pastoralindustry
12 photos tagged pastoralindustry, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.
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- powerhousemuseum
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- wool
- men
- workers
- sheep
- fleece
- shearing
- shearers
- woolclassing
- wooltable
- sydneymailpic
- blackandwhite
- farm
- fiber
- shed
- sydneymail17thoctober1906
- man
- worker
- cutter
- comb
- industry
- work
- livestock
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The last upload was November 2008.
Sheep in pens, for dipping, at Wairoa, between 1923 and 1928 from National Library NZ on The Commons uploaded November 2008
A shearing shed from Powerhouse Museum uploaded August 2008
Wool classing from Powerhouse Museum uploaded June 2008
Washing wool from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Wool classing from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Wool sorting from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Classing sheep from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Shearing by machinery from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Shearing, the last cut from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Shearing, opening the neck from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
A board of shearers from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Woolsorting and classing at the shearing sheds, Burrawong, New South Wales from Powerhouse Museum uploaded March 2008
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Shearing by machinery
from Powerhouse Museum
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Fortunato Mercado-Diaz said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Casual Photography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Chachoy said:
very nice!
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Deanna Davis said:
Interesting picture. Loooove it!!
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Steve Pearson said:
Nicely posed. You'll notice that the overhead gear isn't spinning.
Classing sheep
from Powerhouse Museum
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Gill Steele said:
those might be Merino sheep
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Steve Pearson said:
Either way - you don't class sheep, you class the wool - and that's usually done in the shed after they've been shorn. And yes Gill WildFlower, they are merinos.
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covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165189031/16809381# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 19th August, 1903...in a pictorial on Coree Station, near Jerilderie, in SW NSW. In the era before modern genetics, wool growers would select sheep for their breeding flocks by physically assessing a sheep's physical characteristics and its wool. This selection process was known as 'classing', and on the bigger studs it was conducted by a skilled classer who had an extensive knowledge of sheep breeding and wool production. Skilled classers were highly sought after, and some studs retained the services of particular classers over many years. The classing of sheep was a different activity to wool classing, which takes place in a shearing shed at the time of shearing. Per various newspaper items it appears that Mr W.J. Baker was classing the Coree flocks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He's variously referred to as the 'sheep manager' and 'overseer' at Coree. Baker might well be the chap we see with the sheep in this pic. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97156113 - Country Life, 13th February, 1936...obit for Billy O'Brien, who was a noted earlier 20th century classer who worked at various points in NSW and QLD...once upon a time all the major studs would have had someone like Billy classing their sheep... trove.nla.gov.au/work/183005950 - NLA Fairfax collection pic of Billy here...evidently taken at the 1933 Sydney ram sales...