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Job Description

Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate CNC equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-7041.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 29,960.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 50,640 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood”.

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Tasks for “Crosscutter”

Monitor sawing machines, adjusting speed and tension and clearing jams to ensure proper operation.
Unload and roll logs from trucks to sawmill decks or to carriages or move logs in ponds, using pike poles.
Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
Trim lumber to straighten rough edges or remove defects, using circular saws.
Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.
Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
Measure and mark stock for cuts.
Select saw blades, types or grades of stock, or cutting procedures to be used, according to work orders or supervisors' instructions.
Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
Lubricate or clean machines, using wrenches, grease guns, or solvents.
Count, sort, or stack finished workpieces.
Unclamp and remove finished workpieces from tables.
Dispose of waste material after completing work assignments.
Pull tables back against stops and depress pedals to advance cutterheads that shape stock ends.
Cut grooves, bevels, or miters, saw curved or irregular designs, and sever or shape metals, according to specifications or work orders.
Examine logs or lumber to plan the best cuts.
Clear machine jams, using hand tools.
Sharpen blades or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
Guide workpieces against saws, saw over workpieces by hand, or operate automatic feeding devices to guide cuts.
Examine blueprints, drawings, work orders, or patterns to determine equipment set-up or selection details, procedures to be used, or dimensions of final products.
Position and clamp stock on tables, conveyors, or carriages, using hoists, guides, stops, dogs, wedges, or wrenches.
Operate panelboards of saw or conveyor systems to move stock through processes or to cut stock to specified dimensions.
Adjust bolts, clamps, stops, guides, or table angles or heights, using hand tools.

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