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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products S8.5.0 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products Bend staves
Description
Use various techniques to give the wooden planks the desired curve, such as softening the wood in steam tunnels and then replacing the working hoops with stronger hoops.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- CooperCoopers build barrels and related products made of segments of wood, like wooden buckets. They shape the wood, fit hoops around them, and shape the barrel to hold the…
Related skills
- Metal bending techniques
- Metalworking tools
- Sand wood
- Perform machine maintenance
- Apply wood finishes
- Manufacture of wooden barrels
- Sharpen edged tools
- Recognise signs of wood rot
- Clean wood surface
- Airtight storage
- Maintain barrels
- Wood cuts
- Tend boring machine
Last updated on February 18, 2026
