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Dewan's hiring this season! If anyone needs any ei hours in 5 years after a lengthy court process.

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Outland has been much more invested in the catering/camps business than planting for a long time. I doubt this acquisition will change much, they will probably keep their side(gong)show planting operations and their affiliated First Nations Youth program in Ontario, which is a gold mine for them.

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Scooter you da man. Without this site we are all lost. Thank you. A humble suggestion for improvement: I suspect a lot of potential users who are put on to replant by word of mouth make it to the main replant.ca page, but no further. I myself have to look for a bit and have a hard time finding the f...

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Thanks for the replies, sorry for the delay as I read and think. You both bring up very good points and are considerably more well informed than I. I think I've expressed some of my frustration in the wrong direction. I'm angry that so many new planters get exploited by unscrupulous companies, and t...

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Kenax do the world a favour and just remove everything from your site.

I seriously can't believe your still coming on here.

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Thats fair Scooter. I didn't mean to unfairly single you or your employer out and I should've made it more clear that I actually do see Folklore as one of the best in its tier. I do remember you guys starting to do token payouts for teardown and setups when I was there, which was definitely a step i...

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What will it take to get the industry back to what it was? Can that ever happen? Back to prices of fifteen or twenty years ago (or at least pre-2007)? It will take your primary employer taking labour laws seriously and paying all employees for each hour of work put in. This includes planting, drivi...

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evan wrote:good grouping for merritt

bottom dweller
bottom dweller
bottom dweller
solid okanagan
solid okanagan
solid okanagan
solid okanagan
stupid northern company
stupid northern company
stupid northern company

+1

Every time I go on this thread it reaffirms my decision to move out of the industry.

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Go public with the name of the company. We should know what company is letting these things go on, and potential rookies deserve the chance to make a well informed decision and avoid the worst actors. These forums are read by people, and your feedback could help to make a positive change. Planters h...

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One in ten are support staff? In my own camp, we have five foremen, one supervisor, two checkers, and two cooks for 48 planters. That's 1 in 4. At the last coastal company that I worked at in the spring, we had one owner and three full-time foremen (and sometimes myself doing special missions) comp...

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A "rules this and regulations that and I'm entitled to this and you're obligated to do that" guy like Mike on these forums is more of a threat to planting as a unique job where people can make decent money than a low-balling, parasitic company. No, he isn't. The bottom line is that there ...

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Hilarious. How can someone trying to make a living with translation businesses make so many glaring spelling and grammatical errors, while copy/pasting the bulk of their content?

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Well done cream. I'd say he is a fraud, and a douche at the very least. All these websites look like they are circa 1998, and made by a mildly autistic grandmother with early onset alzheimer's. Also nice comeback 2 years after the fact kenax. Bonerhead. So fresh. Does anyone remember that website th...

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I've got a lightly used pair of 3-baggers in town if you're interested.

$20

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Hello I have planted for the Dewan's the past two spring seasons. They have been very good employers so far, the highest paying I have worked for and they really do want to get a solid group of planters going. The company does have some older guys who all line plant for a day rate but most of us pl...

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I don't necessarily agree with this statement. I too use to think that paying planters more would improve safety. The idea was to slow down production slightly (thereby improving safety by reducing a few states of mind that lead to injuries, like rushing, and frustration) while maintaining their re...

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In a tree planting video game you would be dead before you ever got Simon in your sights

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Had a set in 2010. They fell apart pretty quickly at the stitching, but after reinforcing the stitches with dental floss they remained usable. I seem to remember the foam parts being about on par with bushpro as far as holding up to use. I wouldn't buy again. Go with bushpro. More durable, less main...

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Although I found Folklore to definitely be more stingy when it came to flagging then the small handful of other companies I've planted for, it was never that hard to find. I just had to work a little harder to procure it, and be more conservative using it. The "flagging is always unnecessary&qu...

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Finding that bag in a folklore camp would be like hitting the jackpot big time.

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Anyone notice how the bags themselves are worked in but the shoulder straps are fresh out of the packaging?

Its like they didn't want to look like total newbs but thought dirty straps would be too gross.

4baggers though, serious business.

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Hands off Dave!

I plan on hoarding this tape and rationing it out to your planters when the blue has run out and we are down to using green and teal again.

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I'll take it.

As to the work I can talk to my boss(s). We're delayed by snow for a while still though.

Just emailed you.

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RPF wrote: Was BCTS silly enough to accept this bid?

Wow.

I'm beginning to think you really are who I have suspected you are.

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Its too bad they don't have much of a taste for keeping caches stocked with trees...

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Instead of paying 11 or 12 or 14% of trees planted to a commission foreman who then cuts planters into pieces, the foreman is payed a flat rate of lets say $25 per planter head and everyone(including the foreman) cattle plants the same piece. So no matter how many trees the crew plants, the manageme...

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Last season I moved from a coastal contract doing 4's and 5's to a contract in the Kootenays doing 9's. Terrain was similar and specs were similarly strict. I think overall it would have been much easier to just cover more ground and find easier spots for half as many trees in a plot.

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I will be starting my planting season this April and need to find a good shovel that suits me ASAP. Here is one that is apparently 'easy to modify'. . Does anyone know how you exactly go about modifying them? would I have to cut it with a saw or does it come apart easily or something...? If I were ...

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I will be starting my planting season this April and need to find a good shovel that suits me ASAP. Here is one that is apparently 'easy to modify'. . Does anyone know how you exactly go about modifying them? would I have to cut it with a saw or does it come apart easily or something...? If I were ...

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This post is a continuation of my response to a job ad for Outland in the 807 area(Ontario Northwest). This add can be found here: http://www.replant.ca/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=65852 I agree with your comment for the most part. Our prices have dropped (significantly) since my first year, and ...

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What hand is the injury on? What are the nature of your symptoms? If on your dominant(shovel) hand would gripping a handle all day and dealing with the stress of repeated shovel throws be a problem? If on your tree hand could repeatedly compacting or jamming your little finger as you insert seedling...

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Either that, or we'd see a new industry blossom where clean moose urine is traded as a highly valuable commodity.

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Ahh my mistake then, I thought it was a little strange to not have anyone still hanging around.

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as far as Aju: the only person who was an A&M Reforestation employee at that time is our general manager, who at the time was a supervisor in a camp where Aju was not working. <6 years, retention of only a single individual, that person being the general manager. I think that alone says a great...

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What is the companies response now for Aju Iroaga, who went missing in 2006? I heard about this guy. From what I heard the police concluded he likely tried to hitchhike and was murdered or he unwittingly wandered deep into the bush, starved, and was never found. Although if I remember correctly I h...

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I really think the terms "natural" and "genetically modified" need to be qualified here. You may call the seeds produced in orchards "genetically modified", or "unnatural", but when you look at it, that is not always the case. Most seed grown in orchards is, a...

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Think of hard hats, steel toed boots, or any other aspects of PPE and general safety that aren't the responsibility of the individual planter. These are simply mandates handed down onto the planters so some forester can say they've done something about safety, justifying their over-payed existence ...

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Hehe, "ready to log", thats a good one. Heres some "ready to log" white spruce that I planted in Ontario this past season. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5352/p6030426.jpg Except these were "2.5s" (2-2.5 years, all in a container). The root systems were quite entangle...

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Its awesome that you are doing this. Not only will it help new planters become more efficient by learning species, but vets can garner valuable knowledge from this as well. I'm amazed at the amount of veteran planters and bush workers I meet who know little to nothing about identification beyond a b...

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staema wrote: the "shut the fuck up cent".

Would you care to elaborate on that?

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