1 Topic by Clive Sinclair (edited by Clive Sinclair 2008-08-09 07:21:13)

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Topic: Tree Planting

Has anyone here ever been tree planting?

The potential to make a lot of money is insane!

I went in northern British Columbia and planted for half a season. (about 1 1/2 months)

If you are a very good planter you can make $300+ CAN a day, and even more. It works out to about $15,000 - $20,000 in 3 months if you are insane.  I was not so good, but still had fun. And learned a lot. One day I planted 2000 trees @ 15 cents a tree and made 300 bucks. It was my best day.  I heard of people making $24,000 in one season. (about 3 months = 60 planting days(ish))

I listened to disco mixes the entire time. CBS/R4R helped me pull through!  I would say it was directly responsible for my enjoyment on the block.

I might go back next year.  ^_^

Here are some pictures:


This is the land we were planting one day, we were getting 13 cents per tree on this land.
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/1210/1000909yj1.jpg

A nice shot of the mountains on a burn plant. (They make a huge pile of the "slash" and then burn it. Most times long after it has been planted. We came in and planted the burn piles afterwards)
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/7640/1001034ql1.jpg


http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4127/1001162ys7.jpg


A picture of the cache, and some other planters I was working with.
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5120/1001183gs9.jpg


Me and the mountains. (The mountains are unreal, the most beautiful landscape I have ever seen!!!)
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7818/1001125pf5.jpg

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Re: Tree Planting

No man but I want to do that...do you have to go to treeplanting school?

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Re: Tree Planting

after seeing "duneman," im never going to a forest

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Re: Tree Planting

looks cool... add campfire, coffee and ryebread with lotsa butter\n\salami... voil

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5 Reply by Clive Sinclair (edited by Clive Sinclair 2008-08-09 19:37:25)

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Re: Tree Planting

No school needed, just pure endurance! 

I planted 520 trees my first day, it's really easy to learn. You just have to find a foreman on a company that will take you in, and most are happy if you say you will stay the entire season and not quit. (a lot of people quit halfway through because they can not handle it.)


http://www.replant.ca/phpBB3/

has a ton of info on planting.

Just have to space them correctly, there has to be 7 trees in an 8 meter diameter circle anywhere on your piece.

It's very long hours and hard work (bending over thousands of times a day, climbing over fallen trees and huge slash piles) , but very beautiful landscapes and quite an experience.

In the early morning I would throw on Pacific Northwest Sasquatch Research. It fit perfectly!

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i wish they had this in holland!

7 Reply by Sander (edited by Sander 2008-08-10 12:57:14)

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mina v. wrote:

i wish they had this in holland!

They want to make a forest here in Alphen. So I could give your name as volunteer.

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zeker weer om een of ander gifgrond schandaal te verdoezelen

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Re: Tree Planting

Interesting !!
And great pictures

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i would have enjoyed the silence

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Good for you!  I never had the courage to do this myself (not much of camper), but I have a few friends who did many seasons of planting out in B.C. and in northern Manitoba.  All of them consider it a life-changing experience.

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Re: Tree Planting

Clive Sinclair wrote:

One day I planted 2000 trees @ 15 cents a tree and made 300 bucks.

I listened to disco mixes the entire time. CBS/R4R helped me pull through!  I would say it was directly responsible for my enjoyment on the block.

You can paypal me some money, robots4robots you know smile

Edit: nice pics, seems fun!

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Squadra Smackos wrote:

zeker weer om een of ander gifgrond schandaal te verdoezelen

Ik geloof wel dat het vlak bij die gifbelt is.

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jayoverdose wrote:

i would have enjoyed the silence

My ears are never silence.  How more quiet it is, how louder I hear my ears.

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Re: Tree Planting

Hmm ... are there any tree-planting student programs? If yes I would have a nice choice between planting in Canada or being a volunteer in Icelandic National Parks ... hehe

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Sander wrote:
jayoverdose wrote:

i would have enjoyed the silence

My ears are never silence.  How more quiet it is, how louder I hear my ears.

same here.

this sounds really fuckin cool man. I would love to do this.

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17 Reply by Vomatron (edited by Vomatron 2009-03-10 01:50:29)

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It looks like nice surroundings, but isnt 300 $ for planting 2000 trees a bit of a rip off? Especially if we are talking canadian dollars...Id have to be paid a lot more to do that kinda work, but i realize that living expenditures might vary a lot...but its hard to believe many dutch robots would find that to be a reasonable salary either

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I'm too busy mixing concrete, that's what we need here

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19 Reply by Urban Insomnia (edited by Urban Insomnia 2009-03-13 02:38:13)

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Sounds like you enjoyed it.

I planted 4000 trees together with my father, but since we own parts of that forest, I did not get any pay... It was 4-5 years ago, I think only 2-3 trees have survived to this date, the deers had them for dinner. Way to much of them in that area.

Btw, "Mountains"? big_smile

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