Showing posts with label wool bales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wool bales. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

'Goin' Truckin'

Time to load up the wool bales and truck them to the wool store.

Dad will have to make two trips as they will not all fit on one load. At the wool store they will sample the wool to test how good it is and use the sample to show the wool buyers.

As Dad loads the wool onto the truck I check off the bales, Dad calls out the number and I tick it off in the book, then I call out the letters that should be branded on the bales and Dad checks them. We are a good team!

Number 22.....Check!
Once the truck is loaded, all the bales need to be tied down.


It is a BIG load, it would be very dangerous if the bales fell off.


I can help with this job, roll up the tie down straps.


AND IT IS READY TO GO!

Dad will leave very early in the morning, it will take him 2 hours to get to the wool store.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Three Bags Full.....plus a few!

Shearing is over........ 2764 sheep shorn.....


All the wool is pressed into bales....and ready to be trucked to the wool store. At the wool store it will all be tested to see how good it is, then it will be sold. It costs alot of money to shear and prepare the wool, $6.50 for every sheep and its fleece.

Hopefully the woolbuyers will love our wool and give us lots of money!

all stacked up!

 


The sheep are all cool with their wool off.

And they have already started growing wool for next year!

heading home!


Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...