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Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
Not sure if many of you guys will find this interesting but had been asked by a large corporate Citrus Orchard to drop their Casuarina windbreaks (over 1000 acre property).
Had played around previously having already dropped about 30 but today was the first time I'd gotten serious. The farm manager had been told by a logging company they were thinking of getting in that their guys could average around 30 an hour at $60/hour. I actually thought this was a bit high but said that if they can do it I could but for $50 an hour
Tree sizes ranged from 12-32" and probably up to about 60 feet in height.
There was a very strong NW wind which helped immensely as I didn't have to wedge one single tree.
Anyway, over 7 hours with about a 30 minute break talking to an interested neighbour over the fence I ended up dropping 357 trees.
In the first 195 minutes I dropped 171 trees, in the next 160 minutes I dropped 164 trees.
I dropped another 22 trees at the end of the day and averaged 51 trees an hour for the day. I also made them aware that without wind and having to wedge this rate may nearly be halved.
Used the 7900 all day and had to swap out one filter and 4 Carlton Semi Chisel chains. Only went through about 10 litres of fuel which is good - I though I'd use around 20 litres. Had a GB Ti 25" Roller Nose bar on that ended up with sap stuck all over it.
The odd bifurcated trunk showed up amongst them and without a strong wind I probably would have left them for later. I just cut the scarf as low as possible to minimise the chance of splitting (the tree below split when it hit the ground).
I ended up leaving two trees for the whole day that were leaning a bit too far the wrong way, even with the wind.
By the way, now I can hardly move and every muscle in my body is hurting. I had to peel my fingers off the saw at the end of the day because my right hand was cramping. I haven't hurt this much for a long time
Had played around previously having already dropped about 30 but today was the first time I'd gotten serious. The farm manager had been told by a logging company they were thinking of getting in that their guys could average around 30 an hour at $60/hour. I actually thought this was a bit high but said that if they can do it I could but for $50 an hour
Tree sizes ranged from 12-32" and probably up to about 60 feet in height.
There was a very strong NW wind which helped immensely as I didn't have to wedge one single tree.
Anyway, over 7 hours with about a 30 minute break talking to an interested neighbour over the fence I ended up dropping 357 trees.
In the first 195 minutes I dropped 171 trees, in the next 160 minutes I dropped 164 trees.
I dropped another 22 trees at the end of the day and averaged 51 trees an hour for the day. I also made them aware that without wind and having to wedge this rate may nearly be halved.
Used the 7900 all day and had to swap out one filter and 4 Carlton Semi Chisel chains. Only went through about 10 litres of fuel which is good - I though I'd use around 20 litres. Had a GB Ti 25" Roller Nose bar on that ended up with sap stuck all over it.
The odd bifurcated trunk showed up amongst them and without a strong wind I probably would have left them for later. I just cut the scarf as low as possible to minimise the chance of splitting (the tree below split when it hit the ground).
I ended up leaving two trees for the whole day that were leaning a bit too far the wrong way, even with the wind.
By the way, now I can hardly move and every muscle in my body is hurting. I had to peel my fingers off the saw at the end of the day because my right hand was cramping. I haven't hurt this much for a long time
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