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CAREER
Logging Equipment Operators
Overview
Salary Median (2020)
$46,400
Projected Job Growth (2019-2029)
-3.3% (decline)
Career
What Logging Equipment Operators Do
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.
Other Job Titles Logging Equipment Operators May Have
Loader Operator, Logging Equipment Operator, Skidder Driver, Skidder Operator
Tasks & Responsibilities May Include
- 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.
Education
Level of Education Attained by Logging Equipment Operators
Most common level of education among people in
this career: Less than high school diploma (55%)
Less than high school diploma
High school diploma or equivalent
Post-secondary certificate
Majors Related to Career
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