We have two distinct sections below. The first section features all of the annual Replant "Summer Memories" videos, each of which is about four minutes long. The second section is the "Basic Tree Planter Training" videos, which had to be broken up into nine separate sections since YouTube originally only allowed videos to be ten minutes long each (I'm going to re-film this video eventually).

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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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5DdbMaFKKE

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 2

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrMzeBNO1w

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 3

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ocOUsCbCI

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 4

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQ6jUYySuc

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 5

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cpZVlc8A4A

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 6

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJyctJlP1c

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 7

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f89v2vPti9k

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 8

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV-McIShQYk

Basic Tree Planter Training, Part 9

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuxHxk8cNs

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 download mp4 versions of each segment directly from YouTube, which are suitable for transferring to a video iPod.

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