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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 “Grain Combine Driver”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

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Seed hoppers
Forage harvesters
Combine headers
Forklifts
Sprayer booms
Feed mixer wagons
Ditchers
Hay tedders
Seed mixers
Seed strippers
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Forage boxes
Flat-ended shovels
Hay bale accumulators
Hay bale elevators
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Land levelers
Hay bale wrappers
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Coulter drills
Silage boxes
Silage distributors
Peanut harvesters
Crop lifters
Silage baggers
Utility vehicles
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Fertilizer blenders
Portable sprayers
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Hay conditioners
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Skid steer post drivers
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Rotary hay rakes
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Auger wagons
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Threshers
Combine header transports
Skid steer post hole diggers
Manure injection systems
Mist blowers
Manure augers
Grain combines
Sprayer chassis
Silage wagons
Power winches
Cargo trucks
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Air seeders
Fertilizer spreaders
Silage bins
Compost turners
Skid steer rock grapples
Plows
Seed vacuums
Manure scrapers
Windrowers
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Hay bale conveyors
Bed shapers
Field rollers
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Hay bale stackers
Hay bale trailers
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Min-till drills
Flotation sprayers
Grain bin aeration fans
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Disk rippers
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Tandem disks
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Tractor guidance systems
Peanut digger shakers
Granular applicators
Chisel disks
Grain pumps
Mower conditioners
Peanut digger inverters
Skid sprayers
Bedding hippers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Land rollers
Combine grain headers
Pasture renovators
Nurse tanks
Hay bale shredders
Feed grinders
Transfer augers
Harrow baskets
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Manure storage tanks
Auger movers
Grain vacuums
Grass seeders
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Peanut diggers
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Forage wagons
Hay bale compressors
Peanut dump carts
Grain drills
Subsoilers
V hay rakes
Rock windrowers
Air carts
Grain heaters
Seed conveyors
Roller packers
Hay bale unrollers
Air drill seeders
Wheel loaders
Straw and chaff spreaders
Stump grinders
Rotary hoes
3-point sprayers
Subcompact tractors
Chaff spreaders
Coulter rippers
Forage tractors
Hay bale forks
Crop dividers
Seed tenders
Hay bale movers
Garlic harvesters
Telehandlers
Peanut dryers
Silage wrappers
Backhoes
Grain augers
Manure separators
Crop shredders
Litter spreaders
Weed wipes
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Silo spreaders
Combine cylinders
Windrow inverters
Seed bins
Liquid storage tanks
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