8341-Mobile farm and forestry plant operators

Tasks include

• driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose farm machinery to plough land and sow, fertilize, cultivate and harvest crops
• 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
• preparing and positioning plant for operation
• adjusting speed, height and depth of implements
• operating plant to hold, lift and cut trees
• operating attachments to lift, swing, release and sort trees and logs, and operating auxiliary plant such as chipping machines and log splitting machines
• feeding felled trees into processors to strip limbs and cut into logs and loading logs onto stockpiles and into trucks
• servicing machinery and performing minor repairs.