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Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of an Iowa pig farmer where he faces the challenges of feeding and cleaning up after hundreds of dirty pigs. Then Mike learns how to care for a new litter of piglets, and artificially inseminates a female pig.

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Never been to one...but have smelled them. They do a few weird jobs in Iowa. Corn detassleing. walking beans. Used to walk beans and pick rocks growing up In MN.
Walk beans = walking down bean field. 2 rows eeither side looking for weeds, like mustard, thistle, etc. made 1.50 hr. now obsolete? with pesticides. Not sure.

Pick rocks= In MN the ground would freeze solid in Winter, come Spring ground would thaw and rocks left from glacier pull back gazillion years ago would pop up. You had to get rocks out of field before farmer drilled land. Thats tilling land with disk behind tractor for you city slickers.
Fun times. 1.75 hr.

My Mom worked at the Elevator so I had inside track for all those great jobs. Thats grain elevator... every small town has them..
 

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Nice win with the TRIBE this afternoon..........nicely done sir!!
 

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Just following Chop...I am such a genius I put
A's in tracker(from Chop) and Yanks(from other capper) as pick.
 

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kyhawk said:
Just following Chop...I am such a genius I put
A's in tracker(from Chop) and Yanks(from other capper) as pick.


In all probability, GREAT decision!

:money8: :money8:
 

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kyhawk said:
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=6&cpi=25033&gid=0&channel=DSC

Never been to one...but have smelled them. They do a few weird jobs in Iowa. Corn detassleing. walking beans. Used to walk beans and pick rocks growing up In MN.
Walk beans = walking down bean field. 2 rows eeither side looking for weeds, like mustard, thistle, etc. made 1.50 hr. now obsolete? with pesticides. Not sure.

Pick rocks= In MN the ground would freeze solid in Winter, come Spring ground would thaw and rocks left from glacier pull back gazillion years ago would pop up. You had to get rocks out of field before farmer drilled land. Thats tilling land with disk behind tractor for you city slickers.
Fun times. 1.75 hr.

My Mom worked at the Elevator so I had inside track for all those great jobs. Thats grain elevator... every small town has them..

Growing up in Iowa, these jobs were all obsolete for Fishhead even when he lived there.
 

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kyhawk said:
. Corn detassleing. walking beans. Used to walk beans and pick rocks growing up In MN.
Walk beans = walking down bean field. 2 rows eeither side looking for weeds, like mustard, thistle, etc. made 1.50 hr. now obsolete? with pesticides. Not sure...
neither detassleing or walking beans is obsolete...both still done today. Did both as a youngster growing up in Illinois.
 

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neither detassleing or walking beans is obsolete...both still done today. Did both as a youngster growing up in Illinois.

Detassleing is still done but the pay is pretty good. Walking beans is just about obsolete.
 

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Fish lived about 200 miles south and his land didnt get the rocks from Glaciers in MN did where I grew up.

(Near Walnut Grove of Little House Fame)
 

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let's not leave out the worst job you could ever possibly do....BAILING HAY! always fun on the back of a wagon in 100 degree heat, 100% humidity in central IL....then to the top of the barn where it's 150 degrees to stack it there! :nohead:
 

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Fish lived about 200 miles south and his land didnt get the rocks from Glaciers in MN did where I grew up.

(Near Walnut Grove of Little House Fame)

More arrowheads than rocks.

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kyhawk said:
Fish lived about 200 miles south and his land didnt get the rocks from Glaciers in MN did where I grew up.

(Near Walnut Grove of Little House Fame)

Trust me, there are plenty of rocks where Fish grew up.
 

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cy1981 said:
Trust me, there are plenty of rocks where Fish grew up.

:lolBIG:

Legendary Orioles Staduim was proff of that....brutal infield on certain days.
 

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