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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”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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