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A professional who tends belt-driven saw that cuts corncobs into specified lengths for bowls of corncob pipes. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes lever that engages belt to start saw.
* Positions cob against stop on table of saw and depresses pedal that advances revolving saw blade, cutting cob to specified length.
* Places husks and other waste material on conveyor belt for disposal.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power-driven circular, chain, or drag saw located on deck or at edge of pond to cut logs to standard length. Responsibilities include:
* Moves logs in pond into position for sawing, using pike pole.
* Moves levers to drop dogs to hold log in place.
* Starts saw and cuts log to required length.
* May tend circular cutoff saw, mounted on deck, to cut smaller diameter or crooked logs into usable lengths.
* May replace saw blades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts dowels from dowel rod, and grooves and points dowels for use. Responsibilities include:
* Selects guide sockets according to diameter of stock, and secures sockets in automatic feedhead with locking thumbscrews.
* Adjusts saws to cut dowels to specified length.
* Starts machine, and inserts dowel rods in guide sockets to be cut and pointed.
* May sort and stack finished dowels in rack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that saws parallel cuts in veneered stock so veneer panels can be bent around corners on furniture. Responsibilities include:
* Installs saw blades and adjusts depth of cut.
* Places veneer stock on jig and feeds stock into machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bandsaw and circular saw that cuts cork slabs into beveled strips from which heels, with beveled inside edge, are cut. Responsibilities include:
* Selects miter jigs according to bevel angle specified and bolts jig onto bandsaw table, using wrench.
* Starts machine and pushes slab through jig which holds slab at specified angle or pushes slab flat between guides on circular saw tabletop, against rotating blade set at fixed angle, for bevel cut.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends table saw to trim edges and cut defects from shingles. Responsibilities include:
* Starts saw and conveyor.
* Inspects each shingle for defects, such as rot, knots, and faulty grain.
* Places shingle on saw conveyor and guides shingle through saw.
* Tosses unusable shingles into waste bin.
* May replace worn saw blades, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bank of circular saws that saw logs, slabs, or scrap wood into pieces for fuel or processing into pulp. Responsibilities include:
* Starts saws and activates slasher conveyor chains.
* Straightens moving logs or slabs on conveyor to prevent jamming saws and to maintain uniform spacing, using pike pole.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bank of circular saws that saw logs, slabs, or scrap wood into pieces for fuel or processing into pulp. Responsibilities include:
* Starts saws and activates slasher conveyor chains.
* Straightens moving logs or slabs on conveyor to prevent jamming saws and to maintain uniform spacing, using pike pole.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power saw that rips logs of specified length into halves or quarters for barrel-stave cutting. Responsibilities include:
* Places log, or halved log, on saw carriage or lifts log to saw table, and starts saw.
* Shifts lever moving carriage toward saw or pushes log along table to feed log into saw and rip log in half.
* Moves carriage away from saw and removes sawed pieces.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends stave (hollow cylinder) saw that cuts barrel, keg, tub, and bucket staves from stave bolts. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts guides to attain specified thickness of stave.
* Lays bolt on carriage and holds bolt against guides.
* Depresses pedal to start carriage that feeds bolt into stave saw to cut rough staves.
* Releases pedal to stop carriage and removes stave.
* Repeats process to produce required number of staves.
Industry:Professional careers
