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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”

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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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 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.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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