Agricultural Equipment Operators

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
2. 02Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
3. 03Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
4. 04Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
5. 05Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
6. 06Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
7. 07Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
8. 08Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
9. 09Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
10. 10Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
11. 11Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
12. 12Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

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