Hand cutters rates

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

The guys doing oversize etc behind harvesters up here are on £120 to £150. You need to know what you're doing and it's hard work, plus you'll use two gallon petrol a day

 

How long is this 2-gallon day?

[Big J]

Our fuel consumption was pretty uniform when hardwood thinning.

 

Two tanks

Breakfast

Two tanks

Lunch

Two tanks

Bite to eat and cup of tea

One or two tanks then home.

 

Depending on whether we did a final one or two tanks, this was an 0800 to 1630-1730 day and production rates were always good. Hell of a lot less snedding on hardwoods though, and with a 550xp, you generally always used about 5l of fuel.

[Wood wasp]

How long is this 2-gallon day?

 

 

Just usual working day, 8 till back of four. Bear in mind you're doing the biggest, roughest trees on site. Two fills per tree territory.

 

What Big J describes is how we work it too.. Except when following behind a big harvester.

[Drew87]

The guys doing oversize etc behind harvesters up here are on £120 to £150. You need to know what you're doing and it's hard work, plus you'll use two gallon petrol a day

 

Really Heavy fuel consumption.!! (Or is that between you two.?) Down these ways you would struggle to find anyone paying £160 per day doing thinning work if your saw uses that.!!

 

Jackalope been round the houses by the looks.. Them prices mate are much more realistic.!! I pay £100 a day top end for months worth of work .. Shorter jobs is £125 depending on skill, experience and tickets.

If someone wanted £160 a day., down here., probably be laughed at with a prompt hang up or door shut in your face. Them prices are Steep to say the least lads fp.

[Wood wasp]

To be clear I wasn't talking about thinning, I've no idea what rates are for that these days. I meant clear fell sites behind harvester where first log is never far off a ton, big toes and hairy - that's where the fuel goes.

[bella wood]

As wood wasp said near 10 litres a day can be used when 2 are working together , saws never stop , one man felling the other is cutting gob on next tree then start snedding down to where harvester proceess,,, with harvester waiting your under pressure to keep going ,,

 

Not little saws used , 70- 90 cc to cut the huge bapp's is needed and if your LUCKY the log is cut to 6.2 metrs ,if not 2.8 chip

[Wood wasp]

Felling oversized/too rough we worked one guy with big saw/bar felling and taking bottom log off, the other with smaller saw (still 66cc as Bella says) finishing the tree.... We guzzled fuel and both saws had to refuel for every tree. By lunchtime both combi cans needed refilled otherwise you'd run out just after lunch.

 

They were awkward sites to do and glad I'm no longer in that game! That said was always good crack and the forwarder drivers went out their way to help - carrying your kit (and you) up hill, turning the logs etc

[Cuttup]

West coast Sitka. Brashing/outsiders/out of reach for harvester etc. minimum 7.5 - 10 litres a day running my Husky 262. Used to get £70 a day in 2001. Was about £100/day in 2005 surely it should be £120+ these days??

[mendiplogs]

Just usual working day, 8 till back of four. Bear in mind you're doing the biggest, roughest trees on site. Two fills per tree territory.

 

What Big J describes is how we work it too.. Except when following behind a big harvester.

 

Hi wasp what saws do you use thanks Jon

[mendiplogs]

West coast Sitka. Brashing/outsiders/out of reach for harvester etc. minimum 7.5 - 10 litres a day running my Husky 262. Used to get £70 a day in 2001. Was about £100/day in 2005 surely it should be £120+ these days??

 

He CUTTUP it not much money is it thanks Jon