Dirty Jobs

This week on Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe was a cement truck cleaner and a geoduck farmer. As a cement truck cleaner Mike had to crawl into the back of a cement truck and clean out the cement. He was given a small air chisel and began to chip away all of the dried cement. This is a very important job because there are many different types of cement and they can not be mixed together. This also stops dried chunks of cement from falling into any wet cement which could cause imperfections. The company Mike is working for works at night so that the trucks can be cleaned out and ready for the morning. This saves companies a lot of money because their cement trucks are never out of commission during the day.
Mike was also a geoduck farmer on this week’s episode. Geoducks are a funny looking sea snail that is harvested on ocean shores. They are planted in the ocean beach and allowed to grow for about four years before they are harvested. They are a type of seafood that is very popular in the southern states. To harvest a geoduck, you take a hose and stick in into the sand and blast water into the hole. When all the sand is loose you stick your hand down the hole and pull out the geoduck. When they are first planted they are placed about 6 inches below the surface. During the 4 year period, the goeducks burrow to about a foot and a half below the beach surface.