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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 Tender”

Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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