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Since my last post we've continued to be very busy. We finished the crutching trailers on Monday and then on Tuesday evening headed out to another camp out. Here is our room at the campout, complete with the little dog who for some reason liked to drag his bones into our room to eat them.
The house from the outside. All the girls and kinos family stayed here.
The shearers quarters were a block of van-pod things, complete with loo and air con. This is what the shearers were doing most of the time they weren't shearing.
There were 8 stands and 10 shearers in total, with two dragging. I quite liked this shed.
Can you spot the black sheep?
Two more unusual items on this farm. an old petrol pump, and a device which looks like a guillotine, but is actually a ramp for putting sheep on trucks. The triangle piece can lift the ramp to different levels to get the sheep onto all the levels of the trucks. I don't know how they get the sheep to walk up the ramp when it's at its highest level.
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We still have another day to go, and here is all the wool so far, bailed up ready to go.
After that we've been at another shed with 12 or 13 shearers in. there are 7 rousies, so we have 2 on broom, 2 on pickup and 2 on skirting. It's pretty hectic but I'm getting better at picking up now. It's been pretty hot - late 30s early 40s, so we're starting at 6.am and only doing 3 runs. we'll be at that shed for the next 2 weeks, which is pretty much all the time I have left here since I'll be joining my parents soon.
The house from the outside. All the girls and kinos family stayed here.
The shearers quarters were a block of van-pod things, complete with loo and air con. This is what the shearers were doing most of the time they weren't shearing.
There were 8 stands and 10 shearers in total, with two dragging. I quite liked this shed.
Can you spot the black sheep?
Two more unusual items on this farm. an old petrol pump, and a device which looks like a guillotine, but is actually a ramp for putting sheep on trucks. The triangle piece can lift the ramp to different levels to get the sheep onto all the levels of the trucks. I don't know how they get the sheep to walk up the ramp when it's at its highest level.
T
We still have another day to go, and here is all the wool so far, bailed up ready to go.
After that we've been at another shed with 12 or 13 shearers in. there are 7 rousies, so we have 2 on broom, 2 on pickup and 2 on skirting. It's pretty hectic but I'm getting better at picking up now. It's been pretty hot - late 30s early 40s, so we're starting at 6.am and only doing 3 runs. we'll be at that shed for the next 2 weeks, which is pretty much all the time I have left here since I'll be joining my parents soon.