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Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? #4014004
09/22/13 06:42 PM
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I had just finished a post that the majority of you would have enjoyed reading. I had just reread it to make sure there were no errors when I realized that everyone in the world could read what I had just posted.

It then struck me that the only hero in that post was our company. I then deleted the entire post and opted for this one. I guess I recalled what a teacher taught me long ago. The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do ANYTHING.

P.S. Those posts can probably still be read at a later date in WCT. ( If I remember to send them )

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4014859
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I guess I am as guilty as one can be.I am a hard core fur trapper still after many years. It is that interest and skill that enabled me to make the gradual cross over into the ADC and Pest Control industries. Being a lure making and trapper at the same time presented challenges. Then adding full time ADC work just became a good fit. Now I do it all and it is a full life commitment.But it has been a good one.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4014920
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Why would anyone care about Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? What's the problem?

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4015088
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well, I have had issues with them coming in after I have scheduled a job and just telling the land owner they will do it for free or for a lot less than I can afford to. Had that happen two years ago. Then I got a call back when he forgot his traps there and went hunting. Left a Coon in one for two days and she couldn't get ahold of him. Now keep in mind that at that time I was basically a glorified fur trapper myself, just getting into this side of things. But was at least attempting to be as professional about it as possible.
Also fur trappers aren't going to be as knowledgeable of laws or PC methods.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4015096
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Or you can have a situation like here in Georgia. Where every tom, dick and harry has a FREE permit and the fur trappers association calls the shots and opposes anything that makes sense.


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I am a fur trapper and my permanent job was a full time paid nuisance control agent.
Some of the most dedicated,professional,fur trappers around here are the first to get called to handle a nuisance furbearer complaint because they know how to completely eradicate a problem furbearer.
As far as the billy exterminator guys,I have seen those"so called professionals"educate more furbearers than they catch.
Our trappers councils run nuisance furbearer control programs that bring in a lot of money to both the trappers whose line the complaint is on as well as bring in thousands of dollars every year to the councils to run the program and pay for the co-ordinator,with lots left over to go back to trapper education and furbearer management.
On top of all this our provincial Federation provides 2 million liability insurance to all members when conducting nuisance furbearer control work in the province.
The area of concern right now that we will work on is to open urban areas to furbearer management programs in season,and to give members of the federation first right of refusal to conduct nuisance furbearer work within urban areas(within their fur harvesting area) when they have taken appropriate training.
The Federation has the mandate to manage furbearers in Ontario,be it nuisance or otherwise.
We will not sit back and watch a valuable fur resource be relegated to Junk status.

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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4015138
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I see. I look at it in terms of demographics. Some folks want top notch service, liability insurance, workers comp and are willing to pay for the protection. Other folks have nothing to protect...cant afford an ADC professional...or don't place much value on trapping the critter. I don't see any harm in fur trappers doing ADC work. However, I am not sure that folks that hire uninsured people ADC/Fur Trappers understand the risk to their personal assets. For this reason, their ought to be higher standards if you are doing work for someone.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: ] #4015198
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Wow, what ignorance. first noone starts out doing ADC work and is so called top notch. There is a learning curve in every aspect of work. You may think you were superior, in your own mind. Now who are you to say who can have an ADC business. Last I heard this is a free enterprise country. Granted there is a few on here that are Top of our field of work. You have the years and years of experience. As for customers, it is up to them to look into each and every contractors license and insurances and any and all qualifications. We all are trappers of some sort. Lets all get along.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4015243
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I think you misunderstand. I was describing trappers that get an adc license to fur trap out of season. I assumed that they do not carry proper insurance to protect a customer. Why would a fur trapper need it???. I do not have a problem with free enterprise. A person could provide top notch service on day one....as they may hire an experienced fur trapper or adc tech right out of the gate.

My post was not to belittle anyone.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4015266
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Dave, the problem was that I had some very unflattering and fortunately somewhat comical things happen lately with customers and what I am guessing are fur trappers trying to make an extra buck.

Being from an entirely fur trapping background myself, I just couldn't see hanging dirty laundry in front of people like HSUS that monitor these sites for the sole purpose of stealing money from unsuspecting donors using lies and half-truths.

I thought that this post would just whither away and die so I'm happy to see a kind of worthwhile discussion come of it. As a fur trapper, I would not have been real happy with other fur trappers taking over some of my best trapping spots so perhaps some of the fur trappers can relate to taking away some ADC guy's livelihood.

P.S. The truth ( although I hate to admit it ) is that the fur trapper can learn a lot more from us, than we can from them. ( Well think about it. The only guys on here are successful. That means they figured out how to catch that last one, not leave it for seed )

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4015282
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Fur trappers are sure a sensitive bunch. But, I understand why it is so. Let me put it this way....

Fur trappers are like an artist. ADC guys are like a painting company. A person may decide to hire an artist to paint their home because they has a creative talent that was developed over many years. However, the artist doesn't carry workers compensation insurance because he normally works for himself...painting masterpieces. If he get's hurt on a ladder....who pays for his medical? The customer. If he spills a can of paint on the floor - oops! Who pays for that? Well, I suppose he cleans it up the best he can. But, aside from the risk, that painted mural on the wall can't be beat!

A painting business is (or should be) set up with a different mindset. Generally, they are set up with liability insurance to cover injuries. They carry liability insurance to cover damages.

That said, an artist can certainly own a painting business. The difference between an artist and how a painting company approach providing a service is different. One is not better than the other. However, the way that they "think" or "operate" is different.

Anyway, think about it some.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: ] #4015306
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Dave, Iwwas not directing my rant to you at all. Thank you for your rendition of the Painter and Artist. But you are correct with it. I just recieved from 1 of the timber companies that I do work for requesting a new contract and if I agree they will need anothey year of insurance coverage and workers comp paper work. This being only my second year in business, it is very much a learning precess. Like I said....No one starts out the being the best...Thank you Dave...Wait, this is only my forth year trapping.


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I trapped my first critter 35 years ago for dinner with my Dad. 8 years in business myself.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: trapmando] #4015422
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Originally Posted By: trapmando
Wow, what ignorance. first noone starts out doing ADC work and is so called top notch. There is a learning curve in every aspect of work. You may think you were superior, in your own mind. Now who are you to say who can have an ADC business. Last I heard this is a free enterprise country. Granted there is a few on here that are Top of our field of work. You have the years and years of experience. As for customers, it is up to them to look into each and every contractors license and insurances and any and all qualifications. We all are trappers of some sort. Lets all get along.


you said it straight i agree some guys sit back and complain that only they should be considerd as adc men to them all i can say is up yours when you divide the ranks expect the opposition to conquer same goes for ws and private guys but what do i know im just a dam govment trapper one of the guys who you all claim hides under your bed or some such nonsense
sorry bs strikes a nerve with me sometimes

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There i said it....
Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4016204
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I have noticed a lot of US (ADC) and THEM (fur trappers) type of posts on this forum.
I for one am both.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4016234
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I am still somewhat hesitant to call myself a true ADC as I am still in the process of getting established. I am definitely a fur trapper in season.

I do have a bit of an issue in the are that it seems almost all fur trappers claim to be ADC trappers to. Fur trapping techniques may or may not apply.
I was doing a skunk job a couple months ago. Got to talking to the neighbor. She had had a "guy" that did some "Summer ADC" as he described it take some Woodchucks
out from under her shed. He put Conibears in all the holes. Yes he wiped out the Groundhogs. But he also violated several laws and is extremely lucky he didn't kill one
of the cats that also live under her house and shed.

Not sure where the line is. I guess I just wish they would be a little more careful with the name ADC. Much as some "Trappers" should be called poachers and not Trapper.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4016647
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I am a fur trapper, always have been always will. Like my faith in Christ I will never apoligize for it

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4016928
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I am a fur trapper that has evolved into an ADC guy. I still trap for fur when the season comes around. I still love getting out into the woods and honing my skills. The only difference is that I get paid to catch some of my fur. I guarantee I can make more money doing ADC. Most of us started as fur trappers and we must not forget our roots.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4017075
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Guys, my biggest beef is not with fur trapping, trappers or tradition. Here in Georgia us NWCOs are lumped in as fur trappers, commercial trapping license, and offered a FREE NWCO permit, after passing a simple questionaire, so basically. NWCO in Georgia is a fur trapper with special privileges.
As a result any effort to change requirements; strengthening the testing, training in non furbearers, insurance and customer service standards; must go through the same process as amending trapping seasons or tools. Of course one can imagine how the straight fur trappers react to that.
Because we NWCOs are bound at the hip to fur trapping here we will never be allowed to stand alone as an independent industry. All the while the PCOs are acquiring the permit so that when the break is finally made it will have to follow the Florida model.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: warrior] #4017154
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I thought there would be more opposition to this crap ^ If you pass a little test isn't going to make you a better ADC man or company, or make you superior customer service. It will not help you catch a trap shy coyote or beaver either. All the companies that we work for or have contracts with require us tu have liability and workers conp insurance and some require additional insured. Those without will be weeded out and eventually gone. Maybe some are worried about losing business, but if you are that good you won't lose any. The way I look at it is ADC is another avenue of the trapping industry just like for buyers or trap supplies and sales.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4017176
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WOW! What I consider one of the dumbest posts I ever made has sure gotten responses from all over. Keep them coming. I never realized that there was such a difference of opinion.

Thank God for the Internet. I would never have known about what's going on in Georgia, Canada, Texas, or even other areas of my home state without it.

It's kind of amazing because I would say that our company has had it pretty darn easy compared to the rest of you, but there isn't hardly a post on here that I can't sympathize with.

Keep this up and I will have enough information to put together another column in WCT.

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When you cut down fur trappers while calling yourself a ADC TRAPPER then you are no different than a anti period its like a mother eating her young . ADC encompasses a lot more than just trapping .so why call yourself a trapper ? Call yourself a specialist or professional or whatever strokes your ego fact is the trapping industry surely dont need folks within its ranks that call themself trappers cutting the rest off at the knee .there are criminals or law breakers in all parts of society but that shouldnt mean they are all criminals .

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3273, that's exactly why I use the term NWCO and avoid using any form of the word trapper. What I do is so far removed from fur trapping that I deserve my own separate license.


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I would be very surprised to find more than just a relative handful of WCOs who aren't fur trappers or haven't been in the past. Fur trapping is where this business started.

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Maybe it started there but I for one have never sold a pelt in my life. I also think you would be surprised that I am far from being alone in that. In my years training NWCOs for another company I can not recall a single tech that came to us with fur trapping experience. Some had trapped as biology students in college or as PCOs some had members of the family that had but none had sold a pelt either.
Even within the entire company there was only a single fur trapper in the lot, one of the two owners the other owner was a pco entomologist.

This pattern is being repeated all across the industry with founders and owners being the only link to the fur trapping past. Even less so on the guys coming to the industry from the pco ranks.

I would dare say you would be hard pressed to find your average nwco technician that has any actual fur trapping experience in the mainline outfits in this state. Heck most of them weren't even born yet when the last bomb ended.


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Something can be learned from both groups and drawing a line in the sand does nothing but drive a wedge between us. We need to working with each other rather than against each other.

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I'm not sure I know of a wco around here who hasn't fur trapped. Demographics I would guess. I don't get to see the big city operations.

If you catch an animal during fur season, are you allowed to keep it?

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Originally Posted By: sgs
Demographics I would guess. I don't get to see the big city operations.


Geography too!

I am pretty sure if I never relocated to Florida in my high school years and stayed in Michigan I probably would.

But I never sold a pelt in my life either but this is Florida - no demand.


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warrior has hit the nail on the head. I am the only one in the nearly twenty people that comprise our company and our largest competitor's company that ever trapped for fur.

I feel the same way that most of the franchises feel when it comes to hiring help: It's a lot easier to teach a salesman to trap than it is to teach a trapper how to sell.

Hiring someone with trapping experience around here is difficult. If we get someone who hunts, we feel fortunate. I don't know of any confrontations between ADC guys and fur trappers in this part of Wisconsin and I haven't heard of any real complaints from the rest of the state either. And yes sqs, we can all keep any hides caught during the open season because we all need fur trapping licenses to operate. ( But we don't keep any and we especially relocate fur bearers during the season so our fur trapper and coon hunting friends can get a crack at them )

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I may be wrong but,if you drive a truck for a living,you are a truck driver. If you work on roofs for a living, you are a roofer. If you butcher pigs for a living, you are a butcher. If you catch critters in a TRAP for a living, you are a TRAPPER. You caan call it what you want to, but your still a TRAPPER. Period


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What if you exclude bats, apply pesticide, install chimney caps, cull deer, pick up road kill, install bird barrier, clean out attics, install insulation, repair homes....

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Remove honeybees and stinging insects, search for snakes, consult for habitat modification, haze geese and vultures, rescue injured and orphaned wildlife. When I do set traps I target more non furbearers like squirrels, chipmunks, armadillos and cats than I do furbearers.

Trapper I may be but fur trapper I ain't.


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In business never leave money laying on the table !! Most of the WCOS I know consider themselves problem solvers more then trappers.


You would be a trapper if all you did is trap, trap, ,trap then you would be a trapper. Selling your furs and meat and living off the land and grid. Few of us left in North America fit my definition.

You need a few more skills other then trapping to survive in the business world of today.

Most WCO's would starve if they just offered trapping as their one and only skill.

Most ADC guys and WCO's get it that the offending animal may make the phone ring
but its all the additional services you need to offer to keep the doors open.


I concur 100% with WARRIOR and DAVEK

Originally Posted By: warrior
Remove honeybees and stinging insects, search for snakes, consult for habitat modification, haze geese and vultures, rescue injured and orphaned wildlife. When I do set traps I target more non furbearers like squirrels, chipmunks, armadillos and cats than I do furbearers.

Trapper I may be but fur trapper I ain't.


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What if you exclude bats, apply pesticide, install chimney caps, cull deer, pick up road kill, install bird barrier, clean out attics, install insulation, repair homes....


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We also provide psychological support to our clients so we have to add that to our list of duties.

How many fruit cake cases do you run into thru the course of a year.Paranoia and phobias to name a couple that some folks have issues with. We get lots of practice here putting folks at ease and educating them to what is real and fictional.

Some are an on going shrink session. smile You almost need psychiatric schooling to deal with some of these people.

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My money's still on the majority having been involved with fur. But I guess we all see things through the lens of our own experience. smile

There's certainly nothing wrong in being a WCO and not a fur trapper. I just think it's a minority in the business.

Every business requires a combination of skills and talents to be successful. Dealing with customers can be the most challenging part of any job. Even fur trappers have to deal with the home owners, public, buyers, etc. wink

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I have sold thousands of furs over the years and still sell several hundred each spring and done thousands of ADC jobs over the years also. I guess you could say I am a blend of old school and new school all in one.

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Okay, enough on who and what we are. I think the point has been made. Can anyone see the main beef I have with being forced to obtain a commercial fur trapping license to do what I do when actual regulated furbearers probably comprise less than ten percent of my business activities. Not that I am opposed to licensing and regulation (actually I am but that's more philosophical at this point) what I bristle at is if I want to use a better tool (collarum) it must first pass the muster of other licensees (fur trappers) who will never experience what I do or think they know something about wehat I really do. Nor are we able in this state to require any type of training in the non furbearers that are our bread and butter to obtain the free permit. To cut to the chase bats are being killed right left and center in this state by the untrained but fully licensed NWCOs.


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I agree 1,000% David. We don't have what you have there, though we do have a permit that we are required to carry for protected furbearer species if we are going to capture, handle, relocate or euthanize (as law permits). To be told I have to carry a trappers license would indeed put me in a category with fur trappers and though I was once a fur trapper, I do nothing remotely related these days.

The govt. agencies that manage fish and wildlife state wise in some states are well educated on this issue and in others it seems folks just want to lump it and call it "nuisance trapping" when as displayed in this thread there are folks all over this continuum and though some do mainly "trap" others do only a small element of trapping or a portion, rather than mainline.

In terms of marketing and being a business, in some states folks might instantly think I need a trapper when they have a wildlife problem, whereas in others hearing you run a wildlife control business might not bring "trapper" to mind.

To each his own, but to the regulations and differentiation end of things I'm in the boat where I call myself a wildlife management and consulting company and if I listed what I do, you'd not see trapper present in my current business model. I have a few hundred traps of various types that cover the spread in my "warehouse" but the closest I come to "trapper" is urban coyote issues and usually that involves more community meetings and education and site visits than it does actual paying clients who need control or removal.

I don't mind saying I'm in favor of training, I'm in favor of standards, I'm in favor of a professional image for the industry (not talking about your uniform or lack of) and I'm in favor of states requiring a bit of license and permit to show you are a professional.

I know that rubs many people the wrong way as its seen as big brother telling you what to do, or you don't need some piece of paper to tell you how to do the job, or what are they going to do with my fees I pay thats worth my dime, etc...

I'm in the other camp and will remain there, so many industries have codes, plumbers, electricians, construction, etc.... it helps provide some guidelines and to me that is the basis of a good solid presence in this country.

I too have seen a ridiculous amount of bad acts in the last 3 years since launching this company and though I won't put them here for folks to use against this industry as bad examples, they are folks who admitted to clients they really didn't know what they were doing in some cases and in others they flat out lied until called out on it after things went south.....

We all know it happens, why then do so many fight against getting folks some training and help just as folks try to do on this forum when someone new asks questions about how to best live trap a woodchuck, or evict flyers, or bats, etc....

Training should not be a scary word.... And standards should not be either, as I've said before, you had to take a test to hunt and trap in every state I've lived in, why then should an industry not have to do so to work with wildlife?

Justin

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I carry a builders license...but does that mean that I am a builder? The license is for the activity performed....not what you are.

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It's nice to see the fur Boom is back . This new market looks endless at this point . I've talked to WI guys pulled a 118.00 ave on there coon sent up to Nafa after last feb world record fur sale . Seen IL coyote guy caught early season ave close to hundred bucks . We pulled almost 17 dollar ave on muskrats at are local Clare sale . It's hard to say how high it will go this year but experts are all saying its looking better yet . Fur trapping is a trade just ADC work is a trade .
I think most most ADC guys are fur trappers . Is ADC trapping some times but a lot of the time people are looking for a fix to the problem and will hire the guy with the fix even if it cost more . House sales are up good news for the ADC guy with the fix . Be happy people times are getting better for both trades you both are a limited breed of people and the demand for both trades is growing . Peace brother


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Once again I am downright shocked at this post. We just had Justin, Kugler, and Pesky, all respond in the last three posts and all of them are absolutely on target. The only thing I have to add is that if you looked at the success rate of full time ADC companies, I think you would be amazed at how few fur trappers make up the people in those companies. I am seriously wondering if even 10% of the people involved full time in this business ever sold a hide? ( On the bright side, this has a WCT story written all over it. )

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Paul did you expect this subject to stir as much poop as it did? And just for the record I set my first trap in '68, 1968, and yes I've sold dried fur with my first going to F.C. Taylor. I still skin out my beaver but that's it and sell in the grease. I don't fur trap anymore.

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Salys, it just stands to reason that super-cool people like you and I just had to be fur trappers! ( I know I'm old but I still wouldn't have thought that 1868 was the right answer ) Now that you mention it; how many of you sold your very first pelts to Sears and Roebuck?

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Not pelts but I did buy some of my first bee keeping equipment and a gun from Sears and Roebuck.


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Guns and ammo from Sears for sure not to mention Herter's. And a little tid bit when I worked in San Diego the father of the guy I worked with was a fur buyer for F.C.Taylor around 1910 and had the Alaska route, he had some cool pictures.

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So Paul, Just curious. Was there much ADC work involving Dinosaurs? Would imagine they could raise havoc with a garden.

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The only thing I have to add is that if you looked at the success rate of full time ADC companies, I think you would be amazed at how few fur trappers make up the people in those companies. I am seriously wondering if even 10% of the people involved full time in this business ever sold a hide?


Full time/Part time. In my area, most wcos are part time. There's a lot of licenses out there and most do it on a part time basis. Don't count out the part timers.

It's probably true that the inner city guys would be less involved with fur but what about everyone else?

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Originally Posted By: ADCofWMt
So Paul, Just curious. Was there much ADC work involving Dinosaurs? Would imagine they could raise havoc with a garden.

Paul was so good at what he does he was the cause of their extinction.

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So Paul, Just curious. Was there much ADC work involving Dinosaurs? Would imagine they could raise havoc with a garden.

Paul was so good at what he does he was the cause of their extinction.


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ADC, since you're a Montanain, you might know the name Edward Hebbe III. He's a Deer Lodge resident and one of my best friends. He could fill you in on some of the older dinosaurs, since he's a few years older than me.

sgs, like you said earlier, has to do with location, I guess. The only part time ADC guy that I know, works for us.

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Paul,
I have run into Mr. Hebbe a few times. He taught at my trappers education course a few years ago. He is a good friend of my fur trapping partner/teacher.
He is one of the few good old trappers that are left. Not one of these Yuppy trappers we seem to have a lot of now. If memory serves right he has a nickname
"The drive by trapper".


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I do some ADC work in addition to my Insect Pest Control work. I end my PC work in October. November starts Fur trapping. So I guess I do both. I started trapping pocket gophers for the heck of it. Two weeks later I got paid $5 to catch a pocket gopher at my neighbors house. That was 1974. In 2004 I started my own business doing PC and ADC. I started Fur trapping in 1976 and proud to say I'm still doing it today.

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I'm pretty much in step with Robb, DaveK and Wink.
The way I see it is that WCO's are somewhere between PCO's and fur guys. We do a type of pest control - in all its variations - but, like fur trappers, lean heavily on knowledge of the quarry and its control, much more so than do PCO's. My impression is that PCO's rely heavily on chemical solutions rather than knowledge of the animal being controlled.

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Originally Posted By: Paul Winkelmann
The only thing I have to add is that if you looked at the success rate of full time ADC companies, I think you would be amazed at how few fur trappers make up the people in those companies. I am seriously wondering if even 10% of the people involved full time in this business ever sold a hide? ( On the bright side, this has a WCT story written all over it. )


Based on the conclusion you have drawn what does this mean to you? Fur trappers are not successful as ADC guys?

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Our biggest problem here in NC is ADC guys masquerading as fur trappers. Here the wildlife commission has a list of fur trappers that is open to the public.
The public calls a licensed legit ADC company to do beaver work, don't like our prices and then calls "Earl" on the list of recreational trappers..he offers to do it at half our prices, just to make a quick buck. Happens all the time here. To me its kind of like a guy selling fresh fish out of the back of a pickup truck...without a commercial fishing license... AND he's getting free referrals from the gov. fisheries department.

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Aaron Curtis, I didn't understand the question. Are you asking if fur trappers are successful at ADC work? Well I certainly was and nearly all the guys who started 25 or more years ago were also fur trappers that made a success of ADC work. All I'm saying is that trying to find and hire a trapper with an outgoing personality is as hard to find as an honest politician.

NCbatman, we have exactly the same thing here. I imagine that this may well be why I wrote this heading in the first place.

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We just went through the separation (creating a specific license) for NWCO work here in Ohio.

It was certainly a rush job and not everything is exactly as we would have liked. Legislation was introduced by the pest control industry that we felt would not have been in the best interest of the Nuisance Wildlife Industry. We ended up working with the Ohio Pest Management Association, Ohio State Trappers Association, USDA Wildlife Services, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife.

Basically, the legislature gave us less than two weeks to work it out or they were going to pass whatever they wanted!!! Compromises were made by every party involved and we came up with a new working program.

One of the major problems with the previous "permit" was it was almost impossible to revoke. In order to remove it, if the individual were to challenge the loss of their permit in court, was that it was simply a permit. You would have to have a judge revoke an individuals consumptive use hunting and fur-taker licenses to truly take their permit. Now we have a stand alone license, testing, and a means for certification. There is a structure in place for revoking a license for violation of the law. It still doesn't mean someone is operating a legitimate business, as there are other licenses required to run a commercial enterprise in Ohio.

If you would like to see what was done in Ohio visit www.owcoa.com and follow the link to read the laws that were adopted.

Don't know if this helps. Warrior, this may be good reference material for what to do in Georgia.

BTW I am a NWCO with a consumptive use background and still try to participate in that as much as I can.


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Dirk, I've been watching Ohio with great interest. I didn't know the history of it though I knew it had some issues to still work out.
I'd like something similar here. At this point when asked my prototype is a mirrored copy of what we have here in the structural pest control board. Seems like, other than costs, the simplest to get through the legislature.


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In Ontario,we dont care who does the bugs and bats but furbearerer management, whether for fur or nuisance(because fur harvest is not currently allowed in some urban areas)is the responsibility of the federation of Ontario trappers.


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Originally Posted By: Paul Winkelmann
All I'm saying is that trying to find and hire a trapper with an outgoing personality is as hard to find as an honest politician.

I think that plays a major part in the transition from fur trapper to nwco. Dealing with the customers in a business-like and friendly manner, being able to feel customers out,joke around with them and find some common ground for conversation is a big part of getting and keeping customers. They don't want a guy that just shows up, sets up his traps, spits some tobacco on the ground and tells them how he can catch any animal that walks the earth.


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Boco, as a fur trapper gone ADC, I kind of went along with Ontario's thinking. Since my son has taken over, I now realize what he is going through trying to run a full time business, especially in a northern climate.

I had read, on many occasions, about how easy it was for ADC guys to do pest control. Now being a pure animal guy myself, I had to kind of get my feet wet to see that, and yeah, after capturing raccoons, yellow jackets were fairly easy, at least for me.

Now bear in mind that our employees are really kind of interested in only one thing and it's called a paycheck. If they can catch raccoons, squirrels, spray for stinging insects and rebait mouse boxes at the same site, financially, that's as good as it gets. ( I know because I've had one of those for the last 14 years )

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Wink, next to WC, yellow jacket work is like printing money, long's you take a few basic precautions.
batman, are you saying that WCO's will take a job under the table knowing the customer doesn't want to pay the going rate?
That's despicable; like having a surgeon tell you he'll do your appendectomy in his basement for $200. It hurts everybody, including the customer.


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I started out as a fur trapper. I dealt mainly with beaver.

After getting so many calls to trap beaver for this one or that one I realized that I couldn't do it without some compensation. But, I was told that with just a trapping license I could not charge for my work. SO... I went and took the Damage Control class, paid my fee and got certified.

Now, I'm trying to run a business but keep finding that there are a LOT of trappers, with only a trapping license, who are getting the bulk of the work and charging WAY more than I do to do it!

It's funny when I think about it. Before, I was getting calls for beaver right and left. Now that I'm a "certified" professional, I'm chasing squirrels and bats and the fur trappers are still getting all the beaver jobs.

Just don't seem fair somehow.


Muddawg
Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4036400
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Muddawg, if you are anything like me, there will come a time when you can catch several hundred dollars worth of squirrels a whole lot easier and faster than several hundred dollars worth of beaver. I do appreciate the complete change of atmosphere however.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4036447
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Quote:
I do appreciate the complete change of atmosphere however.


Amen to that.

Wackin' squirrels gets old quick for me. I really appreciate the handful of beaver jobs I get. Wish I could get more.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Dave Schmidt] #4038904
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Originally Posted By: Dave Schmidt
Wink, next to WC, yellow jacket work is like printing money, long's you take a few basic precautions.
batman, are you saying that WCO's will take a job under the table knowing the customer doesn't want to pay the going rate?
That's despicable; like having a surgeon tell you he'll do your appendectomy in his basement for $200. It hurts everybody, including the customer.


Its happening all the time here in NC....mainly because the Wildlife Commission has their system set up to refer the public to the "non charging" fur trappers..who actually do charge for the work.
I'm not a fur trapper nor am I a coyote/beaver/muskrat/nutria trapper...I deal with the "in your house critters"...so I don't have much of a dog in this fight. But I do hear my peers complaining.

Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4038941
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I am looking forward to being a ADC guy masquerading as a fur trapper this fall.

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NCbatman,

You may know,... Did the laws change after I got my certification or have I been misinformed? The understanding I had when I went into this was that I could NOT trap beaver out of season OR charge for my work without being certified.

But I know a lot of trappers doing it and year round.


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I think a lot of us got into this field from fur. I know I did. I was playing with depredation work in 79, y real desire was to be a long liner. when the fur crash came in the early 80's my sights changed. and squirrels soon became my target critter. ( with the help of my wife and some little ones grabbing my legs) I can remember being at a wct in the 90's with Mike Page Fred Stine and I believe Bob Jameson was as also in the group. and some one saying that we was the new professional trappers.

With the economy the way it is, the last few years, the good trapper or even not so good trapper are jumping on board. along the animal lovers trying to save the baby polyesters, now add in the landscapers, roofers (#1compatistion in my area and has NO idea) pest control, town animal control and deer hunters trying to gain land for the big boys.(I call them groundhog wonder boys) LOL (they know there are groundhogs there but wonder how to take care of them) LOL

In the big picture for me here in NJ, I don't worry about the trapper taking a few coon in the winter. heck I keep them to! that is when jobs come in, My coon calls start when the fur is not prime anymore for the most part, other areas may be different. The farmer is not going to pay to have the coon, coyote or fox taken, and the trapper is not going to trap too much there in the off season, as they are only cutting their own throat. So I am not losing there. so the trapper is not hurting me. who is hurting me Bad, more than anyone else is the landscapers and the roofers, they do wildlife control as a side to get the big job. Yet know nothing about laws or the animal Nor could care less about knowing law or the animal. Lawn care do mole and ground hogs to get the long term landscaping, Roofers do the bang and chase thing on squirrels, coon and Bats to get the re-roof and soffits jobs. Ever see a roof not to a complete roof ad soffit job in June because of baby bats? they get the call first, The average person in my area Urban and suburban areas has no concept of wildlife. they don't even think about wildlife control, they call the business that deals with the spot. IE roof line or attic Roofer, Hole in the yard Landscaper. The only people that have common sense to the wildlife problem call wildlife control is the poor people and they don't want to Pay LOL Here in NJ we have no Lic to do wildlife just a permit. those of you that have the lic, the only people you are stopping from doing wildlife are the people that want to do it only or charge for the service. the real problem people are the ones that do wildlife as a no charge to get the bigger job. look at how many roofers and lawn care services you have in your areas, and see how many of them do wildlife. the people doing it and not seen as doing it are the real problems.


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Re: Fur Trappers Masquerading As ADC Guys? [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4039810
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Don't hate me Jonesie but not only do our roofers and landscapers recommend us but they also use us at their place of business.

This happened last week; One of our more expensive landscapers bought a good sized parcel of land next to one of my better customers. They bulldozed it and building should start any day now. I told my wife that we should contact them and let them know we can help them and their customers.

At this point my wife told me that they have been our customer for years and if I wouldn't spend so much time on the stupid computer talking to you guys I would probably already know this. ( Consider me chastised )

P.S. It just occurred to me that I have already worked as both a landscaper and a roofer. Apparently these are two professions I want to forget. I also drove a beer truck. Now there's one I can't even remember. Try drinking beer at ten in the morning; you won't remember anything either!

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