Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Setting up and operating irrigation equipment.
• Operating tractors, tractor drawn machinery, and self propelled machinery for plowing, harrowing and fertilizing soil, or for planting, cultivating, spraying and harvesting crops.
• Repairing and maintaining farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
• Harvesting fruits and vegetables by hand.
• Applying pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers to crops.
• Informing farmers or farm managers of crop progress.
• Directing and monitoring the activities of permanent and seasonal workers during planting and harvesting.
• Clearing and maintaining irrigation ditches.
• Recording information about crops, such as pesticide using, yields, or costs.
• Digging and planting seeds, or transplanting seedlings by hand.
• Repairing farm buildings, fences, and other structures.
• Participating in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post harvest treatment of crops.
• Loading agricultural products into trucks, and driving trucks to market or storage facilities.