Dylan Flood Email & Phone Number

Chalfont St. Giles, England, United Kingdom

G W D Swerling and Sons, Upper Bottom House Farm, Buckinghamshire. 2014 – 2023 (Part- time)• Undertaken a wide range of tasks on a 1000 acre mixed arable and beef family farm includingfencing and agricultural building work• Responsible for performing routine maintenance and breakdowns on farm machines & equipmentalongside general farm fabrication work.• Operated Merlo/JCB telehandlers undertaking straw and silage bale stacking including carting bales.• Driving Massey Ferguson, Kubota and John Deere tractors undertaking general farm tasks.• Performing routine practices within a herd of 600 sheep and 150 beef cattle

New Zealand

Hunt Agriculture- New Zealand. October-December. 2022• Operating and maintaining a wide range of machinery and equipment on a mixed farming and smallagricultural contracting business• Carried out a range of tasks including, but not limited to, land preparation, drilling, fertiliserapplication and forage grass baleage.

Yattendon, England, United Kingdom

Yattendon Estates – Velcourt. July – September 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022• Wide range of tasks carried out on an estate covering 5,500 acres with arable and Christmas trees.• Extensive workshop duties and responsibility’s including re wiring lights and electrical pumps, re-commissioning grain trailers including full hub strip down and rebuild, metal fabrication such as repairing the end of a damaged combine header, modification to various agricultural equipment, routine servicing on machinery. Ensuring high standards throughout the farm and estates equipment• Attended pre harvest Health and Safety meeting with agricultural professionals and traffic police• Operated a range of tractors and implements throughout the year from drilling through to harvest• Extensive grain cart with 16T Broughan trailers including many long road runs• Grain store role involved recording data, loading grain lorries with relevant paperwork• Lexion 770 combine- relief driver with a more permanent position as harvest progressed• Sprayer Driver- Bateman RB35 for a season covering all aspects of spraying from pre-ems todesiccation- Christmas tree harvest and deliveries

Chichester, England, United Kingdom

Barfoots of Botley (3rd Year University - Placement year). 2018 – 2019• Experienced a year on a fast paced market leader vegetable farm carrying out varied tasks• Winter maintenance of all machines driven including restoration of a Ferguson T20• Cultivations including ploughing and sub-soiling using 300hp New Holland and John Deere tractors• Power harrowing whilst applying a residual herbicide via a spray bar prior to the broccoli planter• Irrigation carried out on all crops grown on the farm with a range of pumps and irrigation machines• Responsible for hoeing organic tenderstem broccoli using a robotic hoeing machine gainingexperience with regards to operation and maintenance of the Steketee hoe• Using an Acker and rotovator on Asparagus beds prior to the start of harvest• Worked closely alongside the shepherd with a flock of 550 ewes carrying out day-to-day tasks suchas driving stock trailer for movement, drenching and routine foot treatments

Bachelor'S Degree, Agriculture With Mechanisation

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