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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 “Hay Rake Operator”

Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
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.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery 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.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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