Machinery and Equipment

Introduction to tractors for harvest operations

Grain harvest workers need to safely operate and maintain sophisticated machinery and equipment while maintaining high standards of product hygiene. This introductory training program provides the basic skills required to be safe and productive in a harvest labour position and provide you with the opportunity to progress to highly skilled positions.

Harvest operations

Grain harvest workers need to safely operate and maintain sophisticated machinery and equipment while maintaining high standards of product hygiene. This 2-day training program is aimed at participants who already possess proven tractor skills and who would like further training in managing a tractor and chaser bin.

Drones in agriculture

This course will teach you how to use drones to collect farm data to help make informed decisions such as refined fertiliser plans, sowing plans or monitoring water systems.

Service and maintain small powered machines

From brush cutters to ride-on mowers, this one-day Tocal course will take you from the service manual to the service bay, from theory to hands-on. Safely and efficiently.

Machinery hygiene

Don’t spread weeds. Don’t move the problem from another place to your farm. Learn how weeds and pest organisms transfer from one place to another. Learn how to prevent it. This one-day Tocal course is a must have weed-hygiene check for you and your machinery.

Operate Side by Side Utility Vehicles

Safer than a quad bike, but still carrying its own risks, the side by side is becoming the “go to” vehicle for many jobs on the farm. This one-day course at Tocal will help you get the most from your side by side.

Operate quad bikes

Quad bikes: convenient, useful and one of the greatest causes of harm on farm. Tocal's one day course will teach even the most experienced rider how to operate them safely.

NSW Quad Bike Safety Improvement Program

The NSW quad bike safety improvement program is an initiative of SafeWork NSW, offering support to NSW farmers to undertake harm prevention activities associated with on-farm use of quad bikes. Eligible participants can do Tocal College's Operate Quad Bikes or Operate Side by Side Utility Vehicles one-day training course at no cost.

Licence to operate a forklift truck

Safe and efficient use of forklifts is just smart work practice. This 3 day course trains and assesses participants for a SafeWork NSW forklift licence.

Operate farm motor bikes (2 wheel)

Sometimes, using a motorbike on the farm is smarter and safer than a quad or a side-by-side. This one-day Tocal course covers you from basic maintenance through to advanced riding techniques in rough terrain.

Operate four wheel drive vehicle

Where can you take a 4WD? OK. Better question: where can you take a 4WD and then bring it back again? What trouble can you get into, and how do you get out of it? How do you prevent yourself getting into trouble? These questions and many more are covered in Tocal’s two-day 4x4 training course.

Operate and maintain tractors

The better you know how to operate and maintain a tractor, the safer and more productive your farm will be. Learn about how to set up tractors for your business, become familiar with the controls of tractors, and learn how tractors affect biosecurity.

Operate tractors with attachments

Working with tractors is an inherently dangerous activity. Individuals who work at this level must be thoroughly instructed in all health and safety in the workplace aspects of operating tractors with attachments.

Operate tractors with attachments and conduct front-end loader operations

Learn how to prepare for, operate and maintain tractor operations with attached equipment and to prepare for, carry out and shut down front-end loader operations in an agricultural environment.