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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 “Cutter Operator”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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