Man hours per pound to harvest?

SchmoeJoe · Mar 18, 2018

Lucky Luke said:
lol my quoting and reply to Retired guerrilla had nothing to do with your original post., Just like his original post. If trimming is paid by weight it still works out to a dollar amount if like me your employed elsewhere...Which was the point of my post....

If I can earn $60 an hr elsewhere then that's how much my time must be worth working right?
So that means if I spend 2 hrs harvesting and trimming and hanging (which Retired Guerrillas did) for less than an ounce. Then my time has to factor into the costs right?

There are some breakdown of time and costs in this vid if it helps.

You're time doing a job that's worth paying $60 an hour has nothing to do with what you'd be paid for doing a different job. That was the whole point. No one makes $60 an hour doing manual labor in any kind of legal farm.

a mongo frog · Mar 18, 2018

SchmoeJoe said:
No one makes $60 an hour doing manual labor in any kind of legal farm.

No one. And one would pay 25/hour on a chop and hang in a drying chamber if the person really moved and made the company money.

Lucky Luke · Mar 18, 2018

SchmoeJoe said:
You're time doing a job that's worth paying $60 an hour has nothing to do with what you'd be paid for doing a different job. That was the whole point. No one makes $60 an hour doing manual labor in any kind of legal farm.

I get paid $60 an hr doing manual, unskilled outside labour....so yes they do..$1 a minute plus is the going rate.

When you start to work for yourself ( I do) you may find that your time doing anything is worth what you could be earning. (which is my whole point)
You have taken my reply to Retired Guerrilla and somehow applied it to a commercial application where your paying someone else to do it. ...

Did the vid help ya out at all?

Lucky Luke · Mar 18, 2018

a mongo frog said:
No one. And one would pay 25/hour on a chop and hang in a drying chamber if the person really moved and made the company money.

I didn't say they did..lol

But yes a productive employee is worth the extra they make the boss. No argument.
Best way to get a pay rise from a boss is to make them lots of money and give them no grief.

SchmoeJoe · Mar 19, 2018

Lucky Luke said:
I get paid $60 an hr doing manual, unskilled outside labour....so yes they do..$1 a minute plus is the going rate.

When you start to work for yourself ( I do) you may find that your time doing anything is worth what you could be earning. (which is my whole point)
You have taken my reply to Retired Guerrilla and somehow applied it to a commercial application where your paying someone else to do it. ...

Did the vid help ya out at all?[/QUOTE

And you've taken you're earnings as a self employed contractor and equated it to payed wages...

SchmoeJoe · Mar 19, 2018

Lucky Luke said:
IDK why your making this so confusing ...
I was replying to this initially:

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RetiredGuerilla Well-Known Member
30 man hours per pound. IMO I spent about 2 hours on what looks like will be a little less than a zip today. Chopped, trimmed and hung. "

Then I said my hrly working rate would make the cost of a ounce an extra $120.

And then you asked were do people make $60 an hr. Answer to that is everywhere but I didn't say it was in the Cannabis industry.

Wages outside of the industry are completely irrelevant to the discussion of standard wages in this industry. I should have taken your olive branch of an opportunity to end our little "debate".

I'll do that now.

Lucky Luke · Mar 19, 2018

lol..

Did the video help ya at all?

nurrgle · Mar 19, 2018

I know a guy who does 32 plants for 10-12 lbs in about six hours by himself. He does the exact same thing you do. Breaks down to single smaller branches with no fans and hangs to trim later.

SchmoeJoe · Mar 19, 2018

nurrgle said:
I know a guy who does 32 plants for 10-12 lbs in about six hours by himself. He does the exact same thing you do. Breaks down to single smaller branches with no fans and hangs to trim later.

That seems pretty beast mode but a little more like it. I worked on a farm last where ten or so people would fill a 20x35 drying shed in a day.

nurrgle · Mar 19, 2018

SchmoeJoe said:
That seems pretty beast mode but a little more like it. I worked on a farm last where ten or so people would fill a 20x35 drying shed in a day.

It is a hard push to get it all done that quick and it is obviously based on strain but I have found that a little experience speeds it up quite a bit. I would guess a crew would pick up speed pretty quickly.

SchmoeJoe · Mar 19, 2018

nurrgle said:
It is a hard push to get it all done that quick and it is obviously based on strain but I have found that a little experience speeds it up quite a bit. I would guess a crew would pick up speed pretty quickly.

You're right on each count. I've seen some crops get processed pretty fast. Experience and ability to pick up the skill quickly are key to setting a pace line that.

The biggest crops I've dealt with of my own are my greenhouse crops at an average between 30-40 pounds. I've just never kept the records and done the math after the fact.