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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”

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

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Tractor guidance systems
Wheel loaders
Post drivers
Hay bale unrollers
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Bed shapers
Skid steer post pullers
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Combine headers
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Grain augers
Grain drills
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Crop shredders
Manure scrapers
Manure storage tanks
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Forage boxes
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Forage tractors
Seed hoppers
Land rollers
Hay bale forks
Field cultivators
Grain heaters
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Horizontal feed mixers
Transfer augers
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Hay tedders
Hay bale accumulators
Swath turners
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Pasture renovators
Ditchers
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Granular applicators
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Liquid storage tanks
Portable sprayers
Tandem disks
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Power winches
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Coulter drills
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Fertilizer spreaders
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Hay bale movers
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Hay bale feeders
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Seed vacuums
Chaff spreaders
Mower conditioners
Land planes
Seed conveyors
Skid steer hay bale spears
Weed wipes
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Peanut digger inverters
Land finishers
Sprayer chassis
Skid sprayers
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
3-point sprayers
Backhoes
Hay bale stackers
Combine cylinders
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Seed dryers
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Coulter disks
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Silo spreaders
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All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
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Seed strippers
Chisel disks
Peanut diggers
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Silage feeders
Disk rippers
Air reels
Coulter rippers
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