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Duncan

Regardless of your opinion on the job, we seldom (if ever) get this level of information directly from contractors. It shows a few things, including the risks and pressures facing the contractor, as well as a level of openness that other contractors could take notes from. totally agreed, and I beli...

Duncan

zilla wrote:it just took awhile.

by law you should be paid every two weeks

Duncan

Thanks for the warning McD. Perhaps you know something I don't but when we viewed that job, it was 96% mounded or trenched. Last time I checked screefing mounds was out of fashion. I agree though that it is a very ceompetetive bid that may have to be subsidized. If Brinkman ever dropped that BCTS A...

Duncan

Ben Mac wrote:bag up your trees as soon as you get back to the cache,

always...

Duncan

Haven't been on this site for a few months so I'm not sure if someone has posted something about this, but I stop running crews for this exact reason. One of my former employers pulled this whole bonus scheme out days before the season and I knew it was illegal. I've also met many planters who have ...

Duncan

Not that its news or anything, but here is another example of the BC Liberal formula when an embarrassing story hits the public, just tell them "the system is working"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... ml?ref=rss

Duncan

Harris announced the review at the annual meeting of the Western Silviculture Contractors' Association held February 4 in Kelowna. Association executive director John Betts said, “The B.C. silviculture industry welcomes this investigation. We hope it will produce a comprehensive and impartial revie...

Duncan

RPF wrote:I think it's about time that Mr. Bell get to the root cause of this situation and do something meaningful to prevent this from happening again.

Uh

Duncan

At our camp we brought our own dishes and washed them ourselves. So I'm talking about washing the cook's pots and pans. Giving the cook a $25 budget sounds like a good system though. Does the cook bag you up at the cache? Rub your feet after work? Probably not, there are two words that best describ...

Duncan

Scooter wrote:Thank goodness I don't have to interview rookies anymore. Otherwise, I'd play this for them at the start of the interview.

You should still send it to any rookies coming out, just to make sure, I would

Duncan

The video reminds me of interviewing potential treeplanters....

Duncan

http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Alberta+needs+dramatic+gesture+oilsands+report/3287257/story.html "In a recently released report designed to spur debate on Alberta's future, the premier's council for economic strategy suggests the public needs to see measurable improvements in how energy ...

Duncan

Perhaps they honestly are not aware that far more trees than that are planted each year and think they're doing something substantive? Are you being serious? Perhaps they are not aware, haha, really, are you being serious? I'm sure there more than aware of how little $$$ it is when put beside the P...

Duncan

These guys are stoked to receive your feedback, check it out: "Thank you taking the time to send your views on the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' advertisements. We appreciate all feedback - positive and negative - for obvious reasons. Our research indicated people are interested ...

Duncan

These guys have a link: http://www.capp.ca/energySupply/peopleWorkforce/Pages/Garrett-Brown.aspx#acy6t6inVnW3 I heard the 2009 season was huge 30,000 trees Garrett Brown has 13 years of experience of ? (not sure what of) but his motto is: "I work for a company that values doing the right thing....

Duncan

I have worked in the logging industry for a long time, what this tells me is that there will be less trees planted, tree's harvested only fill up 500-800 stems a hectre, so no more 1400-1800 stems per hectre. large forestry firms who do almost all of the cutting are excluded from the legislation. N...

Duncan

butbutbutbut What a coincidence that every gas station in town has the same price. If planting contractors had as much money as oil companies it would be legal to fix bids. It's all about the money. If you got it, you get to make the rules. if you don't got it you don't get it. Get it? hmm, gas bid...

Duncan

Thanks for pointing that out Duncan! You demand, and personally deliver, only excellence in forum posts; sorry for letting you down. you should be sorry, pointing out spelling errors and punctuation mistakes only sidetrack the simple fact that one has not much point to their post so they have to ad...

Duncan

ya, its easy to take some of posts here the wrong way, it is after all not a very personal way of communication most of my posts, even the really bad ones are not meant in any other way that than to poke fun at people using the same tactics they employ... or i am actually making fun of myself as for...

Duncan

Obvious conclusion Duncsy: Politicians are corrupt and incompetent. YOU are the ONLY person with integrity and competence. You should run. Afterall, the only way of changing the system is from within (not by bitching on the replant.ca forum...surprise surprise). Look forward to your rant rationaliz...

Duncan

i've looked into this legislation a bit more.

It is mostly for housing developments and other industries that cut down trees that are now being forced to replace those trees. Of course, the large forestry firms who do almost all of the cutting are excluded from the legislation. Surprise surprise.

Duncan

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! Vi...

Duncan

Anyhow through this website I have seen a lot of concern and some good effort put in trying to raise awareness of the mountain pine beetle and what is happening in the woods where a lot of y'all are. My question is this ... I thought the ever increasing beetle infestations were a symptom of global ...

Duncan

Anyone know what source (other than Tchida) the claim that 3-6 million ha of beetle kill trees will not regenerate naturally comes from? I'm skeptical of this. I heard a rumor that the Central Interior Logging Association is one source willing to make that claim, I'm sure there will be others to fo...

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Disasters are great for documentaries

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Dogmusher wrote:Oh !!!hamsterizzzer!!! , I love reading you , it's so sweet. I wonder what I would do if you weren't there to be so funny !

Maybe you should try getting out a bit more, or other websites:
http://www.plentyoffish.com/

Duncan

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-people-as-moral-economists/article1559432/ "First, the people, through their governments, are told to bail out banks by taking over their toxic assets to save the world. Then the bankers, who just this week declared huge profits, turn and tell go...

Duncan

Cato=the ideal Republican not sure I follow how I am incorrect, high taxes are in itself a major reason why one would evade taxes, seems pretty straight forward but I guess the need is to elaborate where no one trusts the government enough to bother to pay taxes There are allegedly SIX millionaires ...

Duncan

Richianity wrote:I look forward to a hilarious rant on evil right-wing economics!

U-S-A

nuff said

oh and Greece is a corrupt state formerly under a military dictatorship (70s) where no one trusts the government enough to bother to pay taxes

and the birthplace of democracy

Duncan

FYI the ad campaign was geared to people staying in hotels in Canada during the olympics. I think most host nations have had similar campaigns. Exactly why it was a colossal waste of money, maybe it's just me, but when I travel or attend a major event I spend little to zero time watching TV in my h...

Duncan

But of course your anecdotal evidence is the gospel, and the trees you've checked are representational of the entire province for the last 20 years... please make some sense, or is yer anecdotal evidence your gospel, but you could probably say that useless statement about anything that anyone posts...

Duncan

Duncan

Here is a good link for all you disgruntled planters out there who aren't ready to be mindlessly positive like some of those lowballing coastal companies want you to be.... Being positive may not be as good as you believe... Here is a great article on how positive employees have ruined the world... ...

Duncan

rumor has it these guys are paying 13 cents on the coast with a 2 cent incentive to be paid at the end of the season. Is this even legal? Does anyone want to comment?

Duncan

Checkers don't care about the forestry company or the planting company.... They are paid per plot and the less faults they find the faster their job is. Mind you that may mean they aren't recording an accurate tree count either. They have no incentive to screw over the planting company. If you thin...

Duncan

Rumor has it that Osprey was paying 13 cents with a 2 cent bonus if you didn't quit. Is it true that planters are still unaware that these kinds of bonus systems are illegal? Anyone who didn't get the bonus can take Osprey to the LRB and they will get it. I've heard the same rumor, hopefully every ...

Duncan

Music today is so boring. Enough self-promotion, I suggest you all check out the 2009 performance of the year, at PG's dirtiest nightspot - one banged out treeplanter got up on stage and didn't steal the show, he made it.... Ruttiger Reid Live at the Generator! check out the videos, unscripted, uned...

Duncan

Mr. Amazing wrote: Here's some info that you may not have..

oh wow, you can contribute something useful to this site, congratulations you'll have ever lasting karma

Duncan

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...

Duncan

What this has to do with the forestry budget, I don't know! (and I get accused of hijacking threads). I think these types of cuts are indicative of wider problem not only is BC facing wide cuts everywhere they are also having to deal with higher taxes, and higher cost of everything in a place with ...

Duncan

This thread reminds me how dumb humans are. No wonder why the world is so wrong. Have you even planted trees before? This thread is the most important thing on this site since the batlang bombshells, which was preceded by the last time a planter died in a car accident, which was preceded by another...

Duncan

RPF wrote:another “shell” game being played by the Liberal government…

I agree

Gabe wrote: that just buy up piles of farmland and plant trees

many europeans are already doing this in BC
I hope someone can compile data of how much and then put it beside the FFT program just so we can all have a good chuckle

Duncan

What kind of sanctimonious BS is this and who is it aimed at? Racist inuendo? It seems like we're trying to shut up those that might do us some good. It's easy to criticize but few actually put their money where their mouths are. I'm for anyone who fights for planters work standards. probably someo...

Duncan

Actually they dont. They get something like 8 billion dollars which is roughly 1.1 billion for every million people. maybe you are right, but you could add some kind of actual support to that, though I guess I never did so hey, maybe I will when i have the time, but at the end of the day if I was t...

Duncan

Check out these results from more Summer FFT work up around McKenzie tendered by IFS; Contract 01 is for 352,620 trees and the winning bid is 17.57 cents Contract 2 is for 813,944 trees and the winning bid is 18.3 cents I suppose this means less than 10 cents to planters......... Apex is accepting ...

Duncan

I guess it does seem like a turn around in a way. I was reacting to some calls for crucifiction and human rights tribunals. Innocent until proven guilty? i re-read some of the other posts now, sorry to question you, but I was actually wondering if maybe somebody was giving you pressure to change yo...

Duncan

:lol: nice optical illusion, the BC Liberals are good at saying one thing then a few years down the road the story changes, last year i dug up a 2007 report that had seedlings going from 270 million in 2006 and rising for the foreseeable future by gov't projections on reforesting pine beetle devasta...

Duncan

I am very concerned that the African-Canadians working on the Powell River job will not receive fair pay for what they're doing. It is not their fault that BCTS allowed a contractor who has no business working this kind of contract to be there. We're getting a little ahead of ourselves with assumin...

Duncan

You will have to make a few mistakes before you get good at the position. Just make sure those mistakes aren't fatal. Safety first, make sure everyone has trees and land, and don't forget to have fun. It's a fun job after all the stress and bs that comes with the job ..... if you can't have fun then...

Duncan

The times aren't what they used to be. no they aren't, ive never planted a bare root, but i do remember laying down heli screefs down to mineral soil when i first started, nowadays most contracts around PG and the north want little to no ground disturbance, except the odd forester still stuck in 80...

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