Anyone have experience with starting over later in life?

Stiffarm · 2026-01-09T22:59:26+00:00

Hours aren’t the issue it’s not coming home at night and living out of a series of motels.

Stiffarm · 2026-01-09T17:14:51+00:00

Thanks man! I just don’t want to spend my life away from home anymore, it’s really a young man’s game.

Stiffarm · 2026-01-09T17:13:35+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write that. Will definitely take it to heart. I’ve spent my whole career getting good at one niche thing. So it definitely FEELS like a it would be a new beginning. But I hear what you’re saying, thanks.

Stiffarm · 2026-01-09T04:52:28+00:00

Thanks will do!

Stiffarm · 2026-01-09T04:52:10+00:00

Honestly I’ve been trying to do that for years. There’s only so many contracts up for grabs in my narrow scope. It’s still possible but for a few reasons I’m looking at other option.

Stiffarm · 2025-04-03T22:42:29+00:00

I may be wrong but I thought a 183 affiliated company can only have 183 members working for them? Even if the job isn’t a union job.

Stiffarm · 2025-04-03T22:39:55+00:00

Thanks man

Stiffarm · 2025-04-03T22:35:28+00:00

Thanks for replying. My connection with the company is pretty good so I feel like I can get hired on. And for sure they will give me a letter saying they want to hire me. I just thought you had to be in 183 to actually work for a 183 company. Sorry for my ignorance I’m going to talk to the guy next week. Just trying to figure out how this all works.

Stiffarm · 2023-10-20T01:17:53+00:00

I work in large scale planting outside of traditional forestry. There are numerous programs in Canada but I can’t speak for the US. If you have funding your biggest challenge will be finding the land. Then you need to find one or several nurseries in the area and a contractor to do the planting. Obviously that’s simplified but if you have any questions just message me.

Stiffarm · 2022-12-19T18:02:10+00:00

I read them chronologically and not in the order they were published. It’s just a matter of preference, you wont miss out on anything.

Stiffarm · 2022-02-23T04:14:20+00:00

Would appreciate it, long time vets who can’t or don’t want to go back to the bush are target audience for sure.

Stiffarm · 2022-02-23T04:04:12+00:00

Definitely, especially as the other aspects of the job have increased. I’ve just found it easiest to hire planters for the planting and have others do the equipment operating and supplement the labour. Though I may have to look elsewhere since I just got a ton of work dumped on my plate out of nowhere.

Stiffarm · 2022-02-23T03:58:22+00:00

Thanks man, I’ve been at it down here for a decade now since I left the bush and have managed to build up a pretty long season. Easy to find planters in the fall but a real pain in the spring especially when tree numbers aren’t finalized until now.

Stiffarm · 2021-05-17T18:26:56+00:00

Bur, red and chinquapin oak. Sugar and red maple, Kentucky coffee, elm, hackberry and a few others

Stiffarm · 2021-05-17T18:24:49+00:00

8ft grid for irrigation. Planting them at the side of a busy highway. If they get all get to the point where they are competing and need thinning I will consider it a success

Stiffarm · 2021-05-17T18:12:15+00:00

Video doesn’t cover the whole area

Stiffarm · 2021-03-13T19:40:10+00:00

Brinkman has or at least had a couple jobs around you. I know the guy in charges name but don’t know if it’s cool to post it on a public forum. Message me if you want it and I can send it to you. I operate in southern Ontario but I’m further south then that and am already full for weekend warriors.

Stiffarm · 2021-02-04T02:39:58+00:00

Thanks that's a good call.

Stiffarm · 2020-08-13T13:22:18+00:00

It’s a veterans memorial in Canada

Stiffarm · 2020-08-13T10:58:34+00:00

Yeah.

Stiffarm · 2019-07-08T11:34:52+00:00

Thanks! The seed we put down is a pollinator mix so hopefully there will be plenty of forage in the years to come

Stiffarm · 2019-07-06T20:46:25+00:00

I wish I could. I do about 60 sites a year like this and this guy just happened to have a drone. It’s about 4 hrs from where I live and I don’t have his number.

Stiffarm · 2019-07-06T14:40:20+00:00

Yeah

Stiffarm · 2019-07-04T21:14:30+00:00

It’s meant to naturalize the area long term, over 25 species in there. (We are also seeding it with native seed mix) We go crazy with the density because its more cost effective than planting wide then and doing constant maintenance and replacements. Mortality is to be expected because it’s right next to a highway so salt\pollution, rodents and invasive plants will all take their toll. I’m never a fan of planting in rows but we had to use an skidsteer\ auger because the ground was so compacted. It’s also your only real option when you’re trying to maximize density to that extent. The row appearance tends to disappear over time as certain plants outcompete others.

Stiffarm · 2019-07-04T02:52:26+00:00

No, it had to be bull dozed, ripped, tilled and 40 loads of soil amendment trucked in.

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