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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 “Machine Operator Transplanter”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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