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Wish me luck   johnreid It is worth it James, I bet you win a Big Ribbon! bessytractor come on James, I bet you'd win! Graham-Jilly Good luck James James LOL Ta guys. Only second year of showing though! 1st year of showing our own stock! toolsntat Re: Newark show - first show of the year James wrote: Well this is proving hard! Newark show is this weekend, and it's the 1st of the year. Only 5 or so Lincoln breeders are off thanks to bloody Europe and it's shitty blue tongue disease. Anyways, got tup lamb, Eric, and Lamby booked in. Eric and Lamby need to have the wool "Pulled out". That means you have to go through every single staple of wool on the sheep and seperate it. For an experienced shepherd it can take as little as... 4 hours   Anyways, it is NOT easy, and it's gonna be hard! I've took pics, and will post them ASAP along with pics at the weekend. Wish me luck   Well you seem to have a head start on this pair... They aint even talkin     Good Luck pauly as little as 4 hours    how do you get it to stand still that long. James Aye! Fine wool ones are the hardest to pull out, and the 1st one we attempted was a fine wool   Bought a gallon of Pig Oil at over £20 today   johnreid So, you are having  a Greased Pig contest too! sorry, couldnt resist James LOL Naa what you do is you pull it out, then wipe it all over with pig oil   James Fetched the tups back yesterday, pulled out Eric and Lamby, bloody hell, what a job   Took about 9 hours collectively and I still ain;t happy with it   steamgranny Re: Newark show - first show of the year toolsntat wrote: Well you seem to have a head start on this pair... I love that    Do you know where it is? toolsntat Oh yes, was there Monday after visiting Papplewick Pumping Station and its my piccie   Rufford Abbey..... http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk...eisure/countryparks/ruffordcp.htm Really nice place     MooseMan You all set for the show now Jimbo? steamgranny toolsntat wrote: Oh yes, was there Monday after visiting Papplewick Pumping Station and its my piccie   Rufford Abbey..... What a beautiful place! And thanks for the extra pics. Would love to visit Papplewick & area. Now, back on track with Jimbo's tousled sheep     James Just about! Hopefully gonna be seeing me sheep lass meyart there aswell   James Oooo and me tup lamb's ear has gone gammy where we tagged it   Stilldrillin Re: Newark show - first show of the year Got a photo, somewhere, of me sitting between these two.... NO! I`m not going to find it so you can see......     James Here it is! Stilldrillin       Well. ar...... That`s it!     James LOL thought you'd like that   madeinenglang sheep are all ways fun I used to live on a farm until last year I have been to a show or two I never new that it took so long to get them ready for the show     James Oh aye! It's different with Lincolns, cos they're bred for wool that's what you've got to show off like.   pauly James wrote: Here it is! whys that bodyless hand from the ADAMs family in the picture. johnreid Note he has no left arm in the photo, I bet that is what happened to iit. James Aye! I took it off like Mr Potato head and put it on the gimmer to hold her   pauly that must be handy for your chores just put 1 arm next to the sink 1 arm next to your homework and you can do what you want all day just dont fall down because you wont be able to get up again and if your mam gives you an earfull take it off. James Here's some pics of "pulling out" before I go to bed! pauly reminds me of my head. James Well, umm. That didn't go too well   James Well this pic pretty much summed up today. The judge were cack, judged on size and not wool, which is stupid on a breed which has been bred for WOOL!   James Loaded up: While mother made the bacon butties, I headed off to see the steam!! Teapot - 2nd weekend of steaming and me being there   Still got the original boiler from 112 years ago!! Tup lamb! Some of the Lincolns Judging... James Still, got 3 rosettes, a third, fith and sixth After some Lincolnshire Ale I soon cheered up johnreid Win or not, it looks like it was a great day. Lots of Steam, and your sheep too! I dont think you can beat that at all. James Aye mate! I've got to go back tomorrow aswell, were gonna stop in the Ifor Williams hotel tonight but thought I might as well come home. If he were a wool judge, I'd have done better, and me tup lamb was born at least a month after the rest   Anyways, everyone always aims for Lincs as the big show, and this year the Americans are coming to judge, and they're big wool men   Les Congratulations on winning and good pictures as well. James Winning? I wish   That'll take a few years   For anyone local I really recommend going, it's a good show, celebrating 125 years this year, BUT it's nowhere near as good as Lincs   pauly you can cetainly tell your drunk in the last pic. James There were people stood watching me as if to say "wow, what a spanner" James Will take pics of this if I get chance tomorrow - Dancing JCBs   There's also a Dancing Doe (Triple D) tractor thingy aswell   http://www.jcballs.co.uk/diggerdance.htm James Ahhh bugger, missed it, it happened when I were showing   http://www.newarkshowground.com/cs_attraction2.htm pauly James wrote: There were people stood watching me as if to say "wow, what a spanner" I cant imagine why sos you didnt win you should have set your sheep on the judges. James Seriously, we spent like 4 hours pulling Eric's wool out, and so did the rest of the breeders, bar one. The one which won had had nothing done to it, and looked scruffy as hell, just it was the biggest   steamgranny Win some, lose some.......... At least there was some decent steam to save the day James True! I've got pics of Mamods and stuff that I took yesterday, just uploading! made-in-england Looks like ye had a gooden jim! The pictures of the Show look SOO much like my local rally! Cant wait for it! September James Mamods!! I had to buy Lincolnshire made Lincolnshire Haslet, AND Lincolnshire made Lincolnshire stuffed chine (pig's shoulder stuffed with herbs!) Teapot! Never seen EIGHT DOe Triple D's in the same place before! Oil engines Me mate's living van (who's building mine) Not looking too shabby! Griffin Nice pics James, the rosette's are coming along nicely. The Triple D's are a rare sight on there own, let alone eight in one place James Aye mate! I were like   Went at about 10pm Sat morning and there were like 3 or 4, went back an hour or two later and there was eight   James Not doing bad now, been to 3 shows, Newark, Woodhall Spa and Deeping and got 8 rosettes, 2 more shows to go          The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum Forum Index -> Off topic board Page 1 of 1