Wool...what will you do with yours...

[Hilly]

Do people sort their hogg wool or different breed wool out before sending it?
Mine all gets lumped together

Yes !

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Used too. Not anymore, grade sheets always come back with Hogg wool graded out. Even on good years though I still don't think it's worth enough to spend our time sorting. Just wrap it properly, as fast as poss and bang it in that bag!

Yea don’t think we’ll be bothering to sort it out

 

[muleman]

Yea don’t think we’ll be bothering to sort it out

We dont even wrap it, just bundle it up and stuff it int bag as quick as possible...you cant employ a fella to wrap for 10 or 15 p per kg in 2020!

 

[Hilly]

I don’t bother much wrapping but I have two prizes for presentation

 

[michael N123]

I absolutely despise the stuff, wish the lot would just drop out

we not use the injection and not bother with the silly bags ?

It’s proberly not tested for use anywhere but you get the idea

 

[JohnGalway]

Got most of mine shorn today. Same will happen to this years wool as happened last years, not bagged, not transported, left to break down on the land it was grown on.

 

[muleman]

Got most of mine shorn today. Same will happen to this years wool as happened last years, not bagged, not transported, left to break down on the land it was grown on.

Its a sad state of affairs when a natural sustainable product cant be put to use instead of plastic etc but im afraid this is the reality we are faced with.

 

[tepapa]

A lot of Hoggs will be shorn separately from the main flock so indirectly it gets sorted into separate sheets. I don't see many breeds getting sorted out of the main flock. It all goes into the same bag unless it's going to the Irish buyer's, then they'll pull the Welsh types out as they don't want it.

 

[neilo]

Do people sort their hogg wool or different breed wool out before sending it?
Mine all gets lumped together

My ewe lambs and dry hoggs are short in separate groups, so would end up in separate bunches of bags for that reason. I wouldn’t sort different types in the main mob though, other than plucking out any discoloured patches as I go along (only a couple of ewes have black patches). all fleeces are rolled before bagging though.

Having watched my wool being graded, I know that each bag is tipped out onto a grading table, before the graders sort each rolled fleece into several big wheely bins according to grade. Lord knows how they manage if it’s not rolled so that individual fleeces can be identified on the table though.
It doesn’t take many seconds to roll a fleece before packing, so why make the graders’ lives even more difficult?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

My ewe lambs and dry hoggs are short in separate groups, so would end up in separate bunches of bags for that reason. I wouldn’t sort different types in the main mob though, other than plucking out any discoloured patches as I go along (only a couple of ewes have black patches). all fleeces are rolled before bagging though.

Having watched my wool being graded, I know that each bag is tipped out onto a grading table, before the graders sort each rolled fleece into several big wheely bins according to grade. Lord knows how they manage if it’s not rolled so that individual fleeces can be identified on the table though.
It doesn’t take many seconds to roll a fleece before packing, so why make the graders’ lives even more difficult?

All mine is rolled?

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Having watched my wool being graded, I know that each bag is tipped out onto a grading table, before the graders sort each rolled fleece into several big wheely bins according to grade. Lord knows how they manage if it’s not rolled so that individual fleeces can be identified on the table though.
It doesn’t take many seconds to roll a fleece before packing, so why make the graders’ lives even more difficult?
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Didn't roll mine one year as a labour saving exercise, got told of by the nice lady at the depot, so have rolled it ever since. Fares fare, doesn't take long to roll it.

 

[Gulli]

I don't really have enough wooly sheep to make any sort of input my end worthwhile, I just shear them, roll it as best I can and jam it all in a bag. Sometimes they pick it up sometimes they don't.

Generally pays for a decent night out, definitely pays for the time I put into it. Long may the wool board continue

 

[shearerlad]

Packed and ready for uplift. Hoggs, cross ewes, Cheviots and lambs all in different sheets, last year the average weight was 108kg.
It might not come to much but it’s a positive figure on the accounts

 

[Pistonbroke]

I know things change, but we sent wool to texacloth in August one year and they didn't pay until April despite me ringing the agent every week,to the point he blocked my number. In the end I got "Roy" in Ireland and bollocked him for a month. Never had to do that with the wool board

 

[muleman]

I know things change, but we sent wool to texacloth in August one year and they didn't pay until April despite me ringing the agent every week,to the point he blocked my number. In the end I got "Roy" in Ireland and bollocked him for a month. Never had to do that with the wool board

No doubt the wool board is the best of a bad job.

 

[muleman]

Packed and ready for uplift. Hoggs, cross ewes, Cheviots and lambs all in different sheets, last year the average weight was 108kg.
It might not come to much but it’s a positive figure on the accountsView attachment 897585

It will be worth having as long as you arent among the horned ewes!

 

[tepapa]

I know things change, but we sent wool to texacloth in August one year and they didn't pay until April despite me ringing the agent every week,to the point he blocked my number. In the end I got "Roy" in Ireland and bollocked him for a month. Never had to do that with the wool board

I heard of a similar story here. Everyone had told a farmer that they'll pay on the day so he took it to texacloth for the first time. Cheque didn't arrive for months so he soon realised it was a load of bollox.

 

[Tubbylew]

I heard of a similar story here. Everyone had told a farmer that they'll pay on the day so he took it to texacloth for the first time. Cheque didn't arrive for months so he soon realised it was a load of bollox.

Aye texaclth were steady with the readies last year, so much so i'd forgotten about it, I wish the wool board worked for me, but for 6 bags of my crappy wool it's just not worth the drive, might drag it about with the muck grab, grass seems to do well where I tail the ewes.

 

[Hilly]

Aye texaclth were steady with the readies last year, so much so i'd forgotten about it, I wish the wool board worked for me, but for 6 bags of my crappy wool it's just not worth the drive, might drag it about with the muck grab, grass seems to do well where I tail the ewes.

How far is it like ? What breed wool ?

 

[scottish-lleyn]

Ive used texacloth for the last 5 or 6 yrs and always payed next day for the weight i delivered. And i got alot more than 10p for the wool i took nearer 60p from what i remember but its still not alot.