Dirty Jobs

This week on Dirty jobs Mike was a wine cave digger, and a pigeon poop cleaner. His job as a wine cave digger is very important especially in Napa Valley and where wine making is a large industry. They drill into one side of a large hill and out the other to complete the cave. The cave is dug with a large machine with two spinning heads on the end of a rotating shaft. after the cave is dug out the walls and ceiling is coated with a cement-like substance to prevent a cave-in. The wine caves work very well because underground the temperature and humidity remain constant, which is very important in the aging process of the wine.
Mike also picked up pigeon poop in New York City. This process is not as simple as most people believe, the poop had to be disinfected, put into garbage bags, and then burned. The reason pigeon poop is handled so carefully is because it can carry many diseases. Mike was cleaning up the roof of an old hospital. After sweeping all of the feces and putting it into bags, he had to place electrical strips around the whole roof to prevent the pigeons from destroying the roof again. This occupation helps to maintain a healthy community free of disease.