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Yes both videos were from High Level. Mystery Creamer was from around season 5 or 6 and the other was from season 8 I think. Can't say how much I was planting, lost my tally book long ago.

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I had a fairly green treeplanter get in touch with me asking for advice and tips on planting fast. I thought I would share the email I wrote back to share my thoughts after 10 seasons and 3 million trees planted, officially retired now. Excerpt of original email: Simon, I am hoping that you might co...

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He's looking pleased with the work.

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I planted a couple of coconut trees today, thought I'd share.

https://youtu.be/DHUXZ4l_9QQ

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So many things that the 2 last posters wrote that are misleading and do not tell the entire story. I worked the entire contract. We were given the option of every 2 weeks for pay or to wait until the end of contract for full payment(as it was a 6 week contract & advances were given when asked) ...

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From the sounds of people's averages it sounds like things got a lot better in earning potential after I left. Unfortunately I have learned to not trust a contractor's promises of better land ahead. I still stand by the fact that I was making more money at Coast Range, Torrent, and Folklore working ...

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Thanks for the backup Scooter. My username makes me readily identifiable and I don't feel the need to hide much. I'd prefer not to be hired onto a contract that sets the bar so low. The goal of employment standards is to set a level playing field where compliant companies (e.g. Scooter's camp) aren'...

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Just a quick note to add, we were staying in some cabins with no water or electricity (separate bath/shower house). It becomes murky because you may be charged the cost of the motel even if it exceeds $25. I'm not sure if cabins count as a motel so... The closest grocery store would have been about ...

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Big Sky seems to have had some good things going for it in the past. Tree prices have flatlined or declined recently, and the distance to drive to the blocks seems to be getting further and further. It's a laid back atmosphere, but that also seems to invite a lot of cutting corners. The camp costs w...

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I wouldn't oppose to it but the post was supposed to focus more on the complaint process. Maybe I'll put a stay away warning in the company thread. That being said there were some planters who seemed fine with the whole situation, I definitely wasn't the only one who decided to quit though. *Update*...

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I thought I should share some information on what the complaint process is like with BC Employment Standards to familiarize anyone thinking of filing a complaint against an employer. If you would like to file a complaint please reference the BC Employment Standards website for what you need to do. T...

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To debunk an idea is a considerable claim. I just can't say I've been blown away, with due respect to the work having already been done. One purpose of not answering a question, is to force participants to present new ideas, so others may learn, so I may learn, be enlightened and perhaps view the p...

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A few pitfalls are already apparent. sghyselincks. I will not do the work but will enjoy our combined thoughts... Lets start to build a model that will be more robust, that may be useable for further inspection and consideration. True, you did not do the work to support your claims. Sort of, but yo...

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I'm not savvy with computer modelling but I would like to see some different scenarios examined. I was thinking that you could perhaps get an output of the percent probability of achieving a particular density plot for a given layout (triangles, squares, rectangles). I think this is the sort of dist...

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I think that a solution to the problem is to use 5.64m plot cords for pay plots, while the 3.99m cords can be used by planters and foreman for their own reference since they are faster to use. I remember doing a hectare plant job once where the poor guy across the road from me got sent back to bump ...

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I decided to make a demonstration of why "perfect density" using a 3.99m length plot cord for typical planting densities is not mathematically possible. In the example I use of density 1400 stems/hectare, the plots can vary between 4 and 9, with the target being 7. This means that when thr...

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Here's a video of planting some of the hoe plowed land with WW. The three types of land planted are rips (giant trenches), hoe plow (3-5 tree lines scattered through the land), and direct (unscarified). Contract minimum is 1.2m, 1600 stems/ha-- (no those aren't double plants). https://www.youtube.c...

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The Rev wrote:... and the reason(s) they lost the contract are - (?)

To be left to mystery out of respect for all parties involved.

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Efficiency matters when you are working with fly-in camps and 80% heli-blocks. Those are some expensive rides to and from the block. The reasons behind the loss of contract has nothing to do with tree quality or the planters really.

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A fast planter can plant 1000+ in an hour in good trenches in BC. I've seen it done, with perfect quality.

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I was using Cucamanga all natural bug repellent this winter for five months in the Amazon. The mosquitoes we're just as bad as the worst of them out planting. I found that it worked quite effectively but needed to be reapplied after about two hours. Most of my coworkers have used the stuff planting ...

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Wildwoods still has one camp going this season, although reduced to 24 planters from the usual 36.

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Can you imagine what a future archaeologist is going to think when they dig up one of those stoves?

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Tolko, La Crete, and Ainsworth are the mills in High Level. Their reforestation operations are all headed by the Tolko mill. They had 20 million trees to plant this year divided between Summit, Shakti, Wildwoods, and Little Red. I heard that Shakti had 2 million of those and that the majority were i...

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Avenza is pure gold for planning your day of foremanning. You can use it to cut day-piece sizes to suit the different production averages of planters on the crew. You then have a rough idea of how man trees need to be delivered to caches (in actual practice the amount will vary a bit due to residual...

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Here's a video of planting some of the hoe plowed land with WW. The three types of land planted are rips (giant trenches), hoe plow (3-5 tree lines scattered through the land), and direct (unscarified). Contract minimum is 1.2m, 1600 stems/ha-- (no those aren't double plants). https://www.youtube.co...

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What a wonderful idea. I can picture adding these tracks to your mp3 player and occupying the better part of a day/shift/season composing lyrics as you plant along.

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It was an enjoyable film to watch. With any story there are multiple angles to view it from, it appears Jason chose to highlight some of the more difficult aspects of the work in order to create a source of conflict in the film. There's scenes of people losing their minds out on the block for exampl...

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I planted about two bag ups on Pond 1 before promptly quitting. The tree price paid by Outland was 14 cents. Suncor contracted the project to a middle-man company who then contracted it to Outland who then hired me. Judging by the sheer amount of management positions, and their salaries being paid b...

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The poor bear probably just wants to cuddle but doesn't realize how sharp its claws are.

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Try to get on in Grande Prairie if you go with Outland. Although it's an okay place to get your foot in the door on the industry make sure to keep your eyes open for any other work opportunities. There are certainly other companies out there that treat their employees far better and pay higher wages...

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La Foret des Dindes. I guess they can be a good place for collecting the last bit of your EI hours but aside from that steer clear. You can expect low tree prices and some unforgivably gonging days. Last time I worked there the supervisor had a meeting with the camp where he yelled at everyone for n...

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That's a bummer Snap, I'm not a fan of the old bait n' switch trick either.

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I'll make sure to get a video next year.

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I know a planter who uses a staff who had a lot of 7k+ days this last season. He's worked out a technique that can match fast planting with a D-handle. I don't think that a staff handle is necessarily better in creamy land, but it can definitely keep up with a d-handle. Wish I had a video to share.

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I have two shovels: A 10" D-handle with the grip layer removed (smaller grip on it). It has a Workwizer kickerless 8.5" blade that has been cut down to 7" and thinned in a taper from the top to bottom of the blade. The 7" blades aren't thick enough to handle hitting rocks and the...

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Quebec has a season that runs through until the end of September if you can speak french. I'm not sure if I could handle planting 8 cent furrows anymore, but camp costs are regulated at $10 a day and they have to provide non-tenting accommodation.

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Probably an error in reporting. Maybe he was hitting his 2 millionth tree career total that season.

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I think that a 15 minute walk in is only 15 minutes of lost planting time. At least where I work, we always finish work at 6pm for ground access, whether it's a 5 minute or 1.5 hour access route. So you lose only the planting time in the morning end of things. The extra access time in the evening co...

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If it makes you feel any better, the person that you met probably made planting sound much more lucrative and enjoyable than the reality. A cold beer on a warm beach while travelling can make all of the epic cold rain day memories slip away when recounting stories from the previous season. We plante...

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- Outland
- La Foret des Dindes
- Irving
- Khaira
- Charity

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I bought a set of 4-baggers to use in fast land with a mono-culture prescription. They are effective for distributing weight, and you can also bag up more trees if you need to bang off a deep piece. I don't think that their merits are exclusively for multi-species work. The only drawback that I've n...

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Try the ol' windmill, or as some call it-- the rock star. Your body pools blood into its core as a protective measure when temperatures get cold. To counter this effect loosen up your shoulder and spin your arm in a circle between the sky and ground like rock star. The centrifugal force will push wa...

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From what I've been told in forestry lectures at UBC, China is pretty heavily invested in tree plantations. They actually have completely stopped cutting any forest and import all of their wood. They import more wood than they can consume as a country and then export wood products that have been pro...

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I prefer "treeplanting" when talking about the silviculture activity that we all do and "tree planting" to describe planting a tree in other contexts, so as to distinguish between the two.

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Speaking of Christmas tree farming, there are two UBC Forestry graduates in Vancouver who started a tree-rental business. They deliver and collect potted Christmas trees for a fee and then reuse them the next year. They also have been renting out ornamental trees for special occasions such as weddin...

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UBC has an excellent free resource for current students as well as the general public offering free introductory lectures on a wide variety of different contemporary forestry topics. If you have ever been curious about forestry beyond planting I highly recommend checking out the page. Most of the le...

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According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from ...

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Have you ever wondered who creamed out your road? Maybe it wasn't somebody from your crew. Mystery Creamer strikes again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83jvYITzmk

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I got into the whole grinding business last season because the blade I got seemed almost too thick. The actual blade seems somewhat indestructible, but treat a shovel like a shovel. I put sideways stress on the blade using it as a club to break off some tree branches from a log and it broke above th...

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