Log Graders and Scaler
- Ideal for those who love working outdoors and assessing natural resources.
- Ensure the quality and value of timber, impacting industries and economies.
- Use specialized tools to measure and grade logs, ensuring optimal market value.
💰 Earn $41K-$56K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
Grade logs or estimate the marketable content or value of logs or pulpwood in sorting yards, millpond, log deck, or similar locations. Inspect logs for defects or measure logs to determine volume.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Shaky (Decreasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Evaluate log characteristics and determine grades, using established criteria.
- Record data about individual trees or load volumes into tally books or hand-held collection terminals.
- Measure felled logs or loads of pulpwood to calculate volume, weight, dimensions, and marketable value, using measuring devices and conversion tables.
- Paint identification marks of specified colors on logs to identify grades or species, using spray cans, or call out grades to log markers.
- Jab logs with metal ends of scale sticks, and inspect logs to ascertain characteristics or defects such as water damage, splits, knots, broken ends, rotten areas, twists, and curves.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
You are skilled in 💫
- Operation and Control
- Operations Monitoring
- Equipment Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Job security
- Having freedom
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Log Graders and Scaler
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