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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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