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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 “Packing Tractor Machine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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