I'm sure we have all had to do some real disgusting jobs in our lives. Lets hear about them!!
I'm not saying this is the nastiest thing I've ever had to do but it is right up near the top!! You cattlemen know about this! A green placenta. I have a real strong stomach. I've never got into anything so bad I barfed but my first and only experience with a green placenta sorely tested that.
A cow will sometimes lose her calf when she is in advanced pregnancy. The farmer will notice she doesn't feel good, will get up close to her and will smell the dead calf that has been cooking and fermenting inside her for multiple days. The farmer calls the vet. I was standing with my vet when he got the call from an old farmer. The vet turned to me and asked if I could ride along and help him since this farmer was old enough he wouldn't be much help.
Being a nice guy I said yes. We get there and the old farmer had gotten the cow tied up to a fence post real close to the barn. So we get started. The calf had cooked so long the vet was pulling him out in pieces. As in grab a leg and pull and the leg comes out but nothing else comes out. I'm holding up the tail to help the vet as these green pieces of calf fall to the ground. I could handle that. But the smell. OMG!! Finally the vet was done and since we were close to the barn he stuck a hose in the cow to flush her out. He than placed a couple of really big anti-biotic bolus' in her.
I have never smelled anything that bad in my life. I almost hurled a dozen times. I can still remember that day all to well.
I can probably come up with a dozen more nasty things I've had to do in my life but I think that was about the worst.
So what are some of your nasty experiences??
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I agree Dano. Just sad or disheartening.
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It's mid August, and the neighbors have not seen elderly Mrs. Jones for a week.
You and your partner are going to have to enter the house for a welfare check. Vick's Vap-O-Rub on your upper lip helps.
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There you go, chme. A person has been rotting away for a week. Flies and maggots etc. It was disgusting to me.
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Another one of my fun experiences!! The dragline broke at the bottom of a slatted floor, 450 sow feeder pig operation. I put on a pair of chest high fishing waders, put a Maine northeaster rain coat, than the hat with the full hood and a bill on the hat. Climbed down in the pit, shuffling along VERY SLOWLY as the footing was slippery and falling in 4+ feet of hog pee and poop just didn't sound like anything I wanted to do. I didn't look up. Really, really didn't look up!! As you slowly shuffled along you were feeling for one end of the dragline with your feet. When you found one end, you hooked it with a long metal hook with a handle and yelled up to let them know to start looking for. When they found you I would pass up the hook, start shuffling along hunting for the other end so I could hook it and pass it up. Then I started to head for which ever end was closest to climb out. This was a shower in, shower out facility so it was straight to the shower to shower off all the pig filth.
The whole time I was searching for the dragline there were liquids and solids plopping on my head and shoulders. It seems like many of us have been involved in many interesting situations!!
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I performed maintenance work in a rendering department at a slaughtering facility. That was nasty, especially in July.
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Dreher , i have worked inany of the same type of hog operations here in NC. We primarily worked for Maxwell foods And Goldsboro Hog Farms and to a lesser degree Smithfield foods . Did a ton of work for Butterball .
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I did commercial roofing for many years. Flat roofs were often insulated with fiberglass and wood fiber panels. I’ve always had a pretty strong stomach but that particular combination was awful to tear off when saturated and fermented, almost made me barf many times.
Tearing off coal tar pitch results in chemical burns from the dust, especially if exposed to sunlight. I expect to have skin cancer some day.
You are not understating this, pitch is rough, I roofed for many years. While I mostly did shingle work I've spent a lot of time doing doing flat roofs as well.
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I was a rep for equipment in wastewater plants for many years. When I was laid off I found a job in a plant that made fertilizer out of wastewater. It was a good position, they warned me about the smell but since I had a lot of experience I thought I could take it and I could while I was there But it got into your skin and you never got away from it even when not there. Here’s what the guys did every day. Bring a fresh set of clothes change into your uniform then leave your cloths outside wrapped in plastic then when you leave take a shower at the plant, quick put your cloths on and run out. Even when doing that I would come home for another shower and still smell it. I felt bad that I quit after a week. I had to throw out everything I brought into the plant because the smell never left.
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A 0ld plumber told me remember two things crap runs down hill and don't chew your fingernails
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At my first maintenance job, a raccoon had died and someone thinking they were doing a great deed, put the carcass into our waste treatment dumpster outside in the middle of July.
It was solid waste "biscuits" from our surface treatment and there could be no solids, ie bones, in it.
I was tasked to get it out of there.
I opened the lid and bout puked then.
I went back into the plant and grabbed a dustmask.
I then went to the "pretty" girl that worked there and asked her for some perfume.
I doused the dust mask with perfume then proceeded to remove the rotting, baking corpse of the raccoon.
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I worked for my municipalities sewer department for 25 years I've seen everything and been in it as well. Nothing like opening a man hole cover down town and watching the walls move. South America has nothing over our cock roaches.
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I could never be a plumber. Maybe, if I only did new build jobs. I hate working with water! It leaks all over the place.........😬
you're doing it wrong,,,
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the same old plumber who gave me the two things to remember tip
he did side work also as most every one did . he said he took a young fellow as a helper with him on a job and told the house owner what ever you do "DO NOT" use the toilet, while were working on the pipes and fixtures . made it clear do not do it said he went under the house to get started and then back into the bath room sure enough the owner had left a world record size "prize " in the toilet ( not the exact words but this is public 😁)
he said I just called my trainee and said its all yours get it cleaned up might as well get use it LOL and yelled at the owner but knew it was a waste of time doing it .
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