28:39You have it upside down.
28:41Well, obviously.
28:42How do you...
28:43No.
28:44It's because of the brass.
28:45Okay.
28:45The machine behind us now?
28:47It's the cone winder.
28:48The cone winder simply takes the yarn from the bobbins and spins it into a cone to be used for
28:54the next step.
28:54And we take the single ply and fly them together to make two and three-ply.
28:59Where does that happen?
29:01Right in the way.
29:02This is the twister.
29:03Once the cones are done, they go over here.
29:07This particular one is a three-ply.
29:09Each individual one.
29:10Each single strand of yarn is fed through three eyelet guides, then attached to the bobbin.
29:16It's easy.
29:17Like that?
29:18No.
29:19If it's wrong, just say no.
29:20I can take it.
29:21Don't tell me how to do it.
29:22I want to go on myself!
29:23That's funny.
29:24What?
29:25This way?
29:26No.
29:27This...
29:27But it's not...
29:28No.
29:29Go that way.
29:30Go down and bring it up.
29:33I don't...
29:33Oh.
29:34In the front.
29:34Oh.
29:35Almost.
29:35Almost.
29:36There you go.
29:36I got it.
29:36I got it.
29:37I got it.
29:37I'm fine.
29:38I'm fine.
29:38I'll take care.
29:39Hit the green button.
29:45So we're making three-ply yarn.
29:47Yes.
29:49That one's getting low.
29:50You're going to have to turn it off again.
29:53What?
30:05I'm tempted to ask you why we just didn't start all with everything the same size.
30:10Man, you can't even sit down and relax for a second.
30:11Because that wouldn't be any fun and you wouldn't learn how to change them.
30:14I know I've done it a few times, but I don't feel as though any of this information is sticking
30:17with me in a way that I'm going to be able to utilize later in life.
30:22Probably not.
30:23Because this is the last time you're going to be here.
30:25You can take that to the bank, sister.
30:27Okay.
30:27Once they're full, you take these off.
30:30What do you do with this?
30:31Be nice.
30:36After these are full, they either get skeined off.
30:39Skeined off.
30:40Yeah.
30:40Which means they go back on cones or they get sent out on cones.
30:44We're going to take these and put them over on the cone winder.
30:49The cone winder.
30:50Where are we going?
30:51This stuff is going to get skeined off.
30:53Okay.
30:54I'll do whatever.
30:56Get it skeined off and get it out of here.
30:58He's got seniority.
30:59Yes, he does.
31:00So as much as I'd like to hang with you for another small eternity.
31:03Is this goodbye?
31:04Yes.
31:04All right.
31:06All right.
31:07Bye.
31:08Bye.
31:09What's happening?
31:10All we're doing is just hooking these up down here and we're going to turn off the skeins
31:13so we can ship this stuff out of here.
31:15Is this a skein?
31:16Those are skeins hanging on the skein tree.
31:19So a skein is really just a loop?
31:22A giant loop with different numbers of strands in it.
31:29It depends on the weight of the yarn and everything.
31:31Okay.
31:32Excellent.
31:34How's the machine work?
31:35By hand.
31:36Of course.
31:37Just keep your hands out of the yarn itself.
31:39That's right.
31:40That's all you've got to do.
31:41Oh, look at that thing go.
31:42Hey, man.
31:43I want to thank you seriously for having us out today.
31:45This was almost fun.
31:46Hey, we appreciate you.
31:47No, it was good fun.
31:49I'm going to let you finish this up, okay?
31:50I'll take over.
31:51All right.
31:51Don't hurt yourself on this thing.
31:53I'll try not to.
31:53Because you know this machine could kill you.
31:55This machine could.
31:56I learned a lot of things today can kill you.
31:59I learned how to get knots and yarn, two-ply, three-ply, learned how to twist it together,
32:05met a lot of machines that were created around the time my granddad was born,
32:08and all in all had a day that I'm not going to soon forget.
32:10Ken, you're not going to forget this day, are you?
32:13Never.
32:14See?
32:21Coming up, Barsky decides to bring out some of his inner beauty.
32:31And we all learned firsthand that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
32:44So the crew and I were filming at the Mission Point Resort when we heard about a job in
32:48the hotel salon that had the potential of being dirty.
32:52So naturally, we had to investigate.
32:55This is Susan Bentley.
32:56Susan is the proprietor of the Seventh Heaven Salon and Spa here on Mackinac Island.
33:01How's it going?
33:03Not too bad.
33:04You're a professional beautician?
33:08Yes.
33:09And you are also trained in other arts of beauty?
33:14That's correct.
33:15Such as?
33:16Waxing.
33:17I've been curious for a long time why people want the hair on their body removed.
33:22Can you tell me why that is?
33:23Well, I think some people think that it's sexy.
33:27I see.
33:28So in this day and age, the idea of a woman coming in to have all of the hair removed
33:34from
33:34her body, or a man, is very much in vogue.
33:37That's true.
33:38I will not be having the hair removed from my body, but you have a customer, I understand,
33:43who is here and willing to have this process effectuated upon him?
33:48Him?
33:48Yes, I do.
34:00Our pal Barsky, making the ultimate sacrifice so we can learn about the all-important job
34:05of removing hair from a person.
34:07This is a good specimen.
34:09Why?
34:10Because he's hairy.
34:11I once saw him grow a beard in four hours.
34:13And since you don't see him quite as often as I do, this is what I mean.
34:17Goathe is something else, dude.
34:18This one?
34:19Yeah, the one you're wearing.
34:20What?
34:21It's fantastic.
34:22Looks like a Confederate soldier.
34:24What are we going to do to him, honestly?
34:26I don't want to hurt him, but I mean, we're not waxing his face, are we?
34:30Well, a part of his face.
34:31Which part?
34:31We're going to do the nose hairs.
34:34You know how bad that hurts?
34:35Well.
34:36What else goes?
34:37And then he's got a little hairy chest thing going on there.
34:40Easy.
34:41Any other areas we're going to work on?
34:43We'll see how he gets through this, and then we'll go from there.
34:45All right.
34:46This is a hard wax.
34:48Mm-hmm.
34:48Put it in probably like about a quarter of an inch.
34:50Let their head back.
34:52Is it hot?
34:52It is a little bit hot.
34:54Like this, I'm going to squeeze it.
34:57That's not so bad.
35:01It's a good look.
35:03Thanks.
35:03Want to give a little tap there?
35:04Sure.
35:05Now tap the wax.
35:07Oh, the wax.
35:08It's going to be tacky.
35:10Is it still tacky?
35:12This whole show is tacky.
35:14I'm going to get it all in one shot.
35:16Are you telling me that you're just going to yank this whole thing out?
35:18Yes, I am.
35:19Cool.
35:20And I think you should do the next one.
35:22The important thing to do is just you don't want to put it up too far because you need some
35:26hair to have to filter.
35:28The dust stuff, right?
35:29So you just want to get the stuff that everybody can see.
35:32I mean, that's why you have nose hair, right?
35:33That's why it is.
35:33The dust and stuff gets filtered in there.
35:35Okay.
35:36So believe it or not, this doesn't hurt.
35:39I don't believe it.
35:40You don't believe it?
35:41I don't feel a thing.
35:42Okay.
35:42So you want to hold the bridge to the nose.
35:44Okay.
35:45And kind of hold their head a little bit.
35:47So when you pull it out, sometimes they go forward.
35:49Well, sure they do.
35:50Okay.
35:51I'm going to grab a hold of it.
35:52Uh-huh.
35:53Okay.
35:53Yeah.
35:55Oh, you liar.
35:57We can do an extreme close-up.
35:58Oh, my goodness.
36:00It doesn't hurt.
36:01Stop.
36:01No, it did.
36:03Oh, my God.
36:04What do you think of that?
36:06Man, I had no idea he had so much hair in his nose.
36:09Okay, so.
36:09You got this.
36:10What do you got?
36:11You got this.
36:12Quarter of an inch.
36:13You're going here like that?
36:14Yeah, that's good.
36:15Yeah.
36:16Going like this?
36:17Pull it back out, down a little bit.
36:18Pull it down.
36:19There you go.
36:19Now squeeze.
36:20And then just let it go, though.
36:22Let go.
36:24Just take care of that.
36:25You feel good about it?
36:26I think you can...
36:28Oh, I'm feeling...
36:29I've got no worry at all about my ability to yank this piece of hardened wax out of my friend's
36:36nostril.
36:36Okay, so I'm going to hold up here and not down here, okay?
36:39You want to keep his head stable.
36:41And when you pull, you need to pull straight down.
36:43Straight down.
36:44Yeah.
36:44Not up and out.
36:45No, not out.
36:46And not real slow either, right?
36:48And don't twist.
36:48Okay.
36:49Should I say something comforting to him?
36:50You can lie to him all you want.
36:52It's what I did.
36:52I'm not going to lie to you, dude.
36:53I'm going to be perfectly honest.
36:55This is going to hurt like a son of a gun.
36:57And I'm going to do it on three.
36:59One.
37:02Oh, look at that.
37:04This is not what I signed on for.
37:06All right, so his nose is clear.
37:08This is good.
37:09We're learning things.
37:11I'm horrified, yet I need to see what's next.
37:14Coming up.
37:17I helped Dave get in touch with his sensitive side.
37:21Oh, your mom is a big boy.
37:24Unfortunately, Dave's sensitive side is covered with hair.
37:35Please cover.
37:36Cover.
37:37Don't.
37:37People don't need to see.
37:39People don't need to see this.
37:40At this point, I'd strongly suggest any women and small children and full-grown men shield their eyes.
37:46It's not going to be pretty.
37:47We have a big workspace here.
37:50Yes, we do.
37:52Are we using the same wax?
37:53We don't.
37:53That's a hard wax.
37:54This is a soft wax.
37:55We'll be using this muslin?
37:56This is a zinc wax.
37:57And just get the boy right now.
37:59Alcohol is applied to prevent nasty infections.
38:02How hot is the wax?
38:03I don't know.
38:05Hot enough to rip the hair off.
38:06It should be bubbling like that?
38:07Boiling?
38:08It's not.
38:08It's actually a little bit thin or thick right now, so I'm just going to turn it up, too.
38:12So we're just going to.
38:13Sure.
38:13So you're going to go put it on with the hair.
38:17And take it.
38:20Is it hot?
38:21No, but you're pulling my hair.
38:22Well, that's what he's saying.
38:24What's that, dude?
38:25Oh, God.
38:28So you're going to put a hand here, okay, and kind of give it a little tension.
38:32Mm-hmm.
38:32Okay?
38:33Hold on.
38:33Hold on.
38:33Do I breathe in or anything like that?
38:35You can do whatever you like.
38:37Oh, that wasn't so bad.
38:39That was so bad.
38:39Okay, that was a nice, clean one.
38:40See?
38:41Wax is pretty good consistency.
38:43Great.
38:43Okay?
38:44You got it.
38:45Perfect.
38:46Keep it going.
38:47There you go.
38:48Let's get it something like this.
38:49As I recall, there was some padding.
38:51And then I'm going to pull back this way.
38:52And then I'm going to go this way.
38:55Oh!
38:55That was beautiful.
38:56Grab it again.
38:57Go on there right on top of that and get that.
38:58Try and get that and rub it.
38:59Rub it, rub it, rub it.
39:01Good.
39:01Now, keep going.
39:02Oh, my goodness.
39:03Look at that.
39:04This area.
39:04This is awesome.
39:05No, no, this is happening, Dave.
39:06Dave, this is happening.
39:07Very good.
39:08Okay, good.
39:09Look at that.
39:09A little bit of blood.
39:10Seriously, I'm bleeding?
39:12Just probably three follicles.
39:13Like a little, like a little prick.
39:16Ooh, you're just smoking now, aren't you?
39:19Already?
39:19That's got to hurt, too.
39:21Oh!
39:21That one did?
39:22Oh.
39:25Ah!
39:26Ah!
39:29Oh, God.
39:31This is going to hurt.
39:33Oh!
39:34Oh!
39:35You're right.
39:36As a rule, who handles pain better, men or women?
39:39Women.
39:40Not even close, is it?
39:41No.
39:42Rip it up.
39:43Oh, my God.
39:45Oh, God.
39:47Ooh.
39:47Jeez, a whiz.
39:49It looks like a hairball.
39:52Right here.
39:53All right.
39:54I want in on this.
39:55Oh!
39:56Oh!
39:57Now, are the moles supposed to come off, too?
40:00This is...
40:01Act casual.
40:02Come on in, West.
40:03Come on.
40:07Oh, your mama's big boy.
40:13What was your favorite dirty job?
40:16This is a good one, actually, the more I think about it.
40:18I'm enjoying this one a lot.
40:19This is a pretty good one.
40:22Lucky, seriously, I think I'm a fan.
40:25Why would men do this, you know?
40:27If nothing else can be accomplished from what we're doing right here, surely, we can address
40:34that.
40:34We can speak to that.
40:36Oh, men around the country lying here willingly, having hair removed.
40:41Why would they do it?
40:42What happens?
40:43Never again.
40:44Never again, dude.
40:45We ought to build a memorial for you.
40:46Never again.
40:47Here.
40:47Have some vodka.
40:48No, seriously.
40:52What?
40:52I want to test it for you.
40:54Here you go.
40:55You should have done a happy face.
40:57That's like a happy face, having a stroke.
41:04You can sit up to drink the water.
41:05You don't have to stay in your bracket.
41:07Let me have the water.
41:08That actually helped.
41:09All right.
41:11Cook a mugger.
41:12She scared me with that one.
41:14Can we move on, please?
41:15You want to move on?
41:16Somehow, someway, yeah.
41:17Well, you have a lot.
41:18You have a lot to do.
41:20I don't care.
41:21Really?
41:21Oh, my God.
41:22I feel like the humane thing to do is to stop this,
41:26but I also feel like it's a cruel thing to do to send him home.
41:29Look, he looks like he's got the mange.
41:32I mean, he looks like just a junkyard cat that just keeps coming around.
41:36And I don't know if it's...
41:38That's fine.
41:38I'm fine with that.
41:39Whatever you want to do is fine.
41:42We can always clean you up tomorrow if you have a second thought.
41:45Hey, Steve, I'm not coming back.
41:48Okay.
41:49Gentlemen, I'll leave you with this.
41:51Taste is a subjective thing.
41:53And I admit, Dave does look kind of sleeker without all that thick, matty hair on him.
41:58But there's a price to be paid to get clean and sleek and beautiful.
42:02How much does it cost, by the way, to get all your hair pulled off?
42:04If we did most areas, I think it would be about $200.
42:08About $200.
42:09Okay, so, you know, it's not just a question, though, of the money.
42:14You've got to have it in you.
42:15You've got to have...
42:17You've got to have the pain thing down.
42:20You did good.
42:21Really?
42:22No, not really.
42:23It was embarrassing.
42:24It's going to happen.
42:27Hey, hold on.
42:28Hold me up.
42:31This is a lamprey.
42:32As you can see, it's hideous to behold.
42:34Mouthful of teeth and genuinely just a cranky creature.
42:38I'm going to go ahead and stick it on Dave's arm now.
42:40And I'm going to do it because you have not gone to discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs
42:46to suggest our next dirty adventure.
42:48So I'm going to go ahead and let him suck the life out of Dave
42:52while you get your priorities straight.
42:54Discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
42:58No, no, no.
42:59They like me, man.
43:01Ow.
43:02Every time I open my mouth, I pull out a freaking hairball.
43:12Regular web mesh filter.
43:16Honestly, Doug.
43:17Would it be possible to have a conversation with this man without all of this happening?
43:23Is there any way we could do a show without this happening?
43:29However briefly, it would just be great.
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