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Job Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks, such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Chopper Operator”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

Mower conditioners
Skid steer loaders
Hay bale shredders
3-point sprayers
Skid steer post drivers
Weed wipes
Peanut harvesters
Combine grain headers
Roller packers
Backhoes
Fertilizer spreaders
Auger movers
Skid steer post hole diggers
Crop shredders
All terrain vehicles ATV
Post hole diggers
Chisel disks
Offset disks
Grain bin aeration fans
Flotation sprayers
Silage bins
Hay bale stackers
Hay bale accumulators
Hay balers
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Forage wagons
Tractor guidance systems
Air carts
Air drill seeders
Bucket elevators
Coulter disks
2-point sprayers
Air seeders
Peanut dump carts
Skid steer hay bale spears
Combine header transports
Fertilizer blenders
Manure injection systems
Grain vacuums
Windrowers
Tower grain dryers
Nurse tanks
Hay bale elevators
Land finishers
Feed conveyors
Hay bale unrollers
Silage wrappers
Hay bale movers
Swath turners
Rotary hay rakes
Combine cylinders
Utility vehicles
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Tandem disks
Rotary tillers
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Portable sprayers
Liquid storage tanks
Manure scrapers
Forage harvesters
Skid sprayers
Litter spreaders
Combine headers
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Grain wagons
Land levelers
Stump grinders
Disk rippers
Seed drills
Post drivers
Threshers
Seed tenders
Skid steer tree cutters
Seed conveyors
Gravity wagons
Silage distributors
Forage boxes
Power winches
Silage boxes
Grain combines
Transfer augers
Grain augers
Hay bale loaders
Farm tractors
Forage tractors
Peanut dryers
Garlic harvesters
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Seed strippers
Hay bale feeders
Seed mixers
Haybines
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Grain drills
Chisel plows
Hay bale conveyors
Field cultivators
Flat-ended shovels
Straw and chaff spreaders
Bed shapers
Soybean combine harvesters
Manure separators
Hay conditioners
Harrow baskets
Seed scales
Silage feeders
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Seed hoppers
Bedding hippers
Seed bins
Cargo trucks
V hay rakes
Combine draper headers
Pasture renovators
Seed dryers
Forklifts
Continuous flow grain dryers
Skid steer rotary tillers
Compost turners
Subcompact tractors
Ditchers
Air reels
Skid steer rock grapples
Peanut diggers
Feed grinders
Shavings spreaders
Header carriers
Min-till cultivators
Manure chopper pumps
Hay bale forks
Subsoilers
Auger wagons
Hay bale trailers
Track tractors
Silage mills
Sprayer chassis
Lime spreaders
Manure spreaders
Hammermills
Chaff spreaders
Horizontal feed mixers
Tomato harvesters
Min-till planters
Grain pumps
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Hay bale compressors
Silage wagons
Peanut digger shakers
Row crop cultivators
Grass drills
Granular applicators
Forage blowers
Windrow inverters
Min-till drills
Rotary hoes
Coulter rippers
Coulter drills
Hay bale spears
Plows
Land rollers
Wheel loaders
Land planes
Hay tedders
Manure augers
Skid steer post pullers
Mist blowers
Self-propelled sprayers
Field rollers
Land scrapers
Dry bulk storage tanks
Grain heaters
Crop dividers
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Telehandlers
Silo spreaders
Peanut digger inverters
Manure storage tanks
Hay bale wrappers
Feed mixer wagons
Compact tractors
Grass seeders
Sprayer booms
Rock windrowers
Seed vacuums
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Batch grain dryers
Crop lifters
Silage baggers

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