Based in Canberra, Ian and Mick travel within about a 5 hour radius, sometimes more depending on the job size, with mick shearing in QLD in august and september

South Coast – Becoming a hot spot for alpacas, the team are down the south coast of NSW every 3 weeks between October and February with one major run in the middle of November for a week. Jobs start as far north as Dapto running as far south as the Victorian border and every town in between. message Ian 0417496815

Southern Highlands – Ian and Mick shear a lot of alpacas in the highlands and travel there every second week for a few days at a time. They visit Camden, Bowral, Wilton, Canyonleigh, Robertson, Kangaroo Valley, Moss Vale, Marulan just to name a few.

Greater Sydney – Kurrajong, Penrith, Camden, Wallacia, Picton, Springwood & Hawkesbury areas. contact Mick 0408665228

Goulburn – Crookwell, Taralga, Windellama, Breadalbane, Binda.

High Country – Cooma, Shannons Flat, Jindabyne, Numeralla, Nimmitabel, Bombala, Cathcart, Dalgety , Berridale, Adaminaby. Ian and Mick usually do a run first week in January due to the colder climate. They currently have over 30 jobs in the area and gaining more every year.

South West – Gundagai, Young, Boorowa, Cowra.

Canberra region – Bungendore, Captains Flat, Royalla, Michelago, Tarago, Sutton, Murrumbateman, Yass, Burra, Braidwood. Usually these jobs can be done within a week of your phone call depending on the size of the job.

Central Coast/Maitland – September- feb we come up once a month for 3 days at a time. contact Mick 0408665228

QLD And Northern NSW –  all of august and september mick will be their. Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Stanthorpe, Gold Coast.. please book early Mick 0408665228. Here’s the timetable.

If your area didn’t pop up above please give Mick a call as they are expanding  their business is important to them and they would welcome a friendly phone call. Mick 0408665228 or Ian 0417496815

If you’d like to book us for a shearing demonstration please get in touch.  Ian and Mick are highly sought after to provide shearing demonstrations at shows, fetes, community events and media and promotional events. We can supply sheep and equipment, entertain crowds with shearing stories and crowd interaction and generally promote the wool industry and entertain your community or guests. We have provided demonstrations at the Canberra and Sydney Royal Easter Show (annually for the last 11 years), Australia Day events and other high profile media events. Most notable was his recent demonstration for Prince William and his wife Kate at the Sydney Royal Easter Show in 2014 along with several demonstrations for the Governor-General Dame Quentin Bryce and when she hosted groups of international diplomats.

During the course of these promotional events and as a result of his achievements, Ian has developed excellent media skills and has appeared on television and radio shows on multiple occasions over the years.

We have and will continue to provide international shearer training during the Australian winter months. On top of this, we can cater to internationals who want to learn the craft with paid training – get paid to learn alpaca and sheep shearing with the best.

We recently made a trip to the UAE and are willing to travel for shearing training.
For the UAE project, we were requested to undertake some training for local farmhands working for the Crown Prince of  one of the 7 Emirates that make up the UAE. The Crown Prince studied agriculture at university in England and loves animals. He had a collection of a wide variety of animals and a lot of different breeds of sheep and goats. Our job was to teach the local farmhands how to shear the variety of sheep breeds and how to keep their equipment sharp for the job. Our most important consideration was ensuring the sheep were well looked after and that the farmhands learnt as much as they could in the two weeks we were there to help them. It was a great experience for both of us. The locals looked after us very well and were very appreciative of what we were able to teach them. The Crown Prince is breeding his animals and hopes that the UAE might be able to have a sheep, goat and cattle industry in the long term future.