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Mr. Amazing

MegaGongshow, ie. next to no organization, mostly part days, etc. Very good tree prices however, as the Revelstoke Community Forest contract is handed to this contractor on a silver platter. Good if you: A. Live in Revelstoke & and are too baked to care, or B. Can't get on with Fireweed.

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Good read, but she spelled the cook's name wrong, like, 50 times.

Makes me question the accuracy of EVERY other ASPECT of THE BOOK.

Mr. Amazing

This is a major problem. As a former Winnipeger, I recommend cardio & weight training 4 times a week.

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Shocking how little cover was provided as Ms. Amazing and I seduced each other out there this past spring. The foliage barely broke the wind as sweet, sweet, tender love was made, FYI.

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I call bullshit. So, after paying off your plane ticket, all expenses, taxes, whatever, you 'cleared' five thousand dollars? Since you're so organized and on top of your finances, what were your total earnings? Wasn't the UK a frozen wasteland last year? How many days were you shut down by weather?

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It must have been tough to get releases for all the people in this film. Will there be blurred faces for all the people who never signed a release (if any)?

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There's a great contract out in Guiana that's run by a guy from Wildwoods this November. Bareroots, 2.5 cents, but a good planter can easily put in 10k in 12 hours. Plane tickets are pretty steep ($2500), but if you like the heat (30 C ++) you'll at least break even. Few people get to see the jungle...

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jdtesluk wrote:At least Hammie will still be guaranteed a job, greeting everyone as they come through the door.

And you'll still be employed pushing paper and writing up cute reports for whoever? Sounds like a bright future!

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Feel free to move to Canada through all the regular channels, if this is your life's wish.

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OMG, I had a typo in my post. "Viberg" is a boot manufacturer based out of Victoria, where they also have retail outlet. I believe they make the boots in question... Thanks for pointing that out Duncan! You demand, and personally deliver, only excellence in forum posts; sorry for letting y...

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You typically can't return clothing, or boots, or whatever, if it's been worn. You attempted to return used merchandise, with the expectation that they would be willing to sell second hand gear. It is lame that they got pissy, but think of all the dorky rookies who must try and return used gear! Vib...

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Sounds like a lot of spring plants are already wrapping up... Leader's show in Merritt was only 28 days.

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Substitute sodium chloride with this Half-Salt stuff:
http://www.windsorsalt.com/food_salts/h ... t.html.htm
Not too sure what a lethal dose of of potassium chloride is, so beware...

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Guhh. There are no Australian planting forums. It's not like here. It's an occasional "means-to-an-end" for marginalized Aussies and foolish backpackers. You can live and work and travel with ease in Oz, and work visas are granted within hours. It's a huge industry there (travelers doing w...

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Hmmm. I guess the moral of this story is that treeplanting wages need not pay mortgages in Ymir or Kaslo. What are the 5-year fixed-term rates like in Mali these days? Did they send in the blue helmets of the UN to diffuse the situation? We all know that Africans are incapable of managing their own ...

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What cheesy writing! Ughh. You'll be the guy at the Greyhound station in PG with a pile of ~whimsical~ gear, right?! Harp, bear sword, MacBook Air, etc.?! You MUST be working for Apex...

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This thread reminds me how dumb humans are. No wonder why the world is so wrong. so that's clear, you are saying how this thread reminds you how dumb humans are, ya, obviously clear, just like the way the world is so clear, wow, btw, my venom was phrased as questions not statements, just fyi oh and...

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Here's some info that you may not have... Motel costs are covered by your employer when you are working, not you. You can get into your room on the night of May 1, or even maybe on April 30. Worst case scenario, you can squat in the woods for the days between your arrival and the start date. Here's ...

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"Comparing the average planter to a trained endurance athlete is a bit of a stretch." I couldn't agree more. Can a trained endurance athlete throw a triple-mctwist shovel toss on command to score the creamy piece, or the box of trees up for grabs your supervisor planted 'for charity?' Can...

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Sooo, 2300 times 7.5 cents per tree equals: $177 CAD. That's shit money, and everything's twice as expensive, and it's $1000+ to get there/go home. Sounds like a great way to max out your Visa Card.

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Call the place in Grande Prairie to enquire... If you're coming up from the interior of BC, Red Top Boots in Vernon has them as well.

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So who's going to talk about their experience of going to Scotland this past winter?! I can't imagine that anybody made any money, with it being -20C for 2 months. Where's this Tim guy now? Hmmm. Hopefully lurking... C'mon Tim, give us a breakdown of days worked, average wages, etc.

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We don't care.

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You're asking a bunch of treeplanters for career advice?! Sounds like the blind leading the lost to me... Krahn, you're describing an imaginary job! Growing food is the latest BIG THING (as the economy unravels). Find a way to be involved in that, and you'll be just fine...

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I learned the other day that Canadians are eligible to become H-2B workers in the USA. I did not know that. There will be a 900,000 tree (Longleaf Pine - almost always planted in sand) contract in Florida next season (December & January is tree planting time there) .... US$ 14 / hour minimum wa...

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DISREGARD FOR TIMELY PAYROLL 1. Wildwoods: paid by October (if you're lucky) 2. Osprey: virtually the same as ^above^ 3. Fireweed/Sundance: as the stars align/contractor gets cheques 4. Raven: same as ^above^ 5. Backwoods: same as ^above^ BY-THE-BOOK PAYROLL 1. Brinkman 2. A&G/S.O.S.(RIP)/Zanzi...

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I have a suspicion there are some idle treeplanters over in Scotland: Scotland's Arctic weather is likely to cause delays and problems over the weekend as forecasters predict further snowfalls. The bitterly cold weather has already disrupted train services and at least 10 Scottish Cup matches schedu...

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Priceless jdtesluk, although I'll admit my attention span blew a fuse after the first paragraph. While not a cut-block per se, the largest block I ever planted on was the Swan Hills burn block in 2000/2001, near Swan Hills :D Allegedly it was said you could see it from space, (although I've never b...

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mr amazing got served. politely. Well, I like to keep my posts somewhat erratic and sardonically irreverent. I liked the visual of the foreman hitting up his planters for gas money in the morning, not that that would happen... I just know that there are desperate tree planters out there, with bills...

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Yeah Tim, it's just a bit odd to be soliciting workers from the other side of the Atlantic. I understand you guys are just trying to get a job done, and need people who are able to do the work. There's huge interest amongst Canadians to somehow travel the world and pay for it by planting overseas. I...

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I think we need to imagine this whole "hiring-foreign-workers-to-work-in-the-place-of-locals" in a context we can imagine... ~IMAGINE~, if a Canadian treeplanting company was actively recruiting workers in Guatemala or Honduras, under the premise that Canadian workers were too grumpy, or a...

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Unfortunately perfect doesn't happen all that often. I love how this contract is presented in this "If The Blessed Stars Align Juuuuust Right, this, this, and this will happen!!!" fashion. Joy! OK, so last year, you guys got shut down for 7 weeks?! That's the better part of 2 months, BTW....

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Barfing my guts out in the heat in Port Alberni for Brinkman et al... Not really planting in my mind, just annoying, sweaty, trudging (for beer money). Good food and people though!

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OK, aren't the campy costies like, $33 at NGR?! Fuck that shit. "Ohhhh, there's lamb AND lobster tonight?!!" Boring.

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We're not at die off yet. We still need to consume all the oil, water, natural resources before this happens. Die-off is happening right now, but it's only in certain areas, much in the same way oil and gas is in decline in certain areas. There's this expectation amongst people that there will be t...

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JD, I think you might be talking about the legendary Vanessa at SOS. She has a real depth of knock-yer-sox-off dishes... The former power duo of Kaeli and Amy at Wildwoods were pretty top notch, and a peer of theirs, Kira, is amazing as well... I'd say that Liete(is that spelled right?) from Malcolm...

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I think the "nukey apocalypse" vision of the coming die-off is a bit too simplistic, glamourous, and sexy, thus unlikely... I see why people want to envision it though. It's cute, and seems to tie up the third act of industrialized overshoot with a gory "money shot" that makes la...

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I'd say the tide has turned against these cheesy little contractors with shallow pockets and BIG DREAMS. Fuck off, and stop bidding on shit if you have anything LESS than a $100 000 line of credit, and be sure to keep your shit square with CRA (et al)... I'm reading between the lines here, but did B...

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I'd say you're screwed... If you try and stir things up with employment standards, the company you worked for will close rank and cover their asses. If you have the hours, maybe try applying for EI, and try and concoct some story to explain your firing. It's a long shot, though.

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This is a bit unrelated, but fuck it, this whole thread is unrelated...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDbGqJ2KYk

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Hammy, check Ben's facebook postings! Way better work available till May 10...

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http://princegeorge.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-SUVs-trucks-vans-FOR-SALE-W0QQAdIdZ115507195 That bad boy ^^^ has "lemon" written all over it, so if you want to be the COOLEST guy in camp, think: http://princegeorge.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-Lincoln-1989-LINCON-TOWN-CAR-SMOKIN-DEAL-REDU...

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I don't think I saw this posted, but there's a Valhalla Pure store in GP as well... You can stock up on $100 Icebreaker merino wool t-shirts!

http://info.vpo.ca/index.php?fid=stores ... 17&start=0

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So somehow the Usufruct highballer's spidey senses detected Usufruct being shit talked on a Canadian treeplanting site?! How odd... Who are you to question what I'm posting?! What exactly prompted yours?!

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Wow. You internet tree planting nerds really are a strange breed. Ok fuck it. I didn't want to answer your stupid questions because that would be lame but I'll tell ya. I'm from Toronto around Yongue and Eglinton area. I've planted for 3 seasons with PRT Frontier around the Dryden ON area. A double...

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I wouldn't normally do this, but I felt it was necessary to explain the experience I had with USUFRUCT. I worked with the company for about 2 months with a break in between the two. The first week was brutal because I wasn't used to the depth that the tree's had to be nor had I ever used the trays....

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Yeah, Johnny Cash, you're pretty clearly not who you said you were. Those weird questions were awkwardly posed and about odd subjects. Nobody refers to the province of Ontario or Alberta with the word "Province" added for supposed clarity, which you could've easily pointed out (if you WERE...

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A Ford Taurus Mr Amazing!? You have an evil sense of humour my friend! I think the commonality/availability of Taurus parts is not a bad thing! For that price, it may have been floating around the lower 9th ward of New Orleans though... You're right about Escorts being Mazdas. Late '80s/early '90s ...

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1. Getting insurance in BC is as easy as pie. Auto insurance is a "public" system (vs AB which is private) so the rates are on the low end of the spectrum. When you buy the vehicle from another party, it's best for the 2 of you to go to an Autoplan dealer to transfer the ownership and plat...

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