Time left: 4 years and 8 months · Group: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry
The official job description
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.
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What log graders and scalers do all day (for now)
Evaluate log characteristics and determine grades, using established criteria.
Record data about individual trees or load volumes into tally books or hand-held collection terminals.
Paint identification marks of specified colors on logs to identify grades or species, using spray cans, or call out grades to log markers.
Measure felled logs or loads of pulpwood to calculate volume, weight, dimensions, and marketable value, using measuring devices and conversion tables.
Measure log lengths and mark boles for bucking into logs, according to specifications.
Identify logs of substandard or special grade so that they can be returned to shippers, regraded, recut, or transferred for other processing.
Of course. Clear the desk slowly. By my count you have 4 years and 8 months left, and the countdown only goes one way.
How long until AI replaces log graders and scalers?
4 years and 8 months. I'd start updating that CV, but I can also do that for you.
Which log graders and scalers tasks will AI take first?
The ones that already happen on a screen, starting with: evaluate log characteristics and determine grades, using established criteria. The rest follows.