Rock Quarry Worker. We start off in a really big rock quarry. This used to be a hill, but gradually they blow it up, and as they blow it up, they use really large equipment to load it into really big trucks and then crunch it up into much smaller pieces, and those smaller pieces become highways and runways and things we use every day.
They drill some fifty holes in the hill, forty or so feet deep, and pump liquid dynamite into the holes. Electronic detonators go into the holes and they actually move quite a ways from the explosion, and they have to close off the highway to make sure no one gets hurt. When they go back, another section of the hill is just gone. So they pick it up and move it over to where they start crunching it up.
Hippo Keeper. Hippos, as you can imagine, aren’t the cleanest of animals. While they didn’t show it, I’ve been to an animal park (in Florida, actually) where they have a “Splatter Zone” sign near the hippo cage. If you should happen by at the wrong time, it’s like a tornado. It’s really pretty nasty. Here, the hippos just swim around all day and it really isn’t that bad – until you consider that their pool is like a giant toilet. You don’t see their poo, as it pretty well dissolves. But it’s like you’re swimming in a giant toilet of dissolved hippo poo (if you have to clean it – you don’t do it for fun). That’s just nasty.
Hoof Trimmer. Down on the farm, it turns out that cows need to have their feet trimmed too. But cows, unlike horses, don’t stand nice and tall so you can just lift a foot at a time and trim them. No, they actually have this machine that goes over, picks the cow up (sideways) and holds the cow up in the air so you can trim its feet. Pretty cool, actually. Except when they poo. Ever hear the expression “scared the crap” out of someone? It’s like that.
