Melissa Butler

• Using the aid of horses, motorbikes and 4 wheelers to move cattle up to 10km a day.
• Setting up an electric fence break each night for the cattle.
• Feeding of horses morning and night.
• Observing the condition of horses making sure they are fit to ride, small amount of shoeing horses.
• Sorting and processing of cattle, including loading trucks.

• Mustering on motorbikes using the aid of helicopters.
• Being camped out for up to a month at a time.
• Drafting and processing of cattle in yards, including tagging, dehorning, catching.
• All aspects of branding, although quite new to ringing and cutting.
• loading and unloading of cattle on trucks.
• Maintained and repaired old and new fences, buildings and other station structures.
• Unloading of hay and half tonne lick bags, using forklift or tractor.
• feeding out hay and nuts using tractor.
• servicing of bikes, oil changes and air filters.
• Assisting in fire fighting
• Using low stress techniques
• Feeding homestead animals, pig, chickens, poddys, goats etc.

• Chaser bin driver
• receiving grain from headers and loading into mother bins, ensuring no spills.
• loading into trucks
• bagging grain from chaser bin or from trucks and moving bags.
• Blowing down, fuelling up and checking over machinery every morning.
• Maintaining a clean cabin to work in.

AS STATED ABOVE FOR STATIONHAND

• Taking down and setting up panel yards.
• Preg testing using probe/scanner.
• For the cook/all-rounder role, cooking for 10 people 2 days a week. Other 4 days were station hand role
• Smoko, lunch and dinner prepared for certain times.
• As well as set tasks for each day, high-pressure hosing of all concrete around homestead, dusting, deep cleaning of shared areas, inventory of food and food orders, dump runs, mowing lawns and upkeep of gardens etc.
• Taking care of homestead animals.