The Importance of Team Work!

A case in point, I was extracting pole length Douglas Fir, average tree size 0.1cube, and the extraction distance was only 175 yards. With a short extraction like this production should have been high but I was working with a trainee chainsaw operator. Not only could he not do the job but he didn't seem to want to learn either so the end result was a production rate of less than a meter an hour. When I eventually cleared out his produce an experienced cutter took over and production went straight up to 2.4 meter per hour !

Having a good cutter means more than just being able to make more money, with a good team the price of horse logging can come down, with the better production it doesn't take so long to put a lorry load together and everybody is happier at their work. All this added together makes the use of horses in the woods more attractive to forest managers and woodland owners.

The following photograph shows some trees well presented for horse extraction

Photograph courtesy of P.R.Morgan BSc. MICFor.

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