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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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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Seed strippers
Seed bins
Forage tractors
Feed conveyors
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Min-till drills
Coulter drills
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Auger wagons
Grain combines
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Peanut diggers
Dry bulk storage tanks
Forage wagons
Hay bale trailers
Flotation sprayers
Field cultivators
Rotary hoes
Seed tenders
Straw and chaff spreaders
Land scrapers
Rotary tillers
Grain heaters
Litter spreaders
Self-propelled sprayers
Air drill seeders
Hay bale spears
Threshers
Liquid storage tanks
Combine draper headers
Coulter rippers
Horizontal feed mixers
Offset disks
3-point sprayers
Header carriers
Hay bale feeders
Haybines
Silage bins
Skid sprayers
Rotary hay rakes
Grass drills
Manure spreaders
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Seed drills
Weed wipes
Tomato harvesters
Continuous flow grain dryers
Cargo trucks
Ditchers
Skid steer tree cutters
Silage feeders
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Land levelers
Peanut dump carts
Disk rippers
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Hay tedders
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Seed dryers
Wheel loaders
Hay bale accumulators
Hammermills
Fertilizer spreaders
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Manure injection systems
Silage wrappers
Sprayer booms
Skid steer post pullers
Subcompact tractors
Hay bale compressors
Field rollers
Combine headers
Grain bin aeration fans
Silo spreaders
Plows
Seed vacuums
Mower conditioners
Hay bale unrollers
Rock windrowers
Swath turners
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Chisel disks
Windrow inverters
Stump grinders
Crop shredders
Crop dividers
Tractor guidance systems
Farm tractors
Subsoilers
Land rollers
Granular applicators
Skid steer post drivers
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Crop lifters
Chaff spreaders
Forage blowers
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Land planes
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Backhoes
Telehandlers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Min-till planters
Manure separators
Silage mills
Auger movers
Windrowers
Fertilizer blenders
Peanut harvesters
Grass seeders
Coulter disks
Combine cylinders
Hay bale shredders
Grain pumps
Peanut digger shakers
Air carts
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Silage baggers
Silage wagons
Forage boxes
Hay bale elevators
Peanut dryers
Portable sprayers
Mist blowers
Hay bale forks
Skid steer hay bale spears
Skid steer post hole diggers
Bucket elevators
Post drivers
Manure storage tanks
Hay bale movers
Bedding hippers
Manure scrapers
Hay bale stackers
Tandem disks
Pasture renovators
Flat-ended shovels
Nurse tanks
Land finishers
Seed conveyors
Feed grinders
Skid steer rotary tillers
Manure augers
Lime spreaders
Shavings spreaders
Hay bale wrappers
Sprayer chassis
Hay balers
2-point sprayers
Air reels
Silage boxes
Forklifts
Roller packers
Track tractors
Hay bale loaders
Seed hoppers
Grain vacuums
Peanut digger inverters
Air seeders
Hay bale conveyors
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Skid steer loaders
Bed shapers
Gravity wagons
Transfer augers
Tower grain dryers
Seed scales
Post hole diggers
Combine grain headers
Forage harvesters
Silage distributors
Harrow baskets
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Min-till cultivators
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Chisel plows

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