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A professional who tends machine that removes back lines (ridges) from formed wooden heels. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts heel in holding device of machine and presses heel against sanding belt or abrasive disk to remove ridges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds corks into slot or fills hoppers of automatic machines that sandpaper flat surfaces to smooth finish.
* Observes operating machines to prevent clogging.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes stock as it is discharged from machine and inspects and feels surfaces of stock to determine if stock is sanded to specifications.
* Places stock on truck or platform.
* Counts and records number of pieces sanded.
* Aids multiple-drum sander in replacing worn sandpaper.
* May feed stock into machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes stock as it is discharged from machine and inspects and feels surfaces of stock to determine if stock is sanded to specifications.
* Places stock on truck or platform.
* Counts and records number of pieces sanded.
* Aids multiple-drum sander in replacing worn sandpaper.
* May feed stock into machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with cutting, slicing, and shaving wood by the action of a keen-edged cutting tool mounted in a machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in peeling veneer strips from logs and clipping veneer strips into sheets of specified sizes. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes work orders to determine quantity, dimensions, and quality of finished plywood panels required by customers.
* Computes initial log and veneer requirements for each order, allowing for shrinkage, trim work, and waste during processing.
* Inspects peeled and clipped veneer for dimensional accuracy and to determine if maximum amount of usable veneer is being obtained, using ruler, dial thickness gauge, and tape measure.
* Directs workers to adjust machines when work does not conform to specifications.
* Trains new workers in operation of machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in drying peeled veneer sheets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends air-powered machine that clips continuous sheet of veneer to specified width and to clip out defects. Responsibilities include:
* Turns dial to set machine cutting mechanism and starts conveyor that carries veneer under knife.
* Observes veneer sheet being conveyed to clipper, noting defects, such as knots, cracks, pitch pockets, and rot, and presses button that causes knife to clip out defective portions of veneer to obtain maximum grade.
* Stacks clipped veneer sheets on skid and marks identification data on top sheet.
* May replace dull knives, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends air-powered machine that clips continuous sheet of veneer to specified width and to clip out defects. Responsibilities include:
* Turns dial to set machine cutting mechanism and starts conveyor that carries veneer under knife.
* Observes veneer sheet being conveyed to clipper, noting defects, such as knots, cracks, pitch pockets, and rot, and presses button that causes knife to clip out defective portions of veneer to obtain maximum grade.
* Stacks clipped veneer sheets on skid and marks identification data on top sheet.
* May replace dull knives, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates barking machine to remove bark, knots, and foreign matter from veneer blocks preparatory to peeling process. Responsibilities include:
* Presses buttons to control conveyor system that transfers block from storage deck into position over hydraulic hoist and to raise hoist until block is centered between chucks.
* Pushes and turns lever to press chucks into ends of block and to start and control rotation speed of block.
* Pushes lever to lower and control pressure of scraping tool against rotating block and to activate and control horizontal movement until bark is removed.
* Raises tool, stops block rotation, raises hoist, retracts chucks, and lowers barked block onto conveyor that transfers block to lathe deck.
* May remove bark, chips, and other material from conveyor and barking machine.
* May control conveyor that lifts logs from pond onto barker deck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to peel bark from logs. Responsibilities include:
* Moves levers to raise or lower rollers of feed mechanism that moves logs under cutter head of machine.
* Starts machine and moves levers or turns handwheel to lower knife blades against surface of log and remove bark.
* Applies pressure to cutting head of machine according to shape and size of log, using lever or handwheel.
* Sharpens and changes cutting blades of machine, using handtools.
* May lubricate machine, using oilcan and grease-pump.
Industry:Professional careers
