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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”

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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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