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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who drives and operates logging tractor equipped with frontal hydraulic shear to fell trees. Respnsibilities include: * Maneuvers tractor to position jaws of shear around tree bole, and activates shear to cut and fell tree. * May control hydraulic tree clamp and boom to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees and be designated Feller-Buncher Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates logging tractor equipped with frontal hydraulic shear to fell trees. Respnsibilities include: * Maneuvers tractor to position jaws of shear around tree bole, and activates shear to cut and fell tree. * May control hydraulic tree clamp and boom to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees and be designated Feller-Buncher Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who saws felled trees into lengths. Respnsibilities include: * Places supporting limbs or poles under felled tree to avoid splitting underside and to prevent log from rolling. * Cuts previously marked tree into logs, using power chain saw and ax. * Drives wedges into cut behind saw blade to prevent binding saw. * May cut limbs from felled trees. * May mark felled tree for cutting into log lengths to obtain maximum value.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fells trees, applying specified cutting procedures to control direction of fall. Respnsibilities include: * Clears brush from work area and escape route, and cuts saplings and other trees from falling path, using ax and chain saw. * Saws or chops undercut in bole of tree to fix designated direction of fall, using chain saw and ax, and saws opposite side (back cut) to fell tree. * Drives wedges behind saw with mall to tip tree and prevent binding of saw. * May cut limbs from tree. * May cut tree into log lengths. * May tag trees in unsafe condition with high visibility ribbon. * Workers are classified as faller I where adherence to standards of minimum tree damage are of prime importance and considerable judgment is exercised in determining cutting techniques.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fells trees, applying specified cutting procedures to control direction of fall. Respnsibilities include: * Clears brush from work area and escape route, and cuts saplings and other trees from falling path, using ax and chain saw. * Saws or chops undercut in bole of tree to fix designated direction of fall, using chain saw and ax, and saws opposite side (back cut) to fell tree. * Drives wedges behind saw with mall to tip tree and prevent binding of saw. * May cut limbs from tree. * May cut tree into log lengths. * May tag trees in unsafe condition with high visibility ribbon. * Workers are classified as faller I where adherence to standards of minimum tree damage are of prime importance and considerable judgment is exercised in determining cutting techniques.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who harvests timber trees, performing combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include: * Fells trees in specified direction, removes limbs and top, and measures and cuts tree into log lengths, using chain saw, wedges, and ax. * Secures cables to logs and drives tractor or horses to skid logs to landing. * Loads logs onto trucks by hand or using winch. * May drive truck to haul logs to mill.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rives (splits) logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, shakes, or stakes, using handtools, such as ax wedges, sledgehammer, froe, and mallet. Respnsibilities include: * Drives wedge into log with ax and sledgehammer to split log along grain to form posts or bolts. * Positions froe on block according to grain and thickness of specified product and pounds it into block with mallet to start cut. * Pulls froe handle up or down to pry and split pieces from block. * May fell trees, using chain saw and cut logs into desired lengths. * May be designated according to product cut as Rail Splitter; Shake Splitter; Shingle-Bolt Cutter; Stave-Block Splitter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fells trees of specified size and specie, trims limbs from tree, and cuts tree into lengths for firewood, fence posts, or pulpwood, using ax, measuring tool and chain saw. * Splits logs, using ax, wedges, and maul. * May stack wood in rick or cord lots. * May load wood onto trucks. * May be designated Fence-Post Cutter; Firewood Cutter; Pulpwood Cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who trims limbs, tops, and roots from trees, and saws logs to predetermined lengths, using chain saw, preparatory to removal from forest or processing into wood products. * May measure and mark logs for sawing. * May be designated according to activity performed as Limber. * For related classifications involving judgment in determining cutting techniques, see bucker; faller II; and tree cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who harvests tanbark, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include: * Cuts limbs from felled trees, using chain saw or ax. * Cuts rings and slits in bark, and strips bark from tree, using spud or ax. * Stacks bark in ricks (piles), bark-side down.
Industry:Professional careers