A worker who gathers up shorn fleeces during sheep shearing.
at the finish, the picker-up washes the shearing board with disinfectant
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Boys received less than adults, and piece-pickers and wool-rollers were often paid more than pickers-up, penners, and sweepers.
I had the humble task of a picker-up of the shorn fleeces.
‘First came the shearers, then the wool rollers and piece pickers, then the
He mumbles about complaining to the union rep because a picker-up was going into a shearer's pen and helping him.
The pickers-up were responsible for gathering the belly wool and the fleeces from the shearing stands.
The picker-up should be instructed not to allow large quantities of lower lines to accumulate on the board prior to the finish of the day.
A picker-up will have no difficulty in performing these duties for four shearers.
Abbott wanted wool-rollers and piece-pickers cut to 25 shillings and all other shedhands reduced to 20 shillings.
The wool classer instructs and supervises the pickers-up as far as concerns their duty in picking up the fleeces.
The duties of the picker-up are to pick up the fleeces when shorn, sweep the board, and separate the pieces, locks, stains, and bellies from the floor sweepings.