firewood's time and motion study

[firewood]

Here is a question for you all:

 

how many man hours would it take to cut and split 5m3 of hardwood (beech, ash & sycamore) and manually load into truck (2 x 2.5m3 loads)

 

 

you have the chainsaw of your choice and a petrol driven splitter

 

the lengths to be split vary in diameter from 8" to 36". there is a good mix of all sizes between these diameters. the lengths are stacked up on top of each other (not laid out on the ground 1 deep) to a max height of 12 feet

 

no mechanical handling allowed.

 

you are working single handed.

[Stephen Blair]

we never work alone with saws and splitters.

[firewood]

we never work alone with saws and splitters.

 

 

ok how long for two of you?

 

 

I never work alone either!

[slack ma girdle]

It took me on my own 4 1/2 days to cut to size with a chainsaw, split with a splitter on the back of a tractor, and stack in 15' block head high. However this was forest grown timber, so straight with few branches.

I would upload some photos but my phone has decided that it can not talk to the computer

[log supplier]

Here is a question for you all:

 

how many man hours would it take to cut and split 5m3 of hardwood (beech, ash & sycamore) and manually load into truck (2 x 2.5m3 loads)

 

 

you have the chainsaw of your choice and a petrol driven splitter

 

the lengths to be split vary in diameter from 8" to 36". there is a good mix of all sizes between these diameters. the lengths are stacked up on top of each other (not laid out on the ground 1 deep) to a max height of 12 feet

 

no mechanical handling allowed.

 

you are working single handed.

 

 

 

8 hours:blushing:

[Kev Stephenson]

Not sure on the original question but it takes me (plus 1) 2 hours to cut, split using a tractor powered splitter and load 1 van load of firewood, factor in 30 minutes to deliver and it means I am working at the same £ rate as when doing tree work

[Big 'Ammer]

1 m3 per hour worked, with a single blade splitter.

[Hodge]

i reckon 2 of us a day, 8 hours. would pay quite well if local delivery. im still on arb waste and not even got started on my 50 tonne i bought in. so it would be well worth it.

[Stephen Blair]

the only time i set a side 1 full day just to do logs from scratch, there was 4 of us, dad sawing the off stack, 1 lad on the splitter(old slow petrol splitter), 1 lad chucking into bags and me over seeing, getting bags ready and stacking with timber crane(this was only to get them clear so we had room to work) we stopped loads of times for food and mars bars etc, pretty relaxed day, maybe over 6 hours in winter and we did over 30 bulk bags. so approx 15 m3. logs were all the width of an 026.

[firewood]

Ok. it took me 8 hours to cut into 6" to 8" rings, split and hand load into truck 5m3 .

 

this seems to be the consensus time based on replies thus far.