List of Career Duties Under Sawmill And Planing Mill Business Sector

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Supervise coordinates activities of workers engaged in shaping logs or wood to form rough lumber, shingles, cooperage stock, lathes, and veneer stock
Read work orders to define type product to be produced production schedule
Instruct workers on machine setup to meet production requirements
Inspect material during and after processing to define that dimensions grade meet specifications
Direct workers to adjust machine setup or processing procedure to correct defects
Perform duties as described under Supervisor any industry Master Title
May inspect, grade, scale, and tally incoming lumber verify invoices
May compute wood requirements needed to meet production demands
May supervise coordinate activities of workers engaged in removing bark from logs prior to processing.

Perform any combination of following duties in preparing logs for cutting into lumber storing cut lumber in sawmill
Unload logs from trucks or cars
Roll logs onto sawmill deck
Examine logs for defects, like embedded pieces of iron or stone, decayed wood from splits, and marks defects for removal by other workers
Roll logs from deck onto log or carriage
Ride log carriage of head saw adjusts position of logs on carriage to cut planks of required thickness
Sort guides planks emerging from saw onto roller tables or conveyors for trimming edges
Straighten lumber on moving conveyors
Straighten edges of rough lumber, using saw
Operate maintains donkey engines
Sharpen adjusts teeth of woodworking saws
Tend fires in donkey engine
May relieve designated workers engaged in preparing or cutting logs into lumber and be designated Sawmill-Relief Worker saw. plan. .

Operate conveyor system in sawmill to route lumber, cants, and timber to processing operations according to size, grade, and specie, or type of processing required
Raise and lowers cross chains by moving levers pedals to shift boards, timbers, or cants from one set of conveyor rolls to another or from rolls to platform
Raise stop blocks to stop lumber at specified points along rolls
Stop reverses conveyors to re-route cants for further processing
May operate electric hoist to move cants to stockpile
May operate cut-off saw to cut cants to specified lengths.

Tend machine that notches boards for use as insulation backing on shakes
Insert insulation board in jig butts end of board against stop
Press pedal to lower punch that notches edge of board to provide for circulation of air when board is installed
Remove board from jig places board on conveyor.

Tend machine that saws wooden blocks into shingles
Place block in machine carriage adjusts carriage for making sure that shingles are of specified thickness
Start machine that moves carriage back forth to feed block into rotating saw to cut shingles
Catch shingles as they fall from saw, grades shingles according to knots, rot, or other defects, and trims off defects with power saw
Sort trimmed shingles according to grade tosses shingles into specified containers.

Tend circular saw that cuts slabs, edgings, and short logs into pieces suitable for making sawmill byproducts, like shingles, shakes laths, or for fuel
Start conveyor that moves slab, edging, or short log into cutting position against end stop
Start saw moves saw to cut pieces according to requirements
May set dogs or wedges to hold slab, ending, or short log in place
May be designated Cut-Off Sawyer, Shingle Mill saw. plan. when cutting pieces used for making shingles
May be designated Scrap Sawyer saw. plan. when cutting scrap lumber for use as fuel.

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