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Heard pay was quite the issue this year and a lot of people are upset. Any insider info?

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Scooter wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:49 pm Here's more of Luc's work, when he was in my own camp back in June of this past year:

https://vimeo.com/176189417

He told me about being in your camp this summer, but haven't seen this video, which is quite stunning. The things you can do with drones and relatively cheap cams nowadays...

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in outland's defence, they have some very fast, lucrative contracts, that highballers return to year after year. i don't know if i trust that their average stays that high throughout the entire season but there is money to be made in more than one camp, and they pay on time and they're more profess...

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I'd also like to mention that my runner using the chainsaw without proper PPE was caught in the camp setup days and was corrected right away. Sometimes, your workers will try to push the boundaries, being reckless youth, and you need to remind them of what can't be done. This is something I had to d...

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Well, this is actually the camp I supervise and everything you guys noticed is true, but let me try to shed some light and give some perspective. Please note that this is not an excuse, but an explanation: All the safety violations you see (more than one on a quad, long walk-ins) are from the first ...

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So you're replying to a thread from 6 years ago to say that you aren't hiring? We get it, you're a part of an elite supercrew that nobody can get on. Cool story. In my outburst of elitism, that's exactly what I did. But I'm glad you understood the subtleties, and I've rightly been put back in my pl...

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I have about three shifts of August planting in leases, but I'm not hiring, even within the rest of the company, who are basically all done, or about to be. Actually reducing my camp to two 6-packs, which is a bitch, decision-wise, given the overall quality of my guys. I saw a lot of Brinkman activi...

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Well, regarding such a situation, I only heard of "queered plant", from old slang meaning "to ruin or thwart" or "to put someone in a bad position" ( source ). Comes from the old days of 1910's planting in the UK (Planters back then smoked even more fags)... More seriou...

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But on a more relevant note, and not to thread jack (but I am), why is it that if you type "tree planter porn" into google search, Artisan comes up as the first match? Never thought of searching for such porn, guest it just sounded like quite a limited niche. That said, looks like Scooter...

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This is Milo McMahon's music video for his latest release, The Mirror, which features footage of him planting in Manitoba.

http://www.milomcmahon.com
http://www.facebook.com/milomcmahon

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I'm currently picking cones (with Krahn) north of Ft. Mac and I'll just say a few things: 1) The atmosphere is way more relaxed. The paperwork and management responsibilities are also quite minimal, as it is on the contract we're doing (a six-pack). However, pulling a trailer loaded with mega-bags f...

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dreamofcream wrote:I've done the Manning job for the past two summers and its great

I can confirm that dreamofcream sees the Manning contract in his (miso?) soup all winter long...(this might be yet another example of me literally translating a french saying)

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Also, a slow-cooker can be quite nice...

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Aeryk wrote:If this keeps up I'll be a pro planter before I even hit my first block

Unless you keep replanting those dreams because you didn't follow the specs...

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Good to recognize a face or two (I think there was three girls I knew from another crew who were planting in your camp this season).

Also, what happened to that wrecked canopy truck?

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NGR had 4 camps last year, with one of them only operating during the summer. Outland had three in alberta, two in manitoba, around 4 in quebec and an additional 2 to 4 in ontario. Dream's assessment is correct. As stated in the link I've provided in my previous post on this thread, Outland has thr...

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Nice, three posts, one poster! That said, I'm definitely stealing your mother's saying... I've been thinking about the possibility of using some solar power in camp next season. It would be quite useful if we install the panels atop a cook shack(they are probably too fragile to stay there while movi...

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Nice!

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Really good-looking vid! And yes, planting teabags is weird at times; mostly when done through a coconut mat with a life-jacket on (don't ask)...

Also, classic mistake when they change the tire and the truck doesn't seem to be jacked quite high enough (I'm not judging, I definitely did that too).

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Last season, Outland had 8 camps throughout Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, as shown here . Despite being a Quebecois, I don't know much about the Quebec division, FDD , as it operates fairly independently, but I heard it has about 4 camps. This page (in French only) , offers an idea of what previous...

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i would say save your money because you can all the same jobs without one. in fact i would bet that no potential employer would even ask to see such a ticket. That's weird, in my case (and I never worked in BC, so that might be different), both employers and clients have requested to see proper cha...

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I agree with Scooter that it's actually a cheap course, and like JD, I believe it's an important ticket. It's paid for by my employer for any camp supervisor or tree deliverer. It happens that some runners don't have it in a camp (and then they can't use a saw, of course), but we usually have at lea...

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Nate, are you starting to feel that maybe Folklore is the only company that fills out these books? I sometimes wonder that. I wonder how many drivers at other companies have gotten unexpected fines for not having log books filled out correctly, going over hours, skipping scales without weighing in,...

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Holy shit! Hell of an issue indeed! Must make you a little stressed to use it now. Glad nothing serious happened! Makes me glad we mostly use hand pumps at our fuel caches. Might be a little hard on the arms at times, but we had all sorts of problems with electric pumps over the years. That said mos...

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Very good thing to remember. Your text just got printed and posted in camp.

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Are you guys using Sat. phones for internet or do you stay at a town? I'm browsing from my laptop by tethering to my blackberry, which is in turn used in conjunction with a signal booster plugged on one of my quads/argo/whatever's around. If your service provider is Telus or Bell, you'll rarely hav...

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Interesting advice. This is definitely an area where I have been a complete idiot before. Not only by my risky behaviour, but also by having next to no clue on what was actually safe...

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The speed and the scale of devastation of what is not even considered as a big fire by forest fire standards is frightening, especially when you consider a planter's camp vulnerability... I talked with a guy from Slave Lake working for Alberta Parks in Barrhead a few days ago. He was looking for a c...

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It was a tragic week in Slave Lake. This pilot's death was the cherry on top of the shit cake... We did use a heli once this week, smaller than our usual needs, as our heli company got out of their way to find us a Blue Ridge-based replacement to help us out. But we now have two Haglund tracked vehi...

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Actually, we've been planting between Whitecourt and Fox Creek for a few days now, no snow problems. But we are a bit worried about possibly getting shut down because of the fire situation. I just saw a photo of the Ford dealership in Slave Lake - crazy. Folklore does a bit of work up there, not su...

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Pretty nice here around Fort Assiniboine, Alberta. We have some residual snow in the shadows on seismic lines, but nothing on the blocks. There's a bunch more on the hills north of Swan Hills.

We're flying in and setting up camp on Saturday and starting planting on Sunday, as planned.

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These guys have a link: I heard the 2009 season was huge 30,000 trees I won't comment on the corporate p.r. at work on the CAPP website and their ad campaign, but I know that, like most oilsands producers, ConocoPhilips has experimental tree-planting programs that they run in parallel to contractin...

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One down.

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Woah, seems I forgot to hit "next page" before posting my last message! Wow.. Those accusations make no sense. First of all no one feeds a breakfast like that for decades and gets away with it. Gym floor, really? Ppl sleep in tents not gyms u make no sense. I kno im a rookie but im taking ...

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I dare you to find a single ontario company with 100% positive feedback... it doesn't happen. Well, it seems Moose Creek pretty much got 100% positive feedback, so... As for A&M, all I'll say is that I have two planters who started there, including Carina, that have been planting for me in Albe...

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Well, I'm familiar enough with most classes to pitch, even though I don't know jack shit about one or two... SP-100 - I did that class on my rookie season, 8 years ago. Never got the occasion to renew it, but I still remember the basics I've learned. Won't claim anything official knowledge from it, ...

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Regarding the height, I'm aware of at least three box sizes, but I never measured. We use two heights for trees and shrubs seedlings in the oilsands that are different from the standard, or most common one. I'm also trying to remember if one of the two formats I used on "regular" contracts...

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Well, for the record, I understand how your situation sucks. It just seemed you guys were refraining form disclosing all the info due to the somewhat public nature of the forum, so I was just offering the possibility of the public messaging option... That said, I'll mind my own business and put my f...

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Oh I don't care, just looked like the OP could have got more and better info with a PM...

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Passed kilometers of creamy land a few times. Got my hopes up til my crew boss said it was reserved for aerial seeding :p Had the same experience. Creamiest block ever seen, no swamps, no rocks. Apparently, the conditions were too good for planters. Supervisor loved telling us we'd pass by the best...

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I don't want to be a dick, but you guys know there's a private message feature on the boards, right?

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I was too lazy/drunk to read the whole thread, but we in my camp, everyone washes their own dishes and the poor dude volunteering to wash the cook's stuff gets free camp costs...

I think it's a decent system.

I'll be back, I need to take a piss...

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Hi guys, Been a while, how you guys have been? I'd like to pretend I haven't been around much because I was busy, but it's mostly because I had nothing to say. More and more, the off-season is a reason for me to be lazy as fuck, and I must admit I was quite successful at it. But only after Christmas...

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This is a great ad on the topic that doesn't rely on shock value to get the message across...

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carinafleming wrote:ahaha, ZING! but seriously, i plant for outland too, so fuck you hammy.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Carina, come on, I was finally almost getting friend with Hammy!

But wait... you know him?

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Yes, Carina, there should be some, but the A&M people that frequent these boards moved on...just like you did.

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That Lada truck in the first one is definitely fake. As for the planting trucks vids, all I can think off right now is how great it feels when you get a truck out. The best feeling: When you call for help because you've tried everything, and while help is coming, you get it out! A great one was this...

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Sound like that bully? I am that bully! You know I'm just ripping on you... But really, I get tired of hearing people brag about how the never smoked. Haha, yes, sometimes you do. But, I agree with you. I didn't want to sound like bragging, i just smoked very little myself, and I wanted to point ou...

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Not bad, but what about this:

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