Tools to become a successful first year planter
Every year we have many people who come out planting for the first time. In the vast majority of cases most of these people go on to have brilliant seasons and have a great time and make the money they need consider their time planting as a success.
Unfortunately, not every person who comes out planting finds the bush life what they had hoped and not everyone can adjust to the demands of an incredibly physically demanding job. Last year almost 7% of the new planters that came to work with us left before planting a 1000 tree day, 15% left before planting 1500 trees in a day. It is expensive to come to the bush and buy all the equipment you would need to plant trees.
It is our goal to ensure as many people who come planting as possible really do become good tree planters. With this in mind we have constantly refined our training program to ensure you are given as many tools as is feasible to become a great planter!
Understand, that even though planting is piece work there are minimum requirements that we will hold you to in order to stay with us for the season. This is for you as much as it is for us because we really do understand that it is costly to come out planting and you need to make a baseline level of earnings for it to make sense.
As a first time planter you will soon be overwhelmed with all the variables that go into camp life as well as planting tree's. In order to make the transition from rookie to tree-planter as quick and effective as possible we have developed the following program over several years. This is what you can expect from us for your first week in camp.
You will be expected to complete the fitness screen on the last page - be prepared when you come out!
Good luck and thanks for joining our team!
Unfortunately, not every person who comes out planting finds the bush life what they had hoped and not everyone can adjust to the demands of an incredibly physically demanding job. Last year almost 7% of the new planters that came to work with us left before planting a 1000 tree day, 15% left before planting 1500 trees in a day. It is expensive to come to the bush and buy all the equipment you would need to plant trees.
It is our goal to ensure as many people who come planting as possible really do become good tree planters. With this in mind we have constantly refined our training program to ensure you are given as many tools as is feasible to become a great planter!
Understand, that even though planting is piece work there are minimum requirements that we will hold you to in order to stay with us for the season. This is for you as much as it is for us because we really do understand that it is costly to come out planting and you need to make a baseline level of earnings for it to make sense.
As a first time planter you will soon be overwhelmed with all the variables that go into camp life as well as planting tree's. In order to make the transition from rookie to tree-planter as quick and effective as possible we have developed the following program over several years. This is what you can expect from us for your first week in camp.
You will be expected to complete the fitness screen on the last page - be prepared when you come out!
Good luck and thanks for joining our team!
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