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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”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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