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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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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