Logging Equipment Operator 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. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log chippers.
Logging Equipment Operator is Also Know as
In different settings, Logging Equipment Operator is titled as
- Delimber Operator
- Feller Buncher Operator
- Harvester Operator
- Loader Operator
- Log Processor Operator
- Logging Equipment Operator
- Logging Shovel Operator
- Skidder Driver
- Skidder Operator
- Yarder Operator
Education and Training of Logging Equipment Operator
Logging Equipment Operator is categorized in Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Logging Equipment Operator
Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a waiter or waitress even if he/she has never worked before.
Education Required for Logging Equipment Operator
Some of these occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate.
Degrees Related to Logging Equipment Operator
- Bachelor in Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment
- Associate Degree Courses in Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment
- Masters Degree Courses in Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment
Training Required for Logging Equipment Operator
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Logging Equipment Operator in different industries are
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining
- Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- Fallers
- Crane and Tower Operators
- Log Graders and Scalers
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
What Do Logging Equipment Operator do?
- Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
- Drive straight or articulated tractors equipped with accessories such as bulldozer blades, grapples, logging arches, cable winches, and crane booms to skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush.
- Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
- Drive tractors for building or repairing logging and skid roads.
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
- Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
- Drive and maneuver tractors and tree harvesters to shear the tops off of trees, cut and limb the trees, and cut the logs into desired lengths.
- Fill out required job or shift report forms.
- Calculate total board feet, cordage, or other wood measurement units, using conversion tables.
Qualities of Good Logging Equipment Operator
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Logging Equipment Operator
- Cable skidders
- Delimbers
- Desktop computers
- Digital tire pressure gauges
- Drive-to-tree feller bunchers
- Equipment trailers
- Felling heads
- Forestry crawler dozers
- Forestry hoes
- Forestry swing machines
- Forwarders
- Grapple skidders
- Grapple yarders
- Harvesting heads
- Heavy duty chainsaws
- Knuckleboom loaders
- Loading grapples
- Log forks
- Log loaders
- Log stackers
- Log trailers
- Log transport trucks
- Log winches
- Loggers' tapes
- Mobile radios
- Nailing hammers
- Pocket knives
- Processing heads
- Protective safety glasses
- Scarifier attachments
- Tablet computers
- Tracked feller bunchers
- Tracked harvesters
- Tractor cranes
- Tree saws
- Truck mounted boom loaders
- Wheeled harvesters
- Yarding grapples
Technology Skills required for Logging Equipment Operator
- BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- SAP software
- TradeTec TallyWorks Logs
- TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker