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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”

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 or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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