- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who operates variety of machines to trim, bore, incise, and date stamp railroad ties and utility pole crossarms, preparatory to treating with wood preservatives. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts stops and guides, and installs dating punches, boring bits, adzing cutters, incising rollers, and knives, according to work order, using rule, wrenches, pry bar, and hammer.
* Starts machines and conveyor system and observes operation.
* Removes defective material from conveyor prior to processing operation.
* Replaces worn or broken drills, adzing cutters, incising knives, and machine parts.
* May feed ties or crossarms into machine and inspect finished work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to assemble wooden barrels, performing any combination of following duties. Responsibilities include:
* Positions ends of designated staves in truss hoop to form barrel shell and places shell on conveyor that conveys shell through steam box to make staves pliable.
* Places shell in hoop driver that forces truss hoop onto end of shell opposite bilge to secure staves in shell.
* Positions steamed shell over gas burner to form permanent shape of staves.
* Aligns staves and forces truss rings onto barrel shell, using barrel-assembly machine or vibrator platform, cooper's hammer, and hoop driver.
* Pulls levers to hold shell in croze cutter and to rotate shell against cutterheads that cut croze and trim ends of barrel shell staves.
* Removes end truss hoops to facilitate installation of barrelheads, using truss-pulling machine.
* Positions barrelhead in croze of shell and moves lever to lower cinch ring of machine that forces head into croze; or positions shell and heads in heading machine, hammers heads into place, moves lever to squeeze staves around heads, and place steel hoop into position to secure heads.
* Starts sander and moves levers to push rotating barrel against sanding belt to smooth exteriors of barrel, or sands exterior of barrel, using hand held belt or disk sander.
* Installs permanent hoops, using hoop driver.
* Drills hole in barrel for filling and emptying purposes, using drill press.
* Inspects barrels for defects, such as loose staves, cracks, and defective assembly.
* May be designated according to machine operated as croze cutter; head-up operator; heater operator; hoop-driving-machine operator; leveler ii; sander.
* May be designated: tap-out operator; truss driver; truss puller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates bucket-turning machine to smooth and finish outer surfaces of wooden buckets. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps bucket between chucks of machine and removes assembling ring from bucket with hammer.
* Starts machine to rotate bucket.
* Pushes lever on tool carriage to feed tool along surface of bucket, finishing bucket surface.
* Smooths surface of bucket, using block covered with sandpaper.
* Places temporary hoop on bucket and removes it from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates bucket-turning machine to smooth and finish outer surfaces of wooden buckets. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps bucket between chucks of machine and removes assembling ring from bucket with hammer.
* Starts machine to rotate bucket.
* Pushes lever on tool carriage to feed tool along surface of bucket, finishing bucket surface.
* Smooths surface of bucket, using block covered with sandpaper.
* Places temporary hoop on bucket and removes it from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw, bore, and round ends of chair posts, rails, and backs. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust space between chucks and saws.
* Installs cutterheads according to size of stock and angle of cut and spaces boring bits according to specified location of holes, using handtools.
* Turns knobs to adjust feed stops.
* Pushes button to start machine.
* Positions material and depresses pedal to activate mechanism to saw, bore, and shape material or feeds woodstock into machine that automatically clamps, saws, bores, and rounds ends of woodstock.
* Starts machine and feeds woodstock into machine that automatically clamps and processes it.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw, bore, and round ends of chair posts, rails, and backs. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust space between chucks and saws.
* Installs cutterheads according to size of stock and angle of cut and spaces boring bits according to specified location of holes, using handtools.
* Turns knobs to adjust feed stops.
* Pushes button to start machine.
* Positions material and depresses pedal to activate mechanism to saw, bore, and shape material or feeds woodstock into machine that automatically clamps, saws, bores, and rounds ends of woodstock.
* Starts machine and feeds woodstock into machine that automatically clamps and processes it.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw woodstock to specified length and to shape ends of stock to fit into mortises (recesses) of opposing wooden parts. Responsibilities include:
* Selects knives according to diameter of cut specified on work ticket.
* Aligns and bolts knives in cutterhead and screws it on spindle, using wrenches.
* Adjusts angle of table by turning handwheel and bolts or clamps holding jigs to table.
* Places stock in jig and pushes table containing stock into circular saw to trim end of stock.
* Pulls table back against stops and depresses pedal to advance cutterhead that shapes end of stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw, groove, and drill blocks used to reinforce corners of furniture frames. Responsibilities include:
* Sets angle of cutoff saw and installs bit and dado saw, according to work ticket.
* Places stock on holder and pushes stock into rotating saw to cut end at angle.
* Lays stock on conveyor belt that carries it into machine that cuts grooves and drills holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw, groove, and drill blocks used to reinforce corners of furniture frames. Responsibilities include:
* Sets angle of cutoff saw and installs bit and dado saw, according to work ticket.
* Places stock on holder and pushes stock into rotating saw to cut end at angle.
* Lays stock on conveyor belt that carries it into machine that cuts grooves and drills holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates crozer machine to cut croze (groove) in wooden tank staves, into which tank bottom is fitted. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine.
* Places stave on machine table, aligns mark on stave with cutoff saw blade, and depresses pedal to clamp stave in position.
* Pulls saw and dado-cutter assembly across stave.
* Releases pedal and slides stave along machine bench to helper.
Industry:Professional careers
