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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”

Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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