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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 “Fruit Loader, Machine Operator”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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