ADC speak out

[snipe128]

Are there any ADC people here? If anyone is out there lets start sharing info. I'm new to the business and am looking for any advice. Does anyone have a contract that you use? What do you charge for milage? Does anyone charge for milage to check traps?? Lets get talking.

[redneckcowboy]

i ADC trap for my neighbors when coons or skunks tear up there property i just charge what ever they offer me....what ya need to know???

[snipe128]

I've been charging $50.00 set fee and $25.00 per animal. When I set I check out the area and usually put out 6-10 live traps. I usually just exchange the traps when something is in it. I leave them for about 7 days. If the customer monitors the traps I will leave them longer. With the new gas prices I'm need to raise my price. I need to charge milage to check traps. I was wondering what everyone else does?

[redneckcowboy]

I would raise the price if i was you since gas prices.

[peskypaws/ aka DEW]

Iv been doing ADC work for 18+ yrs. its hard to get going you need to adv.all the time keep your name out therany way you can.

[Derek]

nice picture i do adc work for my grandpa nad my neighbors sometimes

[coon]

what does ADC mean?

[peskypaws/ aka DEW]

animel damage control others call it NWC that means nuisance wildlife control. that my job i'm o NWCO or a ADCO the O on the end standes for operrator.

[peskypaws/ aka DEW]

just got back from the 9th annual sportsmen show in Alpena Mich. and now all thats left to do is wait for the calls to start comeing in. I had alot of good feed back.

[flighthunter]

Hey spike
To answer your question on what to charge thing is to look at your area and see what you can charge but don't over charge your self or you will not get any or none of the jobs you bid on . The fee for animals is differnt do to the size and what you have to do with it each state is differnt as well so hard to say charge what your charging .
Everyone does it differnt some charge a flat rate fee and some charge by the animal and yes charge milage even if it is one way so you need to charge for about everything so don't cut your self short . Charge what ever your state allows you on your tax's if it is 44.5 cents a mile charge that if more then use the more . This isn't a free service like a lot of people think it is .

[flighthunter]

Mar 23, 2009 17:04:04 GMT -5 peskypaws/ aka DEW said:

just got back from the 9th annual sportsmen show in Alpena Mich. and now all thats left to do is wait for the calls to start coming in. I had alot of good feed back.

Hey Dew
It was a great show we didn't win Best of show the DNR took it but we did come in second place from what one of the guys who put it on . The guy we helped few years back at the fair grounds he came and seem me at our booth just chit chatting .
Seen a lot of people and got 7 inquiries for Nwco work .
Hope you did as well if not better chow for now . Kev

[peskypaws/ aka DEW]

I don't know how much I'll get back from the show. But i would have done better if another control operator didn't weasel his way in and plug his business on some one else's dime.

[peskypaws/ aka DEW]

I just got these traps from steve Albono.

[peskypaws/ aka DEW]

here is a nother video of trpping moles.

[flighthunter]

well to start off about this post is got a call last wensday from a guy who said he was being flooded out of his camp property. He asked me if I was available and said not tell the weekend so he asked me to come and take a look and size it up for what I was going to charge . One got there and done the inspectsion I started to set traps to where the activity was happening . Put out a few sets of 330,s and some drownding rod sets friday evening and lets cool down for a day and went back at day break sunday morning and did my job well . Here are a few photo's of this job .
what I saw when I got there

The guy who's been raising cane on this stream

Here is my set I used with 330's ..... out of the Box thinking

This is by the Dam I broke some to draw the beaver or beavers to the set