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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 “Mechanic”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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