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ISCO-08-code:
8341
ISCO 08 Code 8341 Mobile farm and forestry plant operators
Lead Statement
Motorised 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.
Task statement
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.
Included occupations
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Harvester operator
- Logging plant operator
- Timber carrier driver
- Tractor driver
- Tree faller operator
Excluded occupations
- Bulldozer operator - 8342
Notes
(NCvB; April 2010)