- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates boring machine to drill holes for latches and locks on doors, and cuts recesses in doors for hinges and locks, using portable router. Responsibilities include:
* Places door on worktable and positions template on door at point indicated on specification sheet or blueprint.
* Starts and guides router against template.
* Positions hinge in recess to verify depth of cut.
* Clamps door to table of boring machine.
* Positions bits over marks on door indicating location of holes to be bored.
* Starts machine which indexes cutting heads automatically to bore prescribed holes or pulls cord on lever to lower rotating bit.
* Chisels out wood from recess to prepare it for lock, using wood chisel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who bores holes in wood structural components, such as trusses, spans, stringers, decking, or fence posts, prior to wood preserving process. Responsibilities include:
* Positions wood on blocking of framing floor or guides structural components, suspended from hoist, into position on framing rack, using peavey and working as member of team.
* Aligns template on top of wood, installs specified bit size in auger, and bores holes of specified diameter in wood, using pneumatic-powered auger, hand auger, or multiple-spindle boring machine.
* May fabricate template according to work order specifications, using diagrams, measuring tape, square, handtools, and power tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bores stemhole in corncob-pipe bowls. Responsibilities include:
* Places bowl in holding device of machine.
* Flips switch or presses button to start boring machine and depresses pedal that moves bowl against rotating bit to bore stemhole in pipe bowl.
* May insert drill bit in chuck of boring machine, according to work ticket, using chuck key.
* May tend machine that bores stemholes and sands bowl tops and be designated stemhole-borer-and-topper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with severing or shaping wood by the reciprocal or rotary cutting action of a blade which wears out a kerf.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting barrel staves. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates movement of bolts between yard, cutting area, and drying area.
* Examines staves and bolts to ensure products meet company standards.
* Directs workers to sharpen saw blades or to adjust cutting of staves to maintain production standards.
* Examines bolts to detect defects, such as knots and splits.
* Grades bolts, using factors such as ratio of sapwood to heartwood.
* Calculates value of bolts and writes pay voucher for purchases.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who appraises and cuts planed lumber to width or length to obtain clear-faced pieces (pieces free from imperfections). Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts stops of cutoff saw or ripsaw to required distances.
* Starts machine and inspects lumber stock for imperfections.
* Pushes lumber past saw, cutting away undesired parts and cutting acceptable pieces to desired lengths or widths.
* May be designated according to type of saw used as cut-off-saw grader; ripsaw grader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to cut gates into window jambs to allow for installation and adjustment of sash counterweights after frames are erected. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts distance between saws, using wrench.
* Positions stops on machine table according to dimensions of jamb and specified location of gate.
* Places jamb on machine table against stops and clamps jamb in place.
* Starts machine, and pulls lever to feed stock into circular saws that cut two parallel slits into jamb to form sides of gate.
* Presses pedal that raises one set of two reciprocating saw blades and lowers another set of two blades to cut slits simultaneously across wood grain on top and bottom of jamb to form ends of gate.
* Measures completed cuts for accuracy, using rule, and makes machine adjustments.
* May replace worn saw blades.
* May operate pocket cutter combined with pulley mortiser and be designated pocket-and-pulley-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates saws to cut lumber according to customer's order or plant production specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Selects lumber of kind and grade specified on work order.
* Measures and marks lumber according to specifications, using rule and square.
* Cuts lumber to specified length and width, using crosscut saws, ripsaws, or multiple-purpose saws.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that saws wooden blocks into shingles. Responsibilities include:
* Places block in machine carriage and adjusts carriage to ensure that shingles are of specified thickness.
* Starts machine that moves carriage back and forth to feed block into rotating saw to cut shingles.
* Catches shingles as they fall from saw, grades shingles according to knots, rot, or other defects, and trims off defects with power saw.
* Sorts trimmed shingles according to grade and tosses shingles into specified containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates head saw and feed carriage to saw logs into cants or boards. Responsibilities include:
* Starts mechanical loader arms that place log on carriage.
* Sets dogs and adjusts carriage blocks to align log for sawing.
* Activates carriage that moves log against saw blade.
* Starts saw to cut log.
* Observes exposed face of log after first cut to determine grade and size of next cut and adjusts setting of carriage blocks.
* Starts mechanical log turner that turns log over on carriage for subsequent cuts.
* May change saw blades.
* May be designated according to type of saw operated as band-head-saw operator; circular-head-saw operator.
Industry:Professional careers
