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Samuel Blanton

Canyon,TX

Summary

God and family above all else. Honest worker who will always keep my word. Good with working with people or animals. Easily adaptable with any situation and laid back enough to let the small things roll on. Committed to keeping the workplace a safe and efficient area to work. Competent in many fields and always eager to learn more.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Ranch Hand

Rush Ranch
09.2024 - Current
  • Provided comprehensive care for horses including grooming, feeding, exercising, and medical attention as needed.
  • Mended fences in disrepair to prevent trespassers and horses inside.
  • Maintained equipment and ranch structures.
  • Repaired equipment and animal living spaces.
  • Kept grounds clean and orderly by sweeping and powerwashing the barn, shoveling snow and clearing debris.
  • Maintained and drug arena dirt to ensure horse and rider safety while riding.
  • Helped to relieve pain on an extremely foundered horse by regular hoof trimmings, ferrier appointments, and medication intake.

Ranch Hand and Manager

Circle Bar P Ranch
08.2021 - 08.2024
  • Maintained and managed a cow-calf operation with around fifty head of angus and hereford cattle on around seven hundred acres of land. This included three different properties of different terrains and problems.
  • Worked on multiple different kinds of John Deere tractors with many different attachments including mowers (regular and batwing) tillers, plows, sprayers, and hay bale haulers.
  • Fed, watered, and kept care of two horses. I also worked them and tried to maintain a good riding schedule on them.
  • Drove and maintained motorized equipment such as lawn mowers, UTVs, ATVs, and trucks.
  • Used many different types of power tools such as drills, augers, impact drivers, chainsaws, and sprayers.
  • Worked with different kinds of hand tools such as picks, wrenches, shovels, axes, hammers, trimmers, and blades.

Shop Hand

West Texas A&M University
02.2024 - 05.2024
  • Maintained a clean and organized shop floor, ensuring safety standards were upheld at all times.
  • Worked on many different projects that provided a wide variety of experiences I would not have found other places.
  • Helped metalwork, auto, electrical, and plumbing classes with projects, classwork, and tool usage.

Store Team Member

National Roper's Supply
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Maintained the physical aspects of the store such as general maintenance, cleaning the floors, washing the windows and bay doors, keeping the area around the feed free of moisture and filth, and keeping the parking lot clear of debris and hay.
  • Physical labor work including loading feed into the store, loading customers' vehicles, setting up fence panels, and moving cattle chutes.
  • Operation and maintanining a forklift to use in various activities around the store.
  • Ensured the customers' well being and needs were always taken into consideration.
  • Delivered feed, tools, cattle chutes and pens, and hay to customers in the surrounding area in a company truck.

Horse Wrangler

SonnyJames Equine Ministries
12.2020 - 08.2023
  • General horse care of around sixty horses including monitoring feed levels, health levels, and stall conditions for the horses.
  • Worked on horseback along side trainers. I warmed up the horses for them as well as taught horseback riding lessons.
  • General ranch maintenance around the property. Fence work, mowing, debris cleanup, dragging arenas, and other such jobs were all a part of my position.
  • I had the responsibility of training the new hands on the property. This was essential to keeping the area safe and the ensure the work we did stayed efficient.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Agriculture

West Texas A&M University
Canyon, TX
05-2026

Associate of Science - Agriculture

Weatherford College
Weatherford, TX
05.2023

Skills

  • Physical Strength
  • Equipment Repair
  • Horseback Riding
  • Worker Training
  • Herbicide Application
  • Brush removal
  • Farm and ranch operations
  • Machinery upkeep
  • Animal Care
  • Livestock care
  • Basic Carpentry
  • Groundskeeping

Timeline

Ranch Hand

Rush Ranch
09.2024 - Current

Shop Hand

West Texas A&M University
02.2024 - 05.2024

Store Team Member

National Roper's Supply
05.2023 - 08.2023

Ranch Hand and Manager

Circle Bar P Ranch
08.2021 - 08.2024

Horse Wrangler

SonnyJames Equine Ministries
12.2020 - 08.2023

Bachelor of Science - Agriculture

West Texas A&M University

Associate of Science - Agriculture

Weatherford College
Samuel Blanton