Heavy Equipment Operator Training

Did you look into the Heavy Equipment Certification Building downtown?

from what I've heard, the best way is to start low man on totem pole. Hire on and do grunt for a year then slowly gain time on equipment. I guess school would show some basics but a good operator takes years of practice. It isn't just knowing which controls do what it's about making the 300k machine you're on an extension of your body. The more fluid you can make the machine move the less wear you put on it and the more efficient you can be. That stuff isn't learned in the classroom.

I suggest he start out with a heavy civil contractor doing smaller stuff and try to convince them to get him the training.

Working on a golf course will expose him to certain types of machinery.

It's not too difficult. There's about 5 controls and just playing with it.

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depends on what you mean by difficult. Difficult in getting the controls to move? no, thats not difficult.

Difficult to become an operator who knows how to efficiently run several different machines to work the dirt in the most effective way? That would take several years to achieve. I doubt anyone with less than 7years experience could be considered a pro.

7 years is a stretch. It doesn't take 7 years to master for most.

There’s a lot more than just learning to “work the dirt” in being a heavy equipment operator. As someone earlier suggested, the international brotherhood of operating engineers, local 406, in Louisiana, is fhe best place to start. But, hey, if you don’t like unions, don’t send your son there.

I work for the CAT dealer and just took a class with international training consultants out of Dallas. There are many different consulting firms across the country that offer classes all the time. Do some research on the internet and find out. My class was a basic operations and load/unload training. I work in the sales department but it was very helpful in familiarizing myself with the equipment. It's a little scary loading an $850,000 articulated dump truck onto a trailer the first time

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Takes a bit of skill.