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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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