How long do you cab at a time?

Less than a half hour. My Genie is set up permanently outside. My age limits how long I can work without a body part complaining. I take frequent breaks and work a few hours a day. I lose focus (pay less attention to detail and less patient) when fatigued.

Lately I've been cutting 1 cab a week. Trim saw, dop and cut...less than an hour. But what I really enjoy is studying the slabs and doing layout. If I had to guess I'd say I spend at least an hour a day just looking at rocks.

I hear ya! I can go for hours when I'm in the zone, but when they start coming off the stick or I run into a lot of fractures or whatever other irritating thing happens too much, I have to put things away.

Tops, probably six hours. An old shoulder injury dictates the terms 😂

Ouch! I have back issues, but lucky for me, bending over at that angle doesn't bother me too much. It gets to my shoulders, though, and I never even had an injury. I cab sitting down.

I usually work with batches of material for 2-3 hours in both the morning and afternoon. Most of my material is hard and I rough cut on a 60 grit flat lap and then refine the shape on a less coarse lap. The cabs are then finished in the UV-18 vibe once I have a sufficient quantity.

I preform in batches, but I cab one at a time through all the wheels before I start the next one.

I'm 5' 4", so I don't have far to bend. But my back is so shot that I have to watch how I move. I preform at my really small Ameritool sitting down.

I do mine in batches as well. Last fall I finished sawing out 750 preforms. I had to enlist my wife for help as to her opinions for what to cut so we worked at nights after work marking out cabs. ( it is easy to get in a rut and only cut a limited shape) I find it freeing to be able to cut all the wire wrap shapes different than in the old days when you had to buy a mount that fit a 25x18, 30x22 or a 40x30. I rough out bunches (right now I have 200+ ). then I dop 15-30 at a time and run them through the coarse side of the Titan 80, 220, 220nova. Then after the batch is all done to 220nova I move to the other side and and start 280, 600 and 1200. Once that is done I move to Beacon star grinder with 3000 and 8000. These days with doctor requirements to drink 80+ oz of water a day I am limited to about 2hrs before my bladder starts shouting but on a good day 4hrs in the morning 3 hrs in the afternoon and 3hrs after dinner. Other days as little as 3hrs. I spent 2.5 hrs Saturday trying to match a customers fake turquoise stone to a stabilized turquoise. You never get that time back and you can't charge enough to really make a profit. the rest of the day we had a customer bring a rock to repolish. I never did get to polishing.