- 업종: Government; Labor
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A professional who harvests tanbark, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts limbs from felled trees, using chain saw or ax.
* Cuts rings and slits in bark, and strips bark from tree, using spud or ax.
* Stacks bark in ricks (piles), bark-side down.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who marks logs in river or pond to designate ownership, cutting origin, species, or intended use, using any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Brands each end of log with hammer or ax having raised characters on head.
* (2) Paints mark on ends of log, using spray can.
* (3) Chops or saws mark in bark near end of log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in unloading, scaling, grading, and sorting logs in log boom or sorting yard. Respnsibilities include:
* Designates storage location for each category of log grade, specie, and size.
* Oversees scaling and grading activities to verify adherence to industry or company standards.
* Trains workers in log scaling, grading, and marking standards.
* Coordinates selection and movement of logs from storage areas according to transportation schedules or production requirements of wood products plants.
* May supervise raft building and loading of trucks and railcars for log shipment.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise sorting activities in log boom and be designated Boom Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grades logs in sorting yard, millpond, or log deck according to industry or company standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures diameter and length of log, using scale stick, steel tape, or other measuring aid, and determines total volume, using conversion table.
* Jabs log with metal end of scale stick and inspects log to ascertain conditions or defects, such as sound or water-soaked wood, splits, broken ends, rotten areas, twists, and curves.
* Evaluates log's characteristics and determines grade according to established criteria.
* Paints identification mark of specified color on log to identify grade and species, using paint spray can, or calls out grade to log marker.
* Estimates and deducts volume of waste wood from total volume, and records volume by grade in tally book.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who estimates marketable content of logs or pulpwood. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures dimensions of each log or entire loads of pulpwood, using scale stick, tape measure, or other measuring device.
* Determines total board feet, cordage, or other wood unit, using conversion table.
* Inspects logs or pulpwood for rot, knots, and other defects, deducts estimated waste from total volume, and records results.
* May identify logs of substandard or special grade for return to shipper or transfer to other processes.
* May weigh log trucks before and after unloading, and record weight data and supplier.
* May tend conveyor chain that moves logs to and from scaling station.
* May be designated according to work location as Deck Scaler; Landing Scaler; Pond Scaler; or item scaled as Pulpwood Scaler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles floating logs into rafts for towing to mill. Respnsibilities include:
* Bores holes in boom sticks (side poles of raft), and swifters (cross poles or ribs) with power-driven auger, and threads chain or cable through holes to form raft frame.
* Signals log sorter to push logs between frame members and maneuvers them into position with pike pole, or signals boat operator to push log bundles into raft.
* Binds logs into rafts with chain or cable and fastens binder with cable clamp or clevis.
* May unload logs from railroad cars and log trucks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts logs in boom according to species, size, and owners' markings. Respnsibilities include:
* Separates logs, floats them into designated bays with pike pole, and closes bay with chain or cable.
* Opens bay and maneuvers logs into designated rafting or mill storage area.
* May unload logs from railroad cars and log trucks.
* May operate motorboat to move logs.
* May assemble log rafts.
* May brand logs with owners' markings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in felling and bucking trees, skidding logs from forest, and loading logs on trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in felling and bucking trees, operation of tractors and loading machines, yarding and loading techniques, and safety regulations.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* When logging activities are confined to one side of timber stand or tract, may be designated Side Boss.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in felling and bucking trees, skidding logs from forest, and loading logs on trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in felling and bucking trees, operation of tractors and loading machines, yarding and loading techniques, and safety regulations.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* When logging activities are confined to one side of timber stand or tract, may be designated Side Boss.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pulling, blasting, chopping, and transporting stumps, used in destructive distillation process for obtaining crude turpentine.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
