How do you achieve that? Are you personally cutting as much/unit of time as 10 years ago?
I am in fact. Thought I'd be getting slower as I turned 60, but so far I keep up fine. It pisses the former apprentice off no end, that he can't catch up to me.
I've always been a very productive cutter, so even slowing down, I'll still be ahead of most people.
Rchard puts a lot of wood on the ground, too.
Also, we simply have a longer season than most other outfits.
We know a hell of a lot of foresters by now, having been in business for so long, so we get lots of smaller jobs that aren't made public for folks to bid on.
They just call, we agree on a price and that is it.
That makes it really hard for new people to get started in this busines.
We didn't get a big contract that we bid on this winter, but we only bid on that because it was closer to home, than were we mostly log.
Guy who got it bid way low, simply to try and get his foot in the door.
Hand logging is slowly disappearing, and so are the people able to do it.
The reason we go to the southern Islands once in a while, is that there are nobody left down there. The last couple of guys retired last year.
So they have to import fallers to an area plaqued by unemployment.
Sure is a weird world, sometimes.