- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who controls steam cooker and grinding machines to reduce wood chips to felt (fiber). Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts grinding plates, using rule and handtools.
* Starts machines and conveyors and regulates steam pressure, cooking temperature, and spray or flow of water, wax, resin, and material.
* Observes cooking, grinding, and felting of material, pressure and temperature gauges, and flow and moisture charts to ensure that material is processed according to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates line of machines to form wood fiber mats and to cut and press them into hardboard panels. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts stainless-steel cauls and screens, drive sprockets, chains, rollers, and cutoff saw, using handtools.
* Starts machine and cutoff saw.
* Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate water and steam pressure and to control temperature of press.
* Moves panelboard control switches to adjust pressing time and to synchronize timing of tiered feeding and unloading conveyors with elevator movement of tiered hardboard press.
* Observes forming of mat, cutting of panels, and pressing of panels into hardboard to ensure product of specified dimension and quality.
* May ride open elevator and flip end of panel in each tier of press to loosen it from hot pressing plate and facilitate automatic transfer to tiered unloading conveyor.
* May verify weight of sample panels, using scale.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives electric-powered transfer (flat) car to transfer carloads of lumber between loading, drying, and storage areas, and operates winch to load and unload kilns. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns rheostat lever to drive transfer car along track to loading platform, and aligns rails (tracks) on transfer car with rails on platform.
* Hooks winch cable to carload of lumber and pushes and pulls levers to activate winch and pull loaded lumber car onto transfer car.
* Drives transfer car with carload of lumber to designated dry kiln and aligns transfer car rails with rails into kiln.
* Hooks cable to lumber car and operates winch to pull lumber car into kiln.
* Pulls lumber car from kiln when lumber is dry and transfers it to storage or to processing department.
* May tend stacking machine that stacks and unstacks lumber onto lumber car.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives electric-powered transfer (flat) car to transfer carloads of lumber between loading, drying, and storage areas, and operates winch to load and unload kilns. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns rheostat lever to drive transfer car along track to loading platform, and aligns rails (tracks) on transfer car with rails on platform.
* Hooks winch cable to carload of lumber and pushes and pulls levers to activate winch and pull loaded lumber car onto transfer car.
* Drives transfer car with carload of lumber to designated dry kiln and aligns transfer car rails with rails into kiln.
* Hooks cable to lumber car and operates winch to pull lumber car into kiln.
* Pulls lumber car from kiln when lumber is dry and transfers it to storage or to processing department.
* May tend stacking machine that stacks and unstacks lumber onto lumber car.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who peels bark from logs by hand, using two-handled drawknife. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls log from storage area and positions log for peeling, using cant hook.
* Secures log, using log-dog (wedge), and pulls drawknife lengthwise along log to strip bark from log.
* Rotates log and repeats stripping action until bark is removed from log.
* Chops branch stumps from log, using hatchet.
* Stacks stripped logs between spacing boards to facilitate drying of wood.
* Straps specified number of logs together, using steel banding tape and strapping tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically compress sawdust into artificial fuel logs and extrude them onto conveyors. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines.
* Observes compression marks on finished logs to ensure that logs are compressed according to specifications, and turns thumbscrews to adjust degree of compression.
* Weighs sample log periodically to verify conformance to standards.
* May replace sawdust-feeding screws, using screwdriver and wrenches.
* May add chemicals to sawdust to produce log that burns colored flame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with heated molds, platens, or roller that bends woodstock or veneer strips to form wooden parts for products, such as furniture, sports equipment, or musical instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Places or clamps steamed or water-soaked woodstock or veneer strips in molds or forms, under roller, or between platens shaped to specified design.
* Moves lever or presses button or pedal that raises hydraulic lift under molds, closes platens, or forces roller along form, to bend woodstock or veneer strips into specified shape.
* Removes formed parts from machine after specified period of drying time.
* May steam woodstock or veneer strips in retort to make them flexible.
* May convey processed parts to kiln for further drying or seasoning.
* May be designated according to article or part formed as bender; rib bender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with heated molds, platens, or roller that bends woodstock or veneer strips to form wooden parts for products, such as furniture, sports equipment, or musical instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Places or clamps steamed or water-soaked woodstock or veneer strips in molds or forms, under roller, or between platens shaped to specified design.
* Moves lever or presses button or pedal that raises hydraulic lift under molds, closes platens, or forces roller along form, to bend woodstock or veneer strips into specified shape.
* Removes formed parts from machine after specified period of drying time.
* May steam woodstock or veneer strips in retort to make them flexible.
* May convey processed parts to kiln for further drying or seasoning.
* May be designated according to article or part formed as bender; rib bender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends plywood-layup line machine that applies glue to top surfaces of veneer sheets before assembly into plywood panels, working as member of team. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses pedals to start machine and to activate infeed conveyors that convey stacks of face sheets, crossbands, and core stock to feed end of machine.
* Removes face sheets, crossbands, and core stock from respective infeed conveyors and places sheets in specified sequence on machine conveyor that carries sheets past trash gate and through glue curtain to back feeder, plywood layup line and core layers, plywood layup line.
* Presses pedals to open trash gate to remove detected unusable veneer, such as broken or split sheets, from conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends core composer machine that automatically glues salvaged veneer strips together to form continuous sheet, saws continuous sheet in half, and clips sawn sheets to standard length for use as plywood core stock: Presses button to start machine.
* Depresses pedal to convey veneer strips discharged from tenderizer machine onto infeed conveyor of core composer machine.
* Pushes each strip against wedge-edge detector that detects oblique edges, and positions wedge-shaped veneer strips against oblique edges to form square edges prior to gluing.
* Observes gluing apparatus that applies continuous melted glue strings across tops of veneer strips to connect strips, and replaces exhausting glue-string spools.
* Observes machine operations to detect jamming, and reverses machine as necessary to unclog jams.
* Records production.
Industry:Professional careers
