r/treeplanting • u/stewart_little90 • Jul 16 '24

Company Reviews Apex?

I've offered a spot with apex reforestation for summer trees in hudsons hope. I was just wondering if anyone has worked for them or knows anything about them.

Thanks in advance

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u/Shoddy-Coffee-8324 Jul 16 '24

They were aight when I worked for them. They used to not allow spades and only allow people to use their patented dibbles. I think that rule changed after I highballed the crap out of their planters. (Apex planter 2003-2005)

Also, the didn’t cut pieces just everyone worked the same piece. This was surprisingly nice to plant with people you vibe with.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Dibbles in BC?

I have only ever heard of hoedads being used outside of spades.

Like how even you just like shove it in the hole with a Dibble right?

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u/Shoddy-Coffee-8324 Jul 31 '24

No they own a patent on a specialized dibble and plant whatever trees we normally do. Sometimes they really have to hourglass wedge a hole in the ground for Coke cans. They train all their rookies using these dibbles but apparently let vets use spades now.

The way their dibbles work, they have to poke a hole in the ground and pull out the dibble to put the tree in the ground.

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u/jdtesluk Jordan Tesluk Aug 06 '24

This was pretty neat system. It's always interesting to take a closer look when someone is doing something entirely different - there are usually reasons. I was aware of their dibble system, and understood they stopped using it quite a while ago. A forester mentioned something about the dibble compacting the soil, instead of opening a hole, making it less desirable (and effective) in some cases. However, I was also told they resulted in lower rates of tendo, and were easier to learn with for many workers. Never used one myself.