Yarding Engineer
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Operates yarding machine to pull logs from cutting area to
landing: Controls direction, speed, and braking of cable drums
to poistion chokers or grapples over logs, pull logs across
cutting area, lift logs over tree trunks and other obstructions,
and position logs for loading onto trucks, using pedals and hand
levers in response to whistle or horn code signals. May drag
blocks, cable, and other euqipment to rigging crew. May raise
steel tower, or prerigged spar, and tension guy lines. May drive
self-propelled yarder between yarding sites. May be designated
according to type of yarding system used as High-Lead Yaredr
(logging); Sky-Line Yarder (logging); Slack-Line Yarder
(logging); or according to type of equipment operated as
Grapple-Yarder Operator (logging); Steel-Spar Operator
(logging); Triple-Drum Operator (logging).
May control machinery
on deck of pullboat in cypress forest and be designated Pullboat
Engineer (logging).
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Yarding Engineer
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