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The_Bearslayer

They're the best large company who works in Quesnel (IE better than Coast Range, Summit, Apex and Blue Collar, who all run rookie-heavy crews in the area and pay shit prices) and mediocre by any other standard.

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Looking inside the supervisor tent to find an open charger at night can be like searching for street parking before a Canucks game. Fugettaboutit. Radios come with charging bases. One radio, one base. Ten radios, ten bases. Put each radio into a base and they'll charge. Unneeded chatter can also be...

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Here’s an ad for planters as I see one looking in the future. Under the old system the all-in price would have been 20 cents. However in light of Scooter and Aaron’s enlightening discourse we’ve decided to post so as not to incur any potential future legal action. Stat and vacation pay is just the ...

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You can protect yourself from wasps, and to a lesser extent from ticks as well, by wearing one-piece cotton coveralls and tucking the legs into your boots and the cuffs into your gloves. They are most often available in high-vis or blue, but you can get white ones pretty easily. That's neat, I'll h...

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You can protect yourself from wasps, and to a lesser extent from ticks as well, by wearing one-piece cotton coveralls and tucking the legs into your boots and the cuffs into your gloves. They are most often available in high-vis or blue, but you can get white ones pretty easily. When I had my set I ...

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I know a guy who bought a basic still and started making his own. It smelled fantastic and it worked. He ordered various ingredients online and extracted their oils as hydrosols. I can't remember what most of them were. The most important active ingredient was catnip, which doesn't have much oil in ...

The_Bearslayer

Rather than a space blanket, get one of those window shade reflector things from Canadian Tire. They're reflective and won't rip.

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Go to a cobbler, and then only if you really like the boots. Having boots caulked is about 120 bucks, which isn't much less than a pair of blue Vikings, which are light, have lots of caulks and will last a season. I used to audition some expensive new footwear system every season or two, including e...

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I read the book about Albert Johnson, one of those Canadiana "True Stories of Adventure" or whatever books that they have on lazy-susan style displays in tourist information centres. According to it, they didn't find any food on him after he was shot -- just amphetamines. Edit: Online sour...

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The PBS documentaries Swampdonkey mentions, which are available on Youtube, are probably the best source of information for most of us on how the disaster happened, what condition the reactor was in when it happened and what condition it is in now. I tried to read some of the longer, more technical ...

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Also they get high centred constantly, and they're slow and drink gas.

The_Bearslayer

I worked with Argos about ten years ago. We had a mechanical engineer in camp and he spent most of his time when he wasn't planting maintaining them.

The_Bearslayer

If the trees are frozen going in, they're either going to be frozen or sodden coming out. Probably frozen. I've only seen snow caches in remote spring camps in northern Alberta, where trees can be trucked in in the winter but only flown in at other times of the year. The expense they were trying to ...

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All planters should be taught to plant ambidextrously as rookies. It would do more for the long-term health of planters than all the other expensive, useless safety shit going on these days. I have all kinds of musculoskeletal problems due to one-side planting and they can't really be fixed. Any roo...

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Well put. ^^ I'm really disappointed in you, "well put" is just a joke. My point was that rookies are exploited and should be aware of it. Fuck it, my son put several days of over 250$ a day at the end of the season. But rookie should know it how at the end of season he or she would finan...

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Fluffer must be some kind of joker. I love his story and it sounds like PR job from planting company. Hey vets, just tell me sincerely how much you make and after how many years, please, and compare it to Fluffer post. And you Fluffer lucky guy, why you lie to all those kids? I had several 250$-plu...

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Almost all August work is in Alberta, almost all Alberta planting is shit, but I've never had any trouble getting a job there when I needed the money. Call NGR, Brinkman and Little Smoky and one of them will probably give you a job over the phone. The ground will probably be rooty grassmat shit for ...

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I was hanging out a few days ago with a good friend who planted for Osprey in the Charlottes a few years ago. According to him the stashing on the contract was coordinated by the forester and supervisor together. In order to keep the logging camp open for planters a certain number of blocks had to b...

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Hmm I recall a few years ago asking AssSpray to get paid as I had been waiting almost two months. Greg Witt responded eventually by telling me I would not be welcome back. I wasn't asking to work for your third world impoverished excuse of a company. Just want to GET PAID Greg. What a concept. Gett...

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here is another email between a concerned local planter (one of stephan's guys) and one of the foresters at Taan: Dear Mr. Oike, Thank you for your note. On-island employment is an essential part of Taan’s operations. There is a very large misunderstanding on-island right now in regards to Taan’s 2...

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By all accounts - man I didn't know you did a whole individual census of what planters think of EVERGREEN! Waste of time. have you worked for them? I started my career with them & they always had a core group of high baller returning planters. I have had my best career days of working for them ...

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By all accounts Evergreen is usually a waste of time on the coast and usually quite good in the interior. Companies that focus on the coast -- Sitka, Timberline, Bivouac, etc -- tend to do a better job generating income for their employees for some reason.

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I've planted with several people who have run crews there. It's one of the worst companies in Canada but that's the kind of place almost all of us started, myself included. Have fun.

The_Bearslayer

Here's an idea -- why not SELL these people advertising?

The_Bearslayer

It'll give you cancer of the paycheque. Get a pouch.

The_Bearslayer

It works fine no matter what's in your back bag. Just make sure the flagging sits on top and don't dump the fert all over it. Better yet, get a fert pouch.

The_Bearslayer

Flagging tape dispensing systems have always bothered me, none of them really work that well. Then last season a friend of mine showed me a trick that renders all of them totally obsolete: 1. Crack a roll of tape and put it in your back bag. 2. Thread the tape through some other part of your bags in...

The_Bearslayer

But say you have fifteen drivers and spend ten minutes talking with each of them. That's two and a half hours. If you spent that time working at an oil refinery you could probably produce more diesel than those drivers would waste during a season.

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It's understandable that people who haven't planted for other companies don't realize it, but: Stashing problems, bribing vets to stay by taking money away from helpless rookies who don't know anything about the industry, and fill plants as low as 16 cents aren't standard in silviculture and are alm...

The_Bearslayer

There's barely any difference, except you'll have to learn where the decent work is. You have nothing to worry about.

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How often were you bleeding off water from the fuel system? These engines are know for being unable to tolerate any water in the fuel. If any is present the injectors are often ruined and Ford won't cover the damage.

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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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The Japanese have been building large wooden buildings for a couple of thousand years. The stability and strength of the structures depends more on the joints used and the direction of the grain than the type of wood. Many wooden buildings in Japan have been in continuous use for hundreds of years. ...

The_Bearslayer

Planting on the island often involves long drives from towns to 1st growth blocks for shifts on end. If I plan on getting 8 hours sleep I barely have time to eat let alone cook.

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What earthly difference does it make if you get 10.4 cents plus .6 cents or just plain 11 cents. It's the same thing for Pete's sake! You have to be pretty naive to think that a company is paying out more than they planned to if they add vacation pay to the quoted price. I for one do not want to he...

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I know a lot of people who work/have worked him and make great money. The break-even bid thing is a red herring, every contractor on the coast does it here and there.

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not to sound like an asshole here, and i realize that i sometimes do, but i havent met alot of 20 year planters that actually give two shits about the planters in the category you describe. most of us that have found our place in the industry know that we can and will eventually be replaced by plan...

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I was going to stay silent on the topic, reasoning this way: who cares? However, an A&G supervisor once told me an anecdote which illustrates the spectrum of planting careers better than this or any other survey. He used to foreman for Celtic and periodically he'd walk into a hostel in PG, aim h...

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A lot of trees around Courtenay and Campbell River used to go to decent companies on long-term direct award contracts. That's over -- Coast Range and Osprey have most of them and Timberline's prices there have dropped.

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No decent company I've ever seen worked 5/6 and 1s except in emergencies, but a few good planters seem to buy into it for some reason -- often the athlete types who aren't vulnerable to exhaustion or psychological fatigue. This is especially common in Alberta where the old idea of planters not havin...

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Still, why? This shit is lame. The posts should be deleted.

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As far as I know you can't be hired to plant as a contractor. All planting worked this way years ago, then the law changed. A lot of older vets (people who have been planting for twenty or thirty years) still talk about the changeover and what the costs and benefits were. Anyway, the company that hi...

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I'll be on the coast, I plan on making huge money. What will you be doing in March? Not to stir shit up, but I've planted out of the same resorts as Coast Range on the island frequently, and their prices were consistently about 15 percent lower than ours. Kind of an Osprey-lite scene but with nicer...

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Correct me if this isn't the case, but was Khaira banned from bidding on MOF contracts for one year? Quite possibly the same people can incorporate themselves under a different name and continue operating -- I don't know much about it. Regarding the bid stacking, it's a bit audacious for AKD and Dew...

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I was told by someone who spoke with the Khaira planters that there were two deaths on the crew.

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I ran into the Khaira crew at the Greyhound in Golden a few days ago. They were bailing, or going on strike, or something -- in any case they were leaving and their contract was being shut down. They told me cheques had bounced, they had been underfed and often had lacked safe drinking water and sew...

The_Bearslayer

I planted one season and i would say i got addicted to it and now they wanna tell me i cant do the first job I love... i cant accept it so now i try to find a way till next year. My advice is to really go hard and totally throw yourself into understanding that life is often arbitrary and unfair. Do...

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The soles of the boots were (are) hard plasticky rubber, as opposed to the blue gumboot style things which are at least a little tacky, and the real vibergs which have a mottled sole which provides some traction in gravel and needles. But mostly, the people at Red Top are fucking jerks -- bitchy mid...

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I bought some Viberg half and halfs at Red Top this spring. I wore them for one day -- I didn't like their sloppy feel and hard rubber soles, they provided no traction in anything but wood or turf, reedy monodirectional slash and needles put me on my ass, so I never wore them after the first day. I ...

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I'm working as much and making as much as ever, except for some missed days due to snowpack around Revelstoke that won't go away.

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