Replant.ca - Tree Planting Canada

Company: Hybrid 17
Year: 2014

That'd be an average of 255 trees per person in that hour, which is completely reasonable if this was done in the northern interior, it's probably not that different from the average pace of an average planter on average ground at the last company I worked for. Even 400 trees in an hour is not parti...

I worked on one of the contracts for Reckitt Benckiser in Quesnel. The land wasn't great, it had previously been used for cattle grazing and was very hard packed clay. Can't see it being amazingly productive farmland. I have heard of farmers in the north-east of BC quitting farming because the end o...

Last spring I spent part of the season working out of a fishing lodge, and we paid the usual $25 a day, plus $5 on days off to cover the costs of the tenting fee at the lodge.

The companies that I've felt unsafe at all had a big focus on production. Foremen would get chewed out if their crew didn't put in enough trees, so the crew would get chewed out by their foreman and the consequence of a day of low production would be a longer workday the next day, with all the resul...

People do make honest mistakes sometimes. I can think of far worse things that have happened in the planting world than being off by 100 stems/Ha. If being given slightly inaccurate specs was the only thing that was off I would have simply chalked it up as an honest mistake, but given what I experi...

Thanks Mike, your reviews inspired me. We were doing burns along a quad road, which had access from both ends so one truck parked by a drill site at one end of the quad road, and the rest of us worked in from the main road. As we were about to meet in the middle someone smelled rotten eggs, and beca...

I worked for Celtic in the spring and summer of 2013, my third BC season. The Season: There was an option for an early season contract starting April 22nd, planting trees in old pasture land for carbon credits outside Quesnel, working for Reckitt Benckiser. Prices were 12 cents for little dinaren (s...

My foreman last summer had a set. The chest strap was about two inches above the hip strap, and he had to tie the shoulder straps together at the back so they wouldn't slide off entirely. They lacked a back bag and a flagger pouch. The actual bags were square, which looked a bit easier to load, but ...

I just can't see a carbon fibre shaft surviving very long, no matter how well you treat it or what it is coated with. There are some high tech composite materials out there that could work, but I have no idea how you'd get your hands on them, or even what they're called.

I'd be cautious about buying boots over the internet if you don't know how they're going to fit.

Planted for them May-July 2012, so my thoughts might be a little scattered, but I'll see what I can do. Prices were good but not spectacular, and were sometimes a little uneven. You'd be on a 12 cent block one day, and the next day on a 14 cent block, and it was often difficult to tell which one was...

Sounds like you're planting 415s (4cm across the top, 15cms down). I've gotten along fine with a Bushpro speed blade in the past, but that was typically in wet ground. There is a Bushpro Bareroot shovel http://www.ufsupplies.ca/product/tree-planting-reforestation/planting-shovels/bushpro-bareroot-pl...

$3000!? Jaysuz man, what did you guys spend that on? Even an expensive last minute Ontario-PG flight can't be more than a grand, where did the other 2 go? Gear, most likely. Shovel, bags, boots, clothing, tent, sleeping bag, etc. If you don't have any of that stuff to begin with, and if you don't g...

You can use the holes to attach a bit of rubber, makes the kicker a little more comfortable and reduces the wear on your boots.

Brinkman also demands all workers wear steel-toe boots for some unknown reason which means comfortable hiking boots are not allowed. I can see the need to wear boots, in case you step on something sharp or hit your foot with your shovel, but needing steel toe is silly. Is this a Brinkman regulation...

I'm not seeing what the difference is between that UnderArmour thing and a regular heart rate monitor, which can be bought for cheaper, and works completely fine in the rain.

Last season I planted with a guy who pulled a white cotton t-shirt over his head and wore it like a hijab. Claimed it kept the sun and bugs off his head, and was quite cool, enough so that when a breeze picked up his head felt cold. Never tried it myself, but it seemed to work pretty well for him.

The contract I signed for Windfirm for the 2012 season had a clause that if you didn't make at least minimum wage they could let you go. I asked around, and it had never been used, that people in that situation either stepped their game up or left voluntarily, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a...