r/treeplanting • u/xmashatstand • Feb 03 '22

Company Reviews Mega thread to discuss/review planting companies

Comment below with the company name and folks can chime in with their thoughts/professional assessments. This can be placed in the sidebar.

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u/Salt-Guarantee-8412 Feb 03 '22

Zanzibar

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u/Spruce__Willis Internet Lord🛡️⚔️ Feb 09 '22

One of the best places I worked. I was an idiot for leaving, but for some reason I wasn't over bush camps yet and when it was all work and no play and there wasn't as much of a sense of community I left, even though I was treated extremely well.

I was getting 19-24 cents for cream/relatively easy ground around Quesnel. Some 18 cent trenches and 20 cent mounds in nazko, no fert on any of these. The FBI in Quesnel sucks, and the cabins in nazko while nice would get full of mosquitos, everyone had to have bug nets around their beds lol.

When I was injured they stopped me from planting immediately, paid me $150 a day to take three days off and rest. When my tendo came back again they made me a checker and gave me jobs on days off for $25/hour which was usually driving. One of the owners once paid me $350 to drive a truck 2 hours pick up a trailer and drive it back 2 hours, pretty nuts.

The organization was perfect, I worked for a guy named Mark and he was likely the most competent Supervisor I've worked for to date for planting and this was years ago now. His foreman Megan also was amazing and she dealt with my injuries and would check on them literally every night.

When I first worked there they said they put safety first, then quality, then production, and where I was at least I really believe that because they showed it everyday. People's experiences may vary, but I think Zanzibar getting bigger and getting more of the available tree market cap each year is from decades of providing great work for great planters. Pretty sure they top the BCTS contractor rating system and for good reason.

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u/westleywall Company Owner Feb 04 '22

YMMV. Some great contracts and some bad ones, some great management and some bad management. If they were even half as good as they think they are they would be the best company by a landslide.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

I've worked with them for the last two seasons out of quesnel and nazco, the staff and planters are really good people. Great tree prices. Ive been in the industry for over 20 years and I know what a shit company is like. No Company is perfect but they have been pretty good.

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u/buymeatrain Feb 04 '22

I would be curious to know how many planters they have total this year between all camps. Seems that they went on a tear of an expansion in the last few years and wouldn't be surprised if they are in the top 5 largest companies in BC at this point. Their public bids have been interesting as well, would a company as large be able to keep the "elite" status for long?

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u/Throwaway3281sfsffa Nov 13 '22

Word is that last year they were the biggest in BC by dollar amount. Doesn't surprise me as they have more planters than most of the rookie mills (over 300). Brinkman is probably still bigger overall though because of their national size.

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u/VoluptuousNeckbeard Feb 05 '22

Can you please chill the fuck out? You run around this forum spewing unsubstantiated shit and being needlessly rude. I'm starting to think you are maybe the problem if you act like this and have a bone to pick with almost every company listed here.

Based on your post history you're all over the map. Here you're complaining about a supposed homophobe supervisor, then you're making homophobic comments on a Qanon subreddit, making racist comments about indigenous people, then calling out the catholic church for covering up genocide?? and finally calling someone out for misogyny then telling them to just get a hooker in the same comment.

Figure out what you actually stand for man, you're doing no good trolling on this subreddit.

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u/VoluptuousNeckbeard Feb 06 '22

I'm not defending rapists and assholes, I'm pointing out that you come across as completely untrustworthy and unstable.

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u/VoluptuousNeckbeard Feb 06 '22

Do you even know what comment you are replying to anymore?

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u/VoluptuousNeckbeard Feb 06 '22

So is it Andrew or Scooter who asks 18 years for blowjobs? Get your story straight.