I’ve gotten a few messages this week from people who are having trouble with raccoons getting into their chickens… wanted to know if I could come and catch them. They said I could keep the fur …
They didn’t like my response when I told them that a 60 mile round trip for free for 2-3 days wasn’t in my best interest. They could not comprehend that spring raccoon have absolutely zero fur value, and I absolutely cannot loan ANY traps. Learned my lesson when stuff could not find its way back home or was destroyed.
Especially quality live traps. Still don’t know how one of my heavy duty cage traps got bent up like a pretzel..it looks like it was dropped from a 10 story building and landed on the end and smashed it.. looks like a car in a head on collision.

Trucks, tractors and tall grass claim a lot of cage traps.

Good for you....No good deed goes unpunished....

Yep-we trappers should always work for free. Or better yet--at a loss, ask the callers if they will drive to your place and donate their time and money to you,
Tom

How dare you not go out of your way to help someone? Wear and tear on your vehicle and put yourself at risk and use your expertise and bait for nothing. You must not care about animals or people at all.

God I could spit…..

Point them to the nearest store that sells cage traps if it’s so important to them.

Yep, and if you help them once for free they think it's a lifetime deal.

Ive had people who denied me trapping their place in season when fur had value, have the nerve to ask me for some ADC help. They were either awful forgetful or just plain ignorant...Mmmkay I will get right on it.

If they don’t have a coon proof chicken pen, then trapping the coon that are killing chickens is a short term fix anyway.

Even racoons in prime fur condition are not worth the time to catch and put up.

Keith

Yeah people wanna act like they’re doing YOU a favor. Come get my crap for nothin

I’ve run into this scenario with trees a few hundred times. Someone will ask me to come fall, or worse yet climb a tree they want gone, and they’ll say I can keep the wood…that’s a hard pass from me, I have more firewood than I need, and a huge collection of burls and other oddities, I can assure them I don’t want their crappy green useless wood, and I charge $500 a stump if there’s climbing gear involved.

lol ya The you can have the wood mentality. Yes I burn it but my time, experience and equipment cost well...

I always love the as cheap as possible people and they want a drop and leave when I price a tree removal. Then they call back a week or two later and think I'm going to come and clean it up for the same price I bid for the complete removal and hall off. They get upset when I tell them it will be 2 to 3 time more than what they saved wanting a drop and leave. If I'm in the mood I explain it to them as to why.

1 I have to come back requiring mor unproductive road time and expenses.
2. When I bid it to hall off I would have removed all the brush before dropping the logs on top of it making the logs hard to move and get getting through the limbs and not being able to pull out the limbs from under the logs so now it is 3 time as much work moving that mess.( most of my work was residential and could not be droped whole so ended up in a small area in a pile if not moved as it hit the ground.)

Not worth it to pay your time and expenses let them buy chickens

Naw, it went to the junkyard,,, I was able to get a 2002 Chevy Silverado 1500 for a good deal.
The only problem with it was the blasted warning ding ding ding from the anti lock brake module that was bad. With some help from the guys here and a little bit of digging around,,, I was able to get it disconnected.

Half of loaned live traps will never be returned. And that’s with folks you know. I learned the hard way.

I had 17 cage traps l built myself stolen by my Sons shop teacher. Turned in to the cops but of course no action was taken.

Yep...my Son was kind enough to ask the city if he could trap the creek running through town. He wouldn't have even had to ask. They told him no, then called him when beaver were eating the trees in the city park. No. You said no.

Tell them they can come mow your lawn and keep the dog crap