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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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