what would you do for 22 cents ?

[dude_le_skibum]

what is cool about treeplanting is that you are paid by production. you want to slack off, well you are more then welcome to. but if you are motivated cash is a nice option. The key to treeplanting is efficiency and intelligence. the less you work hard the more trees you can plant. as simple as that

basically for 22 cents would ya bend over, swing a shovel a a rock and run in slash over your head. yes.


here is a short vid....

Treeplanting 101 (http://www.eengoedidee.nl/parsefiles/?type=jackass&filename=p1010090.mov)

[Blurred]

Originally posted by dude_le_skibum
what would you do for 22 cents ?

I wouldn't plant a tree, hell I'd give you 22 cents if you gave me the heads up on that shitty 10.0 mb clip of nothing.

[Hicks]

..prostitute myself...I've always been cheap....

[Crinkle]

pull my finer.

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by Crinkle
pull my finer.

your whhhat?

[Cosmic Bandito]

Dude_Le,

Would this be viable tree-planting math...

100 seedlings an hour, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, 14 weeks.

Approximately $18,000 for your efforts.

[Buster Highmen]

1000/day is busting it. Hard.

[CantDog]

Originally posted by Cosmic Bandito
Dude_Le,

Would this be viable tree-planting math...

100 seedlings an hour, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, 14 weeks.

Approximately $18,000 for your efforts.



Unfortunately thats 18,000 CAD, so only like 63 real dollars.

Really though, what did you make this summer Dude? A job that would go until August, allow me to live outside in the woods, and pay well is something I'd definately want to do next year.

[Crinkle]

Originally posted by Yossarian
your whhhat?

finer= finger in french duh?

not really i just suck at typing

[fiddler]

22cents? hmmm. I was thinking This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

[Obstruction]

Change four nickels w/ 2 cents leftover.

[13]

dude,

Are they all the same species? In the same clearcut?

[iceman]

Originally posted by 13
dude,

Are they all the same species? In the same clearcut?

Welcome to modern forestry.

Some badass beetle or fungus will inevitably come along and kill the whole damn forest because it's a fackin cloned monoculture, but let's not worry about that.

[dipstik]

Originally posted by BlurredElevens
I wouldn't plant a tree, hell I'd give you 22 cents if you gave me the heads up on that shitty 10.0 mb clip of nothing.

yeah, what exactly was that a movie clip of?

[splat]

Well, feel rich, bitch.

The last time I attended the hoedad blisterama, it paid .01 per tree.

Don't ask.

[iceman]

Originally posted by splat

Don't ask.

Yeah, right.

So, what was the story?

[splat]

That will require a day's skiing, pal.

[Sublime]

How the hell do they know you planted 1000 trees ?

[splat]

First, they go by the honor system on how many you take on the hill; refills, etc.

Second, the plant is doublechecked by a guy that throws a stick into the plant area and measures how well a square area around the stick is planted, then he does a calc to measure the % of accurate planting, by which the contractor is paid.

Maybe they use sat photos these days.

[fiddler]

The company I planted for eventually got busted for burying bundles under stumps. I don't think anyone was doing that while I was there, but I was pretty green. As a matter of fact, we were basically slave labor, as soon as I got back to even I quit. They paid for my caulk boots and our lodging, by the time I started planting trees I was in debt. It took a month to get a pay check that wasn't a statement of how much I still owed. Most of their regulars didn't care, they were drunk most of the time they weren't working. When I got out of there I never looked back. I later met people who worked for good companies and could make pretty good money.

[dude_le_skibum]

its mostly a pine that we are planting but depending on the areas like in moister (as in more moist..) we will plant spruce sometime low percentages of other odd species will be planted balsam, fir, cedar. i think that on the coast they plant more variety but in central its mostly pine. What's funny in bc right now, well its not funny but, a growing percentage of pine are dying because of (this is true) a beetle that carries a fungus that is killing all the pines (iceman you visionary....) they say that in 10 years there won't be a single mature pine in northern bc. it only attack mature pines. i think that it won't be that long. they all seem to be burning now.

They know how many trees you plant by how many trees they give you and by the amount of land that your cover.


a rookie planter can expect to make between 100 and 200 $ the first year times 40 to 60 days of work. The more experience you get the better you get at it.


its a seasonnal job. you get enough hours to join a government sponsored ski team of the unemployed. i travel a little bit i actually have to work some time in the winter...

planting can become more then a job, from lifestyle to sport or religion the experience differs from people to people. some can't do it. it hard you are stuck in the middle of but fuckin nowhere and it can be hard with the variable elements that surround you.

its quite rewarding too..

i uploaded an other vid. this is the office parking spot.

its an other cheezy 10 meg video for the people who are on dial-up.

arriving at the block (http://www.eengoedidee.nl/parsefiles/?type=jackass&filename=p1010087.mov)

[dude_le_skibum]

i am rich. i am a rich hobo.

[powslut]

Originally posted by iceman
Welcome to modern forestry.

Some badass beetle or fungus will inevitably come along and kill the whole damn forest because it's a fackin cloned monoculture, but let's not worry about that.

in another thread someone called the work "noble", i think i would call it a misguided government mandate.

[dude_le_skibum]

i totally agree with you but its still better then nothing. its a noble misguided government mandate. the problem is not there, its the way they exploit the forest from the base. but they like to keep that hidden.

[powslut]

Originally posted by dude_le_skibum
i totally agree with you but its still better then nothing. its a noble misguided government mandate. the problem is not there, its the way they exploit the forest from the base. but they like to keep that hidden.

agreed. if you think forestry practices are bad in BC you should see what they are doing to the boreal forest of Alberta. The government only provides guidelines, not laws, as to how the forestry companies should protect waterways. Needless to say there are many massive clearcuts across rivers with no buffers or erosion guards.

[bad_roo]

Originally posted by iceman
Yeah, right.

So, what was the story?

Be grateful. You're probably running your car on the trees that Splat planted.

[dude_le_skibum]

Originally posted by powslut
agreed. if you think forestry practices are bad in BC you should see what they are doing to the boreal forest of Alberta. The government only provides guidelines, not laws, as to how the forestry companies should protect waterways. Needless to say there are many massive clearcuts across rivers with no buffers or erosion guards.

what do you think is the answer ?

[powslut]

responsible forestry practices, including, but not limited to selective or checkerboard instead of clearcut logging; leaving generous buffers of forest around streams, rivers and other bodies of water; planting genetically diverse trees insted of clones.

i was just saying that the foresters in AB are a lot more unscrupulous than in BC.