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A professional who tends stave (hollow cylinder) saw that cuts barrel, keg, tub, and bucket staves from stave bolts. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts guides to attain specified thickness of stave.
* Lays bolt on carriage and holds bolt against guides.
* Depresses pedal to start carriage that feeds bolt into stave saw to cut rough staves.
* Releases pedal to stop carriage and removes stave.
* Repeats process to produce required number of staves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that rounds and trims assembled blanks for heads of barrels or bottoms of baskets. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts limit of horizontal swing saw to shape blanks of specified size.
* Centers and clamps blank in chuck of machine.
* Starts machine and moves feed lever that swings rotating saw against blank and simultaneously starts chuck and blank revolving.
* Holds saw against revolving blank to trim and shape periphery.
* Opens jaws of chuck and removes finished head.
* May remove defects from barrel heading material, using circular saw.
* May be designated according to part formed as basket-bottom-rounding-machine operator; head-turning-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bandsaw that automatically cuts curved or irregular designs on woodstock or saws stock to size. Responsibilities include:
* Compares sample piece of stock with prefabricated templates to select template.
* Positions and secures template on machine bed, turns dials, and positions stock clamps to set up automatic bandsaw.
* Places stock on machine bed, pulls lever to clamp stock in position, and presses buttons to activate automatic machine cycle.
* Pushes lever to release stock clamps, removes cut stock from machine, and stacks stock on handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends circular saw that saws kiln-dried lumber, rough lumber, or woodstock to standard lengths in sawmills, furniture plants, or woodworking establishments. Responsibilities include:
* Examines boards of rough lumber or finished woodstock for defects, such as excessive warping, knots, and cracks, to determine where to cut boards to minimize waste.
* Pushes boards against stop guides on saw table, and depresses button or pedal to activate saw to cut boards to specified length.
* Places cut boards on conveyor for further processing.
* May tend equipment with multiple saws.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds wooden clothespin blanks into machine that picks up, saws, and flares one end of block.
* Removes defective stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds lumber into double-end trimmer and keeps lumber straight into saw blades, working as member of team.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds lumber into double-end trimmer and keeps lumber straight into saw blades, working as member of team.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists turning-machine operator in tending machine that rounds and trims assembled blanks for heads of barrels on bottoms of baskets.
* Performs duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists buzzsaw operator in cutting logs into suitable lengths for use in stoves and fireplaces. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts limbs and trunks onto table of circular saw and holds them steady while they are cut.
* Throws cut pieces into piles.
* Lifts sawed pieces and stands pieces on end under blade of hydraulic-powered log splitter.
* May hold limbs and trunks of fallen trees while they are sawed to length in woods with chain saw.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists buzzsaw operator in cutting logs into suitable lengths for use in stoves and fireplaces. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts limbs and trunks onto table of circular saw and holds them steady while they are cut.
* Throws cut pieces into piles.
* Lifts sawed pieces and stands pieces on end under blade of hydraulic-powered log splitter.
* May hold limbs and trunks of fallen trees while they are sawed to length in woods with chain saw.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
