Shane Tate
NVQ Level 1,2, City and Guilds
Mixed Farming
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Full Car Licence
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift, 360 Ticket, Fencing
Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing
I am an experienced farm operative and heavy plant operator with 7+ years across arable, contracting and groundworks including 9 months working in New Zealand. I hold NPORS tickets for 360 Excavator and Telescopic Handler. Plant & loaders:
I have experience in the following machinery and plant.
Tractors:
John Deere, Fendt, New Holland, Massey Ferguson
JS131 13.5 t tracked excavator Manitou JCB
Implements & field equipment:
Power harrow disc harrow Forigo bed former subsoiler roller muck spreader grain cart (on-the-go unloading)
grain drier ATVs road saw wacker plate vibrating roller
I have had 3 seasons experience with lambing from 2023 to 2025. Duties included delivering lambs, dealing with difficult births, feeding duties, mucking out and supporting other general related duties. I also have had experience in New Zealand with basic handling duties with sheep, cattle and deer, including weighing and tagging.
Male
n/a
26
single
United Kingdom
Durham
English
Yes
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fell walking with dog, tree surgery, camping
6ft, 101kg
n/a
Wingate July 25 to date
Reinstated from previous role with all duties below covered.
New Zealand on work holiday visa
September 24 June 25
Worked at Brownriggs Agriculture on a vegetable farm, driving John Deere tractors, onion bed forming, discing, power harrowing, rotary hoe, irrigation and muck spreading.
Worked at Phillip Parry contracting during silage season with Fendt tractors and JCB loaders, loading bales, buck raking, muck spreading and discing on steep terrain. Basic livestock work with sheep, cattle and deer. Digger work for putting in water pipes on a station.
Sheraton Hall Farm, Wingate Dec 2022 to September 24
Returned to Sheraton Hall to do wood clearance, using JCB 13 tonne digger. Cultivating, rolling, mowing chain harrowing, tree cutting, mucking out, loading wagons using a Manitou and other general farm duties. Worked all hours needed during harvest, using New Holland T7 tractors. Fencing, gate repairs and general farm maintenance.
Woodland Close Farm Trimdon 2023- 2025
Worked additional evening and weekends to support with lambing season for 3 seasons, delivered lambs, feeding duties, mucking out and supported with other general related duties as needed.
Hulam farm, Castle Eden - May 2022 to Dec 2022
Working full time at Hulam farm, was taken on full time immediately after my college exams. Driving tractors leading corn. Loading the drier, checking grain temperature and general other farming duties as required.
Sheraton Hall Farm, Wingate Dec 2021 May 2022
Cultivating, rolling, mowing chain harrowing, tree cutting, mucking out, loading trailers using a Manitou and other general farm duties work experience
I now have a breadth of experience in different farming duties and tasks, having undertaken 9 months in New Zealand to expand my knowledge and experience. I learn new skills quickly and easily and I am very keen to develop further. I am very fit, strong and hardworking. I am keen and willing to learn with good transferrable skills from my previous employment. Ive learned to work independently using my own initiative and also as a team player when needed.
I also have a current full clean driving license and my own car and have experience of driving a variety of machinery.
Start: 04/10/2026 Finish: Not Specified
North East
Permanent
Scotland