my club allows us to pay a work penalty. honestly, given some of the work involved (6-8 hour slave fests with a greasy hamburger for lunch), i'd rather pay, and spend the time on my own property. unless it's the archery club.
i spent two days building a berm, and then had to argue that counted for my club days
With all due respect - you're in the wrong club.
We meet at 0830, well, actually more like 0900 ... ish. We have coffee, bagels, espresso, cappuccino, connolis and the like while catching up. Then, probably around 1000 - 1030 ... ish, we start the process of unstrapping ATVs and strategizing a battle plan dividing into small groups and assigned work areas for dragging deadfalls, moving gear and the like. Those of us on ATVs use them to drag and those of us with a young strong son(s) allow them to participate. Sometimes I have to take a break and/or go back to the farmhouse for more coffee after watching Joey attach the drag rope and deadfall to the ATV's tow hook.
Now and again, we need something from back at the farmhouse or the shipping containers. This is where the ATV comes in handy both to travel to the house or shipping container and to transport the needed item back to where ever it is needed. Fortunately, there are one or more members staged by the house or shipping container to assist in locating the item needed, putting it on the ATV and sharing a hunting tale or two over a cigar and more coffee or perhaps a quick espresso.
Getting back to the actually work area, oftentimes those left behind get bored waiting for the item and need to be re-started; sometimes they are not there at all as they migrated towards other groups at other locations and commenced conversations. This involves gathering the herd, or sub-herd as it were and re-starting all over again. Sometimes re-starting is challenged by forgetting the task at hand or realizing that another or different "thing" is needed. This may require another ATV ride to the farm house or shipping containers to meet with command level personnel who sometimes venture to the ToO (Theater of Operations) so as to reconnoiter things. Now and again we need to go off site to the store for something. Some have so ventured - not returning until the next hunting season.
Before you know it, it's time to start planning lunch. This involves strategy sessions at the farmhouse and much planning. In fact, working out the logistics for lunch has sometimes taken longer than the lunch itself. Think Special Warfare Operations that take years to plan, months implement and mere minutes to execute. Soon there is a fire in the fire pit and bottles of wine on the masonry outdoor dining table venting. Chairs, sometimes a tablecloth, fruits, nuts and the like are arranged and then - food arrives!
........................................LUNCH........................................ (too long and too much for this post)
Before you know it, its 1300 or 1330 ... ish and soccer games, la cross practices, tennis matches, funerals, weddings, divorces, medical procedures and the like take their toll on the group and, not unlike a mechanized infantry movement, a cloud of dust moving off is all you see.
took some trees down and even used a two person saw with Coppler, everyone else watched and supervised 
