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I enjoy a program called "Dirty Jobs" which features stories of people who have very hard and often dirty jobs. The show host, Mike Rowe, takes the job for a day and finds out just how hard and dirty the work is and is always very complimentary to the workers. DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable — yet vital ways. Mike Rowe introduces a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks. Today I want to honor the custom manure applicator.
Normally the manure is spead using these large tanks holding some 80 tons of manure. The manure is pumped into the tank at a manure pit and then transported to the field and applied by the tractor.
Yesterday I noticed a long hose attached to a manure applicator behind the tractor and being curious I walked over to inquire. I thought perhaps a tank was parked nearby but alas I was wrong. I got a lesson on custom manure application from Tim McMichael who runs McMichael Custom Spreading.
This application method is know as a manure dragline and was actually a large hose extending some 7,000 feet to the manure pit where the animal waste is pumped through the line (it appeared to be about 10 inch diameter) at very high pressure directly to the applicator behind the tractor.
Tim did his job with the joy of the Lord. He is a fellow believer and told me he once told a pastor what he did for a living and the pastor told him, "I wouldn't let people know that if I were you" which Tim found a bit disheartening. Today I affirm all who do the kinds of jobs that may be hard and dirty but are very important. Tim has invested several hundred thousand dollars in equipment in his business.
I took a turn driving the tractor. Our home can be seen in the background to the right of the tractor. Brooksyne and I noticed that with this kind of application the odor was less pungent, although, make no mistake about it we are still in rural Lancaster County!
"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men."
(Colossians 3:23)
I enjoy a program called "Dirty Jobs" which features stories of people who have very hard and often dirty jobs. The show host, Mike Rowe, takes the job for a day and finds out just how hard and dirty the work is and is always very complimentary to the workers. DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable — yet vital ways. Mike Rowe introduces a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks. Today I want to honor the custom manure applicator.
Normally the manure is spead using these large tanks holding some 80 tons of manure. The manure is pumped into the tank at a manure pit and then transported to the field and applied by the tractor.
Yesterday I noticed a long hose attached to a manure applicator behind the tractor and being curious I walked over to inquire. I thought perhaps a tank was parked nearby but alas I was wrong. I got a lesson on custom manure application from Tim McMichael who runs McMichael Custom Spreading.
This application method is know as a manure dragline and was actually a large hose extending some 7,000 feet to the manure pit where the animal waste is pumped through the line (it appeared to be about 10 inch diameter) at very high pressure directly to the applicator behind the tractor.
Tim did his job with the joy of the Lord. He is a fellow believer and told me he once told a pastor what he did for a living and the pastor told him, "I wouldn't let people know that if I were you" which Tim found a bit disheartening. Today I affirm all who do the kinds of jobs that may be hard and dirty but are very important. Tim has invested several hundred thousand dollars in equipment in his business.
I took a turn driving the tractor. Our home can be seen in the background to the right of the tractor. Brooksyne and I noticed that with this kind of application the odor was less pungent, although, make no mistake about it we are still in rural Lancaster County!
"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men."
(Colossians 3:23)
Dirty Jobs is seen on the Discovery Channel.
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