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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 “Custom Harvester”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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