Ranch Hand Job Description

Calving – March, April

• Daily feeding

  • Make sure all cows and calves eat and drink every day

• Check cattle

  • every 2 hours from daylight until dark

  • once during the night – more if storming

• Be sure that every calf is fed and dry as soon as practicable

• Tag and vaccinate calves daily

• Graft calves onto available cows as appropriate

• Sort in heavies and out pairs as necessary

• Repairs and maintenance as needed to equipment, fences, and buildings

• Snow-plowing as necessary

• Firewood as necessary

Spring Work – Mid-April, May – as weather dictates

• Daily feeding until green grass – possibly June 1

• Farming

  • disc, level, pack, seed

  • Check oil daily, grease weekly, change oil as needed

• Spraying

  • larkspur in pastures

  • grass in ditches and along gated pipe

• Fencing

• Repairs and maintenance as needed to equipment, fences, and buildings

• Branding – likely 3^rd weekend in May

• Pasture moves as necessary

• Spray any noxious weeds encountered

Irrigation – beginning anytime from late April as weather dictates; ending in August

• Repair and Maintenance on ditches, headgates, and pipe

• Regular sets from first light until last light, seven days a week

• Repairs and maintenance as needed to equipment, fences, and buildings

• Pasture moves as necessary – frequent during early summer

• Spray any noxious weeds encountered

Haying – First cutting the end of June to the middle of July; Second cutting the first two weeks of August

• Prepare haying equipment

• Daily service; repairs as necessary

• Long days as the weather dictates

• Repairs and maintenance as needed to equipment, fences, and buildings

• Pasture moves as necessary – pasture checks as time allows

• Spray any noxious weeds encountered

Fall Work

• Clean, service, and store haying equipment

• Repairs and maintenance to equipment, fences, buildings, roads, water system

• New construction

• Background calves, sort, ship

• Wean replacement heifers – feed daily through the winter and spring

• Preg test cows, vaccinate, pour, sort

• Firewood

Winter

• Feed cows beginning December 1^st  to February 1^st  as weather and feed dictate

• Make sure all cows and calves eat and drink every day

• Repairs and maintenance as needed to equipment, fences, and buildings

• Firewood

Hours

• Calving and irrigating: regular checks/sets from first light until last light, seven days a week

• Haying: long hours as weather dictates; time off when weather allows

• Fall: Monday through Saturday noon

• Winter: 8:00 – 4:00 weekdays; 8:00 – noon weekends

Days off - by arrangement

• Every other weekend

• Five days in June

• Seven days in the Fall

• Weekdays, special events by arrangement

Work quality –

• All work is to be neat, clean, professional

• Clean up after yourself – put everything back where it belongs

• Quality tools and supplies will be provided – just ask

• Use the proper tool for the job – if we don’t have it we can rent it or buy it

• Fence posts are to be set deep and plumb – if more than 5’ sticks out of the ground, get a shorter post

• Pull all nails and staples out of discard lumber and posts, stack them for firewood – don’t leave rotted posts hanging on fence or laying on fenceline.

• Drive only when necessary and where necessary – avoid driving in mud whenever possible

• If it’s broke – fix it

• Use your time wisely 

Worker’s Comp

• Report any injury promptly, even if it seems like nothing – we need to have a report on file in case it turns into something

• State Fund will pay medical expenses and lost time

Compensation

• $2000/month

• Housing

• Electricity/Propane

• Phone with reasonable long distance

• Internet connection 

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