Location: Lane City,TX, USA
Ranch hands are manual laborers who perform a variety of tasks on ranches and agricultural facilities. Their duties include:
Animal husbandry
Caring for livestock, including feeding calves, and herding cattle to pastures
Agricultural duties
Operating and maintaining farm equipment, planting forage crops, mowing and baling hay, and irrigating and applying fertilizer or chemicals
Maintenance and repair work
Fixing fences, cutting trees, leveling and seeding the ground, and performing regular and directed field maintenance.
Other duties
Collecting and chopping firewood, driving, loading, and unloading semi-trucks, building corrals, shipping cows, and winterizing equipment and ranch facilities
Ranch hands often work long days and outdoors.
Ranch hands may be exposed to work in high, precarious places; climb or balance; near moving mechanical parts and outdoor weather conditions.
The top three skills for a ranch hand include harvest, farm work, and farm machinery.