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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”

Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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