Logging Equipment Operators
Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log chippers.
- Tasks
- 9 tasks7 core, 2 supplemental
- Family
- Farming, Fishing & ForestryOne of its 14 occupations
- Code
- 45-4022.00SOC 2018: 45-4022
What the work is made of
7 core tasks and 2 supplemental, each quoted as published, with the survey it came from.
Core: central to the jobSupplemental: done by some, not all
- Task 1. Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.Core taskTask 9802Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 2. Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.Core taskTask 9807Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 3. Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.Core taskTask 9806Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 4. Drive straight or articulated tractors equipped with accessories such as bulldozer blades, grapples, logging arches, cable winches, and crane booms to skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush.Core taskTask 9803Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 5. Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.Core taskTask 9804Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 6. Fill out required job or shift report forms.Core taskTask 9809Rated by 56 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 7. Drive tractors for building or repairing logging and skid roads.Core taskTask 9805Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 8. Drive and maneuver tractors and tree harvesters to shear the tops off of trees, cut and limb the trees, and cut the logs into desired lengths.Supplemental taskTask 9808Rated by 56 people who do the job, July 2017
- Task 9. Calculate total board feet, cordage, or other wood measurement units, using conversion tables.Supplemental taskTask 9810Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
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- ClassificationStandard Occupational Classification 2018, 45-4022
- LicenseCC BY 4.0Free to copy and reuse, with credit
- Changed by usNothing.
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