Grade Reading and Site Layouts
Many people think heavy equipment operators do one thing – and that is operate heavy equipment. But a heavy equipment operator must do much more. In order to do his or her job properly, he or she must be able…
Things You Learn Besides Operating Equipment
How to operate a variety of heavy equipment is the obvious thing you learn while in heavy equipment school. You'll learn to operate everything from a backhoe to an all-terrain forklift. But that's not all. There are six other things…
What Do Operators Need To Know?
In one sense, it sort of sounds like a heavy equipment operator does just one thing: operate a big machine. But there's a lot more to heavy equipment operation than being at the controls of a bulldozer or anything like…
Grade Reading Made Simple
One of the most important tasks on the work site is grade reading. If you are going to be working on an incline, or smoothing sloped roads and such, then you'll need to learn how to read grades. There are…