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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 “Tractor Operator Helper”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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