How do they match: Agricultural Equipment Operators

  • Farm Hand

  • Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
  • Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
  • Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
  • Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
  • Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
  • Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
  • Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.

  • Load agricultural or forestry products for shipment.
  • Measure physical characteristics of forestry or agricultural products.