Logging Equipment Operators
Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush.
Also called: Loader Operator, Logging Equipment Operator, Skidder Driver, Skidder Operator
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- public safety and security
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
Skills:
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat
- use your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down
- keep your arm or hand steady
- hold or move items with your hands
- imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed
- know where things are around you
- decide which thing is closer or farther away from you or decide how far away it is from you
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Initiative
- Self Control
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Cooperation
- Independence
Technology:
- TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker
Data base user interface and query software
- BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker
Inventory management software
Education:
no high school diploma/GED
