Skilled sprayer/ tractor /combine driver looking for new role over 35 years of experience on dairy beef and arable farms in the UK. Work in the South West/South preferably.
NDA, City and Guilds
Mainly Arable, Mixed Farming
Pa1 ,2, 4s and 4g Nroso Fsooty finalist 2013 and 2017
Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence
Tractor, Combine, Baler, Ploughing, Drilling, PA1, PA2, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, 360 Ticket, Other harvesters, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Calving
40 years of experience, working for a farmer/ contractor in west Devon undertaking a large amount of spraying and fertiliser applications also undertake all the combing here and also tractor work when not operating the sprayer
Crop walking is also part of the remit here as well mainly to check and keep the agronomist up to speed with whats happening,
Able to maintain machinery and weld etc as well as servicing the combine over the winter months
First worked as a herdsman looking after 180 dairy cows basically doing everything with them , i.e. Milking calving, foot trimming and a i , all calf rearing and young stock management Then moved on to assistant manager role where we ran 150 suckler cattle on a Waitrose contact
Male
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53
I have a partner and she works within the nhs
British
Devon
English
Yes
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Photography, classic tractors, ploughing matches .
5'8 tall 12 stone
None
Have done all tractor work from ploughing though cultivating and then on to drilling using most types of drill including direct drilling using a sumo dts , done fertiliser spreading on arable crops and grassland , lime spreading, driven combines cutting wheat barley , osr, beans , linseed, and have also cut maize for grain, Have also done all silage work , cutting , picking up , trailer work and buck raking , also grass and straw baling and wrapping, hedge cutting and ditch cleaning , muck and slurry spreading and injection, Have a wide range of experience in the workshop to include welding servicing and rebuilding machinery Stock work over the years have included milking , calving cows heat dection , foot trimming, calf rearing and young stock , TMrfeeding and bedding up .
Start: 28/11/2023 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
South West preferably but will consider other areas