Blade sheep shearing demonstration

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  • Part of the immersive farm tour will be a blade shearing demonstration
    Before modern motorised sheep shearing machines, all the work was done by blade shearing with a large clipping blades
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  • @LumosX
    @LumosX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Lovely story, and a brilliant demonstration of blade shearing. Keeping one's traditions alive in the current times is nothing short of noble. I salute you, sir, and wish you all the best. Regards from Bulgaria.

  • @Kath-Erina
    @Kath-Erina 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, i just realized how much skill and experience you need to shear a sheep that way... Not only being able to handel the sheep and shearing without hurting or atressing the sheep, you also have to blindly know every singel curve and skin fold before you even get to it. Very very impressive! Also great story of your daughter's hats ❤

  • @davidwebber8028
    @davidwebber8028 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very calm and trusting sheep there. Back in the day in school in Somerset we collected wool from the hedgerows and fences - then carded it, spun it, and weaved it by hand. Making Welsh woollen hats clearly takes a production line approach with some proper tools...

  • @uz7442
    @uz7442 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I've seen current day sheering and I know the process of back in the day blade sheering but somehow had it in my head it'd take ages to sheer sheep by balde. Clearly good and speedy sheering has everything to do with skill an experience. It's amazing to see

    • @DakkaDakkaDakkaWaagh
      @DakkaDakkaDakkaWaagh ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Some old boys here in NZ swear by it and won't change to clippers

    • @signaturerush
      @signaturerush ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DakkaDakkaDakkaWaaghGood on em

  • @nickdonaghy6360
    @nickdonaghy6360 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Quite possibly the most brilliantly Welsh video

  • @viscache1
    @viscache1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wool in the USA is still a high dollar recovery for the farmer. But I’m opting to take and clean the wool and use it in my old farm house for insulation, in the garden for weeds and fertilizer and then sending off only the premium wool for processing. There i a great small buyer cottage industry for specific wool yarn and roving. I love my sheep and they take care of me!

  • @michellezoe4596
    @michellezoe4596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how the little pup is acting assiatant there off to the side.😂🐾❤

  • @patpierce4854
    @patpierce4854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Gareth, another use for the dags in your garden - wool bits also tend to repel slugs from various ornamental plants like hostas (Monty Don even mentioned wool and wool pellets as a pesticide free slug repellent). Wool is amazing, and it’s practically criminal how little most farmers get from the Wool Board, for such an amazing product. The wool hats sound fantastic!

    • @GarethWynJones
      @GarethWynJones  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Like you, I use the wool dags in my allotment. Local wine producer Gwinllan Conwy used wool around their vines to control pests and weeds. Search their Facebook page for the video

    • @okaminess
      @okaminess 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow! Awesome.

    • @mastinomama8939
      @mastinomama8939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Apart from spinning, knitting or weaving it and using it as fertilizer, we also use it to protect young trees from being eaten by game. Works wonders! I am a novice at shearing and am very impressed by Garth. It looks so easy!! Congratulations to your VERY well behaved JRT, by the way. Thumbs up from Germany.

    • @shepherdewan
      @shepherdewan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GarethWynJones thar sheep 🐑 is a good girl

  • @Ssanihal
    @Ssanihal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My husband and I want to get our first sheep and feel lucky to have found your video. We would like to shear them.

  • @williechaffin387
    @williechaffin387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cool. My grandfather sheared his sheep this way, I helped him. Haven’t seen it done this was since about 1958.

  • @UnionParkPlumbing
    @UnionParkPlumbing ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for such a great demonstration!

  • @acdcacres
    @acdcacres 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the demonstration! Welsh from Llanelli, but living in Canada. I just got some Icelandics and cheaped out with hand shears, so at least I have an idea what I'm doing now 😅 Good idea with the dags, I'll make sure to save some for that.

  • @djharris90
    @djharris90 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The sheep seems so much more calm with the scissors vs the sound of electric clippers.

  • @HandyMe
    @HandyMe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up from Portugal..

  • @techeteri
    @techeteri ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Using wool at the greenhouse is agreat idea!

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think that wee dog 🐩 likes the sheep 🐑

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I subscribed!! 🙂 I am learning more about sheep!

  • @maximus-6788
    @maximus-6788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    well done sir, hats down!

  • @jardah81
    @jardah81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Different pattern but good speech about shearing and sheeps.

  • @tamasszucs2987
    @tamasszucs2987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice job!

  • @homerburns40
    @homerburns40 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best ad ever

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Clever sheep 🐑

  • @jenporta8725
    @jenporta8725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want to come to Wales! It is on my "someday list". When we're all a little less poor. $$ Your farm looks like a great place to come and see the country for sure.
    My husband's family is Welsh, and a bit English I'm sure. The emigrated around end of WWII to America. Gareth, have you ever heard of a type of Christian church called Welsh Baptist. I don't know what they would call them there in Wales or in the old tongue but he says the closest is "that that baptize" or "those who are baptized". But he says the bible he had as a kid was different than the American Baptist bible their church uses now... I wouldn't know, I'm Catholic, hahaha... but I sure would love to surprise him with a bit of his ancestral history.
    But if you or any of the travel folks that know Welsh history real well read this, I would love some input to be able to put a trip together "to the old land" haha. I heard tell of a church there in Wales that is in a valley surrounded by mountains and the church and the faith there are very old. Like 1st and 2nd century AD kind of old. There is a church I hear of his pastor from 2-3 generations before us told about a tile or mosaic style floor with the compass inlaid into it with North, South, East, West... you know? I fear I could have no way of finding this kind of place, even using the internet, what are the chances? But maybe someone back there in Wales knows a thing or two?
    Thanks,
    Lovely wool you've got there.

  • @Grahamedmonstone
    @Grahamedmonstone ปีที่แล้ว

    Great demo. Where to buy the wool hats please.

  • @pauleaton6908
    @pauleaton6908 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is in your special Spray for flies Gareth? We tried battles yellow fly cream last year and found it quite ineffective and needed reapplying daily!!

  • @andyregan7889
    @andyregan7889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg AOL haven't seen that in ages

  • @AhmedMohamed-rh2kx
    @AhmedMohamed-rh2kx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    عاش والله يغالي حريف يعني

  • @Adnancorner
    @Adnancorner ปีที่แล้ว

    do fat tail sheep are better as their tails are not that long and easy to sheer ?

  • @wukong2282
    @wukong2282 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    whoa whoa whoa there mate, sheep have tails???

  • @bootlegger1974
    @bootlegger1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    look at that view

  • @Penfold8
    @Penfold8 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always thought a sheep's tale was smaller than that.

    • @RenStyx
      @RenStyx ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Normally their tails are docked to avoid fly strike. But that doesn't seem to he an issue for this sheep.

  • @dawoodahmad8362
    @dawoodahmad8362 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    From where can i get this sheep shearing blade plz

  • @ghostkilla9256
    @ghostkilla9256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just look.at that view

  • @grugeskulled3464
    @grugeskulled3464 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have fly spray.

  • @ghostlylover99123
    @ghostlylover99123 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bet the ewe felt better after the shearing

  • @أبوقدس-ن3س
    @أبوقدس-ن3س 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    تعرف تجز ،بصح ثقيل شوي

  • @mrcatdog290
    @mrcatdog290 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Iawn boy cadog mab tex a&r tyers