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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”

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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