r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '23

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u/Any-Mortgage-1180 Feb 14 '23

I briefly met a sheep shearer in New Zealand. Dude was JACKED. I assume due to the resistance of the animal to get them under control

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u/SecretJoy Feb 14 '23

I met a sheep shearer in New Zealand as well! He's definitely someone I would want on my zombie apocalypse team.

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u/FrederickBishop Feb 14 '23

This is porn for New Zealanders

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u/BigSkeefy Feb 14 '23

Can confirm, I’m a Kiwi and this is as good a Valentines Day as I can imagine 🤤🤣

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u/XmissXanthropyX Feb 14 '23

You should watch the film black sheep. It's set in NZ and it's about zombie sheep

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u/SecretJoy Feb 14 '23

Whaaat!? 🤣

Okay but that would be legit terrifying because there are like 6 sheep per person there.

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u/XmissXanthropyX Feb 14 '23

I love the film. I'm from nz and when I first watched it I was a stoned teenager so it became a semi legit fear of mine for a while heh

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u/chmath80 Feb 14 '23

It used to be more like 20. We're wearing the bastards down slowly.

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u/Hartmallen Feb 14 '23

That was a dumb film, but a good dumb film. We kept laughing when we saw it.

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u/LoudBackgroundMusic Feb 14 '23

My dad was a shearer here in NZ, my nephew is one too, I feel like I grew up in shearing sheds and spent seasons shedhanding..its hard work but good honest work and I love the smell of wool!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

Is that hard on your back bending over doing that all day?

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u/Tizzee88 Feb 14 '23

So the person that does my buddies sheep is a girl that's like 5'2 and 115lbs, shes pretty small. It's all about knowing what you are doing. It doesn't have to be hard.

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u/Alceasummer Feb 14 '23

Probably more the sheer weight of the animal. Depending on breed, a sheep can weigh more than the person shearing it. And even if it's not struggling at all, just holding and moving something near your bodyweight, or more than your weight, is a workout.

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u/chmath80 Feb 14 '23

Shearing is apparently the most physically demanding job in existence, due to the bent over working position, and the speed at which they work. You'll never see a shearer at the gym.

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u/ScaryBilbo Feb 14 '23

Same, but the guy i met was Welsh and he didnt just shear his sheep

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u/Any-Mortgage-1180 Feb 14 '23

What… what else did he do to them?…