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We all want to maximize the time we spend on activities we like and limit time we spend on tasks we don’t. The best way to do this is to improve efficiency.
Take grocery shopping, for example. If you plan your route through the store in advance (minimizing the back and forth between aisles), your travel times are streamlined, resulting in a reduced “cycle time.” The time you save gives you back time to spend doing the things you like to do.
A logging operation is no different. The key to improving your bottom line is efficiency — reducing cycle times and streamlining tasks that are necessary, but don’t add to profit. For example, with a feller buncher, the value-added task is cutting trees, while maintenance, fueling and travel times are costs, not value-added functions.
These incremental changes can make a considerable difference by the end of the year. Just saving 5 minutes a day over 50 weeks (5 day work week) equals approximately 21 hours of increased production time. Now add in the time saved by having spare hoses (12.5 hours) and you’ve got 33.5 hours of increased production. You don’t think of five minutes as significant until you look at a whole year and see that you’re adding almost a week of production.
Same goes for the harvesting process. Once you have broken down the cycle times for bunching, skidding and loading, analyze them and try to reduce the cycle times.
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