Part-time & Short Courses

This is a practical course for those with little or no previous tractor and machine handling experience. It runs for a 3-day minimum, dependent on experience. The course concludes with the completion of the National Proficiency Test Council Test of Competence in Tractor Driving and Handling MO1 / 1a.  

Course includes:

• Health and Safety at Work Act
• Tractor controls
• Safe handling techniques of tractor and equipment
• Daily maintenance checks
• Brakes and braking
• Hitching and unhitching trailed equipment
• Manoeuvring with and without trailers
• Hitching and unhitching mounted and PTO equipment
• Operating hydraulics and use of fore-end loaders.

Entry Requirements:
No formal qualifications are required

 For further information and course dates please call 01395 562347 or Email: shortcourses@bicton.ac.uk