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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 “Field Hauler”

Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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