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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”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
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.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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