Job Description:

• 1) Tends blow pits that wash pulp to remove cooking acid: Covers blow pit floor with specified amount of water, using hose, and clamps shut doors and hatches to prepare blow pit for receiving cooked pulp.

• 2) Turns wheel, as signaled by DIGESTER OPERATOR, to open digester outlet valve and blow cooked pulp under pressure into blow pit.

• 3) Opens valve to drain spent cooking liquor and water from pulp in blow pit.

• 4) Opens water faucet or sprays pulp with water from high-pressure hose to wash cooking liquor from pulp and flush pulp from blow pit into receiving chests.

• 5) Dips pulp sample from pit for testing in laboratory.