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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 “Cutter Operator”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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