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How To Sharpen Sheep Shears (And The Trick To Using Them Successfully)

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2015
  • We shear all our sheep every year - but we are no experts, so this is not a sheep-shearing video. Plenty of other people have put up better videos than we could. But we thought this one might be a helpful to some, because sharpening any edged tool is important and sheep shears are different to most.
    Thanks to Maisy for modeling!
    TAGS: how to, sharpen sheep shears, hand, clippers, sharpening, how to use, tool, sharp, hollow ground, cutting edge, blade, shears, wool, dagging, shearing, sharpening stone, emery cloth, hone, tip, trick, technique, sheep shearing by hand, milk sheep,

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  • @homegroundllc
    @homegroundllc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Recently visited another Western Ireland farm - it was so awesome! Thanks for the clear instructions…we have almost no one here that uses hand shears so learning the hard way.

  • @emildekoven4872
    @emildekoven4872 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks! I acquired? two pairs of those shears & sharpened them with a diamond hone as well as I could. Now I see a preferred method...!

  • @77willnot
    @77willnot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Well he may know how to sharpen hand shears, but he doesn't know how to shear with them. Made me shudder just watching pulling the wool up with one hand, that hand should be keeping the skin tight to prevent cutting the ewe

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this! Thank you for posting. I’m going to learn this spring.

  • @davidchadwick3320
    @davidchadwick3320 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for the really clear and helpful video. I've been shearing our one huge and sometimes stroppy pet sheep for the last four or five years with a pair of hand shears. I've never managed to get the shears really sharp beforehand, so it has always been a bit of a trial for both of us. Yesterday, after watching your video and sharpening the shears properly, it was entirely without trauma! Thanks again from me and Louie the lamb.

  • @joaquing7003
    @joaquing7003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are such kind folks. Thank you!

  • @paulmcguire3789
    @paulmcguire3789 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    another good video from you two, have seen the old sheers but never knew how to sharpen them.

  • @waldosgarden999
    @waldosgarden999 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Don't clip sheep while pulling on th wool! This will pull the skin up and you'll cut your sheep,

  • @mabbshawn3268
    @mabbshawn3268 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just sheared 4 sheep today with china bought electric shears - took four hours -hate this job. I bought a pair of hand shears first and they worked for ten minutes before I ram-stammed (excuse the pun) into sharpening. This video confirms i did it wrong and might go and get me another pair. Superb. thanks guys.

    • @WayOutWestx2
      @WayOutWestx2  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Mabb Shawn Thanks, Mabb - hope you have more success next time and things go a bit faster for you (and the sheep!)

    • @morusowenwilliams5795
      @morusowenwilliams5795 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i just sheared 120 sheep in 3 quaters of an hour, iff you want to know the right way to shear, look up and practice the bowen techik

    • @valiconstantin7621
      @valiconstantin7621 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@morusowenwilliams5795cu masina electrica sau cu masina de mână?

  • @ormurgujonsson8463
    @ormurgujonsson8463 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how different your sheep look to mine! :) Maisie is adorable, and such good wool! Icelandic wool is very course.
    This time of year, we don't have any sheep at home. We let them all free to roam the highlands where they eat mountain herbs like thyme and rosemary. Then in the autumn we go out and just.. find them. They tend to stay close enough to home.

    • @WayOutWestx2
      @WayOutWestx2  9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dagbjört Guðjónsdóttir Interesting. Yes, that sounds like the way the mountain sheep are kept near here. Ours would starve in a week! They come into their shed when it rains. they're easy to catch though - just walk into the field and they try to knock you over : - )

    • @MrHolozip
      @MrHolozip 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dagbjört Guðjónsdóttir self-seasoning sheep? ... sorry, just kidding. That's pretty cool that they'll just take care of themselves for the most part.

    • @shepherdewan
      @shepherdewan 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Happy new yr

    • @shepherdewan
      @shepherdewan 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +WayOutWest Blowinblog Maisie is a good girl she is a cute sheep

    • @shepherdewan
      @shepherdewan 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +WayOutWest Blowinblog Maisie is getting a cuddle was Santa good to you

  • @ronchappel4812
    @ronchappel4812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I tried a cheap pair of new grass shears today.They were actually shockingly good!
    I guess they may not last long but given we only have a couple of sheap, that's fine

  • @wolfcub2513
    @wolfcub2513 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks so much for making this video. What a beautiful and patient ewe, so sweet like my Eva

  • @meehan302
    @meehan302 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A very useful Tip and thanks for sharing

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You are a clever girl Maisie

  • @1godfray
    @1godfray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SO useful ....thank you very much !

  • @wm.traynor1143
    @wm.traynor1143 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aha! Thank you very much👏😊

  • @evelynyazzie5052
    @evelynyazzie5052 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks. This from Four Corners.. AZ...thanks. 🐏🐑🐏

  • @Dressage755
    @Dressage755 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Sandra and Tim! II just love watching your channel and day-dreaming about keeping horses, bees, a large garden and sheep for myself someday. What do you do with the wool from your sheep? I am fascinated by spinning. Perhaps you could invent a little spinning wheel, Tim? If it could shear the sheep, clean the wool, and spin the wool at once that would be grand. Hehe. Keep the videos coming-can't wait for the next! -Amanda from the states.

    • @WayOutWestx2
      @WayOutWestx2  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Amanda Shih Thanks Amanda! The wool we get really isn't good enough for spinning - our sheep are the wrong breed for that. But we use the wool as a mulch and for the dogs' baskets, so it's still useful

  • @djenkins567
    @djenkins567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you!

  • @boundariessetinstone5893
    @boundariessetinstone5893 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I imagine this much have taken so much longer back in the day before electrical clippers and possibly more cuts to the sheep.

  • @MrOzzy281
    @MrOzzy281 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very very useful thank you

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maisie is a clever girl

  • @henryterblans3482
    @henryterblans3482 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In south africa sheep shearer's have a different technique and they know what they doing

  • @abolhassannejati997
    @abolhassannejati997 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did sharpen 10 shears ,they are off alienment.could you please tell me how I can do it.

    • @valiconstantin7621
      @valiconstantin7621 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Păstrezi unghiul cât mai bine de ascutire.Intre cele doua lame trebuie sa existe o presiune pentru a tăia firul de lana

  • @JohnSmith-yl6dn
    @JohnSmith-yl6dn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are those Ball Brothers or Burgon and Ball? Just curious.

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy easter

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She is a cute sheep

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maisie is getting a cuddle

  • @justintothetruth
    @justintothetruth 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, we certainly did not shatter any stereotypes today did we?
    Oh I love the part where he says "always sharpen at the right angle well that's kind of why I started to watch the video was to learn exactly what the writing was guessing 30° or
    DUNH DUNH DUNH
    33°

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy Halloween

  • @alinamacmillan3018
    @alinamacmillan3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What if there is a gap between them when they slide against each other? I had someone sharpen mine and they are now misaligned :( ps its so relaxing watching you sharpen!

    • @WayOutWestx2
      @WayOutWestx2  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      thanks, Alina. It sounds like it was bent slighty, but you should be able to bend it back again. In fact, bend it too far, so there's always pressure to keep them together. Good luck!

    • @alinamacmillan3018
      @alinamacmillan3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@WayOutWestx2 thank you, I'll try!

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can comment on 1 of videos if you want to

  • @Der_Geraet1
    @Der_Geraet1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like sheeps

  • @Digging_Kangaroo
    @Digging_Kangaroo ปีที่แล้ว

    Just be careful pulling on the wool you are cutting if you are doing a close cut …because you are also pulling the skin up , try instead to stretch the skin out :)

  • @thebeastincarnate6663
    @thebeastincarnate6663 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    niiice sharp blade

  • @Dante2099demon
    @Dante2099demon 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    this work with all the scissors in general?

    • @WayOutWestx2
      @WayOutWestx2  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes, I think so

    • @dennisriehl6560
      @dennisriehl6560 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lordy....yes. But this is not something you want to even think of doing. Technique is basically the same but it literally is absolute terror on your hand and takes forever should you happen to be dealing with sheep whose fleece is even the tiniest bit 'dirty'. Bee there done that, have the recurring nightmares to prove it.

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    That sheep is a good girl

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My sheep are good girls

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maisie is a good girl

  • @shepherdboyshiplu6427
    @shepherdboyshiplu6427 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want this cutter 10 pics

  • @evangelistaivanstudent-auj7889
    @evangelistaivanstudent-auj7889 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you be my life's narrator??

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maisie is cute

  • @Larryd1001
    @Larryd1001 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where was Bob during all this? He certainly could have used a hair cut :}

  • @txhypnotist
    @txhypnotist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Waldo-Clipper,

  • @twentynememes1375
    @twentynememes1375 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who started to watch this from a Stacyplays video?

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maisy is a good girl a cute sheep

  • @YaseenKhan-mg5qm
    @YaseenKhan-mg5qm ปีที่แล้ว

    Yah kitne mein mujhe chai hai HD gaane tahsil kangan Bala se mein hoon good wala se Hun Chhatarpur

  • @timbrunckhorst4677
    @timbrunckhorst4677 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watching this was painful. Please get a proper sharpening guide and learn how to get the sharp. Shears clearly rusted like that are better off thrown in the tip or used in the garden then used on animals.

  • @juancarlosmoran1741
    @juancarlosmoran1741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Esquirlas horrible

  • @richardwatson8219
    @richardwatson8219 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would hate to have to use those horrible looking shears

    • @georgedoorley5628
      @georgedoorley5628 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      when the grease is up in mid june and with sheep in good condition its not too bad ............when i had a good few in my youth there was often a few that would not be present the day we had the shearers in ........so i used to clip it off with a hand shears .........

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy Halloween