Forestry/woodland work, day rates?

[csservices]

I charge myself out at £85 a day for anything that involves labour, if its felling work that includes my own saw etc and I'll pay any lads with me who know what thier doing the same, labourers, ie for dragging etc are on £40-60 depending on age and keeness only time I charge different is on tractor work or for hedge laying or fencing which are both charged on meterage so you have to get your finger out

[kinojango]

a decent bloke with his own ppe and certs would start on 75-80 per day ,

 

where do u get these guys at that rate.....u can go and brash for the harvester and fell the outsiders up here for £120a day miminium

 

As for tonnage a day Andy it will really depend on tree volume and how clean the sticks are, and how flat the site is. If want 7 tonnes a day a man and the trees are only .10 u need to fell cut and stack 77 trees. takes a bit of doing n hairy stika spruce. nice clean ash averaging .25 and u will have it done by lunctime.

 

£120 a day, i'll have some of that. I've been trying to get into Forestry for about a year now with no luck. Any contacts for forestry work would be appreciated, travelling and working away is no problem for me if the moneys right.

[will.morris]

Andy, please see PM. Thanks.

[Frankie Lawrence]

This is what I cant understand when my Boss is down the woods with us I'm pretty sure he said you should be cuttin a ton a day! So I asked how much was in our quite smal pile at the end of the first day he said about a third of a ton!. Now I'm only now getting the hang of felling/sneddig etc and still have no tickets (thanks plumpton college!). So I have not much of an idea about wieght hes got an old book of price of timber as most fellers have he says, but it was published in 1982!

 

We share a yard with a bloke that we sub contract big oaks to and he makes a mint he also does most other kinds of wood but it shows how easy it is with a harvester an still the price of wood is ridiculously cheap.

[Ben Ballard]

may be your boss right about a ton a day if it is first thinnings in mixed hardwood or area of regen that needs a first thin,some of the old books can be realy good as from a time when forestry more active thats why a lot of knoledge has been lost for a good few years,a least now there is more interest in forestry,and information about it now:001_smile:

[Big J]

Looking through this thread it seems that most folk are on terrible money for felling!

 

Just started thinning with the estate I'm on - thinning out 40 year old primarily beech, sycamore, ash and Oak woodland. We get £15 an hour, providing everything ourselves.

 

Due to the access issues and the widely varying sizes of trees (anything from wrist thick sycamore regeneration to 18 inch, 70ft sycamores) we aren't to cut or stack, but await winch extraction. From purely the felling, we were averaging about 2.5 tonnes an hour, but obviously we haven't been processing. That is the average though, as there were some epic hangers of trees that brought that down. The best day I managed about 32 tonnes on a 10 hour day.

 

Anyway, having fun and looking forward to the 100 odd acres that they still have to mark up for thinning!

 

Jonathan