Occupations/45-4022.00
Logging Equipment Operators
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.
Usually a high school diploma, plus some experience or short training.
AI automation risk
71%
Higher automation risk
Human characteristics
42%
Balanced human and task mix
Task orientation
65%
Higher automation risk
A day in this job
- Mostly routine
Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
- Mostly routine
Fill out required job or shift report forms.
- Task
Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.
Core tasks
- 01Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.
- 02Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.
- 03Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.
- 04Drive straight or articulated tractors equipped with accessories such as bulldozer blades, grapples, logging arches, cable winches, and crane booms to skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush.
- 05Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.
- 06Fill out required job or shift report forms.
Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)
- Repeating same tasks3.70
- Degree of automation2.15
- Time sitting4.36
- Originality (ability)2.12
- Conflict situations2.39
- Hands-on objects/tools4.98
- Outdoors / weather4.23
- Disease exposure1.00
- Decision freedom4.03
Top abilities
- Control Precision4.00
- Reaction Time3.88
- Multilimb Coordination3.75
- Arm-Hand Steadiness3.75
- Depth Perception3.62
- Response Orientation3.50
- Rate Control3.50
- Problem Sensitivity3.50
Essential skills
- Reading Comprehension2.50
- Active Listening3.00
- Writing2.75
- Speaking2.75
- Mathematics2.38
- Science1.50
- Critical Thinking2.88
- Active Learning2.25
- Learning Strategies2.25
- Monitoring3.00
CIP matches
Schools offering related programs
2 shown
Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.
| Institution | Program | Tuition | Admit | Grad 6-yr | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Century College White Bear Lake, MN · Public | Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation 49.0202 | $6,000 | 100% | 31% | 1 yr — 2 yr — Certificate · CIP 49.02 |
Anoka-Ramsey Community College Coon Rapids, MN · Public | Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation 49.0202 | $5,800 | 100% | 33% | 1 yr — 2 yr — Certificate · CIP 49.02 |