Career Overview Grade logs or estimate the marketable content or value of logs or pulpwood in sorting yards, millpond, log deck, or similar locations. Inspect logs for defects or measure logs to determine volume. Also Known As Log Buyer Log Grader Log Scaler Scaler Alternate Job Titles Check Scaler Compounding Scaler Deck Scaler Deck Specialist …
Career Overview 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. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log …
Career Overview Use axes or chainsaws to fell trees using knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage. Also Known As Logger Timber Cutter Timber Faller Tree Faller Alternate Job Titles All-Round Logger Arborist Arborist Assistant Arborist Climber Arborist Representative Axman Certified Arborist Chain Saw Operator Climbing …
Career Overview Under supervision, perform manual labor necessary to develop, maintain, or protect areas such as forests, forested areas, woodlands, wetlands, and rangelands through such activities as raising and transporting seedlings; combating insects, pests, and diseases harmful to plant life; and building structures to control water, erosion, and leaching of soil. Includes forester aides, seedling …
Career Overview Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel. Also Known As Deckhand Lobster Fisherman Nuisance Trapper Trapper Alternate Job Titles Abalone Fisherman Albacore Fishing Boat Crewman Alligator Hunter Alligator Trapper Animal Bounty Hunter Animal …
Career Overview All agricultural workers not listed separately. Alternate Job Titles Agriculture Worker Bark Spudder Billet Cutter Brush Clearing Laborer Brush Cutter Brusher Cant Hooker Canter Carbider Cat Swamper Catcher Chainer Choke Setter Choker Choker Hooker Salary & Job Market Salary Percentile Annual Wage Entry-Level (10th percentile) $27,860 Median $40,390 Top Earners (90th percentile) $76,730 …
Career Overview Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, milking, castrating, …
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Career Overview Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May …
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Career Overview Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. May perform tasks such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning. Also Known As …
Career Overview Grade, sort, or classify unprocessed food and other agricultural products by size, weight, color, or condition. Also Known As Apple Sorter Grader Potato Grader Sorter Alternate Job Titles Agricultural Establishment Grader Inspector Agricultural Produce Sorter Agriculture Laborer Apple Sorter Apple Turner Asparagus Buncher Banana Expert Banana Grader Bean Sorter Bulb Grader Butter Grader …