We have three distinct sections below. The first is a single video, Scooter's "2009 Biography" video. The next section features all of the annual Replant summer "planting memories" videos, each of which is about four minutes long. Finally, the last section is the "Basic Tree Planter Training" videos, which had to be broken up into nine separate sections since YouTube only allows videos to be ten minutes long.

Click here to visit a web page about Mike Allison, the recording artist who wrote and performed the backing music for all of my planting videos. We will soon have all of these songs available as free MP3 downloads from our message boards.

Basic Tree Planting Training Video:

We now have a basic planter training video available, designed for people who have not started planting trees yet, to cover very basic ideas and concepts about planting. It was designed to be useful in most tree planting environments in Western Canada, but of course rules and planting approaches can vary drastically from contract to contract. In other words, don't assume that the content is 100% accurate everywhere that you'll plant.

If you've never planted before, and you're curious about what is involved in planting, this video will certainly enlighten you. Technically, from an "acceptable quality" point-of-view, there is a lot more to planting a tree than you might initially imagine. And if you have already secured a job for the upcoming season, and it will be your first summer of planting, this video can literally make you money. Think about it: you have maybe fifty or sixty days of planting ahead of you. You will start your season making maybe twenty or thirty dollars per day. Soon (hopefully within a week) you will improve your skills to the point where you should be able to make over a hundred dollars per day. By the end of your first summer, you should be making maybe two hundred dollars per day. So essentially, every day that you can put yourself "forward on the learning curve," you're adding one of those high-margin two-hundred-dollar days to your season. And if you fully understand the information in this video, it can possibly give you a two or three day head start over people who hit the field with absolutely no idea of what is involved. So trust us, if you're a rookie planter, it will be worth your while to watch each segment of the basic training video a couple times, until you're sure that you understand what we're talking about.

The basic training video was filmed in moderately high quality, and is about 75 minutes in length. Since the original video file was several gigabytes in size, it was therefore a bit too large to be available as a direct download from the internet. To solve this problem, we've broken the video into nine distinct sections and posted each section sequentially on YouTube. As you scroll down through this page, you can either play each video, segment by segment, as an in-line streamed object (or you can jump directly to the YouTube page which features the appropriate segment). Anyway, grab a bag of popcorn or a couple of cold beer, and enjoy ...

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 1

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_3b9cslhUfg

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 2

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=95w4tj8Vgno

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 3

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UJbGvFUp8VE

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 4

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gifvaW6lOTs

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 5

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBSQS2WvgI

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 6

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5dd5NGhtM

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 7

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0RQ2Y8pSAzk

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 8

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIvzv3MfZ8

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 9

YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TFtdKltYorM

Thanks for watching our basic planter training video! Click here to go to the Message Boards to leave feedback about the video. You can also right-click on this link and chose the "save link as" or "save target as" option to save a copy of the video to your local computer in mp4 format, which is suitable for transferring to a video iPod. It's big (almost 500 megs) so download it with FireFox or a browser that has a download manager, if possible.

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Scooter's "2009 Biography" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2008 Planting Memories" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2007 Planting Memories" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2006 Planting Memories" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2005 Planting Memories" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2004 Planting Memories" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2003 Planting Memories" video:

The REPLANT.CA "2002 Planting Memories" video:

Basic Tree Planting Training Video: