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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”

Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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