My Bushlady wife Elysee getting ready to shear
Before and afterWhile staying at the Avalanche Homestead we learned the art of shearing the sheep, of which Frank Biddle has about 1500. A fellow named Jacky Howe, in 1892, hand sheared 321 sheep in 7 hours and forty minutes, a record. That's one sheep every 1.4 minutes. He must have had forearms like Popeye! Not a man to arm wrestle with! I would like to know if that record still stands for manual shearing.
