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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”

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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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