In the second half of the 19th age, the Aussie land was rich on the back of the greasy-wool from sheep and the bulky herds of cattle. After decades spent in the shade of synthetic fibers, wool is once again in vogue in Aussie. Thanks to massive worldwide massive demands of wool, specifically China.

Mates, Australia’s world’s largest wool exporter and second-largest producer in the earth after China, Aussie advantages from a constant rise in global demand, stratospheric rates, and an expansion of its sheep population.

The country produces 345 million kilos of raw wool per year. And three-quarters of its sheep are particularly merinos, and the wool is recognized to be the most exceptional quality in the world.

90% of Australian wool is exported, as earlier said, mostly to China. The rest goes to India, European markets. According to the  Agriculture Department of Australia, the price of wool exports could increase by 10 to 13 percent this season to reach about 2.5 billion dollars.

Glossary of Wooly Slang Expressions

Mates, Each country has its slang: the rule applies to Australia too -the land of not only the kangaroos but Jumbuck (sheep); the southern hemisphere. On the occasion of your next adventurous stay in Australia, Visiting the Shear Outback, or doing holiday working visa or experiencing Shearer’s sheep farms, you need to learn a few words of vocabulary to know to understand the inhabitants correctly and elsewhere!

A short guide to Australian Shearer’s slang…

• Jumbuck:                   Sheep;
• Snagger:                    Shearer;
• Greasy:                      Shearer;
• Bare-bellied yoe:       A Jumbuck (sheep) with an entirely shaved belly;
• Blow;                          A single sweeping cut of wool.
• Bale;                           A bag of wool roughly 172 kg each;
• Carding:                     Untangling of wool fibers;
• Flea Taxi:                   Sheep-dog;
• Handpiece:                A tool that shearers use to shave sheep;
• Ewe:                           Female sheep which is capable of delivering lambs;
• Bully Belt:                  A leather belt handled to get the sharpness off (bully) the comb points;
• Wethers:                    Castrated male sheep;
• Ram:                           Uncastrated male sheep;
• Cocky:                        A Jumbuck (on a small property);
• Grazier:                      Same as Cocky (A bit larger);
• Mockys:                     Shearers shoes;
• Ringer:                       Fastest shearer in the shed;
• Artesian water:          Underground water, which extends to the surface in a constant flow;
• Board:                        The floor and the wall of the shearing-shed where the sheep are shaved;
• Dag:                            A Wool clotted with dung nearby a sheep’s hindquarters;
• Gun Shearer:             A professional shearers who shear 200 to 400 merino crossbreds a day;
• Lounge-about:          Young shed-hand boys;
• Comb:                        The cutting blades that connect to a shearing handpiece;
• Shepherd:                  Farmer or a stock-person who look after of the when they’re in the pasturage;
• Dyeing:                       Colouring wool by dipping;
• Babbling Brook:        A cook – a rhyming slang;
• Clip:                            All the wool from a flock;
• Floor-walker:             Supervisor of a division of the firm;
• Hogget:                       Known as a two-tooth, one-year-old sheep;
• Monkeys Eyebrows: Short wool that shorn from lambs;
• Micron:                       The width of wool fibers (A micron – one-millionth of a meter.);
• Mill:                             Wool processing factory (unit);
• Pastoral:                    An adjective expressing country life;
• Pastoralist:                Sheep farmer, grazier, squatter;
• Rouseabout:              A Shed-hand who does odd jobs;
• Rousy:                        A Rouseabout who pick up the wool after the sheep is Shorn;
• Stand:                         The area where a shearer works in a shearing shed;
• Press:                         The equipment for pressing wool into a bunch.

➔   More Shearing Terms…

• Pink:                           To shear so tightly that the pink skin of an excellent hide shows through;

• Jacky Howe:              Navy or black sleeveless singlet cut from under the arms to almost the waist to move smoothly while shearing;

(Which was named for Jacky Howe, who in the ’90s held a world shearing record of hand-shearing of 321 sheep in 7 hours 40 minutes at Alice Downs of Queensland)

• He or she isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed:  Not very bright;
• Darling shower:                    A dusty storm or wind that fills the wool on sheep with sand;

• Cut-out:                                  Meanwhile, shearing at a particular shed has been finished, for example. “I’m heading for the town after cut-out.“

• Send ‘er down, Hughie:        Mythical character invited upon to send rain;
• Humping your bluey:           To bring the bundle of settlements in search of the next assignment or job.

The Merino Wool: Aussies’ White Gold

Mates, Aussie is in the grip of a severe drought, which has resulted in sheep farming and, particular, The Merino farming. Wool is becoming rarer, and prices are soaring.In the broad dry fields of the Aussie hinterland is the Merino wool journey, one of the most sought after in the world. It is truly one of the most delicate and most comfortable wools. And Australia is home to the most beautiful wool in the world!

It has grown the new white gold of the land because Aussie is the first world exporter of this wool that the world tears off. In ten years, its price has multiplied, and the market is worth more than 4 billion US dollars.

A skilled snagger (Shearer) shears between 140 and 160 Jumbuck (sheep) a day and makes around $ 400 to $ 500 at the end of the day. The exciting thing is more than 70% of the wool obtained will go to the Chinese garment factories, not only that, but the luxury brands like Armani are also there.

Shearers’ Folk Songs

Shearer country music is conceivably the most vivid of all bush Snaggers (workers). The hundreds of folkloric songs, rhymes, and the silky wools by or about shearers present them as a hard, independent, and humorous group of mates. Songs of Shearers, Drovers, and Bullockies entertain the verse and lyrics of this significant golden era in Straya’s antiquity.

Famous Aussie Country Vintage Tracks

• Shearing In A Bar
• Clancy Of The Overflow
• The Stockman’s Last Bed
• Widgegowera Joe
• Mutton Damper And Tea
• Holy Dan
• Goorianawa
• The Augathella Drovers
• Home Sweet Home
• Nine Miles From Gundagai
• Click Go The Shears
• The Drover’s Dream
• Billygoat Overland
• The Dying Stockman
• One Of The Has-beens
• At His Gate Each Shearer Stood
• Bullocky-o /Bullock Bells At Night
• The Overlanders
• Garrawilla
• The Flash Stockman
• Flash Jack From Gundagai
• The Stockmen Of Australia

Australia Surfs In Wool Fashion

Mates, It is in Aussie land, on the back of silky sheep, that grows the vast majority of the wool used by the fashion industry.

In the 19th century, wool exports heightened Australia’s economy. After hard decades, this sector is growing back in force thanks to notable worldwide demand, and Aussie farmers are enjoying “a pleasing period.”

The mainland has about 70 million Jumbucks (sheep) for roughly 25 million inhabitants, including around 55,000 wool producers. Nearly 350 million kilos are produced per year in the land of Australia.

The great thing is The wool does not scratch and, in contrast, has a silky side on the skin; it is one of the best quality in the world. Aussie organizes fashion shows. And, there is a lot of wool on the catwalks?.

Classic Aussie Wool Shearing Sheds

Here are fascinating, and most historic sheep shearing sheds from around Aussie land;

★    Jondaryan Woolshed – Queensland

It is considered to be the oldest on the planet. Began in 1840.

★    Glencoe Woolshed – South Australia

It remains in mostly real-time, established as a shearing station in 1844, this great woolshed has been left unchanged for more than 150 years.

★    Pandurra Station – South Australia

This large woolshed once saw more than around 70,000 sheep sheared enormous year across some 24 stands.

★    Isis Downs Shearing Shed – Queensland

The whole shed constructed from steel, this semi-circular building in the town of Isisford is quite possibly the unique woolshed in the entire world.

★    Tuppal Woolshed – New South Wales

Built in the 1860s on the painting of Victoria and New South Wales, with more than 3 million sheep shorn in the shed between 1890 and 1911.

Shearing Sheep On Aussies’ Farms

Mates, have you heard about a working holiday in Australia? With a “Working holiday visa for Australia” in your wallet and tickets reserved for going for the great experience, as there is only one real mystery left unanswered: and it is a work in agreement, but which?

Many tourists on a working holiday visa have now taken advantage of their passion for escaping and their need to earn some cash by moving around the depths of Aussie.

The numerous Aussie places are full of resources, and they are welcoming on the doorways of farms to get a job by choosing the overwhelming sense.

But have you ever thought of sheep shearing? Perhaps not yet the most popular activity, it remains an excellent way to make money in WHV Australia, especially since this sector desperately needs human resources.

Guys, the Aussie has around 130 million sheep, and wool-commerce is an essential part of the Australian marketplace. But to get wool, you have to shear all those sheep first, and today this sector is looking for Greasy (shearers).

In the 1981s, there were just about 14,000 sheep-Greasy, today there are only 5,400, and most are moving the end of their occupations. You can get this opportunity, and it can be done up to $ 1,000 a week with accommodation and food. Surprised mates?

But it’s a very physically troublesome work, which is why young Ozzie mates turn their backs on it. The good: the applicants for Working Holiday Australia are more than demanded.

With roughly 45,000 farms offering wool in Aussie, and the decision of destination is assorted, the Victoria region, Sorell in Tasmania, Queensland, moreover, the large farms in the Northern Region. And you can explore several areas by going from one farm to another, that can fund your journeys with such odd seasonal jobs.

And the other big thing is Sheep shearing is no longer just a male job in Aussie. There are plenty of Sheilas (women) who are happy with such works. So why waiting for mates? Go and shear all your wooly Jumbucks (sheep)?.

Chris The Sheep, The World’s Woolie Sheep Is “No More”

Australian sheep Chris, who entered the Guinness Book of Records for losing the most substantial wool ever sheared, is dead as per the local news and report. His coat was so thick that his life was in jeopardy. An Australian shearing champion was recruited to lighten it with its roughly 41 kg of wool, a record.

The Shearers World Championships Contest

“It’s not just football in life: the best sheep shearers preparing for the World Cup.”

The world championships were born in 1997 in England on the site of the Bath & West Showground. They take place every two or three years. Eight different countries entertained the competition: England (3 times), Australia (2 times), New Zealand (5 times), Wales (2 times), Ireland (2 times), South Africa, Scotland, and Norway in 2008, for the first time in a non-English speaking nation.

➔   Sheep Shearing (1964)

➔   How To Shear – Shearing Merino Sheep

➔   Merino Sheep Shearing, Australia

➔   Meet Charlie The Sheep Shearer

Summing-up

Australian Shear Outback: The Mower Hall of Fame

Mates, where you can discover all the passion, action and the legends of Aussies’ vivid Snagger (shearers) at Shear Outback: The Mower Hall of Fame is at hay, New South Wales, Australia.

Snagger rules legendary rank in Australia, and bonds to C’s energetic and vibrant shearing-culture are widespread in Aussie contemporary history and style.

Shear Outback is an inspiring and innovative and interpretative hub dedicated to those bright characteristics of the outback bush. It reflects the modern technology of ‘producing or gathering the wool’ off, – the glorious past, the white gold present, and the bright future in the filed called Shearing Sheep.