Goggles
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- Location
- Hertfordshire
What’s a ‘peeler’, when shearing please?
Are the shearers coming ?
- Thread starter bobk
- Start date
- Location
- North Wales
Sheep where the wool has risen, which are open on the points, usually without a belly and can be shorn quickly and easily with minimum effort.
Surprised at the dislike of shearing on here ,it is a great job and one that I really enjoyed and if you are halfway good at it a very well paid one too,there’s not many jobs in farming that will pay you as well. You just have to look at the number of shearers who have bought farms through money earned from shearing.
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
you must have a short back.
sticky
Member
- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
I put this in another thread, I spoke to my man and he said his kiwis were in the states waiting for a flight.
Goggles
Member
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Thanks
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
That’s what I used to do , put them in at night , seen me go out at 5am and so
My quota before breakfast could never do full
Day
- Location
- Summer set
By the time you’ve organised someone, sorted them, you might as well do them yourself. Only started doing mine a few years ago and enjoy it. Strangely addictive and very satisfying when the jobs done. Can only manage 60- 70 in day then my back gives out?.
6 or 7 would be enough for me
- Location
- North Wales
? And Pro shearers will be aiming for 10-13/ quarter of an hour. So you'd be done quicker than it would take to make a pot of tea?.6 or 7 would be enough for me
need to stop or a cuppa tea after 2 or 3 I recon
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
If sheep farmers said they couldn't shear their flocks this year because of the virus, I'd love to see the Animal Rights Brigade arguing with each other about which is worse, shearing sheep or leaving them unshorn. LOL
- Location
- Cheltenham
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
TripleSix
Member
- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Lefties righties...
Mrs is right handed, clips the old fashioned way, swaps hands depending on which side of the sheep she's on.
It's all about knowing how to hold the sheep.
Getting the wool off is secondary...
If that sheep gets a leg down it's getting up.
Mrs is right handed, clips the old fashioned way, swaps hands depending on which side of the sheep she's on.
It's all about knowing how to hold the sheep.
Getting the wool off is secondary...
If that sheep gets a leg down it's getting up.
- Location
- Lancashire
I shear my own and afew for nabours but usually get someone in to finish off due a old back injury, love shearing the back pain tells me when it's time to stop, on a good will 100+ ,day after could half that, have used one of baby bouncer things which does help abit till you get a tup that desides hes not hanging around??.
Its hard back braking work weather left or right hand . found this on YouTube the other day bloke wi one arm shearing, bloody hats off to him for keeping going, it's hard enough wi two arms, and he makes it look easy wi one arm, ......just try it and see.
Its hard back braking work weather left or right hand . found this on YouTube the other day bloke wi one arm shearing, bloody hats off to him for keeping going, it's hard enough wi two arms, and he makes it look easy wi one arm, ......just try it and see.
I had spinal surgery about 6 years ago now with residual nerve damage which affects the muscle function in part of my left calf. Bizarrely I find that shearing actually helps my back and generally feels a lot better once I've got through the initial stiffness of the first couple of days. Thoroughly enjoy it (and hate it at the same time!) and it helps to shift some of the winter podge that's getting more difficult to keep off as the years roll by!
I join up with a mate on his round. neither of us look for the large flocks, we'll get through a few in a day but this might involve travelling and setting up several times in a day which has its own cost attached. In terms of pricing, the breed does have a bearing on this for us. For example a flock of mules compared to a load or ryelands or dartmoors tells its own story.
We'll also encourage some of the owners to have a go themselves (generally the last ewe) if they want to, when they're done and knackered they're only to pleased to pay us
I join up with a mate on his round. neither of us look for the large flocks, we'll get through a few in a day but this might involve travelling and setting up several times in a day which has its own cost attached. In terms of pricing, the breed does have a bearing on this for us. For example a flock of mules compared to a load or ryelands or dartmoors tells its own story.
We'll also encourage some of the owners to have a go themselves (generally the last ewe) if they want to, when they're done and knackered they're only to pleased to pay us