spanj Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 I charge people £1000 a day to fly a remote control helicopter with a camera strapped to it.... If we spend more than an hour in the air, I'll feel that we've had a hard day. £300 a day for a professional services company, even six years ago, is cheap. tough life eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) tough life eh In all honesty, it is. After taking costs out and trying to recoup all the money I've thrown into the business and to keep it going, I'm not exactly rolling in it. That's why £300 seems a very decent deal to me, once the costs are factored in. Don't let day rates fool you. Edited February 18, 2015 by Billy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanj Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) In all honesty, it is. After taking costs out and trying to recoup all the money I've thrown into the business and to keep it going, I'm not exactly rolling in it. That's why £300 seems a very decent deal to me, once the costs are factored in. Don't let day rates fool you. Am not fooled by it in the slightest, I do understand that businesses have overheads. I was questioning the value for money. How many pigeons do you think it would be possible for one man to shoot in 6 hrs ? Reckon I'd be far of at a cost of about £6 per bird shot ? Oh and sorry to Werty for hijacking his thread Edited February 18, 2015 by spanj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Am not fooled by it in the slightest, I do understand that businesses have overheads. I was questioning the value for money. How many pigeons do you think it would be possible for one man to shoot in 6 hrs ? Reckon I'd be far of at a cost of about £6 per bird shot ? Oh and sorry to Werty for hijacking his thread You're paying £6 a bird to get a professional company in, who have experience in pest control within risky or dangerous environments. They will hold insurance to cover for that type of shooting and the chap who comes to shoot it will probably have done the job a thousand times before. Very much like my industry, you either pay the big bucks and get a professional in, who is certified, holds a licence, has the best insurance available and undertakes all the risk assessments... Or you go for a cheap company, who have no idea what they're doing and usually end up in the news for some sort of stupid, avoidable mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo90 Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 I have recently passed the british pest control association/royal society of public health level 2 in pest control. Pest controllers also have to pay for the vermin destroying and must produce a waste transfer note, they can't just dump the pigeons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I have recently passed the british pest control association/royal society of public health level 2 in pest control. Pest controllers also have to pay for the vermin destroying and must produce a waste transfer note, they can't just dump the pigeons. What's the going rate for disposal of pigeons? I'm trying to tally everything up to work out what change is left out of £300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo90 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I don't know exactly but it involves disposing of them like clinical waste and you have to drive to the approved waste place (so time and diesel to add on) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo90 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 My very experienced pester friend told me this.......... £40 callout and then £2.40 per kilo of waste........so you have to call them to the site, which is 40 quid and then 2.40 a kilo of pest...... How much does a fox weigh? 10-15 kilos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo90 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I meant 10-15 lbs...... Don't know what that is in kilos, 3-4 ? I think 5 pigeons make about a kilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanj Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I don't know exactly but it involves disposing of them like clinical waste and you have to drive to the approved waste place (so time and diesel to add on) I think this may be a bit like builders and the 'special' asbestos skip charge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 How come you haven't got an outlet for the pigeons more money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo90 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 As I said I have only recently passed the exam, so my pest control experience is limited, I do have a friend who is very experienced and he was telling me about the waste........ He works for a big pest control company, and he ferrets and uses lurchers as well for sport, sometimes he has to use his ferrets and dogs for work reasons, any rabbits he catches for sport he can sell or eat or feed to his dogs, depending on where he catches them for work they mostly too have to be incinerated......as often big clients have insurances and other financial reasons for insisting on a "waste transfer note" to evidence they have been killed and disposed of, he recently sent around 200 rabbits to be incinerated, and that was at a 40 quid call out and 2:40 a kilo which was added to the bill.......same with all pests taken I could have sold those rabbits at two quid each as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingo15 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I think this may be a bit like builders and the 'special' asbestos skip charge black bin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanj Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 black bin? or a lay by ............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Or even a magot farm one farm i shoot on he gets the local magot farm to pick up the dead poults off the chickens he has 6 massive sheds he brings on the chicks to a certain age then they get moved on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalmac Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 A company such as the big 'R' (I used to work for as a surveyor by the way) will charge per hour per man, and on an average rate of around the £60 mark an hour at that. But then a company that size has huge overheads as well, offices in each area - company cars and vans, phones, prep (bait and other sundries) as well as a lot of other things... Locally, most jobs involving airguns needed 2 technicians and a lot of paperwork haha. I even managed to shoot a squirrel in a 24hour tesco's in Braintree once - they had to get a special HQ sanction to shut the store for an hour... nothing like a bit of pressure. FYI the standard issue airgun for a technician was usually a BSA Springer which weren't great or looked after by the tech's very much at all. With waste, there was a LOT of policy on this in that company, involving using different coloured bags for different types of waste and subject to team leaders checks and it would all be compiled at a local area office until theres a nice bunch of it and then they take it all to a special centre where it gets sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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