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A professional who operates equalizer saw to saw barrel-stave bolts into specified lengths with square ends. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts distance between saws.
* Lays bolt on carriage of equalizer and starts saws.
* Pushes carriage between saws to trim and square ends of bolts.
* Withdraws carriage and removes bolts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power saw to cut logs into specified barrel-stave lengths. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls log on conveyor or table of saw, using cant hook.
* Starts conveyor which moves log into position or pushes log along table.
* Starts saw and lowers saw against or pulls saw through log for each cut to saw log to specified lengths.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power saw to cut logs into specified barrel-stave lengths. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls log on conveyor or table of saw, using cant hook.
* Starts conveyor which moves log into position or pushes log along table.
* Starts saw and lowers saw against or pulls saw through log for each cut to saw log to specified lengths.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates saw machine to cut out defects in finished woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects board to determine extent of defect and moves lever to adjust saw for length and depth of cut to be made.
* Places stock on machine table and slides stock under saw blade at point of defect in board.
* Depresses pedal to lower saw to cut out defect.
* Releases pedal and pushes board on conveyor for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates adjustable circular saw to perform such operations as ripsawing, cross cutting, beveling, grooving, and mitering of woodstock. Responsibilities include:
* Selects sawing disk according to type of cut specified on work order and bolts disk to machine shaft, using wrench.
* Turns handwheel or crank to tip machine table to specified angle or to raise table according to specified depth of cut.
* Positions guides on machine table according to specifications of cut, and turns knobs to set guides or bolts guides in place, using wrench.
* Starts machine, places woodstock on table against guides, and pushes stock against saw.
* Measures cut stock with ruler, caliper rule, or square to verify dimensions against specifications.
* Removes cut stock from machine and maintains production count.
* May turn handwheels and knobs to adjust machine guide, blade, and table to make additional cuts of woodstock, according to work order.
* May be designated according to operation performed as miter sawyer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates panelboard of circular saw and conveyor system to saw logs to specified lengths and to move cut logs to other stations for further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor belt that transfers log to feed conveyor.
* Observes log to determine number of usable lengths to be cut, and presses button on panelboard to lower saw that trims and squares log ends.
* Cuts log to specified lengths by registering length specification on control panel of machine that automatically measures log and lowers saw to cut log when log reaches selected position.
* Controls discharge conveyor to transfer log to head sawyer or gang sawyer according to size and texture of log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates bank of circular saws to cut out defective sections of boards. Responsibilities include:
* Reads markings on boards as boards move on conveyor to saws to determine what cuts will produce highest grade.
* Moves levers (piano-like keys) to raise or lower one or more saws along trimmer bed to cut lumber into lengths and trim out defects.
* Climbs onto conveyor to lift and remove jammed lumber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bandsaw that cuts headings for barrels, hogsheads, or kegs. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps heading mat, boards, or veneer sheet in position on circular table.
* Loosens nut and sets blade guides according to thickness of heading material.
* Starts saw and turns table to revolve material against saw, cutting circular headings.
* Removes headings from table.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends beading machine that cuts decorative bead (groove) around edge of smoking pipe bowls. Responsibilities include:
* Places bowl of pipe over chuck of machine and turns nut to expand chuck against bowl, using wrench.
* Pulls lever to position bowl against rotating saw.
* Turns handwheel to rotate bowl, sawing bead around edge of bowl.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends circular cutoff saw that custom cuts fireplace and stove fuel wood from random lengths of wood. Responsibilities include:
* Places wood on carriage and adjusts guides to specified length.
* Starts saw and moves carriage past saw to cut wood to length.
* Advances wood to carriage guides and repeats moving carriage past saw.
Industry:Professional careers
