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  1. Mr Muddy
    Tell you what: You’ve got to take your hat off to the people who use this forum. I recon if Rowan had asked for careers advice on any other site he’d either get ignored or have the piss taken. Here he’s got 4 pages of semi-sensible advice. :) Good luck then mate, whatever you decide.
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    Bad luck having a f*****g idiot like that working near you. I honesty recon that’s why there’s less and less wasps around: as soon as someone spots a nest a wild scrum of drop-outs with dirty white vans and duststicks rock up, offering to do the nest for £24!!! If everyone stuck to their guns and charged £50 – or what the council charge, at the very least – the people willing to pay would. The people not willing to pay £50 would harbour a nice crop of new queens. And in a couple of years time there’d be enough wasps for everyone to charge as much the Nationals. Basically, if you’r
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    Before you spend any money on a course, I’d say going to one of the big trade shows is pretty sound advice; That way you can have a look at the competition – of which there is an incredible abundance – and you’ll either think “this all looks a bit professional for me” or you’ll think “I could do better than these muppets”. I’d probably steer clear of the trade associations – they all seem a bit shit in pest control, compared with other industries – and talk straight to the suppliers.
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    Nice video – and cracking little dog! Was that a handful of bait you threw in after setting the 1st trap? What was it?
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    I’d share your opinion on this TC. In fact I was in West Wales (Skomer) a few weeks ago. I saw loads of dead Shearwaters, and they’d all been killed by gulls; you could actually see the gulls standing by the burrows, waiting for the Shearwaters to come back. None of the ecologist types there were doing bugger all about it on that island – not even shooing the gulls away. I don’t know much about this Hebrides island – maybe, on a global scale, the Shearwaters there are more important than the last of our local black rats – but, if this is just some scheme by a group of privileged do-goo
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    Had a few calls for Bumble bees myself last year. My initial reaction; ‘should hope I’m never that f*****g desperate’. But now I’ve been told, the Bumble bees I had call outs for (the big ones that look like a child would draw - black stripe, yellow stripe, black stripe, white stripe) are bees that people with orchards, glass houses, polly tunnels, etc buy-in and then let go to pollinate the crop. So these ones are feral bees, invasives even – therefore (to my mind) a fair target for a puff of ficam. Is that true or not?
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    I don’t know about that micky, I can see how it could work out well for you...... but molecatchers? I suppose, if you were a real, die-hard, glass-half-full optimist, you could say for every two moles some dopey-bollocks misses now, there will be half a dozen to catch in the autumn. But it sounds like a real f*****g long shot. I’d be much happier if the jobs just came straight in to me.
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    Good luck mate I've trapped a couple of moles to get some permission did a favour for a farmer I know Well, good luck with that iwm. And with your permission tea pot. I think where I differ, a little, from earth thrower is that I’ve no real objection with people who are ferreting or gardening ‘having a crack at the moles’ while they’re there. And, even if I did, I know there’s nothing I could, realistically, ever do to dissuade them. The thing I have a huge objection to, is the selling of molecatching courses on the pretence that there is a shortage of molecatchers and there’s
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    These 'organisations' are encouraging people with 'mole problems', to learn to do it themselves.Rather, than to pay a professional molecatcher.... Dont get me wrong,this ' type' ( who are usually not short of cash), dont want to pay,a moleman anyway.With all the 'training' available nowadays,they now have the option...........Also how 'sustainable' is it really going to be for everyone whos interested,in the long run, with the amount of people being ' churned ' out , who want to start up ? I can’t believe it doesn’t affect us. For an example; I saw a website (can’t find it again- i
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    Fair enough. But, in that case, a lot of people would probably consider that as quite a hardship. I very much doubt some of the people e’thrower is talking about –doing the Guild’s ‘earn £££s as a mole catcher’ bullshit courses- would be up for it. Especially in their retirement years.
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    Get stuck in it everyday and in the rain driving HGV hardly a hardship is it Oh yeah, get a lot of rain falling in the cab of your HGV do you mate?....you should probably look into that .
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    The only thing you can to is keep stating the simple fact ‘there is absolutely no shortage of molecatchers’ over and over again until everyone hears it. It seems there are only a couple of people peddling the ‘shortage of molecatchers’ lie. The rest of us just need to get the facts out there. Right: I’m off to catch some now; in the back-to-school traffic and the pissing rain. If you think that’s an easy, romantic way to make a living; think again!
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    Never judge. You may be surprised. Sorry moxy, you’re quite right. Morton: Give up mole catching and open a furniture store instead.
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    Mate, you’ve unwittingly made a very good point there. The bloke selling the £500 bed has presumably bought it for £250 trade, he sells it and makes an honest £250 profit. Good for him. The bloke selling the £350 bed has also presumably bought it for £250 trade. So while he might think he’s being a smart arse by massively undercutting the £500 bloke; what he’s actually doing is running around like a blue-arsed fly dealing with all the Chavs and misers, and he still has to sell twice as many beds as the £500 bloke to make his 250 quid! Morals of the story? A. massively undercutting
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    ive got 2 books if his.....and the only thing i picked up was setting barrel traps on its side...tried it once worked once and fogot about it till every time i hear his name I was given a copy of the Mole Catching, a practical guide book. Page 50 made me laugh, where he’s writing about the Arouze trap. The bloke clearly doesn’t know how to set it, yet he writes a page on it anyway!! With pictures!!! Jesus: that’s one hell an ego.
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    With a attitude like that don't think I'd ring you at all you possibly have a spare £70 laying around,at them prices it must be falling out your mattressbut it is difficult for some folks to make ends meet. Mate, you just need to do your sums: If it takes you half an hour to get there from your last job, and you’ve got to do that twice, that’s one hour. Then explaining what you’re doing to the punter and setting your traps, that’s at least another 40 mins. When you come back it’s another 20 mins digging up your traps and writing the invoice. So that’s two hours work for 70 quid.
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    70 pounds for the two, maybe three domestic visits, by a professional, needed to catch a mole is very, very, very good value. If you disagree you’re wrong. If someone doesn’t have a spare 70 quid, I feel sorry for them, but I’m a business, not a charity, so they’ve got no right phoning me in the first place.
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    Domestic jobs is it? I charge 70 for the first mole, and I think that’s pretty cheap. I certainly can’t see how you could do the job for less than that. What to you mean by ‘pick-up’ learn it, or actually get jobs?
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    Why are you after catching one, if you don’t mind me asking? Are you trying to tick off every different type of UK fish? Good luck if you are.
  20. Mr Muddy
    This is a cross between a fox and a hare; I get a few of these near me. Don’t know if you see them where you are?
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    I think voles too. Sharp sand down the holes is ment to work. Never tried it myself though.
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    Stoping Smoking

    Mr Muddy replied to baw's topic in General Talk

    I’ve done 10 years now off the fags, just went cold turkey. Well worth the effort, and good luck everyone that’s trying. Now I’m off the spirits for lent. That’s f***king hard work let me tell you. You never realise what a pisshead you are till you try and stop.
  23. Mr Muddy
    I’d agree with pretty much all of that. Another thing people don’t consider: The main prey / pest species (at least near me) are brown rats, grey squirrels and of course rabbits. All introduced species. In fact; the last time we had pine martins roaming here on the South Dows I doubt any of these species were even in England. If you really, really want to look at introducing a predator, maybe you should be looking at civets, or jackals, or something that has evolved to hunt rabbits and rats. Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? And it is ridiculous, but it still makes more sense than reint
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    I don’t suppose you know the names of the species of the voles and lemmings that have died out? I’m interested in that type of thing.
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    Apart from the bustard (&f*****g beaver) I can't think of any non predatory species being reintroduced, it boils my piss more than most things They’re doing water voles not far from me; not exactly re-introduction, but adding to the numbers like. That’s how it should be; fixing ecosystems from the bottom upwards.
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