Sawing Machine Setters and Set-Up Operators

Set up or set up and operate wood-sawing machines. Examine blueprints, drawings, work orders, and patterns to determine size and shape of items to be sawed, sawing machines to set up, and sequence of sawing operations.

Job Task

• Selects knives to achieve specified diameter of cut, or installs bit and dado saw according to work ticket.
• Pulls table back against stops and depresses pedal to advance cutterhead that shapes end of stock.
• Aligns and bolts knives in cutterhead and screws it on spindle, using wrenches.
• Adjusts angle of table by turning handwheel, and bolts or clamps holding jigs to table.
• Places stock in jig and pushes table containing stock into saw or lays stock on conveyor that carries it into machine.

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