Course Outline: Excavator

• Orientation to Operator's Manual
• Walk around, pre-start/shutdown
• Operating controls
• Load and unload machine
• Trench and backfill
• V-trench and backfill
• Road building
• Load truck
• Clean out ditches
• Trim and fill slope
• Trim and cut slope
• Excavate under buried pipe
• Culvert installation
• Culvert removal
• Land clearing
• Place rip rap
• Road Deactivation
• Mass excavation and backfill
• Strip and stockpile
• Hoe chucking