// Unit group · 8341

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.

8 Plant and Machine Operators, and Assemblers / 83 Drivers and Mobile Plant Operators / 834 Mobile Plant Operators / All level 4

// Working conditions

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

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.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Harvester operator
- Logging plant operator
- Timber carrier driver
- Tractor driver
- Tree faller operator

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Bulldozer operator - 8342

Indexed job titles 13