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The purpose of this study was to determine models of labor consumption characteristics at the work station of a power chain saw operator in the following timber harvesting technologies: with horse skidding, using the Multi FKS winch, and using the NIAB 5-15 processor. The mean level of labor consumption was 22.66 min/m3. Six equations of a multiple regression were approximated. The coefficient of determination varied from 0.4 to 0.6, and this indicated a good fitting. The factors affecting the labor consumption level were as follows: characteristics of the harvested timber, thinning intensity indexes, and elements of the workday structure. The variation of thinning intensity indexes, determined on the basis of tabular data, was used to determine intervals of timber harvesting labor consumption according to stand age classes (degrees of difficulty) 30 and 40 years.