The Essex Hunter Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I am cladding a barn and went to watch the Kiwi shearers for a while at lunch time... All in their early 20,s over until August...the lad in the middle has a .270 back in NZ. I was winding them up about the All Blacks and the more I did the faster the were working...lol The music would not be not my choice but cant fault them for working hard... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvIqi8K93f0 TEH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Prawn Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Know very little about shearing, I assume it's piece work so what you shear is what you earn? I've seen film of those enormous farms in Oz with armies of shearers grafting. Hard physical work, fair play to them though, don't think I'd cut it (pun very much intended) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougall Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 I am cladding a barn and went to watch the Kiwi shearers for a while at lunch time... All in their early 20,s over until August...the lad in the middle has a .270 back in NZ. I was winding them up about the All Blacks and the more I did the faster the were working...lol The music would not be not my choice but cant fault them for working hard... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvIqi8K93f0 TEH winding them up about the All Blacks.....history says that ain't clever!.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 Shearing is very hard work, one of the issues is sweat running into your eyes and as your hands are covered in Lanolin from the wool you cant do a lot about it. I did a bit maybe 40 years ago, I could do three, an hour !!. All I could wear was shorts, everything else just sticks to you with sweat and lanolin. Last year we had a family team come in from NZ, father mother and daughter, father and daughter did the shearing, she did not pick the smaller ones either, shoulders like an Olympic swimmer. Sitting a big old Suffolk ram on his backside was no probs for her. They certainly earn their money. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 Aye b looody hard work, my mates used to do it and just travel the world and do odd competitions. Bit of a circuit england, scotland, norway over to oz or nz then to spain, then back to uk and shear there way north. There father done it before them almost crippled now back totally shot and been like that for years, throu the season has to be helped outof bed in the morn, but when he warms up will do 250 his boys were doing 350-400 on a big day if things going well I done a bit of shed work as a Roustabout out in the bush in oz many years ago, was an auld boy must of been in his 60's just amazing, slow and steady and the sheep just lay at his feet quite content. Think there was 4 or 5 different youngs lads came throuhg the shed over the season and all muscles and fancy gear, this auld boy just worked away quietly but it was his pen filled up before any of the young boys Mind when he first went to NZ was really struggling to keep up wi the kiwi boys esp the gun shearers, have an hour of for lunch he would lie trying to recover all the kiwi's had a game of rugby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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