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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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