CV Ref No. CV Reference No. - 56549

Hard working Cumbrian shepherd and agricultural contractor, with an excellent team of working dogs and the proven ability of stocksmanship able to run a thriving sheep and beef enterprise. Work Lake District, Scottish Borders or Scottish Highlands.

Qualifications and Experience
Relevant qualifications

BSc

Type of farming wanted

Mainly Livestock

Other qualifications

-

Driving Licence

Full Car Licence

Equipment experience

Tractor, PA1, PA2, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing

Livestock experience

Dairy, Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing, Calving, Poultry

Other equipment experience

General day-to-day tractor work, eg. mowing, tedding, leading bales, topping and spraying, feeding stock. Also own a West 1300 Dual Spreader used on the home farm and for contracting away.

PA1, PA6a Knapsack Sprayer, PA2a Mounted Sprayer and PA2f Weed Wiper qualified, with extensive use of topping and spraying both at home and elsewhere.

CS30 and CS31 Chainsaw tickets, with a lot of experience hedge laying as part of stewardship schemes.

General fencing skills for maintaining boundaries to fields and commons, as well as wall top wiring.

Other livestock experience

Along with contract shepherding on various farms, from the hardest of hill farms in the Lake District to having lambing contracts for 1000 white faced ewes indoors, I also run 400 Herdwick and Crossbred ewes, 15 Dexter cattle and 10 Tamworth pigs at my parents farm in Matterdale, with all produce from the farm going deadweight to high-end customers into predominantly the London market.

I have the necessary stocksmanship and machinery experience needed to help establish a growing sheep flock and herd of native breed cattle, and would relish the opportunity to do so in an estate very local to me.

Personal information
Sex

Male

Other Information

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Age

28

Marital status

-

Nationality

British

Where are you currently living?

Cumbria

First language

English

Do you have the right to work in the UK?

Yes

Other languages

-

Hobbies

Fell running and training dogs

Pen picture (Height, weight etc.)

5 foot 10 approx. 70 kilos approx.

Relevant health problems

No

Farming background

2015-Present: Self Employed Shepherd & General Farm Worker.

As well as running the management of livestock on the family farm I currently work part time as a shepherd and general farm worker at High Snab Farm in the Newlands Valley, assisting in the management of the Herdwick and Swaledale flocks, and also maintaining the dry stone walls and fences. In the summer months I have my own shearing trailer, clipping 150-200 ewes a day. In the winter and odd jobs in the summer I carry out dry stone walling work such as wall gapping on neighbouring farms, as well as the occasional retaining wall job on gardens and houses. I have a small machinery contracting business as well, spreading muck/mucking out sheds and topping/spraying rushes being the bulk of this work.

Preferences
Availability

Start: 02/05/2022 Finish: Not Specified

Preferred region

Other

Type of job

Permanent

Where would you like to work?

Lake District, Scottish Borders or Scottish Highlands.

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