How many miles/day?

[BuckSmasher]

I wanna say like 11 hours. Things were going so well the first bit than we pulled saddles off around noon and had a sit down lunch. And the last stretch was so time consuming that we ended up building electric fences and setting up tents in the dark

On our deeper wilderness rides we are struggling to get more than 10-14 miles/day with all the logs we saw. The little 4 or 5 inchers aren't bad but if we run into even one big two foot thick log its a major ordeal and huge time sink.

 

[wyosteve]

When packing camp, we'd do 25 miles max in order to have time to unload/set up camp etc. Otherwise 25-30 miles was about tops.

 

[BuckSmasher]

When packing camp, we'd do 25 miles max in order to have time to unload/set up camp etc. Otherwise 25-30 miles was about tops.

How long is that taking you?

 

[wyosteve]

About 8 hrs.

 

[khart_6882]

On our deeper wilderness rides we are struggling to get more than 10-14 miles/day with all the logs we saw. The little 4 or 5 inchers aren't bad but if we run into even one big two foot thick log its a major ordeal and huge time sink.

Yeah it’s pretty lame but part of it I reckon. I usually only pack a 24” saw so a big bull pine across the trail on a steep hillside is a lot of work and time.

 

[Pony Soldier]

I hate tto shift this to a saw thread but.. I we are in lodgepole stands that I have cut out that year, I carry a little 12" dewalt. On trails we haven't cut out yet I usually have a pack horse with a small gas saw (stihl 170) on one side and a 311 on the other side. In bigger fir stands I need the bigger saw to get through it. I've got bigger production saws for areas with big trees. I have had some sections that the blowdown was so intense that with three of us working (two cutting and one pitching) it took three days for us to get through 2 miles of trail. Patient horses that just stand and wait are important to get though it.