Hilly
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Yes !Do people sort their hogg wool or different breed wool out before sending it?
Mine all gets lumped together
Yes !Do people sort their hogg wool or different breed wool out before sending it?
Mine all gets lumped together
Yea don’t think we’ll be bothering to sort it outUsed 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!
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!Yea don’t think we’ll be bothering to sort it out
I absolutely despise the stuff, wish the lot would just drop out
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.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.
Do people sort their hogg wool or different breed wool out before sending it?
Mine all gets lumped together
All mine is rolled?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?
No doubt the wool board is the best of a bad job.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
It will be worth having as long as you arent among the horned ewes!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
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.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
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.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.
How far is it like ? What breed wool ?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.