A professional who rives (splits) logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, shakes, or stakes, using handtools, such as ax wedges, sledgehammer, froe, and mallet. Respnsibilities include:

• Drives wedge into log with ax and sledgehammer to split log along grain to form posts or bolts.
• Positions froe on block according to grain and thickness of specified product and pounds it into block with mallet to start cut.
• Pulls froe handle up or down to pry and split pieces from block.
• May fell trees, using chain saw and cut logs into desired lengths.
• May be designated according to product cut as Rail Splitter; Shake Splitter; Shingle-Bolt Cutter; Stave-Block Splitter.