Logging Equipment Operator

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.

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Delimber Operator; Feller Buncher Operator; Harvester Operator; Loader Operator; Log Processor Operator; Logging Equipment Operator; Logging Shovel Operator; Skidder Driver; Skidder Operator; Yarder Operator

Tasks

• Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
• Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
• Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
• 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.
• Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
• Fill out required job or shift report forms.
• Drive tractors for building or repairing logging and skid roads.

Knowledge

• Mechanical
• Public Safety and Security
• Production and Processing

Skills

• Active Listening
• Monitoring

Abilities

• Control Precision
• Reaction Time
• Arm-Hand Steadiness
• Multilimb Coordination
• Depth Perception
• Problem Sensitivity
• Response Orientation
• Rate Control
• Far Vision
• Near Vision
• Perceptual Speed
• Visualization
• Manual Dexterity
• Visual Color Discrimination
• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Information Ordering
• Category Flexibility
• Spatial Orientation
• Selective Attention
• Finger Dexterity
• Trunk Strength