# 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.

- Code: 45-4022.00 (O*NET-SOC; SOC 2018 45-4022)
- Family: [Farming, Fishing & Forestry](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations#family-45), one of its 14 occupations
- Tasks: 9 tasks (7 core and 2 supplemental)
- Page: https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-4022.00
- JSON: https://foundation.org.ai/data/tasks/45-4022.00.json

## What the work is made of

1. Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.  
   Core task · Task 9802 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
2. Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.  
   Core task · Task 9807 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
3. Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.  
   Core task · Task 9806 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
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 task · Task 9803 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
5. Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.  
   Core task · Task 9804 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
6. Fill out required job or shift report forms.  
   Core task · Task 9809 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, July 2017
7. Drive tractors for building or repairing logging and skid roads.  
   Core task · Task 9805 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017
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 task · Task 9808 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, July 2017
9. Calculate total board feet, cordage, or other wood measurement units, using conversion tables.  
   Supplemental task · Task 9810 · Rated by 57 people who do the job, July 2017

## More in Farming, Fishing & Forestry

- [Agricultural Equipment Operators](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-2091.00): 17 tasks
- [Agricultural Inspectors](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-2011.00): 16 tasks
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- [Animal Breeders](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-2021.00): 21 tasks
- [Fallers](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-4021.00): 18 tasks
- [Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-2092.00): 27 tasks
- [Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-2093.00): 19 tasks
- [First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-1011.00): 30 tasks
- [Fishing and Hunting Workers](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-3031.00): 30 tasks
- [Forest and Conservation Workers](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-4011.00): 17 tasks
- [Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-2041.00): 5 tasks
- [Log Graders and Scalers](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-4023.00): 12 tasks
- [Logging Workers, All Other](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/45-4029.00): no tasks listed

## Where this comes from

Quoted from O*NET 29.0, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, under CC BY 4.0: free to copy and reuse, with credit. Nothing on this page is written by the Org.AI Foundation.