Logging Equipment Operators

What Does a 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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
• 2Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
• 3Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
• 4Drive 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.
• 5Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
• 6Fill out required job or shift report forms.
• 7Drive tractors for building or repairing logging and skid roads.

Required Skills

• Operation and Control
• Operations Monitoring
• BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word
• SAP software
• TradeTec TallyWorks Logs
• TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker