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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 “Combine Operator”

Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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