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 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.