Experienced Arable Operator looking for development opportunity and to gain more challenging experience on an arable farm or working estate, looking for work in South England. Currently based in BA area.
City and Guilds, BSc
Mainly Arable, Mixed Farming, Other
BSc Hons in Agriculture from University of Reading
City and Guilds - PA1, PA6A, PA4S & PA4G
NPors - Telehandler & Digger Ticket over 10t
Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence
Tractor, Ploughing, Drilling, PA1, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Pig, Lambing, Calving
Driven tractors for the past 12 years
Ploughed using a 5 furrow reversible plough
Drilled using a combi drill and a direct drill, as well as maize drill
Summer 2019 with DTSC was spent on different tracked machines
Various experience driving telehandlers around yards and moving fertiliser through to bales
Experienced rake operator
Lead maize drill operator
Many years handling cattle on various mixed farms
Previous work experience with both pigs and dairy
Some basic calving and lambing experience
Male
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28
Partner who will move with me
United Kingdom
Wiltshire
English
Yes
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Shooting Watch sport, live and on the tv Spend time with friends and family Travelling
Male 6ft Good eyesight Hard working Enthusiastic
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Farm & Contractor - April 2021 - Present: Senior tractor operator and farm worker. Lead maize drill operator. Other Drill operators, Maize, 4 rotor & twin rotor rake operator, Grass and whole crop silage, muck spreading, silage/straw bale hauling, grain carting field to farm, hauling planings, tedding, turning straw with a rake, square bale wrapping, telehandler work, carrying out yard jobs and loading and unloading bales, towing a fuel bowser and fencing. Slug pelleting. Shared responsibility for circa. 550 head beef suckler herd
Trowbridge, Wilts - January 2021 to March 2021: Home Delivery Driver
Farm, Poulshot, Devizes, Wilts - June 2020 to December 2020: General farm work from harvest to drilling; involvement in all aspects of pre-harvest preparation including the loading of grain lorries and relevant paperwork, silage and hay making including mowing, tedding and carting of bales, hauling of grain from field to store, moisture sampling and weighbridge ticketing, topping of grass margins and oilseed rape stubbles, cultivations such as light and heavy discing and some ploughing, odd day relief drilling with a combi drill and a Claydon direct drill
Speciality Crop Company, Bow Island, Alberta CAN - April 2019 to September 2019: Planting through to harvest experience and furthered knowledge of husbandry and processing of essential oils; operation of tracked vehicles and large cultivation equipment, maintenance and workshop skills furthered, running a chaser bin for harvest (wheat and peas) harvested and obtained the essential oil (dill and spearmint) via the process of distillation; general irrigation setup and maintenance
West Ashton, Trowbridge, Wilts - May 2018 to March 2019, June 2015 to September 2015 and May 2014 to September 2014: General tractor and farm work all summer and harvest; grass and whole crop silage, muck spreading, silage/straw bale hauling, grain carting field to farm, hauling planings, tedding, turning straw with a rake, square bale wrapping, some telehandler work, carrying out yard jobs and loading and unloading bales, towing a fuel bowser and fencing
Farm, Basingstoke, Hampshire - July 2017 to October 2017 and July 2016 to September 2016: General tractor and arable farm work all summer; including harvest work on wheat/barley/oats/OSR; also planting of lavender, bottling and labelling orders of peppermint products to be sold
Start: 04/03/2024 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
Southern England. Ideally BA area