Daily manpower & equipment log

Field record

Who was on site, what plant was there, what got done — and what held the job up.

The line that earns the form

Every field on this sheet is context for one thing: what held the job up, written down on the day it happened. On the day, it is evidence. Six months later, reconstructed from memory and a phone’s photo roll, it is an argument. That difference is worth two minutes at the end of a shift.

Counts, not conclusions

Companies on site, workers each, hours, plant, work performed. The tool adds none of it up into a productivity figure or a manhour rate, and it decides nothing about whether a delay is excusable or compensable — those come from the contract and from whoever administers it.

The rest of the day’s paperwork

The narrative version, with photos, is the contractor daily report. What arrived on the truck is the material delivery log, and the questions the day raised go in the RFI register. Hours you need per person rather than per company belong on the hours log.

A field record of the day. It is not a schedule, computes no productivity figure, and makes no determination that any delay is excusable or compensable — that turns on your contract, and this tool has not read it. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

What is the difference between this and a daily report?
This one counts. A daily report is a narrative of the day; a manpower and equipment log is the tally underneath it — which companies were on site, how many people each had, what plant was there. On most jobs both get kept, and the contractor daily report tool in this product is the narrative version with photos.
Does it work out productivity or manhours?
No. It records the counts and the hours you type and adds nothing up beyond a row count. A productivity figure needs a quantity installed and a definition of the work, and a manhour rate printed on a field log gets read later as a claim. The numbers are facts; what they mean is yours.
Can it record weather automatically?
No, and that is deliberate. Weather on this sheet is what somebody standing on the site observed — which is what matters in a dispute — not what a weather service says a nearby airport recorded. Type it as you saw it.
Does the tool decide whether a delay is excusable?
Never. Whether a delay is excusable, compensable, or neither depends on the contract, on notice provisions and on the facts, and a website is the last thing that should be adjudicating it. What this gives you is the dated record such an argument would have to be built from.