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Dirty Jobs

Chimney Sweeper

Season 2, Episode 7, Aired Nov 08, 2005

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Mike first goes to the Chimney Safety Institute of America in Plainfield, IN and learns how to be a certified chimney sweeper. He then goes to Ontario, Canada to salvage underwater logs, which are then used to make furniture. Finally, Mike visits a scrap metal recycler in St. Louis, MO and learns how to separate different metals and operate some big machines.moreless

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- Mike: Look at this. Someone threw out a perfectly good dumpster.
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- Mike: Flying debris. My favorite kind of debris.
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- Mike: You know you had me at slow growing virgins.
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- (After stripping an insulated copper wire) Oscar: You're a master stripper now. Mike: A master stripper, just working my way through college. I don't really strip for a living, it's just something I wanted to experiment with.
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- Mike: So how do you think I rate as a crane operator on a scale from one to ten? Lance: Tough call. I don't think "sucks" registers on a scale from one to ten. Mike: So you're telling me that "sucks" is not a number.
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- Mike:For those of you keeping track at home, that's the 28th shirt I've ruined for the greater good of Dirty Jobs.
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- Video of the underwater log segment can be seen at http://www.georgianbaywetwood.com/.
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- According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Mike spent 13 hours baling painted siding and aluminum cans, sorting steel, stripping copper wire and loading railcars when he worked at Cash's Scrap Metal and Iron.
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- In the credits, special thanks was given to Hampton Inn of Muskegon, Stu Block, Chad Billingsley and Heidi Deakin.
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- Mike is disappointed that chimney sweeping in reality has no top hats or kids singing and dancing. (He is given a top hat at the end.) This is in reference to the 1964 musical film Mary Poppins in which Dick Van Dyke plays a singing and dancing chimney sweep that frolics with the kids.
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