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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”

Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
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.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
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.
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.
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.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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