Re: Only thing worse than hauling out beaver
[Re: warrior]
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Yesterday at 09:48 PM
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Boone Liane
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Re: Only thing worse than hauling out beaver
[Re: Bob Luderman]
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5 hours ago
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Georgia
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warrior how do you charge for that kind of recovery Not enough, lol. Time and distance. Ask as many questions as I can to determine difficulty, get photos if possible. Estimate time to do, one hour minimum, and drive time, two hour minimum, figure around 100/hr. Provide firm quote based on information given. Most jobs, just laying in yard, can be bagged and loaded in just a few minutes. But advanced decomp, deer pudding, takes longer and includes deodorizing, baking soda carpet fresh. Retrieval from fences and water more difficult.
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Re: Only thing worse than hauling out beaver
[Re: warrior]
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5 hours ago
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warrior how do you charge for that kind of recovery Not enough, lol. Time and distance. Ask as many questions as I can to determine difficulty, get photos if possible. Estimate time to do, one hour minimum, and drive time, two hour minimum, figure around 100/hr. Provide firm quote based on information given. Most jobs, just laying in yard, can be bagged and loaded in just a few minutes. But advanced decomp, deer pudding, takes longer and includes deodorizing, baking soda carpet fresh. Retrieval from fences and water more difficult. Too fancy of lingo for me. Lol
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Re: Only thing worse than hauling out beaver
[Re: warrior]
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3 hours ago
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Dan Barnhurst
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I moved too many of those critters. It was always much nicer when you could do it in one piece.
Some of the worst I dealt with was trying to find a bullet in a poached animal in advanced stages of decompostion. The ones that you could actually hear the pounds of maggots and beatles crawling in. When you pull those apart and use a metal detector finding bullet fragments and bullets the stench can be unbelievable. And it stick to your clothes and hair. One of the least favorite parts of my career for sure.
United we stand.
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Re: Only thing worse than hauling out beaver
[Re: Brian Mongeau]
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I got a call a few summers back for a dead deer. I asked how long it had been there. "Well, we've been smelling it for about two weeks." 85* every day, and with all that info, you still can't imagine what this thing looked like. It was moving. If there wasn't half a million maggots, there wasn't a one. I put disposable gloves on and grabbed ahold. Attempting to drag it to the truck. Only made it a foot, when the entire pelvis disconnected. I managed to get it into a couple construction bags and into the truck. My next stop was 30 miles away. I should have reversed my route of course. So all the way to the next stop, I can smell this foul thing. I just knew I stepped in the goo or got splattered. My reading glasses I hang on the front neck of my t-shirt, and apparently had touched them with my gloves on. The smell was inches from my nose the whole ride. I did not charge enough for that one. A hitch hauler is very useful.
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