Course Outline
This is an integrated training and assessment course.
You’ll receive a certificate of training once it is complete.
We’ll guide you through the theory behind tractor driving, with sessions on key health and safety issues.
You’ll also receive plenty of hands-on experience behind the wheel.
Basic operations and manoeuvring will be covered, as will using attachments, trailers and the power take-off (PTO) shaft.
Course sessions:
- Health and safety legislation
- Controls and pre-start checks
- Operating the tractor
- Manoeuvring
- Mounted implements and trailed machines
- PTOs
- Tractor mounted front-end loader.
Worth noting: Our course is designed for both novices and more seasoned tractor users. As a result, it can last from two to four days depending on the experience of those taking part.
Course Content
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Perform a risk assessment
- Mount and dismount safely
- Understand the purpose and meaning of the instrumentation
- Understand the function of all controls
- Understand the hazards associated with using controls
- Understand the reasons for daily checks
- Start and stop the engine in a safe manner
- Be competent in driving a tractor in a forward and reverse direction
- Leave the tractor in a safe state
- Competently perform checking of the lubrication, cooling and air intake of the engine, perform basic lubrication of the tractor and ensure the tractor is in a safe road going state
- Attach a mounted implement and manoeuvre in a forward and reverse direction
- Attach a trailed implement and manoeuvre in a forward and reverse direction
- Leave unattached implements in a safe state
- Correctly attach a PTO shaft between tractor and implement
- Attach the PTO shaft guards correctly
- Assess the minimum turning circle of the machine and the angle of the PTO shaft.
- Carry out basic operations using tractor mounted loader.
Other Relevant Courses
- Tractor Driving on Slopes
- Tractor Driving 13-15 Years Old
- Tractor Driving 13-15 Years Old (Northern Ireland).