Replant.ca - Tree Planting Canada

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Hello there, sure missed y’all. I am slowly graduating from Tree Planting and even got a Real Job, which is a big deal in my country. I still have a couple small jobs to plant next Spring, season #32 I think, but after that I finally have to say No when the phone rings. I will probably still occasio...

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Health Care - our country is, well, I can’t even complete that sentence. Working with Hispanics I never saw many injuries beyond what the First Aid kit could handle. But then we only sometimes used plugs; bare-roots are much easier on the body (lighter loads in the bags). I also feel our planting to...

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Seed collecting - a nurseryman told me once that learning tree seed is a life long process, and he’s right. It is the most arcane Forestry stuff I have ever come across. I have seen and heard plenty of nursery people act and talk with complete ignorance about seed. For many of them, seed has always ...

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Soft Maple - here in Michigan is either Red or Silver Maple. Box Elder is of course an Acer also but isn’t referred to as a Maple. I have to cut some in a few days; might or might not stay motivated enough to pick the seed on it. Truly a trash tree but probably planted at least a little bit on wetla...

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1.5 Billion seedlings - is a number I saw some years ago now; no current reference. The southeast and Pacific NW regions cut&plant on a large scale and I doubt that has declined much. ArborGen alone probably produces 400 million seedlings in the south. Planting Gel - this is a critical material ...

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Stumbled upon an op-ed in an Oregon newspaper just now; author is director of an Oregon Loggers Association: “ Last year, more than one-third of forestry employers were unable to secure enough U.S. or H-2B labor to meet their needs. It is anticipated that more than 130,000 visas will be requested fo...

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As for news on the planting business in the USA there isn't much. Planting is still a big business with probably 1.5 Billion seedlings planted per year. The serious timber investment corps. don't mess around with idiocy as described above. There is an unlimited amount of work available really, but t...

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Are you yourself running any projects in the summer? And with the increase in housing prices, is there any *good* news for the US planting industry in 2021? Hello, I saw where I was summoned recently on KKRF, so figgered to check in. I don't really plan to hire any time soon. I do saw work in the s...

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Overall the experience just reminded me of that first day of I’m-getting-a-cold feeling, and how I know that for me, if I ignore that and try to just power through it anyways, the cold turns out to be worse. Something I learned a long time ago now. Though I rarely ever catch a cold, I can easily tel...

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So it sounds like ultimately there will be vaccination of planters during planting season then. I just wanted to pass along an angle to it all that you may not realize. And I thought this might be more of a low key place to kick this around. Though maybe this won’t apply to the AZ vaccine anyway; I ...

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I did several days of “hack-and-squirt” release of Oaks once. That entails wacking a machete into the bark and then spritzing some chemical into the cut being held open by the machete blade. Sounds nice and cleanly elegant with no backpack load of chemical sloshing around, and no drifting aerosolize...

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Y’all never got to plant seedlings packed in estimated quantities per bundle/box/bag, etc. With those, maybe you got an amazing new PB. Other times, maybe the company did.

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Are vaccines going to reach availability levels for planter age groups to get them during your upcoming season?

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What's new for planting trees in the USA? Nothing, really. If four years of Donald Trump as President, topped off with a border-restricting, recession-causing, full-blown Pandemic didn't change the basic mechanics of what foreign labor does or doesn't do in our country then nothing ever will. And re...

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Seed collecting is difficult work in that any given species can have a collecting window as short as one day to out to 3 weeks or so - & then what do you do in between one of these windows? And what happens when multiple tree seed crops fail and there isn't much to do? Or when numerous species s...

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I will just note that the chance of picking up Lyme has a definite impact on what work (i.e., where to work) I pursue lately. So far so good. There are still a few parts of Michigan that have plenty of ticks, but as yet no documented Lyme cases or exotic tick species, either. But those are shrinking...

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Has anyone experimented with paint? pluses: could be applied in advance at nursery; cheap; permanent minuses: painted needles wouldn't photosynthesize But I don't think paint would interfere with bud break. How much would the painted needles inhibit total seedling growth? Would likely depend on the ...

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So I have been wondering something about management in British Columbia for some time - why doesn't BC manage _FOR_ Aspen? Is there no mill base that can use the species at all? Are the distances involved too great to invest in a mill for what would turn out to be only a small supply of stems? Does ...

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in my random Silviculture travels, I occasionally stumble across actual good radio stations. and one of them turned me on to Brent Cobb, a country singer-songwriter. so this song is a pleasant ear worm while out working. I'm pretty good at digging holes, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAW4IE98w...

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"all eligible bids for this original tender were significantly over the cost estimate"

&

"to meet our requirements of ensuring fair value for services"

both kind of say ... something, about the speaker, that is. don't mind me though, I am from another planet.

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I noticed in the 2018 catalog that Husqy finally put Auto Tune in one of their brush saws, though not the biggest model yet. I would never want the first year machine of such an endeavor; nor do I expect to be in the market for any saws next year. But any reviews of it appreciated.

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I don't think I told the conclusion of my battle with a brand new FS560 sadly purchased at a tractor dealer. The dealer and distributor dug in their heels for weeks and told me I didn't know how a brush-saw worked on my 5th such saw purchased in my life (and with 2 new chainsaws purchased that same ...

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steep = chainsaw, for me. 'steep' frequently includes rocks, and then you need careful control of the blade around rocks. that gets a little more challenging on slopes. I will be thinning Red Spruce on some mountain-tops in West Virginia next year, though the diameter classes are often brush-saw siz...

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It's back. I have lived through about 8 weeks straight of lower-than-average temps in the Lake Superior country, with the bonus of additional precipitation. Blob pushes Jet Stream up, has to come back down somewhere. There was some news coverage of it in October. It was thought there were signs The ...

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I have pruned to log height, using a chain saw, every once in a while on a TSI job, say once or twice a day sometimes, just for the improved visual - like right next to a road intersection or something. Doing just a little bit with a power saw quickly shows one that a fatigue mistake (cutting into t...

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I have used the wood-fiber type flagging for a long time, and it works fine. I don't flag as I plant though, so I don't go through very much of it and don't really notice the extra expense as I only need to flag things occasionally. It runs about 1.5¢ / foot in the low volumes I purchase, down to 1¢...

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It has been several years since that word appeared on any of these forums... I have a pruning job right now. Though I just came off 5 straight months of running a chainsaw, it has proven a bit tough for me. Any time you are doing work from chest level and above, that seems to be using a new set of m...

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I bet no one running an Auto Tune saw has ever generated usage stats like the ones below... I would say that one thing I have never liked on my 550 XP is the clutch cover/brake, which was re-designed from the 300 series XPs of 5+ years ago, though I fail to see why. It has always been a little 'stic...

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I am pretty intrigued by that question too, though I find it improbable on a basic level. Investing in essentially a labor brokering service in a foreign country seems like an odd idea to start with. There are just a handful of really large ( > 6 crews on the road, simultaneously) contractors here t...

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ahh, planting quality and survival - an important part of tree planting, though sometimes, only in theory. I think given average/normal precipitation, using plugs quite often obscures the relation between quality planting work and resulting survival. The bulk of my experience in my career is with ba...

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ahh so just then I needed a device to get a laptop unstuck. unfortunately it looks like that device will be - a new laptop anyhow, watch this video and you will quickly grasp the concept of a simple way to get a truck unstuck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XQhiSTkqc you could probably engineer som...

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yeah a chainsaw can be a key item to get a vehicle un-stuck...I lived this same story once upon a time in some sand, even slept in cab one night too (no tent with me). I was just determined to get-r-done on my own. in the middle of the night I woke to a wonderful sight - a whole family of little rac...

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If anyone here knows anyone there, please get in touch. On a more general topic, I have always wondered how much Ontario uses their Seed Zones for Red Pine - Pr - Pinus resinosa. I have always understood that it shows very little genetic variability aside from very slight growth gains from southern ...

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so for seedlings destined for a Fall plant, do they have a unique sowing date? as compared to seedlings destined for the next spring. I would think depending on sowing strategy, seedlings might have to be pulled from trays _before_ they put on their fall root growth? or else there might be a risk th...

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I never use it except in shoulder high stuff. Filling the land with the correct density is a big part of where the skill is in the trade. The seedlings aren't free. Not everyone can think "spatially" though and in the era of GPS telling humans what to do I suspect that ability is declining...

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I don't know the Stihl chainsaw line at all. But basically chainsaws come in size classes such as 50cc, 60cc, 70cc, and jump to 90cc for falling the really really big stuff. For dropping 10" stuff all day long, a 50cc saw would be fine, and would weigh less than a 60cc. A 70cc in that size wood...

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here is a cutting edge look at automation in agriculture http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farm-mechanization/ The LA Times has become a leader in journalism related to immigration and employment in the USA, if anyone is interested. The link above contains links to all their other stories on thi...

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I would like to see intelligent, experienced Red Pine management, to help solve questions for land-owners on management strategy, and when and where it is worth investing in management inputs. A great bulk of the Red Pine supply in the American Great Lakes states came about via planting on failed fa...

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I can share a couple of Go-To recipes that have come along for me recently. Though I might have 45-60 minute access to a modern Supermarket anywhere I work I'm not always up for leaving a site. A good 'dry ingredients' recipe I have been going with is Beans&Rice. Lately I have liked Yellow Rice,...

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Thanks man. I did manage to drive from Golden back down to the crossing at Roosville ? a few years ago now, most I have ever seen of the province. I think I will just leave driving the Icefield Highway on my bucket list on like, permanent repeat, even after driving most of Colorado over the years. S...

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Hello, I think my outgoing PM might not be working right ... I will be in touch. Anyhow, I will be collecting all year. Processed and shipped clean Populus tremuloides seed earlier this week, brought home a set of Populus grandidentata branches tonight. Still trying to wrap up planting season simult...

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Assemble and keep your own "Spice Box" Buy cheap little plastic containers, and when you do cook, make the biggest batch of any recipe you can, and put the left-overs (if any) in a cooler. I came to prefer using a Wok to make a lot of food at once. It's nice to make a large batch of home-m...

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Shorter is lighter... I use my Canadian shovel for plugs in light soils. It's great. The materials used to construct it are also light, aside from how short it is, as you don't have to use a short one. Taking some length out of the handle is a good idea to match the length to a planter's height, but...

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Check all the burned slash piles for Morels....

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Yep. It sure is good at repelling humans, and it is especially enjoyable to use it with seedlings that vary from 10 - 30" tall, most of them well over 20".

But I am trying to be a good egg and am drenching and drying them all, correctly. For now.

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Does this crap even work - especially with several days of rain in the forecast? My cache area smells like a slaughter-house. "But the nursery loads the seedlings with fertilizer, making them more attractive to the Deer." Not the crap government nursery you buy trees from, buddy. I always ...

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people who work, manually, remain invisible, even in the subject of an article that quickly drifts to people with "real" jobs = Information Technology http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/the-foreign-workers-of-mar-a-lago?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true me, ...

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I left the saw with the dealer while I am in the south for the winter. The last thing he told me was he needed a better laptop to be able to run the diagnostic software. In the USA, you somewhat purchase a piece of Stihl equipment from 3 separate businesses - Stihl USA, a regional distributor, and a...

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The job I am considering is in Elk country. It is a post-mining site with the compaction ripped by dozers. It is also a 'study' for a graduate student research project, who seems to be dragging feet on scheduling the work, so I might tell them I have better things to do. The Real World is very real,...

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Any experience installing a whole lot of these? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52af6c52e4b035961e75998b/55aff205e4b0c0d2972e209a/5835d7a4e3df28974c9a1869/1479923621089/shopping.jpg?format=500w I think these aren't the same as "cones" One difference from the picture, on a job I am l...

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