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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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