Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...
The art of hand, or blade, shearing nearly disappeared in Australia, but now hundreds of young shearers are flocking back to the traditional method. And an increase in demand for blade shearing for ...
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The historic Glencoe Woolshed came alive with the sights and sounds of a working 19th century woolshed on Sunday, as people travelled from across the region to see the method of traditional hand ...
SA blade shearers Bonile Rabela and Zwelamakhosi Mbuweni, won gold in the blade shearing team division. The two also won in the blade shearing individual division with Rabela winning gold and Mbuweni ...
Waikari shearer Mike McConnell who regained the Waimate open blades title with an upset win over NZ world champion pairing Allan Oldfield and Tony Dobbs. Photo / Doug Laing New Zealand has reinforced ...
The New Zealand team, from left Phil Oldfield, Joel Henare, Tony Dobbs, John Kirkpatrick, Rowland Smith, Ken McPherson (manager), Fiona Walker (woolhandling judge), Maryanne Baty, Troy Pyper. Photo / ...
Allied Gator has introduced a new patent-pending Serrated Gator blade that is now available as an option on new MT mobile shears and can also be used with any of the 11 existing MT shears, ...