- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates heading saw to cut pieces of heading material from heading bolts. Responsibilities include:
* Loosens nut and adjusts guides to thickness of heading material.
* Stands bolt on end in swing carriage of machine.
* Moves bolt against guides and clamps bolt with tooth-edged clamp.
* Starts saw and pushes swing toward saw to cut strips of heading material from bolt.
* Withdraws swing, removes heading strip, and repeats cuts until bolt is completely sawed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine equipped with narrow vertically reciprocating saw blade to make irregular external and internal cuts on woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and places stock on machine table.
* Holds and guides stock against saw, following outline marked on stock to make cuts.
* Detaches saw blade from machine, inserts blade through previously bored hole in stock and reattaches blade to machine, using handtools, to make internal cuts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates double-end trimming machine to saw simultaneously several pieces of lumber to identical lengths. Responsibilities include:
* Sets movable saw at specified distance from stationary saw.
* Stacks lumber in machine and butts ends of lumber against guide block.
* Moves lever to clamp lumber in machine.
* Starts saws that cut off ends of lumber.
* Places sawed lumber on conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates multiple-blade sawing machine to straighten edges of rough lumber and cut lumber into boards of prescribed widths. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine.
* Lays rough board on edger table and spaces saw blades so that board of highest quality will be cut from rough board.
* Adjusts power-feeding mechanism to thickness of board.
* Pushes board into feed rollers which force board between saws that straighten edges of board.
* May replace dull saw blades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates circular saw mounted on overhead radial arm to cut boards and other woodstock to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order or receives instructions from supervisor.
* Turns crank to raise and lower saw to depth of cut.
* Turns hand nuts and rotates radial arm and saw arbor to set saw for angle and bevel cuts.
* Lays material on table and aligns cutting mark under saw blade.
* Starts saw and pushes or pulls rotating blade against workpiece to make cut.
* Sets and locks blade at right angles to radial arm and feeds material into saw to rip lumber.
* May replace saw blade with attachments to shape, rout, groove, mortise, or drill workpiece.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates saws to cut planks, timbers, or boards into boards of lesser thickness according to work orders. Responsibilities include:
* Observes lumber on conveyor as lumber approaches saw to determine cut to be made.
* Turns handwheels or manipulates levers to adjust distance between feed rolls and set saw for thickness of board to be cut.
* Depresses levers to control speed of saw and feed rolls.
* Observes automatic feeding of lumber to saw or pushes end of lumber into feed rolls.
* May replace dull saw blades, using handtools.
* May be designated according to type of saw used as band-resaw operator; circular-resaw operator; multiple-resaw operator; horizontal-resaw operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to rip and cut grooves on curved or irregularly shaped furniture stock in one operation. Responsibilities include:
* Turns panel controls to set stops and saws for cutting grooves of specified width and depth.
* Feeds stock under rollers.
* Measures first cuts to verify processed part against work order, using rule.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electrically powered machines equipped with one or more bandsaw or circular saw blades to rip boards along grain or to trim edges of boards, according to work ticket. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel, uses wrench and ruler, or positions and secures collars and turns setscrews on saw shaft to adjust ripping and saw guides or distance between saws, according to specified width of boards.
* Moves levers or turns handwheel to adjust height of saw blade and speed of feed rolls, according to thickness of board.
* Starts saw, positions board against guide, and slides board into feed rolls or aligns board on feed rolls, using shadow line as guide.
* Verifies accuracy of saw setting and dimensions of lumber stock, using rule.
* May count pieces of lumber cut to determine when specified quantity has been ripped.
* May replace saw blades and lubricate machine.
* May be designated according to saw operated as band-ripsaw operator; circular-ripsaw operator; gang-ripsaw operator.
* May operate ripsaws to cut stock so that grain and pattern match adjoining parts and be designated ripsaw matcher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electrically powered machines equipped with one or more bandsaw or circular saw blades to rip boards along grain or to trim edges of boards, according to work ticket. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel, uses wrench and ruler, or positions and secures collars and turns setscrews on saw shaft to adjust ripping and saw guides or distance between saws, according to specified width of boards.
* Moves levers or turns handwheel to adjust height of saw blade and speed of feed rolls, according to thickness of board.
* Starts saw, positions board against guide, and slides board into feed rolls or aligns board on feed rolls, using shadow line as guide.
* Verifies accuracy of saw setting and dimensions of lumber stock, using rule.
* May count pieces of lumber cut to determine when specified quantity has been ripped.
* May replace saw blades and lubricate machine.
* May be designated according to saw operated as band-ripsaw operator; circular-ripsaw operator; gang-ripsaw operator.
* May operate ripsaws to cut stock so that grain and pattern match adjoining parts and be designated ripsaw matcher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates band ripsaw to cut bolts into shakes. Responsibilities include:
* Starts saw and positions bolt on saw table.
* Pushes and guides bolt through saw so that bolt is cut diagonally to form shakes.
* Trims edges of shake with saw or saws and grades shake according to length and width.
* Tosses shake into bin according to grade.
* May replace saw bands, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
