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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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