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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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