Logging - Occupations Duties

All round Logger Occupation

Job Duties:

• Harvest timber trees, performing combination of following tasks
• Fell trees in specified direction, removes limbs and top and measures cuts tree into log lengths, using chain saw, wedges and ax
• Secure cables to logs drives tractor or horses to skid logs to landing
• Load logs onto trucks by hand or using winch
• May drive truck to haul logs to mill.

Chaser Occupation

Job Duties:

• Direct placement of logs brought to landing by high lead rig or tractor unhooks chokers from logs
• Hand signals Yarding Engineer logging or Logging-Tractor Operator forestry, logging, saw. plan. where to drop logs on landing for reloading onto logging trucks
• Pull end of choker from bell sliding fastener on choker cable to open noose
• Signal operator to pull choker free of logs
• Cuts knots and limbs from logs, using ax chain saw
• Attach equipment, like chokers, lines, blocks, and fire equipment, to outbound rigging as indicated by whistle signals from Rigging Slinger logging
• May mark logs [Log Marker logging ]
• May be designated Cat Chaser logging in tractor logging operations or Water Chaser logging when working on floating logs.

Choke Setter Occupation

Job Duties:

• Fasten choker cables around logs for yarding from cutting area to landing
• Pull choker cables from tractor winch or main-line of yarding machine, passes ball one end under around log and secures end to bell sliding fastener to form noose
• May clear brush & earth from under log, using ax shovel
• May assist Rigging Slinger logging in installing dismantling rigging of high lead or similar yarding system
• May be designated Cat Hooker logging in tractor yarding.

Feller Operator Occupation

Job Duties:

• Drive operates logging tractor equipped with frontal hydraulic shear to fell trees
• Maneuver tractor to position jaws of shear around tree bole and activates shear to cut fell tree
• May control hydraulic tree clamp & boom to lift, swing and bunch sheared trees be designated Feller-Buncher Operator logging .

Felling bucking Supervisor Occupation

Job Duties:

• Supervise coordinates activities of workers engaged in felling trees, trimming off limbs, and sawing felled trees into logs
• Specify log lengths to be cut, trees to be left, stump height and cutting sequence
• Train workers in felling & bucking techniques safety practices
• Give instructions to workers in felling trees with unusual or dangerous characteristics
• May supervise Tree-Shear Operators logging
• Perform other duties as described under Supervisor any industry Master Title.

Grapple Operator Occupation

Job Duties:

• Operate heel-boom log loader equipped with cable, hydraulic, or pneumatically controlled grapples to load logs onto log trucks
• Select logs to be loaded according to specie and size required to attain balanced compact load
• May be designated according to type of machine operated as Shovel-Loader Operator logging .

Heel boom Operator Occupation

Job Duties:

• Operate heel-boom log loader equipped with cable, hydraulic, or pneumatically controlled grapples to load logs onto log trucks
• Select logs to be loaded according to specie and size required to attain balanced compact load
• May be designated according to type of machine operated as Shovel-Loader Operator logging .

Laborer Tanbark Occupation

Job Duties:

• Harvest tanbark, performing any combination of following tasks
• Cuts limbs from felled trees, using chain saw or ax
• Cuts rings slits in bark and strips bark from tree, using spud or ax
• Stack bark in ricks piles , bark-side down.

Log chipper Operator Occupation

Job Duties:

• Operate trailer-mounted grapple-loader and chipping machine to reduce logs logging waste to wood chips
• Control loading boom and power-grapple attachment to pick up logs place them on feed conveyor
• Adjust speed opening of feed rolls according to log diameter and activates feed rolls that pushes log through chipper unit
• Monitor gauges and adjusts speed opening of feed rolls to prevent equipment strain
• Replace defective chipping knives, using wrenches feeler gauges
• May control opening of debarking spuds tined rotating drums that remove bark from log before chipping.

Log Hauler Occupation

Job Duties:

• Drive truck, equipped with long-tongued trailer, to haul logs from forest to mill or storage yard
• Maneuver truck into loading position according to signals from loading crew
• Fasten chain or cable binders around logs to secure load on trailer during transit
• May release binders start power hoist to dump logs
• May assist in loading unloading logs, using crane hook or cant hook
• May raise empty trailer to carrying position on truck bed, using hoist, for deadhead empty trip to forest
• May steer trailer from cab attached to rear end of log trailer be designated Trailer Steerer logging .