Lost my first job
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09/26/16 08:52 PM
09/26/16 08:52 PM
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I had a good job setup for a beaver problem on a local lake. Just about to apply for the NJ beaver permit. I offered to do it for less then the regular ADC rates. As I am less experienced. Then someone told them they would do it for free just for the beaver. I guess they like losing money on $10 beavers.
They don't even pay for the permit.
Oh well, beavers probably aren't the best to start ADC trapping for.
Paul Smiths Forestry ‘22
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
#5653448
09/26/16 09:08 PM
09/26/16 09:08 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,504 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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I wouldn't worry about it.You will likely get a call back after the other guy (amateur) leaves a few beaver behind thus not solving the problem.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
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09/26/16 11:04 PM
09/26/16 11:04 PM
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Even if they do get an experienced trapper, there are beaver downstream that will move in once the current are trapped out.
Paul Smiths Forestry ‘22
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Boco]
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09/27/16 03:23 PM
09/27/16 03:23 PM
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Aix sponsa
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I wouldn't worry about it.You will likely get a call back after the other guy (amateur) leaves a few beaver behind thus not solving the problem. If you know that someone else has either trapped some of them or attempted to, do your prices increase? If you find out that the landowner (or anyone else) has been shooting beavers, does your price increase? Seems like prices doubled ought to be about right whenever someone else screws up the job. Is that how any of you look at it?
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
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09/27/16 04:26 PM
09/27/16 04:26 PM
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From my point, I am not very experienced, so I lower my prices and don't charge for time. For beaver. I also would only use snares, so I don't educate the beaver, for the most part. Seems fair right?
Aix Sponsa, I think charging for time would account for the jobs that somebody else screws up.
Paul Smiths Forestry ‘22
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
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09/27/16 06:01 PM
09/27/16 06:01 PM
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Posts: 45,504 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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No,the price to remove beaver is the same for all jobs.$75per beaver,$.45\km $50 to lower the water to natural flow.Might take one or at the most two extra trips to get any educated beaver.Most problem beavers have already had someone harass them before I am called. Why would you double charge a guy that has already paid someone and didn't get the problem taken care of? I wouldn't penalize someone if I wasnt proficient enough to get all the beaver.
Last edited by Boco; 09/27/16 06:23 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
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09/27/16 06:59 PM
09/27/16 06:59 PM
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BigBob
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What about the landowner that tried to cheap it out and do it himself and totally screwed the pooch? You gonna charge the same for educated animals?
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
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09/27/16 07:12 PM
09/27/16 07:12 PM
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Boco
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Yes I charge the same for all jobs.I have no undue difficulties catching beaver educated or not.Like I said maybe an extra trip or two at most.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Lost my first job
[Re: Forest]
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09/28/16 07:47 PM
09/28/16 07:47 PM
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Michigan Trappin
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Had a guy last summer thought I should trap his beaver for free "because their fur is beautiful and worth a lot". Yep I'll keep working for the people that pay my "set up charge" and $95 per beaver
Let it go, there are plenty of beavers to cause damage on other properties
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If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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