Stone Sawyers

Set up and operate gang saws, reciprocating saws, circular saws, or wire saws to cut blocks of stone into specified dimensions.

Job Task

• Starts pump to circulate water and abrasive onto blade or cable during cutting.
• Builds bed of timbers on car, and aligns and levels stone on bed, using crowbar, sledgehammer, wedges, blocks, rule, and spirit level.
• Marks dimensions or traces on stone according to diagram, using chisel and hammer, straightedge, rule, and chalked string.
• Observes operation to detect uneven sawing and exhausted abrasive supply and tightens pulleys or adds abrasive to maintain cutting speed.
• Aligns cable or blades with marks on stone, and presses button or turns lever to lower sawing cable or blades to stone.
• Turns crank or presses button to move car under sawing cable or saw frame.
• Starts saw and moves blade across surface of material, such as stone, concrete slabs, and asbestos-cement sheets and pipes, to saw.
• Adjusts blade pressure against stone, using ammeter, and lowers blade in stone as cut depth increases.
• Changes or replaces saw blades, cables, and grinding wheels, using wrench.
• Operates crane or signals crane operator to position or remove stone from car or saw bed.
• Washes stone, using water hose, and verifies width or thickness of cut stone, using rule.

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