Will “Skidder Driver” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
79% Chance of Automation
“Skidder Driver” will probably be replaced by robots.
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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 Loader
- 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 “Skidder Driver”
- 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.
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
- 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.
- Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
- Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
- Fill out required job or shift report forms.
- Drive tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads.
Related Technology & Tools
- Loading grapples
- Harvesting heads
- Log forks
- Yarding grapples
- Grapple skidders
- Knuckleboom loaders
- Tracked feller bunchers
- Digital tire pressure gauges
- Forestry hoes
- Log winches
- Log loaders
- Desktop computers
- Wheeled harvesters
- Delimbers
- Nailing hammers
- Loggers' tapes
- Forestry crawler dozers
- Forestry swing machines
- Processing heads
- Felling heads
- Grapple yarders
- Heavy duty chainsaws
- Log transport trucks
- Forwarders
- Tree saws
- Tracked harvesters
- Truck mounted boom loaders
- Cable skidders
- Log trailers
- Pocket knives
- Tablet computers
- Log stackers
- Equipment trailers
- Mobile radios
- Tractor cranes
- Drive-to-tree feller bunchers
- Scarifier attachments
- Protective safety glasses
- BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker
- TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker
- TradeTec TallyWorks Logs