The Sheerers

The sheep are herded into the sheering shed from outside, sometimes the night before sheering as they have to be dry to be shawn. The shed has stations for four sheerer's but today Carl only is only having about three hundred sheep shawn.










Each sheerer keeps a tally of how many sheep he sheers and as the sheep come out of the shed Carl keeps his own tally as well. The sheerer's are paid by the sheep the do.


The third man is called a 'rousty' short for roust-about, he sorts the fleece, takes the dirty lumps out and puts it in the wool press.