Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates machine to fabricate steel cages used for reinforcing concrete pipe: Bolts lagging plates of specified size to expandable mandrel of machine to form drum for shaping and sizing cage.

• 2) Threads wire from spindle through tensioning rollers and feeder arm of machine.

• 3) Tack-welds ends of wire to bell-end of lagging plate and pulls lever to expand mandrel.

• 4) Turns wheel on tensioner to regulate pressure on wire.

• 5) Starts mandrel rotating as wire is fed through tensioning rollers on carriage which moves along track to space wire as it winds.

• 6) Tack-welds wire to end of drum on completion of run and cuts wire with welding torch.

• 7) Pulls lever to move welding and grounding wheels into position to hold rod in place and to form circuit for welding.

• 8) Starts welding wheel to weld rod and wire at points of intersection.

• 9) Breaks tack weld at ends of wire, using hammer and pulls lever to retract mandrel and loosen cage.

• 10) Pulls cage from shaft by hand or aid of pneumatic winch.