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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”

Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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