I knew a lot of shearers in Pt Augusta back in the 1960s and a rough bunch they were, moving from shed to shed they followed the work wherever it was , a lot of them would blow their cheques in a matter of days in between jobs, and broke, they would move on for more hard work and do it over again.
Today shearers are in short supply not many new ones filling the shoes, nowadays what with the mining and oil boom there's more money to be had in oil and gas fields and mines without the hard yakka in the sheds.
These photos will give a look at the shearers at work both the old way of blade shearing from a painting , the chap resting would be the contractor or boss cockie the owner of the sheep, in another you will see a woman shearer at work




and last some slang they would use