A professional who tends equipment that fluffs and dries cotton linters or woodpulp for further processing into explosives. Respnsibilities include:

• Places portion of linters or woodpulp on revolving rollers that feed it into cylinder equipped with picking spikes.
• Inspects fluffed material for presence of impurities and fluffy appearance as it is discharged into drier.
• Moves controls to maintain temperature of hot-air oven at plant standard and to regulate speed of drier conveyor for efficient drying.
• When tending separate picking and drying units, may be designated according to unit tended as cotton-picker operator; linter-drier operator.