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RPF

Any companies on Van Island looking for an experienced forester/checker for their planting projects for the 2024 spring or fall seasons? I have over 30 years silviculture experience and have recently retired from the industry. I do, however, miss the work and thought I would like to go back on a sho...

RPF

I think we need to go back a few decades to the root cause of this predicament we currently see the industry. I remember in the early 1970's, my dad was working for a major logging company in northern BC and he told me during planting season, the company would hire tree planters directly and pay the...

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It's been 7 years since this topic came up for discussion and I just wanted to do a follow-up. I'm curious if proper hygiene (hand washing in particular) on the planting block has improved over the last couple seasons due to Covid? If so, is it because of health concerns, or have companies provided ...

RPF

Found this informational site posted on the web:

http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/disease ... ickRemoval

RPF

Are these guys still in business?

RPF

Just curious what, if any, effect the WFP strike on Vancouver Island is having on planting contracts this season?

RPF

Best planting company I have had the pleasure to work with. Great owners and better planters!

RPF

The USW article and jdtesluk's response are both bang-on. However, the one thing that no one is saying out loud in public and needs to be considered is simply one word - GREED. Corporate greed to be precise. When appurtenancy was part of the policy, before it was formally done away with by the BC Li...

RPF

I agree. The article is well written. However, many of the comments are obviously written by people who have absolutely no clue about the forest industry. It seems those trolls (or whatever these types of people are referred to on social media) are s*^* disturbers with nothing better to do with thei...

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Currently, most alder on the market is incidental to conifer harvesting. Unless there is a ready market for the species, it is often left at roadside as "waste". And that's the rub against managing for alder from a logging company perspective. A limited market and a relatively higher cost ...

RPF

As a seasoned Forester/checker (over 30 years experience) I would recommend planting trees for at least a week - just to get a taste of how challenging tree planting can be. Until you immerse yourself in the actual job, it's tough to understand the job fully. It will give you a better appreciation o...

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The way I see it, bid prices will only go up in order to discourage the lackadaisical attitude that the previous poster is predicting. On a broader scale, in my mind, it's ridiculous to think an increase in the minimum wage will solve the issue of being working poor. All this will do is result in pr...

RPF

Hmm, Sounds like an election coming soon

RPF

I've been working in the planting industry for over 30 years (several seasons as a tree planter and more recently as a licensee checker). In those 30+ years I have never witnessed or heard of anyone being sexually harassed.

RPF

Everyone knows that marijuana use among individuals who plant trees for a living is part of the culture. But it's use is not limited to tree planters. Many loggers, fallers, and other forestry workers, also use the drug on a regular basis. Even the brass at Intefor know this. I think the intent of t...

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dunno where else to post this, but have been thinking on something I heard in the woods this spring, from a recent Forestry graduate: apparently drones will soon be used to carry LIDAR, and this will make it possible to cruise Timber without even putting boots-on-the-ground at all. so I wonder how ...

RPF

I have a question regarding illegal labourers and how a company is responsible for renumerating someone they have knowingly employed illegally (who had no work visa). A friend of mine was working for a pretty shady company in Ontario without a visa. At the end of the season, they routed his pay to ...

RPF

I'm definitely not a fan of leaving boxes on site like that. All that does is encourage others who see this mess that it's ok to dump other forms of "garbage" in the woods.

RPF

We could go back to the days when the NDP were in power where they basically paralysed the industry with strict "cookie cutter" approaches to forest management, OR we could collectively appeal to the Association of BC Forest Professionals to more stringently enforce their main code of ethi...

RPF

They make great fire starter for burning slash piles. If we are going to burn slash piles anyway, why not use these wax covered boxes to help ignite them. I would suggest flattening and storing the boxes where they can be quickly retrieved for burning season. It's much cheaper than using other forms...

RPF

Too bad the photos couldn't come through, but I think we all get the point. I'm curious about the context of this post. Is the original post suggesting that the entire block was planted poorly, or just an individual section? If it was the entire block, I would suggest that there is a serious issue w...

RPF

Hoorah! After a long wait, the rain has finally come.
It looks like we will start planting trees within a week or two.

RPF

We could store them until spring, however, if we have a "normal" winter with tons of snow, most of the areas we've scheduled for planting this fall will be snow covered until late May or June. We use to plant well into June many years ago, but we started noticing that many of the late spri...

RPF

Considering the unusual and extremely dry conditions this spring/summer (in BC), I'm just wondering what folks think about planting later this summer/fall?
Has anyone planted during similar conditions in the past and how was seedling survival?

RPF

"... Other speculation is that the seedling was considered free-growing and had fallen into that management no-mans land where stewardship practices are sometimes said to be, well, uneven."

Funny, but oh so true! That alone is a whole new thread conversation.

RPF

Any idea which nursery that box came from?

PRT last spring was placing a "Heavy" label (in bright red) on boxes that were heavier than normal (>50 lbs if I remember correctly).

RPF

Hmm, Sounds similar to BCTS. (Khairia anyone?) And don't think for a minute that stuff like this is still not happening in BC and other places in Canada. The difference now is that government is getting better at "hiding" this information from the general public. http://www.straight.com/ne...

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I am confident that the numbers are wrong. I am unsure if this is a matter of bad data collection or faulty interpretation of the data. However, it is incorrect beyond a shadow of a doubt. Production this low would bring the industry to a screeching halt pretty damned fast. Companies simply could n...

RPF

I just read the article online and found a couple of interesting quotes: "During a typical pay period, 68 per cent of fieldworkers reported earnings that translate to less than minimum wage. About 10 per cent said they earned between $20 and $26 an hour." "Even during their best pay p...

RPF

How was this event?

RPF

Listening to CBC Radio's early news from Victoria this morning they announced that between 10 and 11 am yesterday (May 20 - during the Guiness Record one hour contest period) that 28 planters put in 7,125 trees with a few individuals pounding in 400+ in that hour. Sorry I don't recall the company's ...

RPF

Anything, as long as desert is fresh rhubarb pie.

RPF

I will be holding auditions next month for a new primetime Crime Drama called "Stashbusters". Follow our impeccably dressed team as they travel to exotic locations, and use the power of statistics combined with poorly represented physical and social sciences to solve crimes on the clearcu...

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In my experience it's quite common for stashers to carry on... Only one of four stashers I've known personally were fired. I've never heard of anyone being charged for their criminal conduct. If you, or anyone else is really concerned about stashers getting away with this practice, perhaps you shou...

RPF

Does the steelworkers union actually plant any trees? In strong union camps, yes they will. They will either "force" contractors to join the union, or force the licencee to hire laid off loggers if that's the only job available when guys are not working their regular jobs. It's not common...

RPF

Just a few corrections to Scooters last post: As of June 15, 2013 the Steelworkers union rate for tree planters was $26.71/hr. They had a 2% wage increase in 2014 making that rate about $27.41/hr (plus benefits). The spacing and pruning rates were based on a BC government program through Forest Rene...

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Nice to see an RPF in here! Did you learn a lot of on the job field skills at UBC or were was it your prior experience that got you that engineering job? Definitely going to consider RPF a long term goal. And what's your opinion on the long term outlook of the industry in Western Canada? Also do yo...

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I just wanted to echo Salbrecher's comments. It depends on what you eventually want to do. My dad was a logger and I knew at an early age that I wanted a career in the industry. I was setting chokers and fighting forest fires during the summers while I was in highschool, then decided to go straight ...

RPF

Here is a link to the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of the BC Forest Professional magazine. The focus of this issue is safety and includes an interesting article by John Betts (WSCA) regarding silviculture worker safety.

http://www.abcfp.ca/publications_forms/ ... l2Post.pdf

RPF

I've been thinking about this subject today. I wonder how helpful it would be if BCTS (and maybe some mills) put clauses into their contracts saying that, just as a random hypothetical example: "The successful bidder must provide proof of training certification for a number of personnel assign...

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… The effort of licensees to grind contractors down and down and down, leaves less and less to pay for other key priorities, such as proper supervision, H&S administration and training, and funds to support the collective will to make safety a number one priority instead of a number one catchph...

RPF

I can provide some numbers for my own camp at Folklore. I went back five years and found the pre-season course organizer spreadsheet. I then blanked out all the names and replaced with their positions within the camp. Also deleted a lot of other stuff from the spreadsheet, like course locations, ti...

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... I think tree prices paid to planters can influence safety in both a negative and a positive way... On the contractor end of things, higher prices allow for more time and effort to be put in to safety. More money would allow for more and better safety training for foremen and supervisors, who co...

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... This is because the industry as a whole continues to fail to address the prices paid to workers, and collectively stampedes forward on the clearly mistaken belief that they can continue to squeeze the life out of young planters for a profit. ... I don't necessarily agree with this statement. I ...

RPF

BCTS Port McNeill PL15THD115 778,200 spring trees all with T-Bag fertilizer This contract is possibly the most complicated one I've ever seen. There are a few trees on Vancouver Island but all of the rest are spread all over the mid coast on various islands and up inlets. Access is terrible with lo...

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I got a phone call from a hunter yesterday. He was planning on heading up Jervis Inlet as he has an elk tag. He'd heard that there is a planting crew up there who had put out the word that hunters are not welcome. He wondered if it was our crew and if there might be a problem if he showed up there....

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fluffer wrote:So how do they survive? ...

Does Osprey still have their finger in the "Pay Parking Lot" enterprises? If so, perhaps they use those very easily earned $$ to subsidize their planting bids...

RPF

I wish there was an app that would emulate the BCTS FS 704 form, for checkers to punch in data in the field on a phone or tablet, and then it could just send the data through email in a spreadsheet format to any email address(es) that you specified. There is something develop by JRP Solutions calle...

RPF

...a ministry crew ... These are the guys who do the "real" work and deal with the front line fires and actually exciting situations. You're kidding me right... Don't get me started. Have you ever watch those ministry crews "work"? (notice the quotes around work). They may show ...

RPF

Nothing wrong with saying you planted trees for several summers while attending university. It's a good way to earn money to support your education, and it shows potential employers that you are not afraid of hard work. Be proud of your planting experience. I was when I put tree planting on my resum...

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