.uck This Place - Tree Planting

[3GBlog]

Man your playlist is insane. I would seriously pay for a look at your itunes

[stu15stu11]

Can someone please inform me. Im going this season to plant in BC around price goerge. Do alot of these guys smoke weed? I wana be sure i can find some ganja cause i wana be blazin all day while doing this

[dimenxful]

dancidelics you should stay away from planting... were here to make cash

[kaieteurdevon]

If half of the American military planted trees for 1 hour 192 million trees would get planted

World record is an average of 264 per person in 1 hour

[cliveconey]

ok guys, so how many are you planting in a day? i work in scotland, normally on steep clearfell with brash and crap all over it, non cultivated ground, and i plant about 2650 on a very good day (8 hours), the most anyone has ever planted in our crew is 3400. i wana see what you guys in the rest of the world consider a good day? please, no bull s****, im genuinly intrested.

[natemartin167]

@cliveconey - this video is from wildwoods in nothern alberta, likely the highest production camp in canada. Very experienced planters and fast ground=big numbers. top planters can avg close to 6000 trees in 9 hours. The biggest single day total is 9450 ( i believe) but that is extremely (!!) rare. the mid to low range planters here avg between 2500 - 3500 trees/day. again all of these numbers are awfully high. A camp in ontario with low experience would avg around 1800-2000.

10cents/pop

[572ss1972]

@cliveconey 2650 tress a day?! Now thats sound like bullshit to me, unless you are stuffing 4 trees per-hole. A 1000-1200 a day is more like it.

[rosskoful]

@572ss1972 not bullshit. the terrain is really flat and often prepped. it only takes between five and ten seconds to plant a tree.

[DaMagikStik]

@572ss1972

more than possible, for a lot of people on my crew it's a daily average to hit 2500 trees. 1000 trees a day at 10 cents a tree = 100$ i dont know anyone stupid enough to go planting for 100$ a day. those are some rookie numbers right there.

[572ss1972]

Do you guys stash tree's when you are paid by the tree? I would assume that where the REAL money is. Do you also have a female planter.. better known as the crew slut? Is tree planting one of the last jobs out there that does not drug test you? Do you all smoke bowl before you start your "no future" job for the day? 98% of planters have a missing tooth or two, is that true?

[fidellah23]

@572ss1972 Don't stash trees. There are sluts...no lies there.I have never been drug tested but I have seen guys get fired for smoking dope.No ,we do not all smoke weed before work,I don't for one I guess.I am missing a tooth, I broke it on a wrench while taking the exhaust out of a car.

[lajmobile]

4:53 moskitos, 6:19 tight spacing and 3:31 the look on the girl with the purple shirt says everything, ``what the hell I am doing here`` hey good video. Ex bc costal planter.

[drewkroeker]

The guy at 0:43, is his name Justin Sharpe? Because he looks awfully familiar

[cornbread77]

No man. This is video is from 2005 and the guy is Mr. Moody. One the best planters ever, and a hell of a nice guy.

[TheInfantree]

hey great vid!! Check out Tree Planting in Australia on TheInfantree channel

We 've had a few canadians on our crew over the years and welcome more

Come downunder!! see if you can keep up with us :P

[treeplanter007]

Hey, nice sticker! Shut Up & Plant! We are running another 10,000 of these for 2011.

This is a great video. Me and my bro earned out notches in High Level Alberta before shutting down our company (Sundog Reforestation) back in the mid 90s. Loved every minute of it and worked with a TON of great people.

Hats off to Wildwoods. By all accounts a stellar company!

Enjoy the swamps, bugs, flat-ass land, long nights, mud, heat, and more.

Party at the Stardust!

[bananiolo2]

There's so many people who say that's a tuff experience... But is it good enough to go (salary and fun)?

[thiznametaken]

We are all critics aren't we ? How about that Brett Favre man !!

[vipserson]

holy small spacing! one step, plant. must be throwin' 20 plots! you could plant 4000+ a day with 1M spacing!

[HBOMB99]

I took the biggest most frequent shits of my life while planting. I expect the one outside of McBride BC to out last the trees I planted.

[bencalejackson]

basically contracts will have a radius that they want trees to be spaced at because if they are too close when they mature there roots tangle, branches hit blah blah blah. Most spacing done is 7-9 feet (in my experience) but this guy is planting much closer. I would be interested to know if his contract was set at 5 feet (approx) or he is just planting tight. If his checkers see trees arent spaced he might have to replant...

[ricemeowz]

this is the best job in the world!

[heroinharold]

@ricemeowz you must be a rookie.. worst fucking job ever but at the same time lot's of fun.

[giiwed]

u tree planters are a mesy, messy breed......i just spent all day cleaning tree planting vans at outland thunder bay

[MrSimo222]

u feelas got a preety sick lokkin set up I run a tree plantin crew in aus allways lookin for some guns who wanna make some $ and have a ball why doin it check out our clip cant stop planting were an army of tree planters The Infantree.

[scuzzulus]

damn guy at 6:15 is a pounder who is that?

[bencalejackson]

anyone who gets a contract with 5 feet planting can pound like that, 1 step, pound, step, pound...not to say he isnt good but yea, not that impressive in my opinion

[lahnaclannb]

whats the song at 2:50 , I cant figure it out?

[lahnaclannb]

haha great title, totally agree

[cymo70]

This brings back some awesome memories, working for Nechako Reforestation in 1997. Any old Nechako crew please holler.. Si from Australia

[pattyd2112]

hey im 16 and i am planning on going on the irving crew in nb,i just want to know how long until you get used to the place and routine?and yeah im in it for the experience and the cash for sure

[PuggFugget]

tough to get hired if ur only 16 dude

[paulcarpentier96]

That reminds me of my years...wow..its a tough job..i forgot about that!!!! Good job guys..and i appreciate the hard work every silviculture workers do!..as for what gate243 said on job interview....soooo true!

[ripousse]

1:20 : is the dude in the red shirt Jason Konopad ?

[cornbread77]

No. It is the famous Yohan.

[njagala]

awesome vid guys! So realistic compared to some of the more glam shots on the web. not that I don't enjoy romanticizing planting but this one brings back real memories

[AndrewKFletcher]

If we could take this to Africa and work from the desert coastine inland we could roll back the deserts and cause it to rain where it no longer rains

[Lacepaste]

what the eff is this no screef business????!!!!!!! Just plant and stomp eh? ahahaha hope you guys didnt have to replant

[jaydoubleyou23]

fuck the screeeeeeeefff

awesome video by the by.

man that aerial view looked like some nice land.

[dancidelics]

Hey the only issue and reason i wont go tree plating yet is this...

most "replanting" crews just work for a paper/pulp company, and every tree you plant gives them the ability to cut one more down the next year.

so am i actually doing a good thing???? doesnt seem like this is actually helping at all, unless im wrong???

i want to be on a reforesting and reclamation team that is there just to replant the forest for good, not just filling the quota for next year.

please get back to me

peace

[alexpeters]

there are oil companies doing reforestation, but treeplanting isn't about choice, so you probably won't get a job if you're so picky. I would say don't treeplant your doing it for the wrong reasons.

[Marlborough212]

Well its only as of the early 80s that companies had to replant at all, now for every tree that is cut one has to be planted. Better than nothing, right?

I don't think it's possible to plant for reclamation in Canada, and if it is, your certainly won't be paid. I believe planting in Central America and Russia is volunteer work, but it will probably still be cut eventually.

At least by planting we give them trees to cut other than 1000-yea-old redwoods.

[dancidelics]

Good call, but I would still like to see other resources used that could be more efficient.

[gate243]

If you apply for a treeplanting job and tell the interviewer you want to help the environment, he/she will laugh in your face. Companies are only looking for people who want money and are willing to work hard for it, because these are the only people who will manage to stick with it and plant a lot of trees in spite of the bugs, rain, heat, and isolation. Planters who are doing it to save the planet or because it sounds like an exciting experience end up quitting by the end of the first week.

[fidellah23]

@gate243 hahahaha probably one of the most intelligent comments I have read on yourtube...alot of truth behind that one..props man.I tree plant,I work hard for the money,I love the forest,but if I had a chance to cut the fucking things down for a good wage I wouldn't hesitate to take a saw to them.

[natemartin16]

Hey man,

Planted with the guy who made this video, after this video was made. No one here is under the impression they are helping the environment out. You are making sik cash working for the bad guy. Sure reclamation and reforestation is better for the environment, but if you're going to put up with the million horrors of planting you might as well do it for the most $ you can.

[cornbread77]

Hahahahahahaha. Oh dear!

[tsferg]

@cornbread77 I hear they bring the trees in by unicorn on that contract.

[jaydoubleyou23]

@ dancidelics

Smelly hippie.

When you plant a tree, 4 are getting cut down.

And trees dont fully grow in a year... I'm sure you know that ;-)

I was told logging companies are obliged by the government to replant 25% of the trees that they cut down. If this is false, please reply.

[brickwallsoup]

@jaydoubleyou23 at 10-25 cents a tree they dont give fuck what happens once they get paid

[mikcross]

@jaydoubleyou23

actually we are operating at about 95%

and wood is the first and only truly renewable resource

[treeplanter007]

@jaydoubleyou23

Companies have to "satisfactorily restock" the land that they harvest and look after it until it is "free to grow" - or face heft fines.

[TheJollyGerman]

@jaydoubleyou23 I cant say this is false but I was planting for Tembec this summer and we were told that they plant 3 trees for each one harvested

[casstiger14]

@dancidelics LMFAO!!! Don't ever go planting fucktard

[soupdogg316]

@dancidelics if they dont plant to refill there quota... where do you think they get there tree's .... you think the company stops making money?

[BuddaChong]

@dancidelics do you live in a house made of wood? do you read the newspaper? ever wiped you ass with tp? if so, you're part of the problem..just like the rest of us. the only difference between you and me is that I try to plant 100,000 trees per season....while making some pretty dece money along the way. doesnt sound like such a bad deal!

[ThomasOscarMills]

@dancidelics

Hey Man, Do you know how expensive it is to tree plant large areas of the province? If industry is not going to pay for it then who will? The taxpayer can-not/will-not foot the bill for the tree planting that goes on in BC. By the time a tree gets into the hands of a tree planter the total cost for that single tree is approximately five dollars. An average tree planter will plant 2000 trees a day over an average 60 day season. Then all the other costs can be added on...

[UncleVinty]

@dancidelics I planted for a number of years but only in the US. Planted for the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and various private paper and lumber companies, not to mention I also did tree stand improvement and Christmas tree plot on private property.

A company that buys foreclosed eroded property and puts it on a 15-30 yr roation for pulp is doing a sustainable renewable action

[UncleVinty]

@UncleVinty but going in and timbering 1st growth stands is a different issue.

Oh, I clear cuts, select cuts, after forest fires, scarified and burned and some that were pure thorns..oh the delights

[TheInfantree]

@dancidelics if that's the only reason perhaps you should consider the larger picture. If pulp trees aren't planted than where will the pulp come from?? Unless you have a way to replace all pulp products pulp plantations are a requirement & the sustainability of such plantations is the key to not harvesting reforested areas.

[gfresh42]

@dancidelics

If you went to plant simply to do something good, no one would last for that reason alone. Besides the point, the pulp company is required to re-plant any tree they cut down. It's not like trees are planted, then are cut down the next year.

[gfresh42]

@dancidelics

If you went to plant simply to do something good, no one would last for that reason alone. Besides the point, the pulp company is required to re-plant any tree they cut down. It's not like trees are planted, then are cut down the next year.

[DaMagikStik]

@gfresh42 Better to plant a tree for every tree cut down then not to replant them at all....

[beaner215]

@dancidelics

people dont treeplant to save the earth, we plant to make money.

[ManOfQuail]

@dancidelics

We do it for money chum not to save the planet aahaahahaha

[senseofstile]

@dancidelics Yes you are wrong. The paper company manages their land. Hence they never run out. What you are saying is something like; Why should we plant tomatoes for next years harvest? Answer; So we can eat them next year. Why should we plant trees for pulpwood? Se we can have paper.

[aaronjohnson87]

@dancidelics Nobody goes treeplanting to help the environment dude. Yeah, you're working for a forestry company that contracts with a pulp mill, and yeah it's great money. Environmentalism is a bad motive to go, because you wouldn't last 2 weeks.

[anthonypi]

We use to make anywhere from 10 -20 cents a tree depending on the job..my last 7 years of planting if i didn't make at least $100.00-$150.00 a day I went to another job..hope you guys are making more than that now..then again i had a million and half in the ground and not shit to show for it after I stopped.. ; )

[anthonypi]

I planted for ten years back in the 80's , sort of brings back memories but i planted in Or and Wash US BC once.. we ran smaller crews and had to set up our own camps and stuff.. "a thousand trees a day or you we're on your way!

" and not those little plugs , those Weyerhouser supper 2/1 trees

[treeplanter007]

Right on! I made those Shut Up & Plant stickers at the start.

PLUS, I live planting in High Level. Good old Tsuga Forestry and Sundog Forestry (before we shut down Sundog and Wildwoods moved in). Those were the days!

Great video.

[treeplanter007]

Right on! I made those Shut Up & Plant stickers!

[freewillstill]

nice 1 jay,u should put the 2000 one!..;)

[cutterhcaz]

what was your density there??? That guy at 6:15 looked like he was planting 16's or something!!

[antosplit]

Reply to Cutterhcaz it was mounts i think man, you don't need to car with the densitiy on mounted land.

Nice Video man, were you going to the block in helicopter every day ?? this summer i was in BC for Apex, the bring us back to the truck 2 time in Helicopter, it was Fucken AWESOME Man, i was High the second time, lolll that was one of the niciest moment of my life or of the summer for sure,

FUCK MAN Get paid for doing Helicopter only 2 time in the summer on 3 month is priceless

[brian77764]

Ya, seen it, you guys work hard!

[VanIsleBC]

look at all these dirty sluts creamin out all penut butter

[pinadjin93]

sure do not miss this job

[brent440]

hiking in rough terrain, bending over..reminds me of siesmographing, hand placing then stomping in geophones. Not too many jobs that keep you in shape like this

[pacrimmushrooms]

I planted 15 years ago and this video brings me back, like I never left...

Prices havent changed, camp fees gone up...

good luck out there, and happy memories, because thats all you'll really save from this job...

[tsferg]

You can easily pay for school and have lots of money left over or, you can just save for something goooooooood, like trips or houses. Maybe you got ripped off?

[loco5522222]

come on guys not impress at all , i been planting trees for four years now in Tillamook OR you should try to come here and see the difference (perez reforestation)

[TrePlanter]

0.38... straightest furrows I've ever seen. Then again, I planted Ontario where there is no such thing as Euclidian geometry.

[Gadulaksinjan]

Yes, it's straight, but sometimes, it's nice from far, but it's far from nice.

[Gadulaksinjan]

And by the way, I can't believe they're still planting with those prehistoric bags and shity wrapped tree.

[DGordonN]

Hey can anyone give me advice on applying for this? I live in AB ive wanted to do this for so long.

[Slowsis]

I like the gumbo on the planters boots at 4:03-4:05.

Fuck gumbo. :P

[bildo14]

this vid makes me want to head back into the bush for another season! good stuff!

[lazyeye99]

good vid. actually HAS changed - you don't have to screef anymore

[mjok2004]

Nice vid dude, I am about to go out planting here in Australia. Will shake up the body for a few days I think.

[scuzzulus]

anyone know the url for the wildwoods homepage?

[Kovy2Seven]

Dynamite video! I worked for Brinkman for a few seasons in Alberta and on the coast and had a blast. You meet some the best, original, good hearted people out there. I'm kind of missing it right now as the season is really getting going and I'm out of the country. But than again...

[mtnerb2]

Yup, That about sums it up! Hasn't changed in 20 years

[VanIsleBC]

haha settlers of catan. it's a good game

[y4nnidepp]

fuck i hope they play settlers wherever i end up tree planting this summer

[andrerik]

great video, but holy shit, were you guys planting 12's or something?

[Emanusmell]

you guys are all heros.

Treeplanting is awesome stuff.

[mnwainwright]

that there is some high-density planting.... and some top notch planters. i can see why wildwoods is the crew to be on (if you plant in alberta).

[staphinfection]

Give me a constant supply of cannabis and opiates, and I could get lost out there for an eternity. Kudos to all those men and women keeping our planet green.

[bogmanman]

lol look at all the bugs! it takes a differnt kind of person to handel that countery. i spent 10 yrs i zama and loved every day, but hated the bugs. good vid

[marksman303]

Holy shit! How could you love Zama at all let alone for 10 years. I was up there for 3 and that was plenty thanks.