Crookwell Sheep Shearing
Went to visit Prickle Farmer in Crookwell and take some photographs.
Mustering the sheep into the holding paddock. I assisted the dogs by preventing them from escaping the other way.
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Sheep coming in.
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Shearing is very much like ballroom dancing.
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Taking the fleece.
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The fleece being picked up on the left, shearing in the middle and a shorn sheep being released down the chute.
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Throwing the fleece onto the table.
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The lady on the left is putting the wool into a hydraulic compactor. Prickle Farmer and the wool handler sort the skirted fleeces and wool pieces. The compressed wool bale is 160 kg.
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Sheared sheep in the back.
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These sheep are impatiently waiting their turn.
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Here is Prickle Farmer’s video from 2018.
The dog took us on a tour of the farm.
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Hope they aren’t cold tonight.
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These will be done tomorrow.
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A Vulcan Model C lorry from 1919 that a mutual friend parked at the farm.
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A bad accident on the Hume Highway for our return trip. Was stopped for almost 2 hours. According to the news, it doesn’t seem that anyway was badly hurt.
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16/9/20 Heard from Prickle Farmer that the shearers worked from 7-5pm and sheared 200+194 sheep that day. That equates to 2-3 sheep every 5 minutes and is the fastest he has seen.