Shearer i used to use, charged £40 for setup then £1 per ewe, £2 per tup. Which was fine, didnt have a problem with it. However, my brother in law started doing them for me as the shearer couldnt come when we had bad flystrike on some Greyfaced Dartmoors in 2006 and we were stuck. He said, "I can do it, i'll borrow a machine." Which he did, and then he said, "you buy the kit, i'll do the whole flock!" We bought the 12 volt full time shearing set up from Horner and have never looked back. He's used it to shear his flock that he got a few years later and to shear mine as and when the ewes have needed it (and lambs!) We've had maggots as early as April and as late as October so the machine has more than paid for itself.