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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment 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.
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.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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

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