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Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
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.
Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.
Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
Monitor sawing machines, adjusting speed and tension and clearing jams to ensure proper operation.
Guide workpieces against saws, saw over workpieces by hand, or operate automatic feeding devices to guide cuts.
Sharpen blades, or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
Lubricate or clean machines, using wrenches, grease guns, or solvents.
Clear machine jams, using hand tools.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

Examine logs or lumber to plan the best cuts.
Operate panelboards of saw or conveyor systems to move stock through processes or to cut stock to specified dimensions.
Select saw blades, types or grades of stock, or cutting procedures to be used, according to work orders or supervisors' instructions.
Adjust bolts, clamps, stops, guides, or table angles or heights, using hand tools.
Count, sort, or stack finished workpieces.
Dispose of waste material after completing work assignments.
Measure and mark stock for 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.
Trim lumber to straighten rough edges or remove defects, using circular saws.
Position and clamp stock on tables, conveyors, or carriages, using hoists, guides, stops, dogs, wedges, or wrenches.
Cut grooves, bevels, or miters, saw curved or irregular designs, and sever or shape metals, according to specifications or work orders.
Unclamp and remove finished workpieces from tables.

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