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Start simple. Don't try to create a sheet that has 15 different categories of work. First strive to get your crew leaders to track perhaps time in, out, and travel. Go with that for a month or two and then add a little more.
Make darn sure you explain that you are not tracking jobs to try and rake them over the coals for working too slowly. You are tracking jobs so you have the data to use in estimating so they can be given the proper time to do the job.
I started 'tracking' my jobs last year so I could get a grip on how long they actually took. Just having the total man hours on the job was a HUGE improvement and way to track productivity, and estimating prowess, on a job by job process.
I have yet to break a job down to planting, mulching, site preparation, cleanup, materials pickup, etc. That would take the fun out of it and make it work.
On occasion measure how long it takes to spread a truckload of mulch, plant 10 5-6' arbs, or spread a tri-axle of soil with my bobcat. I am always surprised as how much slower real life production is than how I see things happening in my head when I'm hungry for the job.
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As a father I was always aware that I was raising my sons to leave home, marry, establish families, and be men who could stand on their own two feet. We must fulfill our own destiny. I really wasn't concerned about what they might 'do' but I wanted them to 'be' good men.
- David Epps
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