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Grade logs or estimate the marketable content or value of logs or pulpwood in sorting yards, millpond, log deck, or similar locations. Inspect logs for defects or measure logs to determine volume.
- • Evaluate log characteristics and determine grades, using established criteria.
- • Record data about individual trees or load volumes into tally books or hand-held collection terminals.
- • Paint identification marks of specified colors on logs to identify grades or species, using spray cans, or call out grades to log markers.
- • Measure felled logs or loads of pulpwood to calculate volume, weight, dimensions, and marketable value, using measuring devices and conversion tables.
- • Measure log lengths and mark boles for bucking into logs, according to specifications.
- • Identify logs of substandard or special grade so that they can be returned to shippers, regraded, recut, or transferred for other processing.
- • Jab logs with metal ends of scale sticks, and inspect logs to ascertain characteristics or defects such as water damage, splits, knots, broken ends, rotten areas, twists, and curves.
- • Drive to sawmills, wharfs, or skids to inspect logs or pulpwood.
- • Communicate with coworkers by signals to direct log movement.
- • Weigh log trucks before and after unloading, and record load weights and supplier identities.
- • Saw felled trees into lengths.
- • Arrange for hauling of logs to appropriate mill sites.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
