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Seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Ranch Couple Team (no children on the property, please) for a ranch in TX on a beautiful 2,800 acres! This is a high-game fenced property in the Texas Hill Country with a 7,000 sq. ft. main home. **Previous experience with good references working as a couple team is required**
This is mainly outdoor work requiring physical strength and stamina. This individual must be physically fit to meet the daily demands of the job.
Must have the ability and vitality to work outside in summer Texas weather, as well as in rainy or cold conditions.
Must have an excellent work ethic, be self-motivated, honest, and able to complete projects with limited or no direct supervision
There is housing provided on-site in a 3 br/2ba house for the couple.
Position includes shared duties as listed, but not limited to:
- Maintain operational and maintenance records
- Occasionally, there is a need to hike fence lines through plateau and canyons to check water gaps and fallen trees.
- Must be able to operate chainsaws and pole saws for maintaining road and fence right of ways and cedar clearing.
- Coordinate and assist with annual to semi-annual prescribe burning of various size acreage tracts.
- Maintain harvest log records and supervise safety, proper deer tagging, and ethical hunting practices
- Overall management of the homes/gardens/landscaping and animals of the ranch
- Prepare the ranch for owner visits, use checklists to ensure priorities are covered before and after each visit
- Maintain records and create reports for wildlife tax exemption
- Feeding, harvesting, and management of wildlife and livestock
- Predator control
- Monitoring conservation easements
- Maintenance and repair of all ranch buildings and fences
- Perform overall landscaping, irrigation, and mowing
- Care of garden and orchard
- Lake and creek maintenance
- Operation, maintenance, and repair of ranch equipment
- Must be able to lift at least 75 lbs.
- Must have a valid driver’s license with a good driving record
- Must have experience pulling trailers and driving and maintaining tractors and similar equipment
- Competence with “handy-man skills” – plumbing, mechanical, electrical, painting and carpentry is a plus
- Water well knowledge and experience is a plus
- Housekeeping inside the homes on the property is expected from the couple and an eye for detail is important!
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