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20 years! I just looked, my replant 20th anniversary isn’t till the end of next year. I’m gonna throw the saddest party

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Really great post, I love these glimpses into the history of the business. I started planting trees in 2002, so much of that is before my time. Hearing these kinds of accounts often gives me some good context for how the industry got to be the way it is today. As far planters being paid more, and tr...

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Thanks for that newforest, I really enjoy your reports from south of the border. Yours is a perspective that is pretty unique, and not really available anywhere else.

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I was in Bella Coola two weeks ago, and I saw a couple references to the community forest’s planting program. One article I read talked about planting 40k trees in a season, and it sounded like they hired locals directly.

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Red alder?

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That was pretty good!

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Certainly looks bad on paper, but would it play out that way in the field? I can’t speak for brinkman, but I know that Seth and Zanzibar have both done those contracts in the past. Presumably they know the costs and margins associated with these jobs. Speaking from my own experience, just because so...

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So BCTS decided to direct-award the Haida Gwaii contract this year, to Stephan contracting. I’m pretty sure that is a first for them, and the decision stems from not wanting to have a contractor bring people on-island during these covid times, as well as reducing the political friction between BCTS ...

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Lots of fresh logging up here on Haida Gwaii, I don’t think it even slowed down due to the pandemic.

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So using that as an indicator, it sounds like there will be a few lean years coming up for Vancouver island planting?

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Is there any logging happening on the island these days?

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One of my favourite jobs. Glad to be on it again after a few years off

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Those few useless ones in the arch of your foot are good to rotate out to the inside of your big toe, as I find having sharp ones there just shreds the bottom of your rain pants.

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Replant is truly the home of the silviculture nerds, and that's not meant as an insult.

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True that

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Hindsight is always 20-20 when it comes to bid results. I don't disagree that they could have bid higher, but I bet they need that job a lot more than their competitors. A small local company's season can be made or broken by winning or losing a job like that.

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I got nosy and ended up finding this document: https://www.gormanbros.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/GGOC-WCSIC-Wood-Producer-Information-Package-2017.pdf It's dated August 1 2017, so it is possible some of it is out of date. If you scroll down to around page 8, there is a list of contacts...

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In November and December 2017 I was on a job on Porcher island, where the contract was split between Stephan Contracting and Great Bear. Or maybe we subcontracted through them, I can’t remember. We didn’t actually work with them, but worked next to them quite a bit. I saw everything Dave mentioned a...

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So anyways... what you all think it would take to get us, as an industry, to adopt a model where we are paid to live away from home? Is this even possible? I’m thinking JDT will say probably not, but maybe it could be in form of a tax credit? Or just an improvement to the existing RWA?

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I’ve never used a saw smaller than the 460, but for light cutting in the 1” diameter range I would think just about any saw that you can put a circular blade on would work just fine. I usually don’t stray from the 550, just because it’s what I know and suits the jobs I do, but a lot of brushers seem...

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Everyone needs to make at least 100$ a day more than they do now. That’s how I feel, anyways.

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Yes, good work fellas. You guys are really doing a fantastic job with all this data collection and analysis. This is the most interesting this thread has been in a few years. I’m feeling optimistic about the next few years.

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I believe one of those terrace jobs opened today

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That's probably it

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Chances are good that spectrum is not being acquired for their silviculture operations, but for their other more profitable divisions. This is just an assumption on my part, but I suspect that the logic would be similar to carillion's takeover of Outland a few years back.

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Sorry to hear about all that Scotty, you don't deserve to be treated that way. It boggles my mind that a company as large as (redacted) has the time and the inclination to mete out retribution to individuals who have voiced their points of view. Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing in the...

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I hear a lot about how the MPB work isn't what it used to be, but it seems that there is some money being spent on fir and spruce beetle control from about Mackenzie down to Williams lake or so. Does anyone on here know more about this? Which companies are doing it? Is it purely a government project...

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I think that company was once known as coastal trilling reforestation, whatever that means. I called them up years ago to see what the deal was, the guy offered me a foreman or supervisor job before I had even told him my name. Something about that made me think twice, but having said that, this was...

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I was saw shopping today for a new spacing saw, and was seriously considering the 441, but in the end I broke down and bought a 372 husky. I'm just too set in my ways.

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This is a name I am seeing more and more these days. Seems to be a small outfit run by someone named Mihai Todosia, which google tells me is probably Romanian in origin. Not that that matters, but it isn't a name you hear every day. Anyhow, they seems to mostly concentrate on brushing work and are b...

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Woodworks Works reforestation is the stupidest company name I e ever heard

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Sorry you had to put up with all that. So what is this Cory fellow's association with Dewan?

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If you are interested in red pine PCT strategies, I used to do a lot of that work between sault st. marie and Sudbury, and presumably that still goes on. In particular, vermillion forest management, out of Sudbury had a large and very active program.

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I would stick to birds and fish if I were in a planting camp. Mostly because they are the easiest to catch and process, but also because they will attract less negative attention than a deer or rabbit hanging in camp. I figure as long as you're within the regulations you have every right to eat wild...

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Tell me more

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That makes me feel a bit better

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Never too late to get a job in Ontario

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Well thanks for clarifying Jordan, I appreciate your input as always. I had the same conversation with a former officer the other day, and I was told the same thing that scooter was. I've never seen good dog policy implemented anywhere. Not in 16 seasons, or with about 15 different contractors. I fe...

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I don't use facebook anymore, so I figured I'd try and start this discussion here and se what happens

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I like dogs, mostly, but I do not believe they should be be allowed on job sites or in working vehicles. In fact, WCB states ( reg. 17.7) that animals may not ride in the passenger compartment of a vehicle unless there is a special compartment designed to secure them. I wonder how long it will be be...

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There's over a foot of snow at sea level in queen Charlotte right now

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As for the regular, or sinocast protectors, the range you gave is pretty typical for average production. That being said, once planters get enough experience with these things it's possible to put in a lot more.

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Yes I have a fair bit of experience working with vexars. I've done them a few ways, using both bamboo and cedar stakes. In my experience they do an excellent job of growing Douglas fir, and a pretty poor job of growing cedars. Cedar stakes attached with zip ties is time consuming and expensive, whil...

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Here's a video to put prof's comment in perspective
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

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Well, there is the Container Tree Nursery Manual, published by the US forest service. Could be a good place to start

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Here is a link to the results of a forestry forum that was held back in October

http://www.taanforest.com/Forest_Forum_online_V3.pdf

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Spent fuel rod highballers

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I think that's the case, but I didn't follow it all that closely. I drive by that cut block every now and then, and it still looks like shit after all these years. At this point it would be nice if it was either planted or developed somehow instead of just being a bunch of slash piles by the highway

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Aren't bid deposits no longer required?

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