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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 “Machine Operator Hay Stacker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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