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A professional who tends nailing machine that joins items, such as picture frames, or attaches molding, trimming, carving, scrollwork, or overlay panels to wooden stock. Responsibilities include:
* Positions reel of nail wire on spindle of machine and pulls wire through rollers into driving mechanism.
* Turns knobs or levers to adjust machine to cut nails of specified length.
* Positions stock parts to be nailed together in specified arrangements on table of machine under driving mechanism.
* Depresses pedal or button to drive nails into stock.
* Moves stock as necessary to receive additional nails.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically joins lumber to fabricate roof trusses used in construction of buildings. Responsibilities include:
* Threads stapling wire through staple head of machine and pours glue into machine glue reservoir.
* Starts machine and feeds precut wood onto machine that glues and staples material together and shears off excess material to form completed roof truss.
* Removes roof truss from machine and stacks on pallet for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that staples basket hoops and slats together. Responsibilities include:
* Places spools of wire on wire holders and draws wire through machine guides and slots in stapling heads.
* Inserts end of hoop strips into slots on basket-shaped form and positions veneer stave between stops on form.
* Depresses pedal to start machine that staples hoop strips and strand of wire to stave and rotates form into position for succeeding staves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bores hole and cuts threads in bottom of shankless pipe bowls. Responsibilities include:
* Places pipe bowl over chuck of machine and turns nut to expand chuck against bowl, using wrench.
* Pulls lever to align bowl with drill and turns handwheel to feed bowl into rotating drill.
* Moves lever to align bowl with circular saw and turns handwheel to rotate bowl beneath saw that cuts threads in bowl.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that squeezes tongue and groove boards together. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheels to adjust machine for length, width, and thickness of finished piece.
* Starts machine.
* Positions matched boards on feed table from which they are automatically fed into machine that squeezes them together or depresses pedal to activate bars that squeezes them together.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts defects from veneer sheets and repairs defects by inserting patches in cutout areas. Responsibilities include:
* Fills feed chute of machine with veneer patch stock and starts machine.
* Slides and positions veneer sheet on machine table so that defects, such as knots, holes, and pitch pockets are under head of machine.
* Depresses pedal to activate head that cuts or punches out defective area and inserts patch.
* Stacks repaired sheets on skids or slides them onto conveyor.
* May grade repaired sheets.
* May be designated according to machine operated as raimann-machine operator; skoog-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines in tandem that groove, paint, seal, and dry surfaces of hardboard panels. Responsibilities include:
* Positions grooving blades and striping wheels according to panel specifications, using handtools and tape measure.
* Pours paint and sealer into designated reservoirs to supply coating rollers and wheels.
* Moves controls on console panel to start and synchronize machines.
* Inspects and feels finished panels, and adjusts controls to conform with production specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends punch press machine that punches holes in hardboard panels to make pegboard panels. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work schedule to ascertain production information, such as size, type, and quantity of panels to be processed.
* Adjusts panel guides on machine table, according to production information, using handtools.
* Presses buttons to start machine, pulls panels from stack, aligns panels against guides on machine table, and pushes panels against feed rollers of machine.
* Measures first panel of each stack of hardboards to verify specified measurements, and feels edges of holes in pegboard panels to determine sharpness of punch press.
* Observes machine operation to detect malfunction of machine parts and notifies supervisor when punch dies need changing or machine malfunctions occur.
* Lubricates specified sections of machine, using grease gun and oilcan.
* Bands stacks of pegboards for storage, using steel banding ribbons, clips, and strapping tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions door frame parts between chain dogs on conveyor that carries them under driving heads of automatic nailing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists box-blank-machine operator in assembling box sections, performing any combination of following duties. Responsibilities include:
* Lays cleats against stops on feed belt of machine.
* Places boards or slats across cleats held in position by stops.
* Removes box blanks from machine and bends back projecting wire over wood to facilitate handling of blanks.
* Assists in adding and removing links from chain feed belt and spaces stops and stapling heads.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
* May be designated according to duties performed as board layer; cleat layer; wire bender; or type of machine as wire-bound-box-machine helper.
Industry:Professional careers
