Job Description:

• 1) Pulls lumber from moving conveyor coming from ripsaw, resaw, planer, trimmer, and grading tables, and slides and stacks lumber on piles, according to grade marked on each piece.

• 2) May push buttons to start and stop conveyor and deposit waste material onto slasher conveyor for waste recovery.

• 3) May band stacked lumber to facilitate moving, using banding machine.

• 4) May be designated according to condition of lumber removed from conveyor as Dry-Chain Offbearer; Green-Chain Offbearer; or may be designated according to machine from which lumber is conveyed as Planer-Chain Offbearer.