How To Sharpen Sheep Shears (And The Trick To Using Them Successfully)
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 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!
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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.
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...!
I love this! Thank you for posting. I’m going to learn this spring.
another good video from you two, have seen the old sheers but never knew how to sharpen them.
You are such kind folks. Thank you!
A very useful Tip and thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for making this video. What a beautiful and patient ewe, so sweet like my Eva
Maisie is a clever girl
Very very useful thank you
Thanks. This from Four Corners.. AZ...thanks. 🐏🐑🐏
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.
Well done : - )
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
You are a clever girl Maisie
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
Don't clip sheep while pulling on th wool! This will pull the skin up and you'll cut your sheep,
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.
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 : - )
Dagbjört Guðjónsdóttir self-seasoning sheep? ... sorry, just kidding. That's pretty cool that they'll just take care of themselves for the most part.
Happy new yr
+WayOutWest Blowinblog Maisie is a good girl she is a cute sheep
+WayOutWest Blowinblog Maisie is getting a cuddle was Santa good to you
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.
+Mabb Shawn Thanks, Mabb - hope you have more success next time and things go a bit faster for you (and the sheep!)
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
@@morusowenwilliams5795cu masina electrica sau cu masina de mână?
Are those Ball Brothers or Burgon and Ball? Just curious.
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.
+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
Aha! Thank you very much👏😊
SO useful ....thank you very much !
Glad it was helpful!
Happy easter
I imagine this much have taken so much longer back in the day before electrical clippers and possibly more cuts to the sheep.
Thank you!
Welcome!
In south africa sheep shearer's have a different technique and they know what they doing
Happy Halloween
niiice sharp blade
Maisie is getting a cuddle
She is a cute sheep
I did sharpen 10 shears ,they are off alienment.could you please tell me how I can do it.
Păstrezi unghiul cât mai bine de ascutire.Intre cele doua lame trebuie sa existe o presiune pentru a tăia firul de lana
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°
this work with all the scissors in general?
yes, I think so
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.
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!
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!
@@WayOutWestx2 thank you, I'll try!
I want this cutter 10 pics
That sheep is a good girl
I like sheeps
You can comment on 1 of videos if you want to
My sheep are good girls
Can you be my life's narrator??
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 :)
Maisie is a good girl
Maisie is cute
Who started to watch this from a Stacyplays video?
Waldo-Clipper,
Where was Bob during all this? He certainly could have used a hair cut :}
Maisy is a good girl a cute sheep
Yah kitne mein mujhe chai hai HD gaane tahsil kangan Bala se mein hoon good wala se Hun Chhatarpur
Esquirlas horrible
Would hate to have to use those horrible looking shears
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 .........
Happy Halloween
good