Employment Percentage: 
3.4188034188034
SOC ID: 
45-4022
SOC Title: 
Logging Equipment Operators
ONET ID: 
45-4022.00
ONET Concat ID: 
45402200
Median Salary: 
52878.44
Ed Level High School: 
99.110001
Ed Level Certificate: 
0.89
Ed Level Some College: 
0
Ed Level Associates: 
0
Ed Level Bachelors: 
0
Ed Level Masters: 
0
Ed Level Doctor: 
0
Typical Ed Level: 
a high school diploma or less
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.

Core Tasks: 

<ul><li>Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.</li><li>Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.</li><li>Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.</li><li>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.</li><li>Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.</li><li>Fill out required job or shift report forms.</li><li>Drive tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads.</li></ul>

Start Annual Earnings: 
23983.46
Top Annual Earnings: 
118451.69
Title Slug: 
logging-equipment-operator