Career Details :: Logging Tractor Operators
Description
Drive tractor equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal hydraulic shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree, to skid, load and unload, or stack logs, or to pull stumps or clear brush.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Saws felled trees into lengths.
- Controls hydraulic tractor equipped with tree clamp and boom to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
- Drives and maneuvers tractor and activates shear to cut and fell trees.
- Gives or receives signals from coworkers to move logs.
- Drives tractor to build or repair logging and skid roads.
- Controls equipment to load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, and clear brush.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Operating Vehicles or Equipment
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Communicating With Other Workers
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Outdoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
- Hazardous Equipment
- Sitting
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