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A professional who sets up and operates single- or multiple-blade machine to cut grooves, notches, recesses, rabbets, lap joints, and tenons in wooden parts. Responsibilities include:
* Examines drawings, blueprints, or samples and written specifications and selects and installs saws, dado heads, and spacers, using rule and wrenches.
* Turns handwheels to move guide fence and adjust table height to attain specified location and depth of cut.
* Starts machine and pushes wooden parts past cutting heads by hand, or inserts parts between feed rolls that carry parts through machine.
* May be designated according to type of saws used as warble-saw operator; or according to part and cut made as cleat notcher; partition notcher; strap recesser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to cut notches and bevels in rafters for precut or prefabricated houses. Responsibilities include:
* Determines from specifications or blueprints number and size of rafters to be cut.
* Selects and installs saws and cutterheads in machine, and adjusts their spacing and depth and angle of cut, using wrenches, rule, and protractor.
* Positions board on table or carriage of machine and clamps board in place.
* Starts machine and moves lever to feed board into saws and cutterheads to cut rafter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to cut mortises and tenons in fibrous insulating board and acoustical tile. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts flange, bevel, tongue and groove cutters, holddown rolls, and lug guides, using handtools.
* Turns wheel to position and adjust width of feed chains to ensure depth and squareness of cuts.
* Starts machine and automatic feeding conveyor, and observes each phase of processing.
* Measures sample products for squareness and depth of cuts, using square and jigs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine with multiple cutterheads to simultaneously saw, bore, groove, shape, and sand woodstock to form furniture parts. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work ticket to determine machining operations required to form specified furniture parts.
* Selects, installs, and adjusts blades, bits, cutter knives, and sanding belts, according to specifications, using handtools.
* Attaches specified forms that hold woodstock during machining operations to automatic carriage holding device of machine, using handtools.
* Selects and installs punch cards into machine control panel that determine sequence and duration of machining operations.
* Presses buttons to start machine, positions woodstock in holding forms, and adjusts clamps to secure woodstock in form.
* Presses button to activate automatic machining cycle.
* Removes processed parts from holding form and verifies finished dimensions, using steel tape rule, gauges, and calipers.
* Stacks finished parts in storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates turning machines to shape and bore smoking pipe bowls. Responsibilities include:
* Sharpens turning machine cutting knives, using grinding wheel.
* Inserts and secures knives in cutterhead, using socket wrench.
* Turns handwheels and moves levers to adjust turning machine carriage stops and cutting depth of machine.
* Places block in clamp on machine carriage and moves lever to secure block in clamp.
* Pushes machine carriage handle to move block into cutterhead to shape and bore sample pipe bowl.
* Examines sample pipe bowl to verify shape and dimension against specifications, using caliper and gauges.
* Performs other duties as described under briar cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes bark and dirt from logs by one of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Starts conveyor to move logs from pond to drum of barking machine.
* Moves lever to activate chains or start drum revolving to tumble logs and knock off bark.
* Turns valve to regulate water spray that removes chips and dirt from log.
* Breaks up log jams in drum, using peavey or pike pole and chain hoist.
* (2) Moves lever to activate kicker arms that kick log into machine cradle.
* Turns controls that start log rotating between toothed gears that remove bark from log, and regulates and directs pressurized water jet to remove loose bark and dirt.
* (3) Turns levers to control movement and centering of log in jet ring and to regulate pressure of water jets.
* Starts conveyors that carry logs from barking machine to saw deck.
* May be designated according to machine operated as drum-barker operator; hydraulic-barker operator; ring-barker operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, adjusts, and operates machine to staple cleats and boards together to assemble box sections. Responsibilities include:
* Adds or removes links from chain-feed belt, spaces stops on belt, and spaces stapling heads, according to dimensions of box, using wrench.
* Mounts spools of wire on machine, threads ends through stapling heads, and starts machine.
* Directs workers engaged in feeding cleats and boards to machine and removing finished product.
* May make wirebound box sections, threading binding wire through guides so that staples fasten binding wire to box, and be designated wire-bound-box-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to frame timbers for utility poles and for structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out timber for cutting operation, according to blueprints, sketches, or work order, using square, ruler, and pencil.
* Installs dado cutter or adzing knives.
* Starts motor that adjusts cutter for depth and angle of cut.
* Signals frame-table-operator helper to spot timber on carriage under cutting tool.
* Starts machine and advances cutter into wood by turning wheel.
* Marks finished pieces with die-filled hammer or crayon.
* Changes cutters, using handtools.
* Makes repairs and lubricates machine.
* Bores holes in timber, using drill press or portable drill.
* May specialize in framing utility poles and be designated machine pole framer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine that joins woodstock of varying widths to form panels by simultaneously cutting tongue in one piece and groove in other, applying glue, sliding tongue and groove together, and ejecting glued pieces. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts guides, cutters, feed and glue rolls, according to thickness and length of stock, depth of cuts, and dimensions of panel, using handtools.
* Starts machine and gives directions to feeders who simultaneously feed stock into each end of machine.
* Inspects joined pieces to detect loose joints and makes machine adjustments to correct operation of machine.
* Changes worn cutterheads and installs cutterheads, according to type of tongue and groove specified, using handtools.
* May operate ripsaw to cut panels to specified width.
* May feed or off bear machine.
* May select wood pieces of matching grain or color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates variety of machines to trim, bore, incise, and date stamp railroad ties and utility pole crossarms, preparatory to treating with wood preservatives. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts stops and guides, and installs dating punches, boring bits, adzing cutters, incising rollers, and knives, according to work order, using rule, wrenches, pry bar, and hammer.
* Starts machines and conveyor system and observes operation.
* Removes defective material from conveyor prior to processing operation.
* Replaces worn or broken drills, adzing cutters, incising knives, and machine parts.
* May feed ties or crossarms into machine and inspect finished work.
Industry:Professional careers
