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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 “Combine Driver”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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