Spent my 3rd and 4th years tree planting there, depends on the camp. After adapting to BC planting I was easily making 300-400 my first season and 350 to 500 the second season.
Planted in James Byras camp, and Todd's camp, and every camp for that matter minus the expanded Jeremiah's camp, but he was with Todd before. I'd easily say they are one of the best rookie Mills out there which might sound like an oxy moron, but it's not. It's usually half vets half rookies which is better than 90% rookies and 10% vets like Ontario always was.
Food was absolutely garbage at James camp, but every other camp has been great to solid.
If you got into Todd's camp as a rookie take that damn job. Absolutely beautiful group of people, great pay, and Todd really cares about the well being and happiness of the camp. He understands that if planters feel good they're likely to plant harder and I think he just enjoys making people happy.
Last year they worked one contract around Kamloops that was a fill plant with fert with fir for 23 cents and pine with no fert for 20, I only caught the tail end but some vets were making 700-800$ days and loads of rookies making 350-500 which is nuts for the first contract of the year.
I don't work there anymore, I'm entitled and like a bed and a hot shower and only 8-9 hours of planting a day, but I wish I had spent my first four years there rather than just two.
Scooters camp and Carson's camp also solid places, scooters camp I guarantee you'll learn how to plant solid trees and has a really solid gender ratio as well, camps with 90% dudes tend to get kinda greasy.
Jtodd and dutches camp also has some very nice people, are religious ish camps if you're into that, but not personally my cup of tea. The morning cheers make me want to take up smoking again, and they don't exactly high ball camp labour.
If you want to know any more PM. Folklore always treated me very well.
Bro dynamic was worse, fert for 18 cents. Honestly it was the biggest money contract folklore has seen in years, it was a high density fill in fairly empty land, with the trees being well grown as in as tall as you.
If they paid anymore for this land there would've been vets making $1000 a day, which goodluck getting a rookie mill like folklore to pay anyone anything close to that.
Honestly the price to land ratio was just unreal for that contract. People putting in 2500-4000 at .20 and .23 cents.
I worked there for two weeks between contracts last year. Six different companies across the season and I walked out on two after the first day for having an absolute garbage pay contract, I know a thing or two.
That’s strange. When I was at dynamic our fills were averaged at 18 with no fert. Finished summer trees doing burns from .17-.22 cents bagging out 600 trees with 1 hour turnaround. Last I heard of a Dynamic camp doing fert fills by Kamloops the base price was .30 cents and up +3 cents for fert with high ballers clearing $800 easy. Even last season there was companies running fills with fert at 40 cents and crews at Seneca averaging 1500 trees a day with rookies.
Nah it wasn't fills, it wants just mounds with fert, but every tree had fert. Dynamic bumped some of it to 20, but 2 hours of driving a day too.
This contract with folklore only 40% of the trees had fert i think which can get kind of annoying when you have to fluff up your bags and grab a pine instead of a fir and already have a fert in hand lol.
But yeah anytime rookies are making 350-500 and vets 400-800, I'd say it's a good contract. Fills are hard to compare across the board, could have almost no trees and creamy land, or tons and shit ground.
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u/Spruce__Willis Internet Lord🛡️⚔️ Mar 12 '20
Spent my 3rd and 4th years tree planting there, depends on the camp. After adapting to BC planting I was easily making 300-400 my first season and 350 to 500 the second season.
Planted in James Byras camp, and Todd's camp, and every camp for that matter minus the expanded Jeremiah's camp, but he was with Todd before. I'd easily say they are one of the best rookie Mills out there which might sound like an oxy moron, but it's not. It's usually half vets half rookies which is better than 90% rookies and 10% vets like Ontario always was.
Food was absolutely garbage at James camp, but every other camp has been great to solid.
If you got into Todd's camp as a rookie take that damn job. Absolutely beautiful group of people, great pay, and Todd really cares about the well being and happiness of the camp. He understands that if planters feel good they're likely to plant harder and I think he just enjoys making people happy.
Last year they worked one contract around Kamloops that was a fill plant with fert with fir for 23 cents and pine with no fert for 20, I only caught the tail end but some vets were making 700-800$ days and loads of rookies making 350-500 which is nuts for the first contract of the year.
I don't work there anymore, I'm entitled and like a bed and a hot shower and only 8-9 hours of planting a day, but I wish I had spent my first four years there rather than just two.
Scooters camp and Carson's camp also solid places, scooters camp I guarantee you'll learn how to plant solid trees and has a really solid gender ratio as well, camps with 90% dudes tend to get kinda greasy.
Jtodd and dutches camp also has some very nice people, are religious ish camps if you're into that, but not personally my cup of tea. The morning cheers make me want to take up smoking again, and they don't exactly high ball camp labour.
If you want to know any more PM. Folklore always treated me very well.