How long is enough?

[the dude]

How many hours a day do all you timber cutters cut? Is there an OSHA standard? What is the average that loggers expect? Is 8 hours doable for you guys? That seems like a long time on the saw,no?

 

[slowp]

6 hours in Warshington.

 

[treeslayer2003]

6 hours is plenty on a saw if you work at it.
a friend of mine does it 8-10......IDK how......he pretty tough.

 

[northmanlogging]

6 is a long day on the saw, cause you still have to go home and sharpen everything and get ready for the next day. Not to mention drive time there and back.

I've pulled an 8 a time or two but its tough, usually I cut for a few hours in the morning (like 4) and then skid the rest of the day.

 

[treeslayer2003]

dang northy, if i cut full bore 4 hours i could skid 2 days lol.
meh, long skids most the time i guess.

 

[northmanlogging]

we have more limbs than you...

I wouldn't say I cut full bore either, there seems to be a lot of hyming and hawing between trees. And after seeing some of clints limbing vids I'm as slow as molasses. I seem to spend entirely to much time around high value targets...

 

[treeslayer2003]

yea, that is different than an open woods for sure.

 

[ShaneLogs]

6 hours is usual. I have worked up to 10 hours and more at a time working my tree service during ice storms and other natural disasters. It's not fun but the money is really good.

 

[KenJax Tree]

6 hours is usual. I have worked up to 10 hours and more at a time working my tree service during ice storms and other natural disasters. It's not fun but the money is really good.

Tree service?? Aren't you in high school still?

 

[ShaneLogs]

Tree service?? Aren't you in high school still?

Yeah I am. Graduating next month. My dad owns a tree service company

 

[056kid]

So its your dads tree service.

Us Y'ers sure are entitled...

 

[kentishman]

Standard day here is nine hours. 8 hours of that cutting. often maybe a third of that time is stacking of cord wood and fencing blanks and chucking top or brash around a little bit. Not that any of that is much less tiring than cutting down or cutting up. But sometimes you won't put the chainsaw down all day (except for the obvious fuelling sharpening and breaks). Myself I fell and extract all my own wood, so it might be three or four days cutting for one day forwarding, but there are guys who cut full time maybe 6 days a week. We tend to work close to home round here, which makes a huge difference to the length of day obviously. Longest commute I've had is 1 hours 15 minutes. Normally around half an hour