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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”

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.
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.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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