SHEARING 



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then driven up the front of the neck several times till the neck 

 wool is well opened up. The front legs are then trimmed, and 

 the sheep turned over on its right side. The shearer now gets 

 in a long blow with the machine, running from the britch end 

 to the top of the neck, till he has got the sheep shorn to the 

 centre of the back. He then holds the sheep up till it is in 



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THIRD POSITION : OPENING UP NECK WOOL. 



a sitting position, and trims the face, and in a number of 

 strokes running from the back to the brisket he takes the wool 

 off, finishing on the right-hand quarter. 



When he has shorn the sheep he lets it go into his counting- 

 out pen, where the overseer counts the number he has shorn 

 every run. The fleece is taken away as soon as the shearer 

 has finished a sheep, so that his stand will be clean and ready 



