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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 “Hay Chopper”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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