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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Feller Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #437 of 702. Estimated risk: 79.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

21%

“Feller Operator” will almost certainly not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 21% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

68%

“Feller Operator” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 68% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Logging Equipment Operators, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: 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.

Avg. Annual Salary $52,020
Avg. Hourly Wage $25.01
Available Jobs (US) 22,520
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Logging Equipment Operators #45-4022
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Logging Equipment Operators”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Calculate total board feet, cordage, or other wood measurement units, using conversion tables.

  • Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.

  • Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

  • SAP software
  • TradeTec TallyWorks Logs
  • TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker
  • Microsoft Word
  • Blue River Technology AI
  • BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker
  • Climate FieldView
  • Taranis AI
  • John Deere AI
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Grapple yarders
  • Truck mounted boom loaders
  • Tracked harvesters
  • Log stackers
  • Heavy duty chainsaws
  • Harvesting heads
  • Mobile radios
  • Cable skidders
  • Log trailers
  • Forwarders
  • Forestry swing machines
  • Log forks
  • Tractor cranes
  • Wheeled harvesters
  • Delimbers
  • Knuckleboom loaders
  • Log winches
  • Nailing hammers
  • Felling heads
  • Protective safety glasses
  • Processing heads
  • Equipment trailers
  • Yarding grapples
  • Digital tire pressure gauges
  • Forestry crawler dozers
  • Log transport trucks
  • Tracked feller bunchers
  • Loggers' tapes
  • Loading grapples
  • Drive-to-tree feller bunchers
  • Scarifier attachments
  • Grapple skidders
  • Pocket knives
  • Tree saws
  • Tablet computers
  • Log loaders
  • Desktop computers
  • Forestry hoes