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TheHamsterizer

You misunderstood my post- What you do when you don't get the tree price for the land you've planted at the end of the day, is low ball your own numbers, and add them on the next day. This is even more effective when a whole crew is in on it. The boss looks at the numbers for the day, and thinks 'wo...

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scotiabank is telling me to buy something? It must be a great deal, I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to sell me something great to make me money. CIBC told me to buy gold right before it started tanking, like the day before. When a bank is trying to push something on you, you have to think: Wh...

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I'm fairly certain that the price is supposed to be relayed to the planters before the commencement of planting... Also pretty sure that it's part of some policy somewhere...Anyone care to chime in as to where this legislation may be? I don't remember where though, I also realize sometimes this doe...

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have never needed to acquire a separate waistband, nor ever broken a buckle, as the buckle is a metal loop-through design: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vXLU-60rL._SL500_AA300_.jpg I buy straight from the manufacturer in Oregon, Terra Tech. Newest models have side pouches for raincoat/wat...

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Here's some logistics for you... If you have a really bad block, you make everyone in camp do the same amount of days in it. That's what a good, fair company does. It's way easier when you know that everyone is in the same boat. Or you just pay the appropriate price for the tougher land, and everyo...

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This isn't policy of throwing newbies in the shit, it's logistics. Put new people in where help is needed. Period. Period all you want, but we were thrown into shit for 8 days in a block that could have been finished much quicker with help from the rest of the camp, or have people switched out for ...

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It's so obvious why these reviews are so all over the place. You have the faithful NGR planters who have great things to say about them, and you have the random hires from the mid season who don't. I've been the random hire before at NGR, and the random hires never get much of a chance to make money...

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I just watched Dragons Dens season 7 episode 3 (http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/Dragons%27+Den/ID/2286425816/) and Bruce Croxon (Lava life founder) claims to have planted just shy of 3,000,000 trees. Assuming it was in Ontario at an average of 3000/day it would take 10 years at 100 day seasons...

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I didn't notice any benefits to using wood in that article, other than 'there's shitloads of it'. You can lead a horse to water... 1) "Not only can the panels be made from BKP, hiding the worst-stained wood, they are actually robust, rigid and fire-resistant enough to replace the pre-fabricate...

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How do you apply in person to an email address?

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What a wiener indeed... If this dude didn't spend so much time and effort defending the stealing of content, he could write his own content.

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Scooter wrote:Add pasta strainer to the list of useful stuff.

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

TheHamsterizer

We are truly running out of things to talk about here...

There should be a management subforum where the pencil pushers can discuss the joys of the paper trail.

TheHamsterizer

We are currently planting in Port Alberni and Sayward. We'll be starting in Powell River next week. There have been delays in many places on the Island due to fire hazard and high temperatures. We have mostly been on fire hours. Lukwa and Brinkman are also currently planting out of Sayward. I'd ima...

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People care because planting jobs depends on the state of the forestry industry. The forest industry depends on people buying and using wood. If initiatives such as Wood First Act (http://www.jti.gov.bc.ca/woodfirst/), which also promotes the use of wood in other countries buildings, lead to greater...

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I have about three shifts of August planting in leases, but I'm not hiring, even within the rest of the company, who are basically all done, or about to be. Actually reducing my camp to two 6-packs, which is a bitch, decision-wise, given the overall quality of my guys. I saw a lot of Brinkman activ...

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Good old newforest... Don't give him a reason to pipe up, and he finds one anyways. Seriously, people... Who. Fucking. Cares. edit: lots of metals have been used with great success to build tall buildings. Look up... well, most of the world. People care because planting jobs depends on the state of...

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Given what's happened recently with all the cuts to environmental programs, I wouldn't put it past him. I'm sure the mills would be glad, are any of them really thinking 40 years ahead anymore? Wow, this statement shows a complete and utter lack of understanding of how not only the forest industry ...

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it's sad that the anti-Harper leftist tripe has infested this board........ suffice it to say that PM Harper is the FEDERAL leader of this country while forestry and it's related activities are controlled by the individual PROVINCIAL governments by law as proscribed by the the Constitution of Canad...

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Given what's happened recently with all the cuts to environmental programs, I wouldn't put it past him. I'm sure the mills would be glad, are any of them really thinking 40 years ahead anymore?

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Okay, I may be "outting" myself(and others,but it was 11 yrs ago) here but it was a long time ago. As well as being a bit of a long story. I had a girl who had to take the train from Ontario to Kamloops because Voyageur wouldn't transport her cat. So I picked her up in Kamloops and brough...

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Chapter II: Planting Trees 1. Silvi Tzu said: In the operations of planting, where there are in the field a dozen Ford 350s, as many quads, and forty scraggly hippies, with provisions enough to plant 100,000 trees, the expenditure in camp and at the block, including block treats and such small item...

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This thread is way off topic now, but since it's about me it's cool. mwainright is right, everything here is trash talk, just a bunch of words flying around on the internet. Evergreen might be being sarcastic about how much he likes me, or not. I can't really tell, and I don't really care. Either op...

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I think everyone in this thread is guilty of not making much sense. The poll was kind of vague anyways, but I think it was supposed to mean 'better' prices, not 'higher'.

TheHamsterizer

My average planted tree price went from 10.9 cents to 14.3 cents (thus far; I suspect it will be closer to 14 after the summer work). Number of trees in the ground stays the same, despite marginally more difficult land; better planter, better motivated. I'm pretty sure you missed the point of the p...

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if they last a few days and leave it's fifty or a hundred bucks out of pocket and we're a small company.[/quote] Offset that with the profit that your company makes from its good planters... Do you get benefits from your company making profits? No. Should you be responsible for any money it loses? N...

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As far as the legal implications, BC has a clause in the labour acts that deems a new employee under probation for their first three months. During that time, the company can apparently terminate without cause. Legally, tree-planters are pretty much always under the "You're fired because I fee...

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photocopy wrote:Not planting, but I saw some coned trees on the side of the highway the other day.... Also google earthed a block I planted and it was looking pretty good but no street view yet.

What an amazing story!

TheHamsterizer

Good old newforest... Don't give him a reason to pipe up, and he finds one anyways. Seriously, people... Who. Fucking. Cares.

edit: lots of metals have been used with great success to build tall buildings. Look up... well, most of the world.

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retrovertigo wrote:Fuckin' awesome work as always Flearzilla!

Hamster, you really need your own planting forum, one where only you can post and only you can mod, and anger and surliness is the flavour of every day.

You mean like a blog?

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Once again Hamsterizer must be posting while under the influence because if not bent by drugs and/or alcohol then why continue living such a miserable existence full of negativity and bias? I love the video and it just adds to a great body of work. You've definitely got to have geat bodies of work ...

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Rage post deleted. Damn you, booze. Keep up the good work.

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zilla wrote:you ask scooter and the KKRF will provide. Hot off the press:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMlQ-dT0fc

Lame. Wrong forum too.

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I saw this notice hanging in a logging camp:

http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/ ... guage.html

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I suspect people have their lives to live, rather than herd people like cows into stalls and tell them not to say that in this area but over there. You're telling me snowed-out treeplanters are really busy? Of course some of the usual suspects have chimed in and said how much they prefer it this wa...

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Scooter wrote:Bringing thread "jacking" to a new level ...

Actually, tree planter porn came up as a conversation in the crew truck on the way to the block yesterday. Although we decided that almost nobody would want to watch it.

I know you guys are doing this on purpose!

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Nate wrote:Based upon how unrealistic his expectations of forums are, I'd say Hammy himself is offering random input about something he doesn't understand. I'm okay with that though.

I knew someone was going to say something to this effect, and I had a feeling it would be you...

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all of the things mr hamsterizer pointed are in fact true, but why is all that so bad? if you sit around a planting camp and listen to the things that come out of planters mouths, you will notice very little of it is relevant to anything at all. why should it be any different on the internet? Becau...

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give random input about things they obviously know nothing about. How unexpected to find random input in a forum called "Gossip, Rumours, and Random Thoughts "! What part of the forum name do you not understand? Perhaps Scooter should create a forum for you called "Non-Random Pertine...

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Although it's not a really busy forum as far as forums go, it's still hard to find any real pertinent information on it when every thread either becomes a discussion of something other than the original topic, or a flame war between people. Another problem is that some people just like to see their ...

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I used to sharpen my shovel every day when I was planting in the swamp, it really does make a difference, especially with a light shovel. Just make sure you only apply the file to the inside of the blade(if that makes any sense), and give it a good steep angle. It was stay sharper longer that way.

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It's really great that you guys have come to an agreement. It's important that every thread on this forum spirals into something completely unrelated. It looks like this crew was filled a couple of days ago, but how do you guys feel about Palestine?

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I was watching some of the WSCA video’s from this year I and I got thinking about this idea of a safety certificate for tree planters. In forest fire fighting they have this one time, easy safety cert called the S100, with an annual online re-cert. It’s one of the reasons why their labor standards ...

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It depends, if they are thick, though leather like vibergs or viking caulks you can use mink oil on them. Spread it on and use a hair dryer to get it to soak in. Make sure the boots are clean first! If they're hiking boots mink oil is supposed to be bad for them, it will soften the leather too much ...

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Here are the rumours I've heard from around the Island in the past 24 hours. All unsubstantiated, of course: - Evergreen has missed a couple days in Campbell River on one crew, but for the most part has been working since the start of March. They have three other crews which have also experienced s...

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But yeah, there's nothing like an army of hi-vis coming over the rise at a planter to strike terror into a person's heart. Zombie apocalypse. I'd WAY rather see a scene like the above picture instead of the salty old checker walking briskly along the back of my piece, scanning all the trees around ...

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I kind of find the idea of a triple pouch load of plugs a little strange and a little much for a person to have on their back. In the picture I posted, that is a pretty ambitious load, probably 1K pine bare-roots. I try to require the use of the shoulder straps (and most importantly, the connecting...

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the orange and black bars I posted first are ideal for tap-root species...you slide the tap down the blade into the slit, in-line with your boots, so you can see what the tip of the tap is doing. excellent quality results that way. (bare-roots for us of course). but that bar works real, real good f...

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For what it's worth, I think spaghetti is the ultimate in terms of price, calories, and nutritional value. Not some crappy tomato sauce on noodles though. Lots of beef, and as many different vegetables as you can find on whole wheat noodles. I make a big pot and nuke some leftovers whenever I don't ...

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Good topic. This is something that I have been thinking about alot lately. How important is it to have a foreman who can keep your spirits up? Just curious. This will be my first year as a foreman and right now it is the only thing that I am worried about, I am not sure if I will be able to pull th...

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