Sets and operates one or more different kinds of sawing machines or uses hand tools to cut or trim lumber and wood to specified dimensions on a repetitive basis. May work in a sawmill, a workshop, or outside in forests.
This group includes sawyers, plywood makers and related wood-processing workers not elsewhere classified, for example those who are mainly occupied in peeling bark from logs preparatory to sawing or veneer-cutting; operating power saws to cut logs into specified barrel stave lengths; operating banks of circular saws to cut out defective sections of boards (trimming); or operating edge-gluing machines to join veneer strips into sheets.
