GoPro HD: Treeplanting

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Treeplanting in Canada during the summer of 2012. Planting was done in British Columbia around Williams Lake and Mackenzie with Dynamic Reforestation. Filmed exclusively with a GoPro HD Hero Camera. Song is Emerge in Love by Alex Beroza http://ccmixter.org/files/AlexBeroza/30239 The music is free to use: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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nice, do you have any footage of it now?

Heres another planting video you all may like!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmQtkMXgA0

Hey, good job man! I've got a couple of nasty lawsuits going against planting companies from my 2015 season. I'm taking issue with the piece rates, getting fired and tree squeezing, seeking about $80k in damages. Our land was wayyyyy worse than yours in the video: at least you could put your shovel in the ground, try planting in a piece with slash up to your hip, bushes taller than your head - so you see only a foot or two ahead of you, massive logs that you have to either climb over, or if you can't climb over it, take your planting bags off and throw it over, and crawl under the log... , nearest cache 30 minutes away by foot, then when you get back, all trees are gone, so the crew boss gets you to move everyone's shit to the next cache, and then forces you to carry two full boxes of trees (about 900 trees) on your back to the next cache for someone else to plant, and the next piece you have to wait another 2 hours to walk over and by that time there's only 20 minutes left in the day. Next day, terminated. I'm gathering planters for expert testimony, if you're interested please apply!

1:23 orange hat is trying too hard lmao wont last an hour at that pace

i'm headed out for my first season.. nervous as hell.

This supposed to be a really tough job.
Anyone can plant a tiny tree you'd think but when you have to do thousands of them per day its bloody hard work.

REPO!!

nice video, check out mine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMovhu_VvpM&feature=share

My favourite part of this video is at 2:50 when he basically steps on a naty to plant his tree. Sums his whole video up.

I try my best to use flagging tape as little as humanly possible...eventually you just see the trees wherever they are...or you begin to sense their presence and don't even need to see them.. then you don't even have to worry about flagging technique.

one exception to this rule would be area planting, where you cut out mini pieces within your piece and flag them when they're done.

BUT if you do like to flag alot, my favorite technique is to SCORE the roll of flagger tape with a knife, with cuts down the side every few inches. this way, when you pull it out using pmonettes aforementioned technique, is just snaps right off every time.

What is tree planting like? Im considering doing it after highschool and in between university years, what was your expirence with it?

Thanks for doing what you do. I am sure that last tree will make great lumber for you great grandchildren's house's.

Nice video! For what reason do you put out this flagging tape? Is it for yourself so you see where you been or for the supervisor?

your last tree was a leaner?? cmon now!!!!!

Last tree is a leaner, not to mention clearly a J-rooted tree by the way he put it in the ground which also makes me curious how many others in this video were improperly planted.

sweet vid! Beyond The Trees made this one working with Nata in PG.

2/2 ... it next to the tree, all in one quick swift movement, no wasted motions! really with anything practice makes perfect. i think the big trick to flagging really quick is not worrying if its right next to tree but just in the same general area. theres so many different ways to flag though, ive found what works for me, lemme know if you have any other questions! hope that helped!

1/2 theres two different flaggin techniques used in the vid. both use flaggin tape pouches on our left side of our bags. the guy in the orange hat pulls out the tape with his shovel hand and cuts it with his tree hand. he holds the tape in his shovel hand and then drops it by grabbing it with his tree hand and throwing it down. the other guy (me!) just pulls at the tape with my tree hand and cuts it on my index finger of my shovel hand. the motion of pulling it leads into dropping.. continued

Hey man! How are you putting down your flagging tape so quickly?? Is it attached to your shovel?

great work lads for the earth.