Nathan Hampton

Full time sole charge fencer general for Papanui Estate.
Since being here I’ve achieved a large number of major task on the 5 property’s

*6.9km of two wire electric fencing along side water ways
*5.1km of new 9wire conventional fencing
*5km plus of repairs and maintenance fencing
*4kmplus of battening
*10x five star fully insulated dog runs and boxes aswell as concrete pad and drainage
*2x aluminium stock creates for farm ute
*General repair and maintenance of all farm machinery including quads utes tractors trailers ect
*assisting in general stockwork docking, dagging, drenching ect
*also have accomplished a number of smaller duties such as
*water system layouts and repairs for both farm stock and domestic
*new outdoor furniture and garden setups for shepherds quarters…

-Building, designing and customizing dog boxes
-Building and designing timber racks for large companies
-Building and designing stock creates
-Rebuilding/repairing a variety of trailers, axles, draw bars, frames etc
-Building and designing implements for horse arena rakes
-Building horse stables and storage sheds
-Fencing on the side

Skidder operator for Moutere Logging Ltd
Main duties for Moutere include basic machinery maintenance and operating on a John Deere 648 grapple skidder along side log making

Main duties on farm include

General fencing maintenance along side stockman completing over 6km of repair work as well as 1.7km of new fencing
Maintenance on main sheep/cattle yards
also some stock work including daging drenching ect

-new fence lines inc post rail electrics and conventional
-General up keep on a number of property’s inc a large range of repair and maintenance jobs ranging from fencing all the way through to re-roofing..
-horse stables/custom build pole sheds/pole shed kit outs. Covering anything from lockable storage/ horse stables /social areas to general day to day storage ect (including water systems and quarantine zones)
-On the station my duty’s are approx 70% repair and maintenance and 30% new fencing along side other small general duties.

Sole charge Fencer/General at Spring Valley enterprise.
-Fencing, new and repair
-Bull dozing, fence lines, tracks, water tables etc..
-Post rammer, on bull dozer and tractor
-General maintenance and repairs with water systems
-Putting in culverts and stop banks
-Farm vehicle maintenance
-Building new and repair stock yards

Fencing, new, repairs and electric
-Firewood, felling, carting, ringing and splitting
-Water system maintenance and instalment of a new 4.5km major water scheme line and installation of troughs
-Workshop, general engineering, welding, fitting and fabrication, maintenance and servicing of farm vehicles including motorbikes, machinery and implements, rebuilding,repairing and replacing trailer crates, wheel bearings and frames
-Tractor work, feeding out, mowing, carting and stacking bails, dragging and carting logs, track,lane and water table maintenance
-Renovating/building deer yards including new health and safety regulations
-Winter feed budgeting and grazing on crops, break fencing and feeding
-Stock work, sheep, beef and deer

-Milking 680 cows
-Feed budgeting, beak fencing and grazing
-General farm duties
-General maintenance
-Water system maintenance
-Animal Heath and Welfare
-Grazing systems

-Milking 680 cows
-Feed budgeting, beak fencing and grazing
-General farm duties
-General maintenance
-Water system maintenance
-Animal Heath and Welfare
-Grazing systems

-2IC on Dairy Farm
-360 milking cows
-General farm duties
-General maintenance
-Water system maintenance
-Feed budgeting
-Grazing systems
-Treating illnesses in livestock
-Also in weekend worked in his Goldmine driving diggers and bulldozers.

-Grass and land cultivation
- Operating John Deere 6920 tractor and 7430 maize sledge stacks
-General duties as required
-Service and Maintenance as required

-General misc. jobs as laborer
-Brick Layer labourer
-Spa pool laborer
-Foundation laying laborer

-Crutching
-Fencing
-Earth moving work
-Machine operator