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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 “Raking Machine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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