A professional who tends machine that rounds and trims assembled blanks for heads of barrels or bottoms of baskets. Responsibilities include:

• Adjusts limit of horizontal swing saw to shape blanks of specified size.
• Centers and clamps blank in chuck of machine.
• Starts machine and moves feed lever that swings rotating saw against blank and simultaneously starts chuck and blank revolving.
• Holds saw against revolving blank to trim and shape periphery.
• Opens jaws of chuck and removes finished head.
• May remove defects from barrel heading material, using circular saw.
• May be designated according to part formed as basket-bottom-rounding-machine operator; head-turning-machine operator.