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<blockquote data-quote="Longlowdog" data-source="post: 7604780" data-attributes="member: 395"><p>If you are thinking of scanning consider this. I asked a very competent scanner what it was like as a job. His reply was 'you spend 20 grand on a scanner and a trailer and spend your first 2 years dreading the phone ringing with folk complaining you got it wrong'. It doesn't matter what the weather does, how the sheep are looked after or not you get the blame, some folk complain if you are 1% out, others whose sheep looked crap when you scanned them blame you for every lamb unaccounted for. Then you get r.s.i in your wrist, bursas in your elbow, torn ligaments in your shoulder from repeating the same action 50,000 times a year and shoving belligerent sheep into place. You scan 10% of the time in a nice dry shed the rest is in a snow and wind blasted field corner, the sheep have full bellies and you're supposed to appear like the shop keeper in the Mr Benn cartoon when it suits the farmer and not when you can group folk together. You give a time and folk haven't got out of bed let alone rounded up the sheep. Folk knock off with 50 to go because '12 o'clock is lunch time' and you watch them enter the house and leave you outside. You breathe in the residue from hundreds of sheep spray markings every day.</p><p> A decent scanner is neck end of 15k new, trailer, training, travel, insurance and you have to be really into it before you start on that idea.</p><p> I'm sure there are mickey mouse scanners cheap on Ebay but a good one does half a million or more image cycles without any grief.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longlowdog, post: 7604780, member: 395"] If you are thinking of scanning consider this. I asked a very competent scanner what it was like as a job. His reply was 'you spend 20 grand on a scanner and a trailer and spend your first 2 years dreading the phone ringing with folk complaining you got it wrong'. It doesn't matter what the weather does, how the sheep are looked after or not you get the blame, some folk complain if you are 1% out, others whose sheep looked crap when you scanned them blame you for every lamb unaccounted for. Then you get r.s.i in your wrist, bursas in your elbow, torn ligaments in your shoulder from repeating the same action 50,000 times a year and shoving belligerent sheep into place. You scan 10% of the time in a nice dry shed the rest is in a snow and wind blasted field corner, the sheep have full bellies and you're supposed to appear like the shop keeper in the Mr Benn cartoon when it suits the farmer and not when you can group folk together. You give a time and folk haven't got out of bed let alone rounded up the sheep. Folk knock off with 50 to go because '12 o'clock is lunch time' and you watch them enter the house and leave you outside. You breathe in the residue from hundreds of sheep spray markings every day. A decent scanner is neck end of 15k new, trailer, training, travel, insurance and you have to be really into it before you start on that idea. I'm sure there are mickey mouse scanners cheap on Ebay but a good one does half a million or more image cycles without any grief. [/QUOTE]
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