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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 “Hay Baler”

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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
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.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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