Swampbuckster
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The Master Baiter
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Post by Swampbuckster on Feb 12, 2012 22:34:35 GMT -5
I am a wildlife control technician/exterminator and work throughout Washtenaw county. Wondering what everyone does to make money to purchase the things necessary to enjoy the great outdoors. And DH, you don't have to explain to me the details of your job. It's ok man, you can keep it to yourself. Money's money and a man has to do those things to eat.
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Post by ScoutB on Feb 12, 2012 22:49:17 GMT -5
Damn, you can earn money exterminating wildlife? Maybe I should take up duck hunting again. I'm a mechanical engineer.
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Feb 12, 2012 22:49:47 GMT -5
Resedential construction, currently going to college studying criminal justice.
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cp
Button Buck
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Post by cp on Feb 12, 2012 23:06:34 GMT -5
Uncle Sams b!tch...
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Relic
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Where's my jerky?
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Post by Relic on Feb 13, 2012 6:36:47 GMT -5
Retired....muuuhahaha
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Post by walleyechaser on Feb 13, 2012 9:35:11 GMT -5
personal trainer
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woodeye
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Backbone 2012 Greenthumb
Catch and Release Straight into the Grease!!
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Post by woodeye on Feb 13, 2012 9:39:31 GMT -5
High School Mathematics Teacher with some roofing on the side in the summer.
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cp
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Post by cp on Feb 13, 2012 9:50:05 GMT -5
High School Mathematics Teacher with some roofing on the side in the summer. Oh no no. I cant do math to save my life. Hated it in high school and still do lol. I was too busy playing tetris on my graphing calculator in class. My wifes great at it though and was in all the advanced classes. Thats why I kept her so she can do the numbers stuff for me . ;D
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andymaviglia
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Post by andymaviglia on Feb 13, 2012 10:16:11 GMT -5
Bricklayer/Stone Mason. Certified muff diver on the side
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cp
Button Buck
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Post by cp on Feb 13, 2012 11:17:35 GMT -5
Splash is an under water basket weaver. ;D
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cp
Button Buck
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Post by cp on Feb 13, 2012 11:18:58 GMT -5
I am a wildlife control technician/exterminator and work throughout Washtenaw county. SB whats the crasiest thing you ever had to wrangle?
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Post by walleyechaser on Feb 13, 2012 13:57:18 GMT -5
Splash is an under water basket weaver. ;D I thought he said he was an oiler
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Post by gbrebory on Feb 13, 2012 14:54:50 GMT -5
mexican backhoe operator for comcast..... i bury cable for them
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Swampbuckster
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Post by Swampbuckster on Feb 13, 2012 15:30:31 GMT -5
Nothing too crazy I guess. Not too many life threatening animals running around in southern Mi. Let's see. Last spring I removed a female woody from a fire place. She must have thought the chimney flue was a preferable place to lay some eggs. The best part about that one was that the customers last name was DRAKE. lol. I had to remove a mallard hen and her eggs from an atrium in the old Pfizer plant. If not, red tailed hawks would swoop in and attack the baby ducks when they were chicks. I pulled a milk snake out of a basement last week. It was maybe 15 inches long. lol. She paid an emergency service call at $299.00 and $50.00 for me to remove it. I had to noose one raccoon out from under a customers bed, it came in through her cat door. I had to noose another coon off a ladies kitchen counter. It came down here chimney. I've removed 6 bats out of a clients master bedroom and bath room over the summer. I've removed bats from toilets, tubs, curtains, light fixtures, under beds, you name it. I've evicted over a thousand bats out of a farm house in Manchester. I've captured snapping turtles out of peoples ponds, trapped muskrats out of them too. I've had to shoot a button buck that was injured from an automobile and laying in a ladies front yard. I'll never forget that job. This ladies son and daughter (looked to be around 6 to 8) were watching in awe outta the living room window and the deer was about 20 feet in front of it. I fired a .22 round to his head and the deer just started doing a death kick. Mud and blood just started spraying everywhere. lol. Oh the looks on those kid's faces. lol. Bald faced hornet hives can get pretty exciting. I've never used a bee suit on them yet. Been stung 3 times in four years in the field. Those are just a few that stand out in my mind. This time of year we are trapping a lot of pregnant female coons looking for places to have their young. It's skunk breeding season so we are getting a ton of skunk calls. And there is always your average mouse poisoning/sealing jobs along with the bat exclusion jobs. Different times of the year we are busy with different species of animals. This is our slow time but spring to late summer I am 60 to 70 hour weeks. It's too much like work most the time. A lot of ladder and roof work. And yep, we do carcass removals so those can get pretty entertaining under trailers or in crawl spaces when the animals been laying dead for 2 weeks when it's 90 outside.
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woodeye
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Post by woodeye on Feb 13, 2012 17:01:11 GMT -5
Gotta love games on graphing calcs CP. I always enjoyed drug wars on mine in high school, but I played that in chemistry. What is the pay for muff diving Andy, might have to take it up! LOL
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