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.