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Frederick Wolseley, unassisted, went to Melbourne from Ireland, arriving in July 1854, [5] aged 17, to be a jackaroo on his future brother-in-law's sheep station.His sister Fanny's husband, Gavin Ralston Caldwell, they married in Dublin in 1857, held Thule, on the Murray River, and later added nearby Cobran near Deniliquin; both stations were in New South Wales.
Kerri-Jo Te Huia is a champion sheep shearer from Te Kūiti, New Zealand. [1] Te Huia is the youngest of five children, several of whom work in shearing. Her parents were also shearing contractors and trainers. [2] In 2009, she competed in the New Zealand Shearing Championships in wool handling and intermediate-grade shearing. [3]
Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer . Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (depending upon dialect, a sheep may be said to have been "shorn", "sheared" or "shore" [in Australia]).
Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, camaraderie and general life of the shearer, Jack Thompson plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer), and while he makes a play for the station owner's daughter Sheila (Lisa Peers), the film is a presentation of various aspects of Australian ...
Gun shearers using blade shears are usually shearers that have shorn at least 200 sheep in a day. A learner (shearer) is a shearer or intending shearer who has shorn less than a specified number of sheep. [3] In 1983 the Australian shearing industry was torn apart by the wide comb dispute and the ensuing 10-week strike that followed. The ...
Bob (voiced by Neil Morrissey in the UK and by William Dufris in the original series, Greg Proops in series 10-14 in Project: Built It and by Marc Silk in series 15 and 16 in Project: Built It and Ready, Steady, Build! in the US and by Lee Ingleby in the UK and by Colin Murdock in the US in the reboot series) is a general contractor and head of his own roadway based in Bobsville and later in ...
Sir David Alexander Fagan KNZM (born 1961) is a New Zealand sheep shearer, who has won the New Zealand Golden Shears contest a record 16 times. [1] From Te Kūiti, Fagan has set 10 world records, and won five world, six world team, and 16 national titles, making him New Zealand's most successful competition sheep shearer. [2] [3]
Deucem's shearing feats include: consistently high tallies at a time when the difficult-to-shear Vermont Merino was introduced, shearing 290 stud merino two-tooth hoggets in a single day in 1936 at Mirrool Park, near Griffith, and; shearing 1430 sheep in one week with a broken right thumb.