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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 “Windrower 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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
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.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
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.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
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.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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