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theBushman

Yeah Paul, you were the guy who swore by the nylon Dakotas. You ask an question on a forum and the reply you get is from someone you mentioned in your question, the big wide internet looks looks a little smaller to me right now. :? I get around, like the village bicycle. The trouble with the Dakota...

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Been buying Dakota Ballistics for years, and I usually buy a new pair every year. I like them for the features rather than the quality or price point, and because they're replaceable wherever I happen to be.

theBushman

We sat around a campfire and hashed out how much more work it would be to take sample plots with a Lidar station for forest inventory. We'd be walking in anyway for the soils work and the rest of the ecological data. Taking ten Lidar volume sweeps would suck up a couple hours, having to move the sta...

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another dunno-where-to-ponder-this-one-but-it-kinda-fits: Didn't your newly elected Prime Minister promise to roll out full legalization, nationally? Will that happen? Will you marry me? Impairment isn't impacted by the legality of the substance. If an employee can't stay sober long enough to go to...

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Seedlings would be preordered by the people needing the planting done. The planting bid will need to cover the planter's wage, the employer's Employment Insurance premium, the employer's Worker's Compensation premium, employer's Liability Insurance, transportation (payments, insurance, fuel, mainten...

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Swab testing and breathalyzer testing for crew bosses and staff under Domtar contracts are normal, and done before the contract starts. Both really only demonstrate that the person being tested didn't indulge the day before. Its a matter of whether a person can go to work sober.

theBushman

The company I worked for took the contracts for the sake of doing the contracts, and the majority of the burners were Ministry Fire Fighters laid off for the season. It was day rate, union level pay.

theBushman

This sounds like a good idea, and should be piloted all over the TransCanada Highway. Ontario travellers could really benefit from sectioned speed controls. I can think of a few particularly deadly stretches of highway that should have greatly reduced speeds in poor conditions.

theBushman

I check these processors out a lot. For the consumer to the prosumer, the payout is that it is not nearly as tiring as the chainsaw and axe AND there are fewer individual movements to make. Anyone that has figured out planting should understand the economy of movement. I know one fellow that owns a ...

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Every upright, new manufacture, 5gallon, metal Jerry Can or Gerican I've seen for sale in Canada is Chinese Pot Metal and made for the cheapest of doomsday preppers. The standard here is made by Scepter, is squat, HDPE, and only has one opening for a self venting spout. They have a 6gallon military ...

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Don't go back. The vets obviously figured that part out. Don't accept excuses for crap transportation. Don't accept crap quality and stashing. When the company gets busted, they WILL take it out of your pay, whether you even worked that week or not. The company sounds cheap enough to call collect to...

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Go to one of those services with the resume clinics and job hunt tools. They have advisers that find EI funding everyday.

theBushman

We talked about this for timber cruising last week. No more wet feet or getting tangled in blowdown.

theBushman

My current employer operates two UAVs, a fixed wing and a rotary, and many cameras to go on them. I know that one of them needs only the block boundaries and makes its own flight plan, and the other needs a rough flight plan loaded. They're used and marketed towards all sectors, and are a fraction o...

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Sandhill Reforestation has a plant between Melfort and Choiceland, super sandy, almost all Pj. Its all blocks killed off by natural causes, so there's virtually nothing for slash and stumps, raw land or brackes.

theBushman

No problem is going to be solved by a manager rolling into camp with 30 radios of any design or condition. Any tool is useless if it isn`t going to be used properly and taken care of.

theBushman

I have Goal Zero Rock Out speakers, but not the solar charger for them. They're not waterproof, but they can tolerate moisture. They can be linked together for evening tunes. My phone doesn't fit in the internal pocket, but any flat shaped mp3 or iPod will. No idea if the iPhone fits, I don't have o...

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Sounds like a national rookie registry to me! I think smaller operations would be able to do some deep thinking and poke at a calculator to get their numbers worked out, but there retention will be higher than at the big rookie mills. If there were ever a final figure, I think it would be a bit of a...

theBushman

Lasagne, but its a PITA to work around the alternate diets: the vegetarians, the lactose intolerant, the mushroom haters like myself.

Mexi buffet is a good time.

I like breakfast for dinner, but mainly because I don't eat hot breakfast for breakfast.

theBushman

The company I'm working with this year, outside silviculture but forestry based, owns two drones. One rotary and one fixed wing unit. These are set up for mapping, with GPS and cameras. I don't know what they've used them for, but they could fly cut blocks, water mapping, burns, blowdowns, washouts,...

theBushman

Calories burned will be very difficult, as your bags get lighter, every step is fewer calories.

I'd think you want a fitbit or similar. Something on the wrist, sports oriented.

theBushman

There is merit for all parties involved if operating a floating camp were treated the same way heli access is. The expensive, potentially deadly equipment is best left to contracted professionals. If helicopters were available as military surplus the way Hagglunds are, there'd be a lot more helis fa...

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http://www.gear-up.com/products/view/bushpro-hiballer-lw-stainless-shovel-straight- http://www.gear-up.com/assets/products/gallery/8453/8453-StraightShaftShovel-HiBaller.jpg We offer Bushpro everything to our planters, and I think it all comes from Gear Up for Outdoors. The staff is a binary thing,...

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Most of the planters I work with use the part dipped gloves, usually in bulk, or bare handed. The full dip is warmer, but the full dip wouldn't interfere with dexterity any more than the part dip. The nitrile is really sticky when new, but the dirt dries it up. Then they either wear through or crack...

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PRT is solely in the nursery business now. The planting is now Brinkman. Brinkman had promoted that they were going to preserve what was Frontier, but I heard tell that the staff moved on. It was very easy to spot Brinkman Ontario action where Frontier used to operate.

theBushman

Brinkman bought PRT Frontier, before last season.

theBushman

Many of the mechanic or racing type work OK, most of the time. Until you take them off wet and your body heat leaves them. For the days that cold and wet are a problem, I've done a couple things. The nitrile or rubber coated garden gloves are nice, keep the elements off of your hands and are grippy....

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Those are signs of a project that is underfunded or is cutting into time for more profitable projects. Either way, the mucky mucks aren't happy and are rolling shit downhill.

theBushman

Ontario law requires trucks working in the forest to have:
FAK
Fire Extinguisher
Shovel
Axe or Pulaski
Fire Fighting Backpack Pump with water
Spill Kits as necessary

I've also geared up with:
Bottle and farmer jacks
recovery straps and chain
multipurpose wood blocking

theBushman

I suspect the answer would be FRS and GMRS radio, AA or AAA powered. Some baggies, duct tape and lanyards, little flagging customization and there is really no reason to not have it on your person. I'm not opposed to the idea at all. I've left a radio at caches to let planters manage themselves, the...

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There are countless cases of good and bad dog experiences. I keep dogs myself, always happy to find new friends in camp or the block. The good ones always seem to be big, happy mutts, usually raised in the bush by a career bushperson. As an employer or supervisor, dogs don't follow the plan, don't b...

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MCR still has 5 day shifts at full production, planting and brushing.

theBushman

There's winter work, in the field and the office. Harvesting is ongoing, burn programs, beetle projects, GIS, photo interpretation, plan writing, contract prep.

theBushman

Makes me recall the second week of first semester. An exercise in compass and chain through a tight swath of Balsam Fir lead to a large number of students dropping out.

theBushman

I went for most of second year, never bothered taking general math, and needed photo interpretation as a a pre-req. Being a student directly got me into the jobs I had, the employers were using government funding to subsidize their payroll. And since enrollment, every employer I've had has only been...

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I went to Confederation College in Thunder Bay, ON. I never finished my diploma, and I certainly was never interested in RFT. I worked a lot of timber cruising and a few different types of regen surveys. It was the regen work that got me in with the silv company I've been working for recently. The s...

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I use an Eliminator model I found on clearance, has an inverter built in. Li-Ion battery takes all day to charge but runs my phone for a week. With 2 usb ports, a 120v inverter and the lamp feature, it changes the tent dynamic entirely. With a tablet or laptop, I like to run down the onboard battery...

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There's brushing and thinning crews out there. The amount of work varies by each FMU, as some use chemical spray to knock back hardwood, some use aerial seeding that needs thinning, some don't tend at all. Some units that do tend, save the budget up for a couple years and then go on a blitz.

theBushman

Two of my planters had aircraft buckles on their bags, harvested from the belt extensions they give you when you're too round for one belt.

If you're going for junk yard buckles, go for the bench seats with a belt cutter.

theBushman

Ah, kratom. Eat a little 5x extract. The leaves suck to drag around, and extracts are a PITA to smoke, hard to light, huge crusty ashes.

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Hi-viz too.

theBushman

It is likely that the client will have a fine written into the contract against the contractor for PPE violations. MNR doesn't have much planting to be done. A conservation officer driving by is going to be paying attention to any people they can see, whether they can write a fine for PPE is unclear...

theBushman

It'd keep you warm, sure. I couldn't begin to imagine how comfortable it would be to work in.

theBushman

I think what you're describing is a Viking Tempest. I've had one in the Ontario forests for a few years and the fabric has held up, but the pocket and pit zips won't close anymore. Still keeps me dry, but gets a little too breezy. I'll buy another.

theBushman

I hit my head more often with a hard hat on too.

theBushman

I bought prescription safety glasses, they survive the bush better, and I was tired of catching twigs under my glasses and scratching my eyelids.

theBushman

I'm trying to convince my employer to try a SxS ATV. Instead of putting 250lb on a rack rated for 90lb, I like the 600 and 1000lb ratings on the SxS machines. As far as getting stuck, fairly often, quads are getting stuck in existing ruts, the SxS doesn't fit those same ruts. I think it is a matter ...

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Hornepayne, while I have never been, the last road I worked lead right to the mill in Hornepayne. I'd think the same deep sand and classic boreal bedrock knobs will be there. White River, I have timber cruised there; I would call it Highly Variable.

theBushman

I find my 560 runs a little longer than a 550, but my habits may have a lot to do with that. When I got my saw, it was new with a broken handle bolt. Haven’t broken one myself.

theBushman

More importantly, the Deathstar was new and entirely artificial. Where did the monster come from?

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