Job Description:

• 1) Rives logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, shakes, or stakes, using handtools, such as ax wedges, sledgehammer, froe, and mallet: Drives wedge into log with ax and sledgehammer to split log along grain to form posts or bolts.

• 2) Positions froe on block according to grain and thickness of specified product and pounds it into block with mallet to start cut.

• 3) Pulls froe handle up or down to pry and split pieces from block.

• 4) May fell trees, using chain saw.

• 5) May be designated according to product cut as Rail Splitter; Shake Splitter; Shingle-Bolt Cutter; Stave-Block Splitter.