Job Description:

• 1) Tends steam or hot-water vats that condition logs before cutting into veneer sheets used in making wooden slat baskets and boxes: Hoists logs into vat or onto conveyor that carries them into cooker.

• 2) Turns valves to maintain steam pressure or water temperature at specified setting.

• 3) Removes logs or directs their removal after prescribed time, depending on size of logs and kind of wood.

• 4) May remove bark from logs, using handtools.