Forest-fuel reduction treatments have been applied extensively in Canada’s wildland–urban interface to mitigate the risk of wildfire to communities and other values. Motor-manual fuel treatments are labor intensive and time consuming. In the winter of 2016/17, FPInnovations documented the productivity of a fuel treatment conducted by workers using chainsaws and handtools to apply prescribed fuel reduction guidelines in a dense black spruce forest stand. The results and observations from this study will help forest fuels managers to plan and budget for motor-manual fuel treatments and to develop operational best practices.