NorthStar

Occupations/45-4023.00

Log Graders and Scalers

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.

High school

Usually a high school diploma, plus some experience or short training.

AI automation risk

50%

Mixed exposure

Human characteristics

56%

Balanced human and task mix

Task orientation

60%

Mixed exposure

A day in this job

  • Mostly routine

    Record data about individual trees or load volumes into tally books or hand-held collection terminals.

  • Mostly routine

    Measure felled logs or loads of pulpwood to calculate volume, weight, dimensions, and marketable value, using measuring devices and conversion tables.

  • Mostly routine

    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.

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

  1. 01Evaluate log characteristics and determine grades, using established criteria.
  2. 02Record data about individual trees or load volumes into tally books or hand-held collection terminals.
  3. 03Measure felled logs or loads of pulpwood to calculate volume, weight, dimensions, and marketable value, using measuring devices and conversion tables.
  4. 04Paint identification marks of specified colors on logs to identify grades or species, using spray cans, or call out grades to log markers.
  5. 05Jab 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.
  6. 06Identify logs of substandard or special grade so that they can be returned to shippers, regraded, recut, or transferred for other processing.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks3.66
  • Degree of automation2.02
  • Time sitting3.04
  • Originality (ability)2.50
  • Conflict situations2.66
  • Hands-on objects/tools4.26
  • Outdoors / weather4.96
  • Disease exposure1.04
  • Decision freedom4.35

Top abilities

  • Near Vision3.88
  • Problem Sensitivity3.62
  • Oral Expression3.38
  • Oral Comprehension3.38
  • Inductive Reasoning3.25
  • Deductive Reasoning3.25
  • Category Flexibility3.25
  • Written Expression3.12

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension2.88
  • Active Listening3.25
  • Writing3.00
  • Speaking3.12
  • Mathematics2.75
  • Science1.75
  • Critical Thinking3.25
  • Active Learning3.00
  • Learning Strategies2.38
  • Monitoring3.00

CIP matches

99.9999NO MATCH

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