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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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