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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 “Field Hauler”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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