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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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