1. Attends sheep flock grazing on range: Herds sheep and rounds up strays using trained dogs. 2. Beds down sheep near evening campsite. 3. Guards flock from predatory animals and from eating poisonous plants. 4. Drenches sheep. 5. May assist in lambing, docking, and shearing. 6. May feed sheep supplementary …
1. Shears wool from live sheep, using power-driven clippers or hand shears: Places animal in shearing station. 2. Clips wool close to hide so that fleece is removed in one piece and exercises care to nick or cut skin as little as possible. 3. Herds shorn animal into runway leading …
1. Tends tanks, vats, or drums in which sheepskins are pickled: Turns valves to fill equipment with water. 2. Weighs and dumps specified amounts of lime, salt, detergents, and acid into separate tanks. 3. Throws slats, by hand or using tongs, into lime tank to remove fat and flesh, into …
1. Stacks veneer sheets on table to supply VENEER-STOCK LAYER engaged in assembling plywood panels: Removes back sheets, face sheets, and core stock from pallets and places sheets in separate stacks on table supplying VENEER-STOCK LAYER. 2. Turns exterior side of back sheet down and places back sheet on top …
1. Cashes winning tickets in bookmaking establishment: Records on sheets final odds on winning horses as odds are received at bookmaking establishment. 2. Computes winnings due and pays bettors. 3. Balances cash disbursed against total of winning tickets. 4. Computes total monies received for tickets sold on each race.
1. Operates sheeting machine to slice cakes of baked plastics into sheets of uniform thickness: Turns crank to adjust cutting position of knife. 2. Adjusts feed rolls of machine to regulate pressure of cake against knife, using wrenches. 3. Turns steam valves to regulate temperature of heating chamber. 4. Loads …
1. Plans, lays out, fabricates, assembles, installs, and repairs sheet metal parts, equipment, and products, utilizing knowledge of working characteristics of metallic and nonmetallic materials, machining, and layout techniques, using handtools, power tools, machines, and equipment: Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, or product specifications to determine sequence and methods of …
1. Cuts and trims edges of wire screening or fabric to specified dimensions, using hand shears and hone: Measures material to locate specified point of cut, using rule, scale, or pattern. 2. Cuts material following line between parallel wires of weave or along edge of pattern. 3. Inspects and hones …
1. Sets up and operates machines to sharpen ledger and fly blades of cloth-shearing machines: Removes blades from shearing machine, using chain hoist. 2. Mounts and squares ledger blade in jig of grinding machine, using straightedge and level. 3. Turns handwheels to set blade at specified angle and to position …
1. Tends power shear that cuts metal objects, such as sheets, plates, billets or bars, to specified length: Lifts workpiece manually, or by hoist or crane, to machine bed or roller table. 2. Positions workpiece against side guides and end stops or aligns layout lines under shear blade. 3. Starts …
1. Sets up power shear to cut metal sheet, plate, or bar stock according to work card or blueprint specifications: Lays out cutting lines on metal stock according to work order, using ruler and square, to obtain maximum number of pieces from stock. 2. Sets stops, guides, rake and pressure …
1. Tends machine that scrapes flesh or hair from pelts, shears wool on sheepskin to specified length, or shaves hides to uniform thickness: Turns handwheel or setscrew to adjust feed roller to specified height. 2. Places pelt or hide on roller and presses pedal to raise roller that feeds hide …
1. Sets up and operates power shear to cut metal objects, such as plates, sheets, slabs, billets, or bars to specified dimensions and angle: Turns handwheels to adjust rake and pressure of blade. 2. Positions and clamps stops and side guides to set length and angle of cut, using rule, …
1. Dresses and smooths curved wooden furniture parts by clamping roughly sawed or shaped part in vise and shaping it to specified contours and finish, using tools, such as spokeshave, plane, rasps, and power sander.
1. Tends bandsaw and double-spindle shaping machine that cut veneer into curved shapes for use in furniture manufacture: Flips switch and presses buttons to activate machines. 2. Places stack of veneer on bed of bandsaw, positions pattern on top veneer sheet and marks cutting line. 3. Guides stack of veneer …
1. Tends machine that cuts spheres, cones, and other shapes from plastic foam blocks: Positions block on machine table and clamps block in holding device. 2. Starts machine and pushes block against curbed blades to cut shapes in block. 3. Removes block from machine and breaks shaped object from block.
1. Brushes surface of cleaned suede leather garments with stiff handbrush to raise nap. 2. May position garment on form and actuate steam and air pressure to expand garment for ease in brushing.
1. Tends machine that shapes and presses garment parts, such as collars and cuffs preparatory to joining parts to garments: Pulls collar or cuff onto shaped metal template of machine. 2. Depresses pedals to open heated plates of machine and move template and garment part between heated plates. 3. Releases …
1. Sets up and operates single- or double-spindle shaping machine to cut grooves, rabbets, flutes, or pattern shapes on surface and edges of woodstock: Examines drawings, blueprints, or written orders to determine cutting pattern. 2. Selects, installs, aligns, and adjusts cutterheads, guides, and jigs to make specified cuts and shapes, …
1. Sets up and operates one or more shapers that reciprocate bar tool against stationary workpiece to plane, shape, or groove metal workpieces, such as machine, tool, or die parts, according to specifications and knowledge of shaping operations: Studies blueprint, dimensioned sketch, or layout on workpiece, and plans sequence of …
1. Forms pocket, opens fingers, and smooths seams to shape baseball gloves, using heated forms, mallets, and hammers: Pulls glove over heated hand-shaped form to open and stretch finger linings. 2. Pounds fingers and palm of glove with rubber mallet and ball-shaped hammer to smooth seams and bulges, and form …
