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Automations for Log Graders

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.

O*NET occupation: Log Graders and Scalers (45-4023.00). The software list and tasks below come from that record, not from guesswork.

Runs on software log graders already use

Matched through the tools this occupation is documented as using.

Software log graders use that we connect

What we can build for log graders

The job’s documented tasks, most important first. Each is a request away.

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

Something specific to how you work?

Describe the apps and the outcome. A fixed quote and a delivery date come back within one business day, and the build is yours to keep.

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