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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 “Raking Machine Operator”

Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
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.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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