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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 Rake Operator”

Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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