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Picture Number1458
Courtesy OfPaul Thomas
Year1948
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Sheep shearing

Possibly at Townlands farm, but what is the silhouette on the left? Also see picture #1459.
Picture Added on 16 January 2006.

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The silhouette is a wooden frame similar to that of a swing. There is large bag (wool bag/sheet) hanging on the two ropes that are showing. Someone would be inside the bag and the sheeps fleeces would be passed up and in through the opening on the top of the bag. You can see a fleece being passed up on the top of the wooden fence. The person inside the bag then would pack the fleeces into the bag. When the bag was full it would be sown up with heavy twine and sent for wool grading.
Added by Henry Cassie on 11 February 2006.


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