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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
- 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
- Skidder Driver
- 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”
- 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 crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
- Drive tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Loggers' tapes
- Drive-to-tree feller bunchers
- Desktop computers
- Felling heads
- Cable skidders
- Forestry crawler dozers
- Log stackers
- Truck mounted boom loaders
- Harvesting heads
- Yarding grapples
- Grapple yarders
- Knuckleboom loaders
- Loading grapples
- Heavy duty chainsaws
- Tablet computers
- Tracked feller bunchers
- Mobile radios
- Log forks
- Tractor cranes
- Scarifier attachments
- Log winches
- Log trailers
- Log transport trucks
- Equipment trailers
- Tree saws
- Tracked harvesters
- Wheeled harvesters
- Protective safety glasses
- Pocket knives
- Grapple skidders
- Processing heads
- Delimbers
- Log loaders
- Digital tire pressure gauges
- Forestry hoes
- Nailing hammers
- Forestry swing machines
- Forwarders
- TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker
- TradeTec TallyWorks Logs
- BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker