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2. Sheep shearer - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Sheep shearing - Wikipedia

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   Sheep shearing and wool handling competitions are held regularly in parts of the world, particularly Ireland, the UK, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. [25] As sheep shearing is an arduous task, speed shearers, for all types of equipment and sheep, are usually very fit and well trained.

4. Medieval English wool trade - Wikipedia

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   Sheep pen (Luttrell Psalter) Sheep shearing as depicted in Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.Subsistence-level production of wool continued, [10] but was overshadowed by the rise of wool as a commodity, which in turn encouraged demand for other raw materials such as dyestuffs; the rise of manufacturing; the financial sector; urbanisation; and (since wool and related raw materials had a ...

5. Sorry, But These Collectibles Are Now Worthless

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   Precious Moments bride-and-groom sets made good wedding gifts or keepsake cake toppers, going on to take pride of place in the new couple's first home. ... tools from pitchforks to sheep shears ...

6. Hag ha-Gez - Wikipedia

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   The "first fruits of the shearing of the flock" were entitlements of the priests, just as it were the first fruits of grain, wine and oil and portions of the animals sacrificed. No specific celebration of the shearing of the sheep takes place in present-day Israel (The attempts at kibbutzim to introduce any new kind of agricultural festival of ...

7. Godfrey Bowen - Wikipedia

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   Walter Godfrey Bowen MBE (13 February 1922 – 2 January 1994) [1] was a New Zealand farmer and world acclaimed sheep shearer.With his brother Ivan, he developed the Bowen Technique, which involved the shearer using his spare hand to stretch the sheep's skin, which improved the quality of the shorn fleece. [2]

8. Frederick Wolseley - Wikipedia

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   A shearing stand and machine. Frederick York Wolseley (16 March 1837 – 8 January 1899) was an Irish-born New South Wales inventor and woolgrower who invented and developed the first commercially successful sheep shearing machinery after extensive experimentation. [1]

9. Jackie Howe - Wikipedia

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   This was a faster tally than any other shearer had achieved before. In the week beforehand, Howe also set the weekly record, shearing 1,437 sheep in 44 hours and 30 minutes. Howe's daily record was beaten by Ted Reick in 1950, but Reick was using machine shears, while Howe's hand shears were little more than scissors. [citation needed]