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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”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.

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