What do they do?

Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log chippers.

Also known as:

Cutter Operator, Delimber Operator, Equipment Operator, Feller Buncher Operator, Grapple Operator, Grapple Skidder Operator, Harvester Operator, Hook Tender, Loader Operator, Log Loader, Log Loader Operator, Log Processor Operator, Log Stacker Operator, Logging Crane Operator, Logging Equipment Operator, Logging Shovel Operator, Processor Operator, Skidder Driver, Skidder Operator, Slasher Operator, Tree-Shear Operator, Yarder Operator

Typical Wages

Projected Growth Rate

Employment of Logging Equipment Operators is projected to show little or no change from 2022 to 2032.

Projected Employment in OH

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    Ranks #21 in job growth rate
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    Job Openings

    Ranks #31 in net job growth

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Education Level

Percent of workers in this field with these degrees:

  • High school diploma equivalent  (49%)
  • Less than high school diploma  (26%)
  • Some college, no degree  (14%)
  • Associate's degree  (5%)
  • Bachelor's degree  (5%)
  • Master's degree  (<1%)
  • Doctorate or Professional Degree  (<1%)

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People in this career often have these skills:

  • Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Operations Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

People in this career often know a lot about:

  • Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  • Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

People in this career often have talent in:

  • Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
  • Reaction Time - The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
  • Multilimb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
  • Depth Perception - The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
  • Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
  • Response Orientation - The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
  • Rate Control - The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
  • Far Vision - The ability to see details at a distance.

People in this career often do these activities:

  • Inspect equipment or facilities to determine condition or maintenance needs.
  • Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
  • Operate forestry equipment.
  • Evaluate log quality.
  • Cut trees or logs.
  • Maintain personnel records.
  • Measure physical characteristics of forestry or agricultural products.

This page includes data from:

O*NET OnLine Career data: O*NET 28.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (“USDOL/ETA”). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA

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