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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”

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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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