Supreme Sheep Shearer Shares Skills, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, Ireland 1987
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- World champion sheep shearer Tom Wilson demonstrates his skills to top Irish shearers attending a training session in Ballinrobe, County Mayo.
Originally from Scotland, Tom Wilson is unequalled in the profession and has been known to shear a sheep in 46 seconds. He visited Ballinrobe to show a group of farmers attending the Advanced Irish Sheep Course for top shearers how to shear better, faster and more stylishly.
Assisting Tom in his demonstration is Seamus Brannick, himself a past champion, and holder of the 1975 Irish record for shearing 585 sheep in nine hours. Seamus from Hollymount in Mayo still shears regularly, although the Irish season is often as short as three weeks.
The annual clip is believed to be worth seven or eight million pounds to the Irish economy, so it is vital the skills of Irish shearers are developed. Seamus believes domestic and competition shearing are both important to the industry as a whole.
High speed shearers means a sheep can be sheared in 55 seconds, but Ireland is still a long way off from the world record. For Billy Donnellan shearing is all about technique.
If you get your method right and you get your gear right, it’s enjoyable.
The challenge of shearing is to do the job well and many shearers claim it is enjoyable work. For Michael Stephens shearing,
Is like going for a pint.
Ireland has only a handful of professional shearers who can earn up to £300 a day during the Irish season. Tom admits he earns £15,000 a year but this is a bonus as he enjoys the work and the travelling.
It’s a great job for me.
It is generally agreed that further training sessions of this kind are required if Ireland is to make its mark on the world sheep shearing stage.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 5 June 1987. The reporter is Jim Fahy. - บันเทิง
that title is a wonderful tongue twister!
Love a bit of sibilance
Love that alliteration
Another amazing upload. This channel is great
I agree wholeheartedly
Thank you!!
I think an Irish man holds the Guiness book of records for fastest sheerer at under 40s a sheepie.
And a Englishman holds the Guiness Book of Records for Fastest Sheep Shagger.........The Best Baaaah None.
@@disprogreavette8545 nah that's taffy from mold
King
Ivan Scott from Donegal has one or two world sheep shearing records
Go on the Irish😉💪
I have always loved green field with a few old tall trees standing scattered around, or large well built stone walls along the side of the property, as my family and I we traveled around we would say to each other, I bet that very well off people or landlords would have owned tor controlled that land some time before
Video title is one helluva tongue twister.
6:03 he's answering the sheep before the interviewer
Hon Mayo. Mayo for Sam 2022
Mad that today in Ireland sheep shearing is a loss leader for (most,) farmers. The sheep are bred predominantly for meat and the fleeces are used for carpets and such but international demand is low so in recent years the sheep are sheared for health / care reasons.
Watch him @ 1980 World Championships Masterton New Zealand beating Snow Quinn and Martin Ngataki
$1,500 a week is good money now. Back then it would definitely do.
£15k p/year - 5:58
@@TheDazMag 43000 euros in today’s money .
@@tonemc6047 get that fake European monopoly money out of the conversation
@@TheDazMag that's after all the expenses mate
@@ripme6616 I listened again, and I honestly don't think it's clear. His tone seemed to suggest he was getting paid very modestly despite being at the top of the sheep shearing business.
The first question you would be asked at work on a Monday used to be did you get your wool at the weekend
this champion sheep shearer was paying his own air fares etc. he needed to negotiate better!
Irish people are funny asf