Some interesting posts here on RUclips, including this one, that provide some insight into shearing, the life of shearers, and the politics of rural Australia. No doubt it is one of the most physically demanding jobs in the world, and requires a high degree of skill as well. Better shearing machines and slings to take some of the upper body weight off the shearers back help, (called here a 'back brace'; but the strap worn around the middle and known as a back brace in the USA is useless to east back strain), but only a little. Of the innovations to make the process easier, most are too complex (prone to breakdown and high maintenance costs), and much too expensive to buy in the first place. Using a drug to stimulate uniform wool shedding with the sheep sewn up in nets also seems to have a number of potential problems- and 20 years later has not become widespread. The best solution for easing the physical strain- significantly lengthening a shearer's working life while reducing back injury - that I have seen is the Moffat shearing table. Unlike many shearing tables, it is simple and rugged in construction and easy to use. (See the RUclips video.) Still, in spite of how easy the demo video makes shearing on the table look, catching, loading on the table, and shearing sheep - quickly while preserving wool quality and minimizing nicks - is still a skilled and demanding job... especially as sheep are not always as clean or docile as shown in the demonstration.
2020 and they still haven't replaced shearers with robot.
Watching this in 2024 as an X shearer. It’s funny now wool is worth stuff all except gd Merino fine wool.
Some interesting posts here on RUclips, including this one, that provide some insight into shearing, the life of shearers, and the politics of rural Australia. No doubt it is one of the most physically demanding jobs in the world, and requires a high degree of skill as well. Better shearing machines and slings to take some of the upper body weight off the shearers back help, (called here a 'back brace'; but the strap worn around the middle and known as a back brace in the USA is useless to east back strain), but only a little. Of the innovations to make the process easier, most are too complex (prone to breakdown and high maintenance costs), and much too expensive to buy in the first place. Using a drug to stimulate uniform wool shedding with the sheep sewn up in nets also seems to have a number of potential problems- and 20 years later has not become widespread. The best solution for easing the physical strain- significantly lengthening a shearer's working life while reducing back injury - that I have seen is the Moffat shearing table. Unlike many shearing tables, it is simple and rugged in construction and easy to use. (See the RUclips video.) Still, in spite of how easy the demo video makes shearing on the table look, catching, loading on the table, and shearing sheep - quickly while preserving wool quality and minimizing nicks - is still a skilled and demanding job... especially as sheep are not always as clean or docile as shown in the demonstration.
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19:28 What exactly happened here?
08:02 is that Village People?
Robots have been shearing sheep since shearing was a thing. Us shearers are the robots!
The guy with the long hair should be working in radio he has the most cultured voice
An nothing changed up until 2020. Thank you covid for doing what the unions couldn't do for us shearers
No Union.
Confederacy Forever!!!
someone is confused
Nothing will take over shearing
Crank
Just do your job bro