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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Tree Shear Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #437 of 702. Estimated risk: 79.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

21%

“Tree Shear 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%

“Tree Shear 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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Fill out required job or shift report forms.

  • Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Drive tractors for building or repairing logging and skid roads.

Technologies & Software

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  • TradeTec TallyWorks Logs
  • Taranis AI
  • Mobile radios
  • Cable skidders
  • Tracked feller bunchers
  • Pocket knives
  • Protective safety glasses
  • Tree saws
  • Forestry hoes
  • Yarding grapples
  • Log forks
  • Drive-to-tree feller bunchers
  • Equipment trailers
  • Nailing hammers
  • Delimbers
  • Forwarders
  • Heavy duty chainsaws
  • Loading grapples
  • Log loaders
  • Scarifier attachments
  • Log stackers
  • Grapple skidders
  • Forestry swing machines
  • Tablet computers
  • Truck mounted boom loaders
  • Loggers' tapes
  • Felling heads
  • Forestry crawler dozers
  • Log winches
  • Wheeled harvesters
  • Processing heads
  • Harvesting heads
  • Tracked harvesters
  • Knuckleboom loaders
  • Log trailers
  • Digital tire pressure gauges
  • Log transport trucks
  • Desktop computers
  • Grapple yarders
  • Tractor cranes

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