How do they match: Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

  • Sawmill Hand

  • Adjust bolts, clamps, stops, guides, or table angles or heights, using hand tools.
  • Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
  • Clear machine jams, using hand tools.
  • Guide workpieces against saws, saw over workpieces by hand, or operate automatic feeding devices to guide cuts.
  • Position and clamp stock on tables, conveyors, or carriages, using hoists, guides, stops, dogs, wedges, or wrenches.
  • Pull tables back against stops and depress pedals to advance cutterheads that shape stock ends.
  • Sharpen blades, or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
  • Unclamp and remove finished workpieces from tables.

  • Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.