Experienced 51 year old tractor driver/ farm worker seeking farm work in Scotland
NCA
Mainly Arable, Mixed Farming
NCA, chainsaw, telehandler, 360 digger, timber harvester and forwarder, dozer, grader, ATV
Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence
Tractor, Combine, Baler, Ploughing, Drilling, PA1, PA2, Telehandler/Fork Lift, 360 Ticket, Other harvesters, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Sheep, Lambing
Current working as a machine operator on a 11500 acre forestry estate in South West Scotland. Driving John Deere harvesters and forwarders. Also various digger driving and tractor driving.
Main duties on previous 2500 acre arable farm are spraying with a bit Bateman RB35 36 metre. Combine driving Case 9230 35 foot. Mowing, wrapping with Mchale 998. Hedge cutting with McConnell twin cut. John Deere tractors. JCB 13 ton 360 slew . Chicken muck spreading with Rolland rear discharge spreader. Ploughing,cultivating, drilling with vaderstad 6m rapid.
Its been a few years since I worked on a 800 acre dairy/arable farm where I fed the dairy cows with a feeder wagon, littered up with a straw chopper, fed and strawed up young stock. Helped with dehorning calves, weighing beef animals. My current employer used to have a flock of about 500 ewes I helped with setting up the barns for lambing and also a lot of fencing with stock netting and barbed wire.
Male
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51
wife
British
Dumfries
English
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Always worked on farms as a tractor driver since I was 16. Enjoy using modern equipment. Also happy to be in the workshop maintaining, fixing and making things. Own extensive workshop tools. Also have lots of experience with estate fencing and stock netting
Start: 25/06/2025 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
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