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ESRI Collector is the most powerful I've come across but requires active licenses.

I used OziExplorer day-to-day right now but am looking at Gaia Maps pretty close.

I cut all my raster maps in GlobalMapper, which is a boss-ass GIS program.

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The main issue is Visas, which I know little about. Get a Visa and you'll get a job. Canada is better than Australia for planting work in terms of wages from what I understand. Through the treeplanting world you can find chainsaw work. Chainsaw work is broken into two primary categories, "falli...

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Does the WSCA get involved in this kind of thing at all? If there is a systemic problem with licensees' reforestation practices it would represent an enormous opportunity for silviculture contractors generally.

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Nice work.

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Also, not defending the company, just saying this article sucks and it would be nice to know more about how often this happens and exactly in what manner they failed to meet regen standards.

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Looks like they only have 600 or so hectares total, so we're talking a total obligation of just over 100,000 trees, which sounds like that's over the entire company life cycle. Also doesn't mention whether they didn't plant trees or whether they did and enough died that they failed to meet their fre...

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I've never seen poplar as a seed here in Canada myself.

It's a great bioengineering/erosion control species, along with willow, in swales etc. Willow through the moistest part then poplar as a barrier where it moves into higher/more arid ground.

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The industry is huge in the USA. About 1.5 Billion seedlings / year are planted. American Society has moved on from physical outdoor labor, and very little of it is done by actual Americans any more. Agriculture, Seafood, Nursery/Landscape, Silviculture Labor, the story is all the same and largely ...

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I'd also like to hear how fluffer shops. Without deal hunting the only way I know of to get down to $10 day definitely relies on rice and beans as a primary source of nutrition and includes steady variations on the following: Quick oats Fruit on sale/discounted/Bananas Eggs Pancakes Rice Beans Tuna ...

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Of course it isn't about the best interests of the worker and it's about downgrading liability, but the principle is nothing new. I also don't think drug testing would have any substantive effect on real world safety in silviculture, but who's naiive enough to believe that's the purpose of it? Given...

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I'm confused by Jordan's post about pre-hire screening being illegal, because in the oilfield pre-hire screening is the norm. Not sure what the difference is? They call it "pre-access" screening, perhaps there's a legal difference between testing for the purpose of hiring and testing for t...

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97% survival (claimed) for those wearing an avalanche air bag. Here's an example. The mountain sledders I know swear by them now. Also heard good things about the training provided by the Canadian Avalanche Association in Revelstoke. This is how quick you have to be to actually rescue someone that's...

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That's a surprisingly public post. The frustration is understandable though.

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Yeah, straight littering them seems like a bizarre thing for a forester to suggest/approve. Must be a harvesting forester who lost an in-house poker game and had to be the one to deal with the silviculture shit.

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They make great fire starter for burning slash piles. If we are going to burn slash piles anyway, why not use these wax covered boxes to help ignite them. I would suggest flattening and storing the boxes where they can be quickly retrieved for burning season. It's much cheaper than using other form...

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ALWAYS assume a road is radio ASSISTED not controlled and drive as if another vehicle without a radio could be around any corner. From the BC Forest Safety Council website http://www.bcforestsafe.org/road_channels "All road users are reminded that forest service roads and the majority of resou...

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Not too impressed with that. Most of it is general driving safety and it's not laid out in a way that makes anyone read the unique/important stuff in an obvious way. I think they need something that conveys the unique nature of driving on resource roads and to especially emphasize the importance of ...

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I planted two years for them, 2012 and 2013, with different foremen, and it made a huge difference. A huge one. The longer I stick in the insdustry, the more I realize that as a young planter, I was very critical of administration and shit happening. But seriously, a lot of the "shit" hap...

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How does pay work for burning? Is it a day-rate kind of thing? Hourly? What kind of money are we talking on a daily basis with an average burning season in October/November? I'm disconnected from it but a few years ago I called spectrum and they were paying guys $135/day for burning, providing acco...

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Interesting, thanks Scooter.

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In BC, the median hourly wage for a professionally accredited land surveyor is about $30/hour. It seems the average coastal vet would be making about this amount, if not more, even today on the average contracts (excluding the Osprey type low outliers and the Rainforest type high outliers). I would...

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As someone who's never worked the coast I've always been curious about wages. In BC, the median hourly wage for a professionally accredited land surveyor is about $30/hour. It seems the average coastal vet would be making about this amount, if not more, even today on the average contracts (excluding...

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Not too early. Don't be afraid to follow up a couple of times with the companies you're most interested in.

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Talk to a bunch of the people you worked with and try to get a larger northern AB or BC company to take you on as a group. The smaller interior companies won't be interested in such a group, but the larger northern ones might. Keep in mind stashing is treated more like a criminal offense out west (w...

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You just glob the gelling agent into the piles beforehand or it somehow works attached to the torch?

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Been a long time since I've done it but drip torch worked well. Not sure what the gas/diesel ratio was but I know for firefighting now there is specific drip torch fuel, which I assume would work well in this application? Straight diesel doesn't work as you need something like gas in a smaller propo...

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If you have a client who wants you to wear steel toed boots regardless of the fact that it makes no sense, here's somewhere to direct them: "A worker in the logging industry walking on logs or on steep sidehills or uneven ground will generally not wear safety-toed footwear. Note section 8.23(2)...

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"Surprising lack of variety and innovation" hits the nail on the head. I was at the NCSO Conference in Alberta this year and it was pretty clear to me that the safety industry does not draw many great minds to it at this point. This is of course a gross generalization, but the types of peo...

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I think Evergreen hit the nail on the head that bureaucracy costs related to safety programs are skyrocketing, though I have no clue if that's the reason for this particular WSCB jump. The WSCB has always struck me as rather Kafka-esque, and I've yet to meet a bureaucrat from the WSCB, WSIB or WCB t...

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I worked with some people (non-silviculture) who wore a lot of 10 Tree and thought they were pretty special for doing so.

So I had this printed, wore it and told them it was a line for treeplanting "insiders" only. They didn't get it.

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Thanks WCB.

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In my opinion, the top industry risk exposure for serious/fatal incidents are: 1. Vehicles 2. Planters working alone. Illness/falls/allergic reaction/wildlife etc. I'd wager if a planter were to be mauled/dragged/killed by a bear like the Suncor worker in Fort McMurray was this year (unprovoked, sus...

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I was really happy with the Ram Mounts I used. They have a bunch of parts that fit together that let you do whatever you need to, including attachments to most major products (Garmin, iPad, smart phones, etc.) GPS Central in Calgary is a great place for anyone in Southern AB. http://www.gpscentral.c...

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Uh oh, the market is setting the price for land! Call the NDP, quick, better give the farmers cheap access to HAY land! What an absurd dumbing down of an incredibly complex issue. Not to mention 16,000 hectares as her scary worst-case scenario number represents about .006% of farm land in BC. There'...

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Really hard to say, it depends on the camp/company. Ontario companies sometimes hire as many as 100 to start for a 70 person camp (A&M used to do this), knowing they'd have quitters/firings down to a 60-70 person camp. Camps that are great at developing rookies might only lose 1 out of every 10....

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The question that started this thread was "Why aren't stashers being dealt with?". Based on the responses thus far, it seems that in most cases they are being dealt with, and harshly. However, the "dealing with" process is probably not something that companies like to talk about...

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As much as I don't like the idea of DEET, the idea of deet-free repellants is like the idea of alcohol free beer.

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I have heard third person of situations where foreman either pressure or aid their planters in stashing because they are getting a percentage. This would of course be caught the same way as a planter being caught by his foreman just higher up the chain. That is of course unless the corruption goes ...

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Yeah, sorry, not a joke, there's obviously that way. I stitched mine in so the loosest it could go would still stay on me, not that seatbelts are nearly as bad as the plastic buckles for loosening.

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dirtpenetrator wrote:I'm thinking of getting a seatbelt buckle for my bags this summer. How are you supposed to go about attaching it?

You have to stitch it in. Take it to a tailor and they'll do it cheap if you don't know how to do that kind of thing.

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Dishes are really individual, but the stuff that sells at fast food places tends to get good response if you're not in a camp chock full of people with gourmet tastes. People love pizza nights, burger nights and taco nights, that sort of thing. Not exciting from a cook/chef's perspective, but there'...

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Block treats delivered to the block via drone?

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Does Pelly know he's front page on that site, or is like when 10 Tree used Brad on their homepage lol?

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It becomes very easy to cloud the issue of liability in situations like this, and all so easy to point fingers at the contractor and say, "They knew what they were getting into when they bid, and with proper regulation, the market will dictate a proper price for ensuring standards are met.&quo...

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I agree 100% Jordan. I think, however, this is one of the last places we would see change. It's cheaper to lump bid it and very difficult to make a legal argument that bidding it out as such creates greater worker risk. Licensees might increase standards on paper, but likely to little effect. This i...

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ontario_grunt wrote: I still had fun though... Because for all the bad things.. there still ain't no party like an A&M party.

That sums up why Ontario works. Fun, not pay.

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Some industrial sites mandate one or the other. The site I used to work on said "Wire slings only, no rope/strap slings." Other sites in the area say the exact opposite, "Rope/strap slings only, no wire slings." I don't really get what makes the difference so significant that one...

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Yeah I think 777s are small enough that you don't worry about the flag as much, they're standard on road building projects up here where there's competent ground and you don't see guys using buggy whips on there. I think strobe lights are mandatory with most contractors, however. It just makes sense...

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So just curious what your checklist of safety gear might look like for a vehicle. I went to a mine site today, with several more to go very soon. I think this is my list to be up-to-code with the truck on an active mine property in the USA: First Aid Kit Fire Extinguisher Flashing Strobe CB Radio W...

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As a foreman, if you're guesstimating piece sizes and throwing plots on your guys, it becomes pretty apparent when boxes aren't being accounted for. Small amounts of stashing might go unnoticed over a few weeks, but it becomes pretty obvious when somebody appears to consistently be over allocation w...

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