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Blade shearing or hand shearing is the style of shearing sheep and other animals with fibrous coats (alpaca, llama, goats etc.) with a set of specialized scissors. It is practiced in many parts of the world as both an occupation and a sport.
Blade shears Blade shearing demonstration at the New York Sheep & Wool Fair. Whatever device is used, shearers must be careful to keep it clean so as to prevent the spread of disease amongst a flock. [14] Blade shearing has recently made a resurgence in Australia and the UK but mostly for sport rather than commercial shearing.
Henry Salter (1907–1997) MBE won the first organised shearing contest at Pyramid Hill in 1934 and in 1953 was a machine shearing champion. He continued to use blade shears until he was well into his 80s. In 1946 Salter organised the first Australian shearing school at Kerang, Victoria. During the next 26 years he taught 6,557 students the art ...
Shearing, also known as die cutting, [1] is a process that cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. Strictly speaking, if the cutting blades are straight the process is called shearing; if the cutting blades are curved then they are shearing-type operations. [2]
In lower-quality scissors, the cutting edges are not particularly sharp; it is primarily the shearing action between the two blades that cuts the material. In high-quality scissors, the blades can be both extremely sharp, and tension sprung – to increase the cutting and shearing tension only at the exact point where the blades meet.
The Golden Shears World championships is a global competition featuring about 30 countries, with Individual and Teams titles in machine shearing, blade shearing and woolhandling. The next World championships are at the Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 22-25, 2023.
Blade shears, typically used for shearing animals; Grass shears, for lawn trimming; Kitchen shears, scissors used in the kitchen for food preparation; Pinking shears, scissors the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of straight; they leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge; Pruning shears, for cutting branches and stems; Snips, for ...
Blade shears may be used, especially where an individual sheep is particularly dirty, or flystruck. Generally, whole flocks are treated together. Generally, whole flocks are treated together. A mechanical shearing handpiece is used, and the graziers sit the sheep between their legs and shear the required portion of the sheep, leaving the main ...