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"CHIP UNLOADER"
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Job Description:

  • 1) Unloads wood chips from railroad cars or trucks, using materials-handling equipment: Drives rail-mounted trackmobile to spot railroad cars on scale and on ramp above chip storage bins for unloading.

  • 2) Records gross and net weight of car.

  • 3) Releases bottom doors of car, allowing chips to fall into bin.

  • 4) Starts conveyor that carries chips to stockpile or to inside storage bins.

  • 5) Gathers sample of chips from each car for analysis.

  • 6) Shunts empty cars to spur tracks.

  • 7) Signals driver to position truck for unloading.

  • 8) Attaches hoist cable and hook and starts hoist to lift loaded trailer from tractor bed.

  • 9) Opens tailgate of trailer, allowing wood chips to fall into bin.

  • 10) Lowers trailer onto tractor bed and secures tailgate.

  • 11) May attach electric vibrator to side of railroad cars to dislodge chips that have become tightly packed in transit.

  • 12) May unload barges.

 

 

 


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Job Number: 1808