A professional who assembles floating logs into rafts for towing to mill. Respnsibilities include:

• Bores holes in boom sticks (side poles of raft), and swifters (cross poles or ribs) with power-driven auger, and threads chain or cable through holes to form raft frame.
• Signals log sorter to push logs between frame members and maneuvers them into position with pike pole, or signals boat operator to push log bundles into raft.
• Binds logs into rafts with chain or cable and fastens binder with cable clamp or clevis.
• May unload logs from railroad cars and log trucks.