Will “Log Loader” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
79% Chance of Automation
“Log Loader” will probably be replaced by robots.
This job is ranked #437 out of #702. A higher ranking (i.e., a lower number) means the job is less likely to be replaced.
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Job Description
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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-4022.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 38,880.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 27,250 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Logging Equipment Operators”.
Also Known As…
- Logging Equipment Operators
- Skidder Operator
- Skidder Driver
- Logging Shovel Operator
- Logging Equipment Operator
- Log Processor Operator
- Loader Operator
- Grapple Skidder Operator
- Feller Buncher Operator
- Delimber Operator
- Cutter Operator
- Yarder Operator
- Truck Driver
- Tree-Shear Operator
- Tree Shear Operator
- Tree Feller Operator
- Tree Cutter Loader Operator
- Tractor Driver
- Timber Harvester Operator
- Stroke Delimber Operator
- Slasher Operator
- Shovel Logger
- Shift Stacker
- Processor Operator
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Operator
- Machine Operator
- Lumber Stacker Operator
- Lumber Stacker Driver
- Lumber Carrier Operator
- Logging Tractor Operator
- Logging Crane Operator
- Logger
- Log Truck Driver
- Log Stacker Operator
- Log Hauler
- Log Handling Equipment Operator
- Log Carrier Operator
- Hook Tender
- Harvester Operator
- Grapple Operator
- Forder Operator
- Feller Operator
- Chipper Operator
- Chain Saw Operator
- Chain Hooker
- Buncher Operator
- Boom Operator
Tasks for “Log Loader”
- Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
- 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 tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads.
- Fill out required job or shift report forms.
- Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
- Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
- 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.
- Calculate total board feet, cordage, or other wood measurement units, using conversion tables.
Related Technology & Tools
- Processing heads
- Mobile radios
- Grapple skidders
- Nailing hammers
- Drive-to-tree feller bunchers
- Grapple yarders
- Digital tire pressure gauges
- Log transport trucks
- Protective safety glasses
- Knuckleboom loaders
- Harvesting heads
- Tracked feller bunchers
- Truck mounted boom loaders
- Tree saws
- Loading grapples
- Tracked harvesters
- Loggers' tapes
- Log winches
- Delimbers
- Forwarders
- Tractor cranes
- Forestry crawler dozers
- Heavy duty chainsaws
- Log forks
- Forestry swing machines
- Yarding grapples
- Equipment trailers
- Log trailers
- Log loaders
- Pocket knives
- Scarifier attachments
- Wheeled harvesters
- Desktop computers
- Tablet computers
- Log stackers
- Felling heads
- Forestry hoes
- Cable skidders
- TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker
- TradeTec TallyWorks Logs
- BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker