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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”

Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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