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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”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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