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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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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