Blake Brooks

• -managed feeding responsibility's , such as mixing rations, feeding accurate feed rates, and keeping bunks cleaned.
-managed yard equipment , such as maintenance, repair work and checking fluids in equipment prior to daily operation. equipment included john deere tractors, wheVariouser, mixer wagon. various atv's, gator, skid steer and several feed pick ups.
• -maintained pens by welding broken pipe and sucker rods,fixing water floats, and water leaks
• -drove 18 wheeler hauling gravel for maintaining feed lane and hauled cattle with ground load trailer.
• -helped process cattle, pulled and doctored cattle via 4 wheeler when needed.
• -fed and kept count of outside grass and wheat cattle that were turned out during seasonal times of the year.
• -loaded and unloaded cattle trucks
• -disked to prepare farm ground, drilled wheat and sudan.

• -serviced all equipment daily for field work , greasing and fueling and checking all fluids. equipment included, square balers , round balers, bale baron, rakes, self propelled hay cutter, drag type hay cutters, multiple tractors , pick up's and trailers.
• -fed and put out hay for cows with feed pick up, helped gather and wean calves. helped deliver hay during the winter months. made some repairs to equipment during the winter for the following season
• -baled several thousand square and round bales, loaded several thousand square and round bales on trailers. stacked several thousand squares in barns with loader tractor. cut several hundred acres of hay with drag type cutter.
• -fixed barbed wire fences and built and maintained several hot wire fences.

• -Ran john deere S670 combine, cutting several thousand acres of wheat and milo and picking corn all through the midwestern united states.
• -maintained john deere combines and tractors by greasing and fueling daily and checking all fluids.
• -assisted in making repairs on equipment
• -helped load and secure equipment onto semi trucks to transport on move days
• -towed camper trailers and headers behind my pick up on move days.
• -helped unload equipment and set up camper trailers once arrived to destination

followed blue prints to build pipe structures to be mounted onto sand separators.

- cleaned beveled pipe , measured and leveled flanges to ensure proper fitment according to blue print specs

-passed welding test, welded in flat position, flux wire and mig welding.

-welds were pressure tested and x rayed

-weld process included a root pass with mig wire and a hot and fill pass with the flux core wire.