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A professional who pulls lumber from moving conveyor coming from ripsaw, resaw, planer, trimmer, and grading tables, and slides and stacks lumber on piles, according to grade marked on each piece.
* May push buttons to start and stop conveyor and deposit waste material onto slasher conveyor for waste recovery.
* May band stacked lumber to facilitate moving, using banding machine.
* May be designated according to condition of lumber removed from conveyor as dry-chain offbearer; green-chain offbearer; or may be designated according to machine from which lumber is conveyed as planer-chain offbearer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds reeds into machine that stitches reeds together to make insulation panels of specified dimensions.
* Trims edges with shears.
* May remove finished panels from machine and transfer panels to storage areas.
* May participate in unloading reeds onto work floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists slat-basket maker, machine in assembly of slat baskets. Responsibilities include:
* Positions preformed inside top hoop and basket bottom on basket-shaped form of machine and holds bottom until hoop and bottom are stapled to staves.
* Removes assembled basket from machine and twists loose ends of wire hoops with handtool to tighten hoops.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds woodstock on conveyors, into hoppers, or between rollers of woodworking machines that cut, saw, sand, bore, or shape woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Conveys woodstock from stock area to woodworking machine, using handcart.
* Lifts stock from cart and feeds stock onto conveyor, into hopper, or between rollers of machine.
* Stops machine to remove jammed pieces or make minor adjustments, using handtools.
* May assist machine operator in setting up machine and in cleaning work area, machines, and equipment.
* May collect and convey scrap wood from machine areas to hog mill and feed scrap into machine.
* May be designated according to machine fed as boring-machine feeder; flooring-machine feeder; molder feeder; stitcher feeder; tongue-and-groove-machine feeder; or according to product as shake feeder.
* May be designated: adzing-and-boring-machine feeder; box-blank-machine feeder; glue-jointer feeder; planer feeder; resaw feeder; turner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears material at discharge end of machines that cut, smooth, bore, or shape woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Stacks woodstock aside or loads woodstock on truck, pallet, or conveyor for movement to additional processing stations.
* May count and examine woodstock to detect manufacturing defects.
* May reposition woodstock and feed woodstock into machine or back to operator for subsequent processing.
* May depress pedal to raise or lower conveyor to facilitate stacking.
* May discard scrap or defective pieces of woodstock into scrap containers or onto conveyor for burning.
* May place sticks between specified intervals of stacked woodstock to provide air circulation and increase stability of stack.
* May be designated according to machine assigned as jointer offbearer; molder offbearer; planer offbearer; saw offbearer; tenoner offbearer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears material at discharge end of machines that cut, smooth, bore, or shape woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Stacks woodstock aside or loads woodstock on truck, pallet, or conveyor for movement to additional processing stations.
* May count and examine woodstock to detect manufacturing defects.
* May reposition woodstock and feed woodstock into machine or back to operator for subsequent processing.
* May depress pedal to raise or lower conveyor to facilitate stacking.
* May discard scrap or defective pieces of woodstock into scrap containers or onto conveyor for burning.
* May place sticks between specified intervals of stacked woodstock to provide air circulation and increase stability of stack.
* May be designated according to machine assigned as jointer offbearer; molder offbearer; planer offbearer; saw offbearer; tenoner offbearer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions one or more cleats, used in wood boxes or box shooks, against stop under nailing machine.
* Carries supply of cleats of specified size from storage area to work station.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions one or more cleats, used in wood boxes or box shooks, against stop under nailing machine.
* Carries supply of cleats of specified size from storage area to work station.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects dowel pins for flaws, such as square ends, knots, or splits, and discards defective dowels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who straightens lumber on conveyor to align lumber for grading, sawing, edging, trimming, sorting, stacking, or for transfer to other conveyors.
* Clears jammed material, using picaroon to permit normal flow of lumber along conveyor.
* Cleans work area, using broom and shovel.
* May pile lumber on trucks or pallets.
* May tend automatic conveyor and sorting machine that sorts lumber for further processing.
* May be designated according to process involved as cross-tie turner; sorter-lumber straightener; stacker-straightener; trimmer loader; trimmer tailer.
Industry:Professional careers
