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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”

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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

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Forage boxes
Seed conveyors
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Feed conveyors
Subsoilers
Sprayer booms
Cargo trucks
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Seed hoppers
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Land finishers
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Combine draper headers
3-point sprayers
Windrow inverters
Combine headers
Hay balers
Auger movers
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All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Forage blowers
Combine grain headers
Grass seeders
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Skid steer loaders
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Forklifts
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Rotary hoes
Self-propelled sprayers
Batch grain dryers
Transfer augers
Utility vehicles
Sprayer chassis
Header carriers
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Seed bins
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Granular applicators
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Silage distributors
Threshers
Min-till drills
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Grain bin aeration fans
Air seeders
Field cultivators
Hay bale unrollers
Grain pumps
Hay bale spears
Straw and chaff spreaders
Chisel plows
Post drivers
Roller packers
Combine cylinders
Seed strippers
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Tandem disks
Hay bale trailers
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Manure injection systems
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Pasture renovators
Hay bale elevators
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Lime spreaders
Windrowers
Hay bale conveyors
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V hay rakes
Hay bale feeders
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Combine header transports
Grain augers
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Hay conditioners
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Liquid ferilizer applicators
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Post hole diggers
Silage feeders
Horizontal feed mixers
Rotary tillers
Crop lifters
Coulter rippers
Fertilizer blenders
Coulter drills
Flat-ended shovels
Hay bale wrappers
Seed scales
Backhoes
Skid sprayers
Forage tractors
Feed grinders
Disk rippers
Skid steer post hole diggers
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Mower conditioners
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