Shovel logging

[Bobus2003]

Does he run all the machines himself? Remember the quote that started this tangent of the thread stated "He does about 10 million bord foot a year by his self."

I beleive that If you ran a machine like this in the Right wood you could move Some serious amounts of wood

[Bruce_A]

Does he run all the machines himself? Remember the quote that started this tangent of the thread stated "He does about 10 million bord foot a year by his self."

You are talking between 40 and 50 loads a week the way my calculator reads.  Logging where I live means getting the logs out and on the truck, doesn't usually mean one man doing it all alone.  But a lot of the big operators try to shoot for 8 - 10 loads per man per day.  All with equipment of large potential.  Watch a good "Holbrook' job or 'NFT' job on good ground and they have incredible numbers.  And for crying out loud, don't forget you are in 'Paul Bunyan Country'.   

[BaldBob]

For a number of years I was logging contract supervisor for a large timber company. I was responsible for the harvest of 150-180 MMBF/year. The contractors ranged in size from those that moved a couple of loads a day to those that consistently moved 20+ loads /day. Regardless of size, if they weren't efficient productive loggers they didn't last long. The wood ranged in size from 5-10 logs/load to 100+ logs/load - with most being about 30 logs/load.

Even the most efficient and most mechanized of these contractors on the best ground and biggest timber did well to maintain 5 loads/man/day long term, when cutting, de-limbing, bucking, skidding/yarding, and loading were included in the calculation. And that doesn't include a man to keep all the mechanized equipment maintained - if the operators had to maintain their own equipment, they couldn't keep up that pace.

PS
The most productive loggers were those operating in Lodgepole pine clearcuts where 90-110 logs/load were the norm - flat ground, uniform timber size, feller bunchers, grapple skidders, and mechanical de-limbers/buckers.