![]() A facility’s choices at this point are: overtime pay, additional rollers, or finding a quality pre-roll machine. When is it time to think about an automatic cone filling machine? In our hypothetical case featuring a world-record caliber roller, it happens as soon as the demand exceeds the number of pre-rolls a facility can produce by hand. However, as demands increase, it makes less and less sense to continue paying an employee to do something a machine can do much more efficiently. One single full-time joint roller will cost a business $600/week in this scenario, which again, may sound very reasonable depending on a facility’s needs. ![]() There will come a time when paying someone upwards of fifteen dollars an hour to process joints is no longer cost-effective. Though certainly a useful skill, hand-rolling won't make you competetive. For a small operation producing only a handful of joints per day, producing pre-rolls by hand probably makes sense, but what happens when we scale up to hundreds or even thousands of joints per day? The truth is that the number of pre-rolled joints produced and sold is going to depend on the producer’s size, market share, ability to keep up with demands, etc. But is that a lot? It seems like it, right? Insanely fast and able to roll a single joint in under 5 seconds, it seems like this would be plenty of speed for operation, since unhindered, an ultra-talented roller will be able to produce a couple thousand pre-rolled joints a day. Imagine you've hired a world record hand joint roller to make your joints. Though it might reduce upfront expenses, growers will find that the cost will quickly become infeasible as production scales up. While it remains an art form, manually rolling or hand-packing cones just isn’t competitive in the growing marijuana and hemp markets. While there will always be a place for hand-rolled joints, hand-rolling in a commercial facility is a thing of the past. ![]()
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