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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 “Equipment Operator Wage Hand”

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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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