The Prospect Timber and Landscaping employee spends about three weeks spreading 2000 cubic metres of hardwood chips around the many Agfest sites and was yesterday hard at work levelling mounds into plush carpets.

Once Agfest is over for another year and the hundreds of marquees have been removed, Mr Hall spends another three to four weeks clearing the chips away, rendering the 80-hectare property ready to accept the sheep that graze there for most of the year.

"I use a backhoe with a smooth cutting edge bucket so I can pick up the chips without scraping away the grass, which can have sheep back on the week after Agfest," Mr Hall said.

"Padgetts supply the hardwood chips, which we spread, clean up and resell as cheap mulch."

Also at Agfest yesterday was Harry Jamieson, of the Melbourne-based Harry The Hirer.

Mr Jamieson said that his father's business had been involved with Agfest for about 15 years.

"We've dropped about five sites in the past 10 years, but still do about 10 sites," he said.

"There are more Tasmanian companies starting up and they're getting some of the contracts.

"We try to keep the bigger sites and do sites for Aurora Energy, Launceston Motor Group, Mazda and a few others - we freight the marquees over from the mainland and spend about three days erecting them.

"We started work on Tuesday and will finish (today), then we'll go back to Melbourne until Sunday, when we come back, pack it up and take it all away again.

"We get a large, experienced crew down here so we can get the work done quickly - we fly someone over next week and they'll be on stand-by during the event, just in case."