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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”

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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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