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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 “Thresher”

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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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