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Career Details :: Stone Sawyers
Description
Set up and operate gang saws, reciprocating saws, circular saws, or wire saws to cut blocks of stone into specified dimensions.
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
- Starts pump to circulate water and abrasive onto blade or cable during cutting.
- Changes or replaces saw blades, cables, and grinding wheels, using wrench.
- Operates crane or signals crane operator to position or remove stone from car or saw bed.
- Aligns cable or blades with marks on stone, and presses button or turns lever to lower sawing cable or blades to stone.
- Builds bed of timbers on car, and aligns and levels stone on bed, using crowbar, sledgehammer, wedges, blocks, rule, and spirit level.
- Starts saw and moves blade across surface of material, such as stone, concrete slabs, and asbestos-cement sheets and pipes, to saw.
- Marks dimensions or traces on stone according to diagram, using chisel and hammer, straightedge, rule, and chalked string.
- Observes operation to detect uneven sawing and exhausted abrasive supply and tightens pulleys or adds abrasive to maintain cutting speed.
- Washes stone, using water hose, and verifies width or thickness of cut stone, using rule.
- Adjusts blade pressure against stone, using ammeter, and lowers blade in stone as cut depth increases.
- Turns crank or presses button to move car under sawing cable or saw frame.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
Important Skills
- Equipment Selection
- Operation and Control
- Product Inspection
- Operation Monitoring
- Equipment Maintenance
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Hazardous Equipment
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
- Standing
Related Majors
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