Mobile Farm and Forestry Plant Operators

Mobile farm and forestry plant operators drive, tend, operate and monitor one or more types of special-purpose motorized mobile machinery or equipment used in agricultural, horticultural and forestry operations. Tasks include - (a) driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose farm machinery to plough land and sow, fertilize, cultivate and harvest crops; (b) driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose forestry machinery to clear land, plant, harvest and carry trees and timber or perform other forestry operations; (c) preparing and positioning plant for operation; (d) adjusting speed, height and depth of implements; (e) operating plant to hold, lift and cut trees; (f) operating attachments to lift, swing, release and sort trees and logs, and operating auxiliary plant such as chipping machines and log splitting machines; (g) feeding felled trees into processors to strip limbs and cut into logs and loading logs onto stockpiles and into trucks; (h) servicing machinery and performing minor repairs. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Harvester operator - Logging plant operator - Timber carrier driver - Tractor driver - Tree faller operator Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Bulldozer operator - 8342.