A professional who operates hoop-bending machine to bend and shape iron rods into hoops for wooden tanks. Respnsibilities include:

• Loosens nut of adjusting block and positions roller to obtain specified diameter of hoop.
• Starts machine and inserts end of rod through feed rollers of machine and over bending roller.
• Strikes end of rod with wooden maul to start rod over roll.
• Turns handcrank of feed roller to force rod through machine, bending rod into semicircular or circular shape.
• Removes bent rod from machine and stacks rod on floor.