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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”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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