United States
8341-Mobile farm and forestry plant operators
Job Title ( International classification ):
Mobile farm and forestry plant operators
ISCO Code:
8341
Job Description:
Mobile farm and forestry plant operators drive, tend, operate and monitor one or more types of special- purpose motorised, mobile machinery or equipment used in agricultural, horticultural and forestry operations.
Tasks:
Main 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.
Inclusions:
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Harvester operator
- Logging plant operator
- Timber carrier driver
- Tractor driver
- Tree faller operator
Exclusions:
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Bulldozer operator - 8342
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