A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to transfer logs and peeler blocks (logs cut to lathe length) from pond, trucks, or conveyor to log deck, barken deck, or lathe deck. Responsibilities include:

• Rolls logs from trucks or conveyor to deck, using peavy, or transfers peeler blocks from pond to barken deck, using electric hoist and conveyor.
• Arranges logs on deck for feeding logs to saws or positions blocks at lathe or barken deck, using conveyor.
• Marks center of blocks for lathe chucks, using scale.
• May attach hoist hooks to blocks and position block between lathe chucks.
• May move levers to activate mechanism that kicks logs from conveyor to deck.
• May use ax or pick to remove undesirable material from bark, such as stones or nails.