A professional who tends equipment that dehairs slaughtered hogs preparatory to dressing. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns steam and water valves to fill scalding tank with water and heat it to specified temperature.
• Starts machine conveyors, and releases hogs shackled to overhead rail to drop them into tank by tripping lever on shackle or prying shackle loose with steel bar.
• Pushes hogs through vat and into dehairing machine, using pole, or hooks hog's leg to conveyor chain that pulls hog through tank and dehairing machine.
• May cut slit in leg to expose tendon for hooking to conveyor chain.
• Opens exit door of machine and pulls carcass onto conveyor.
• May be known according to specific task performed as Dropper, Dehairing Machine; Feed-in Tender, Dehairing Machine; Pull-Through Hooker; Scalder.