Luke Franklin

There isn’t a specific position I have, they have me do anything that needs to be done such as washing equipment, greasing equipment, repairing equipment, servicing equipment, sweeping the barn, cleaning tools, operating augers to load seed trailers, operating augers on seed trailers to fill planters, pulling multiple kinds of trailers, mixing chemicals for spraying crops, and cutting limbs and trees down.

I was a laborer for Roberson underground but I did every kind of work the company did, for the longest I did mechanic work at their shop which included service machines and dumptrucks, repairing machines and dumptrucks, washing and detailing machines and dumptrucks, preparing machines from finished job sites to be sent out to new job sites, I also laid a sewer main, I did asphalt work such as roads and patches, I did concrete patches, I worked on boring sites, boring is running copper underground for electricity, I operated skid steers, excavators, front end loaders, articulated dump trucks, tractors, manual and automatic dump trucks off legal roads, and dirt and asphalt rollers, I also put purlins and a tin wall up on a metal poll barn.