Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more machines that comb, draw, and align sisal and hemp fibers into sliver preparatory to spinning into yarn used in production of rope or twine: Pulls specified number of fiber coils under feed tray of machine, using hook.

• 2) Places ends of fibers on feed tray and into combing teeth.

• 3) Starts machine and observes feeding, combing, and coiling operations to ensure that fibers are correctly straightened and blended to form sliver.

• 4) Pulls coil of sliver from beneath coiling head and slides it to next machine.

• 5) May weigh and segregate coils according to type and grade.