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Author Topic: Shearing time again  (Read 11812 times)

shrekfeet

  • Joined Sep 2008
Re: Shearing time again
« Reply #30 on: June 25, 2009, 03:11:51 pm »
I paid £10/ewe for 4. I'd rather pay that than not have anyone to do them.

I noticed the shearer wore shoes without any heel at all, made from leather. He got them in NZ and said all the shearers wear them as the extra inch under your heal kills your back and hamstrings. ::)

bigchicken

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Fife Scotland
Re: Shearing time again
« Reply #31 on: June 26, 2009, 09:36:36 pm »
Finished sheering yippee just in time for the Highland show tomorrow :farmer:
Shetland sheep, Castlemilk Moorits sheep, Hebridean sheep, Scots Grey Bantams, Scots Dumpy Bantams. Shetland Ducks.

 

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