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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 Thinner, Machine Operator”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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