A professional who tends machine that flexes (stakes) and stretches leather to make leather pliable. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions leather between rotating belt and jaws of reciprocating arm.
• Starts machine to reciprocate arm that flexes and stretches leather.
• Shifts position of leather on belt to flex entire area.
• Turns wheel to regulate stroke of arm.
• May tend machine that stretches hide on frames and be designated Stretching-Machine Tender, Frame.