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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”

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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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