CV Ref No. CV Reference No. - 101542

Very enthusiastic and hard working person with good amount of all round experience from machinery right through to livestock seeking work in either machinery or livestock. Looking to settle into a long term job with family.
Living in Rothbury, Northumberland.
Happy to relocate if needed too.

Qualifications and Experience
Relevant qualifications

NVQ Level 1,2,3

Type of farming wanted

Mainly Arable, Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming

Other qualifications

Chainsaw
Telehandler
Trailer licence
Tracked licence
Self taught mechanics, fabrication and servicing

Driving Licence

Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence

Equipment experience

Tractor, Combine, Baler, Ploughing, Drilling, PA1, PA2, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Other harvesters, Fencing

Livestock experience

Beef, Lambing, Calving

Other equipment experience

Happy to operate various franchises of tractors from 100hp - 450hp,

With operating guidance systems,

Confident in the use of JCB, manitou, case, merlo, rigid and articulated telehandlers loading stacking feeding.

Ploughed 1000s of acres and cultivated ground to the requirements needed with kvernerland, simba, Kuhn lemkin machinery.

Established crops with vaderstad, Lemkin, Kuhn drills to the finest detail.

Happy rolling and picking stones.

Spread fertiliser with Kuhn and Amazon spreaders on grass and cereals. Shifted tons of muck and slurry confident to load and spread.

10 years driving combines Claas, New Holland and Massey.

Can lead corn,

Round baling was experienced on krone, welger, baling silage hay straw, square baler experience on Massey and Claas to a high standard for a contractor.

Some grass mowing with a krone rear mower and tedding and raking.

7 years mixing cattle feeds with Kuhn verti mix and strautman tub mixer.

Confident to drive a 360 digger.

4 seasons driving potatoe Grimme equipment ridging and destoning.

Swathing oil seedrape and picking cotton in Australia.

Other livestock experience

17 years of assisting with cattle, feeding, bedding, calving, dehorning, Johnes , tb blood testing, bolus, worming and transporting.

Assisted with 2 lambings of

3000 sheep, assisting in shedding, ringing.

Several years of building and cleaning out sheep pens.

Personal information
Sex

Male

Other Information

Non smoker

Age

47

Marital status

Wife and children

Nationality

United Kingdom

Where are you currently living?

Northumberland

First language

English

Do you have the right to work in the UK?

Yes

Other languages

-

Hobbies

Look after my family, Camping, walking, Social pool, Netflix Garden projects

Pen picture (Height, weight etc.)

6ft, 12.5 Stone. physically fit and healthy.

Relevant health problems

None

Farming background

Im a hard working enthusiastic with a great interest to detail I have to get things right.

I like to maintain machines and the capabilities to fix and fabricate to solve problems.

I enjoy the winter months as much as the summer feeding cattle or estate maintenance.

I consider my self to be happiest on the farm with a good personality sense of humour the ability to fit in and know the importance of what still needs done.

2024- self employed

2023 - machine operator for season for local contractor, cultivation, baling.

2017 - 2023 sales and machine demonstrator for an agricultural machinery suppliers.

2010 - 2017 Mixed farm, main operator and problem solver. Combining ploughing, baling, silage, mechanics, feeding and general day to day welfare of 300 suckler herd.

2009 6 months on digger but work dried up.

2007 -2009 worked for contractor at Berwick upon Tweed Baling muck

spreading drilling.

2003-2007 main operator for large arable farm and mixed cattle.

Seasonal work in

Lincoln on an estate combing,

lambing Berwick upon tweed

Potatoe seasonal work in Berwick.

1 year out in Australia,

4 years apprenticeship and on a Mixed farm Berwick upon Tweed.

Preferences
Availability

Start: 12/06/2026 Finish: Not Specified

Preferred region

North East

Type of job

Permanent

Where would you like to work?

Northumberland, Rothbury, Scottish borders for the right job.

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