Stock/tractorman looking to get back to working on a farm been away from farming for 25year. Hardworking and conscientious.
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Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
Wamitab a waste management qualifcation
Iosh Health and safety
First Aid
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Baler, Ploughing, Drilling, Tracked Machine, Telehandler/Fork Lift, 360 Ticket, Fencing
Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing, Calving
Ploughing reversible
Cultivation mainly discs and power harrow
Sowing not with tramlines
Muck spreading Marshall rotary
Slurry spreading
Fertiliser and Lime spreading
Grass cutting twin drum and grass hopper
Pit work with buckrake and telehandler
All types of carting
Round baling Class and Farmhand
Small square baling and flat 8
Rolling and topping
Mulcher clearing gorse and bracken
Fencing, ditching and drainage
Loading shovels upto Volvo L180
Excavators upto 45t
Dumpers 35t
Dozer D65
Feeding and bedding
Calving and lambing
Tagging and dosing
Dehorning
clipping and washing
Handled bulls (some have handled me)
Helped out at shearing times
Sheep dipping
Foot paring
Dagging
Male
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55
Yes
United Kingdom
Dorset
English
Yes
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Hiking biking Lift stones Reading
5ft 6in 12st
None
Grew up on small farm with sucklers and sheep left kemnay academy in 1985 at 16
1985-86
Went to work on a farmwith beef cattle taking in upwards of 900 stores mainly continental breeds and fattening off grass or overwintering on hay, swedes, draff and bruised barley. 500 breeding cheviot ewes crossed with the blue faced Leicester tups producing breeding mules to put to Suffolk tup. Tractor work was mainly carting other work was cutting for hay with double drum mower turning and small square baling with flat 8 system.
1986-86
I went to a piggery for 6 months relief miller and working on the finishers but the indoors didn't suit me.
1986-88
I then went to an agricultural contractor for two seasons doing Lime and muck spreading grass cutting, chopping and bailing and spent a fair bit of time on the buckrake mainly using Ford 7610 and MF 50b industrial loader . I did forestry work in the winter.
1988-1991
I then moved to a farm as my wife to be was at university. As a stockman/tractorman on a hill farm with 100 plus hereford cross Friesian and a few Galloway and blue grey sucklers put to Limousin bull offspring sold for store. We took jersey cross bull calves in to a bull beef system to finish. hill and lowland sheep and a lot of steep tractor work using case international 885,856,956 and jcb loadall
1991-93
I then got married and moved back to North Hornet tractor stockman he wanted to start a suckler herd and after two years he sold the cows
1993-94
Driving a Fastrac 145 hauling materials for his groundworks firm anything from gravel to excavators
1994-95
Kerb laying and driving plant
1995-97
I then moved away to Dorset and ended up doing tractor and digger driving for anAgriculture and drainage contractors
1997-2000
Waste services as tractor driver plant operator working on their landfill mainly carting, tanker and road building and fencing
2000-2023
Commercial recyclingcompany as a plant operator driving excavator and loading shovel feeding crushers and screeners as the company grow i became Manager and then operations director
I am working on a pig/ arable unit in Oxford just to get back into farming
I am now looking to getting back home to a stockman job
I'm 55 hardworking, conscientious ,reliable and enthusiastic and always wanting to learn. A very good keen eye
Start: 22/10/2024 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
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