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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 “Rake Operator”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

Related Technology & Tools

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