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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”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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