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Mobile farm and forestry plant operators

South Africa 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

  • (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 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
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