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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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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