The good:
An antique crank-powered shearing machine! I have one of these (though we got ours for much much much less than that [read: nearly free]) and our's still has the stationary handle! :D I need to bring it with me to Richmond so I can take it apart and put it back together again... the wound metal that makes the shaft has lost it's old shape and is falling apart ever so slightly. The gears and things all work... just that the shaft mechanisms keep catching on the shaft wall and sometimes it kinks. The teeth are in about the same condition as the eBay one... but I think I can fix/make a new comb for it.
1905 Pregnant SHEEP Anatomy: I have no idea why I have love for this item but... I do. So much friggen love.
Cute sheep ornament! With bell :D
Hebridean fleece!! I've never seen one of those on eBay before :D
Sheep crossing sign! :D
"Reserved for Sheep" sign!! :D :D
Pretty painting *_*
Shearing stand! (What? Do they sell *ANYTHING* on eBay these days?) Why pay that much, though, when you can get them a bit cheaper from NASCO or sommat or build them for near to nothing?
:O
This watch has the same sheep from my pirate sheep icon!
Wanty. So very much.
Giant metal ram! VCU would probably love that buuuuut... lemme make something and they can buy it from me :D
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The not so great:
Trimmer with 'sheep' in the title. First of all... newbie sheep people who don't know much about anything will probably buy one of these and think they'll get somewhere with it. NO. Unless you have hair sheep and, even then, you'll be cleaning and de-greasing the blades every few seconds. Same with goats (unless they've gotten a bath recently -- goats, not sheep). No, we didn't get snookered into buying a set, we had a Wahl laying about and couldn't get the tension right in the motor-in-your-hand set of shears.
Wahl + Sheep = Bad idea. Easier, faster and safer to use scissors.
Texas:
Hunting trip 1 /
hunting trip 2.
...wtf? I bet most of the sheep there were people's pets at one point in time. I bet most of those sheep had names.
I bet this Jacob was in someone's fiber flock. And I wouldn't doubt it at all if
this white ram was Friendly, our old Horned Dorset ram (he got good dollar for his age but I know he went to a trophy buyer because of his horns).
Yeah, the folks have to make their money. But A) it's a
trophy hunt and B) the folks are sitting in the lap of luxury with a guarentee of an animal. You should hunt for meat first and foremost and you should go out and hunt if you're gonna hunt. Not sit and watch TV a while as your host rustles up a few game animals to make sure you get what you paid for. If you've got money to waste like that you need to find something else to do with it.
(more eBay will added when I get around to it)
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