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Some of my answers were a bit spicy.
Also, what is up with the formatting of those questions? (I doubt that crewbosses will remember, but do they really think planters will remember how many blocks they've been on in the last 5 years?!)

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Sam Rush is a supervisor. Her email is sam_erin@hotmail.com

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That would be super awesome, thank you. I have been searching for YEARS!
It might be time to invest in a pair made to order, I've only been saying that since 2009. hah!

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holy shit scooter can i buy them caulks off you?! are they size 5 for real?

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1) Most definitely get on the same page as the rest of your checking crew. There is nothing more frustrating than having five different people come 'judge' the adequacy of trees throughout a contract when not one of them agrees on what is contractually required. It's a longstanding joke that the mor...

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or this one
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=65767&p=90262&hilit=hip+belt#p90262

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Northern does some fly-ins too.

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a far cry from your usual planting speed there bud!

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-I have a warm and very expensive coat that provides me with a huge amount of comfort. If I bring this and wear it in camp only will I have to worry about it getting trashed? Bring nothing to wear that you will miss if it goes missing/gets destroyed. -I've heard the food is often excellent, but the ...

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This info is from March 2016, so it's outdated, but it gives a wider province by province idea of the steps planned for the take home kits being used by the public. Obviously these steps are already in motion, but I'm unclear about the regulations each province currently has in place. http://www.ccs...

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If anyone is in MTL and wants a chance to see the movie that was made, Theatre Ste Catherine is screening it on Feb 3 Not sure if this fb link will work, but here ya go https://www.facebook.com/events/1279981958748527 Link to the movie's website -> http://www.ogokinightsthemovie.com Link to the movi...

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I also love that this is a post. I have a friend that was paranoid about ticks and being able to wash it etc. for her first season so she cut her hair shorrrrrt and then showed up to camp and was surprised to see she was the only one who'd done this. She rocked that hair though. Seeing pics of the b...

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Hey thanks Scooter and Tnalp. I had wondered how my post would be received... I can get a bit obsessive about harvesting anything sustainably. newforest I don't mind discussing it here, but there's some info I won't publicly announce for understandable reasons. I do harvest it with my partner, for a...

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Shhhhhit the word's out. It's also a fad here in Canada. It's growing in popularity with the general public as a 'miracle mushroom' (studies are being done, but it's long since been in traditional first nation, chinese and russian medicines - anywhere with a boreal forest will have it) Studies are f...

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Quick fact, if the inhalers aren't working for someone having an asthma attack or issues and the OFA3 is far away etc, an epipen will also dilate the bronchial tubes. I carry an epipen for exactly this reason, as trying to regulate breath and not freak out while waiting for an OFA3 to arrive with ox...

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A few tidbits I've learned the last few months: Depending on province, and health coverage of the buyer, epipens are still somewhere around 90-120$ - which is the single use pen. The company in Canada that distributes the pens is pfizer, not mylan, and we have different laws regarding regulations of...

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It's all across Canada. Apparently August 17th was National Thrift Shop Day

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I have child like feet, my footwear sizing ranges between size 4 and size 6.5 depending on the manufacturer. Scooter isn't kidding with limited options. If you've got 7/8 sizing, your options are infinitely larger than mine, because you can even wear men's boots once you figure out the sizing transl...

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news on the High Level front. Jeff's new blog post as of today: "Hello WILDWOODS CREW, UM NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT TOO SAY RIGHT NOW. WILDWOODS JUST GOT SIDESWIPED! WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY AGAINST TOLKO'S POLICY. WE HAVE ZERO CHANCE OF ANOTHER CONTRACT UNLESS LACRETE SAWMILLS BREAKS CONTRACT WITH TOLK...

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Up near Burns Lake we had a snow day our day one, and then 28 degrees day three... the ground is soft, it's a great start now, but I think we'll be feeling a bit sun f*cked if the whole season is like this.

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I don't know the part about claiming camp costs, but you can claim your moving expenses if you had to travel from your home to the job. Say you live in Quebec, but took a job in BC, if you kept all your receipts from gas, hotel, food, etc., then you'd get some of those travel expenses back. That for...

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Workwizer has promised reinforced blades this year, if you see the photo with the dude standing on the edge of his shovel, he's certain it'll work. Mind you, they're the same blades as last year, he's just 'reworked' them like cyper said... Fairly certain 3 years ago he switched manufacturers, and h...

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I totally want to enter, but this part is making me nervous...it always shows up in photo contests rules, and I always hesitate when it does... "By entering the contest, the entrant grants SFI an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, publish and reproduc...

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Get yourself one of these. Bolt the back, figure out the sides. Doesn't matter if you have no hips, these things will stay on. There's a couple of threads about this now, but I can't figure out how to link them to here. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/USMC-MARPAT-ILBE-Arcteryx-Hip-Waist-Belt-Mens-Medium-Back...

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They're putting on the original Ogoki Nights play again, two weeks (six nights - thurs to sat) early Feb - If anyone in or near Montreal hasn't seen this yet, this is your chance! Cheap tickets, cheaper beer.

http://theatresaintecatherine.com/en/sh ... e-original

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A couple of my friends work for Leader. It was still run by Francois a couple of years ago, seemed like a solid guy, I emailed back and forth with him quite a bit. Good company, shorter season, good prices, technical planting, motel show, older crowd. Relatively hard to get on with, I think? I wish ...

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I'm sorry Steve, but once again, you're wrong. I don't really care if you read my response or not, but since you've put it out there as if I'm an idiot, I'm going to clarify. NO ONE worked the day I packed up. It snowed that day. It was a day off for everyone...as it had been the previous few days. ...

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Steve I wouldn't be so quick to throw that 90% out there, at least four people came to Dynamic this year, plus I know a few others returned to their previous companies instead of going back to Torrent. For a small company, I'm fairly certain that spells less than 90% return rate. Also, what jfbro sa...

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got this one yesterday, i was speechless....

"You must love working with all those men!"

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I posted last year when the theatre was filming the movie....well they're in the process of editing now. The film will be out this winter. Hopefully some of you can make it to the screening! For now, there's a pretty sweet website in the works, the teaser trailer is up, along with a few other tidbit...

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I shivered reading that entire fascinating thing.

the nightmares of summer plants...oh dear...

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thanks simon for the info!

i think that shatki bought a marshmaster, as i'm fairly certain jeff's contract with them is now over. i remember some details from the video chris made for this past season, sounded like it could have been a very lucrative season.

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super curious on how their high level stuff went this season, anyone got any news?

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Dynamic's are electronic, last day worked was july 22, day submitted was july 29th....don't think you're still working with em though..can't remember. you can check if they've been submitted on your service canada account. you can actually look back several years at your electronic roe's. i like to ...

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Dynamic head cooks with experience 300-400$ Wildwoods 400$+ can't speak of any other cook wages... it's all in what you demand, good cooks are hard to come by. definitely ditch outland, the cook should be making at least what the mid/highballers are making, they're usually working just as hard, just...

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Saffa they are the Walmart of planting companies, they suck. Deal with it. It's not like anyone is saying that because the company is shit everyone who works for them is shit. I'm currently sitting in a cafe with about 15 Bmart planters, I have nothing against them, it's their company's business met...

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I can only say anything about usofucked and outland. obvs don't even consider the first. outland is run (or was about five years ago) by an ex canadian planter named greg (can't remember his last name) who loves to talk, and loves giving canadians a planting job - he knows that if you've planted in ...

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I've never attended and probably never will attend one of these balls....but I do say that Bad Uncle is an excellent choice :)

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When I went to Australia to plant five years ago, there was information all over the web about planting abroad, as a job, and I'm talking like lists of countries with websites to visit... Costa Rica, Japan, Germany, a lot of countries not on the usual suspect lists. Now I can't find even a trace of ...

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Def ditch the air mattress, not only will it suck to wake up on the cold ground at 4am and wonder if you should waste your last two hours of precious sleep time trying to re-inflate it, it'll also be REALLY cold when it's actually managed to stay inflated. It's an air trap, of course, which means al...

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133 ganders and no one besides saffa has anything to offer?

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thanks saffa for the info, planting to up the pay is sweet!
i checked last year, and i actually enjoyed it, but thanks for the tip. :)

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Haven't found much on the boards here in relation to company checker wages...anyone care to fill in some blanks? Obviously there's differences in pay depending on the company expectations - pay plotting, first aid, planter training, etc. but it'd be nice to get an idea what the industry average is, ...

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this thread is kind of getting highjacked into dayrate vs commission pay, but i can't help myself - i think it depends on the company, 200$ a day for a foreman is, well, kinda shit. you can't possibly expect your foremen to work hard when their ballers are pulling in more than double they are..and i...

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jeez scooter, is there anything you don't do?

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you just explained exactly what i meant as a wind day. - we left at around noon because trees were being blown down throughout the block.

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after spending two months last winter trying to figure out who was the best bet for me this last season, i went with torrent. it didn't work out so well. i quit and went back to dynamic after about a week (in which we worked a day and a half -snow days and a wind day) davin was nice, foremen were ni...

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It's happening. They are filming right now.

I wish I'd had the wherewithall when they were still looking for funds to post this, as maybe some of you woulda thrown a shotgun their way....

Anyways, check it out, they're making it a movie!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ogoki ... -the-movie

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wow. just. wow....

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oh yea, for sure you can plant in quebec until late october if you want most years, but there's a lotta restrictions and limitations

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