Logging Equipment Operator
- Operate powerful machines to manage forests and support sustainable logging practices.
- Play a crucial role in the timber industry by ensuring efficient and safe log handling.
- Use advanced equipment to transform raw timber into valuable resources.
💰 Earn $51K-$70K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
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.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Shaky (Decreasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
- Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
- 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.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
- Thinking and problem solving
You are skilled in 💫
- Operation and Control
- Operations Monitoring
- Equipment Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Job security
- Having freedom
In Action
Want to see what it's like to be a Logging Equipment Operator? We've curated a playlist for you to explore.
Logging Equipment Operator
This short video gives an overview of what this career is all about.
Pathways to this Career
Here are few pathways you can take to become a Logging Equipment Operator. Click on a pathway to learn more about it.
