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Tell me about how you adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. |
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Describe ways to observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. |
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Describe an experience where you had to Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps. |
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Explain how you would mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery. |
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What are your methods when manipulating controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery. |
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Walk me through how you operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment. |
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Describe a process that will guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products. |
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Share what techniques you would use when loading and unloading crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers. |
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Explains ways to weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information. |
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Share an experience where you had to walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals. |
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What is your experience driving trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers. |
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Expound how to operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops. |
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Share your experience attaching farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. |
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Tell me about procedures used when spraying fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers. |
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Walk me through how you load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks. |
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