“Keep still, I’m nearly finished’” This blade-shearer, Miss Joy McCracken, of Rangiora, seems to have her hands full with her woolly charge. In 1977, when she was only 19, Miss McCracken set a world record for women by blade-shearing 137 sheep in a nine-hour day. Another Canterbury shearer, Mr Peter Casserly, set a world record for men in 1976 when he shore 353 lambs in nine hours. Machine shearers can work about twice as fast as those who use blades.
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Press, 28 June 1983, Page 18
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80“Keep still, I’m nearly finished’” This blade-shearer, Miss Joy McCracken, of Rangiora, seems to have her hands full with her woolly charge. In 1977, when she was only 19, Miss McCracken set a world record for women by blade-shearing 137 sheep in a nine-hour day. Another Canterbury shearer, Mr Peter Casserly, set a world record for men in 1976 when he shore 353 lambs in nine hours. Machine shearers can work about twice as fast as those who use blades. Press, 28 June 1983, Page 18
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