A professional who operates machine to peel bark from logs. Responsibilities include:

• Moves levers to raise or lower rollers of feed mechanism that moves logs under cutter head of machine.
• Starts machine and moves levers or turns handwheel to lower knife blades against surface of log and remove bark.
• Applies pressure to cutting head of machine according to shape and size of log, using lever or handwheel.
• Sharpens and changes cutting blades of machine, using handtools.
• May lubricate machine, using oilcan and grease-pump.