General News
22 August, 2022
Shearing shed Kat
RUNNING the board, the odd pass in the paddock driving a tractor or making earrings and running a pub. That’s the CV of young Loddon roustabout and shearer Katrina Wiseman who was in the Graham family shed at Murphy’s Creek last week. Katrina has...
RUNNING the board, the odd pass in the paddock driving a tractor or making earrings and running a pub.
That’s the CV of young Loddon roustabout and shearer Katrina Wiseman who was in the Graham family shed at Murphy’s Creek last week.
Katrina has been working the sheds since leaving school at 16 - childhood thoughts of joining the police force overtaken by what she calls time with “the hard working characters with plenty to yarn about”.
Watching her bundle fleeces freshly shorn and toss them onto the sorting table was 92-year-old Keith Graham.
Keith and fifth generation farmer son Colin were seeing 1100 head of Merinos trimmed for the week.
But all eyes were on the shearers and Katrina who one day hopes to get her classers’ ticket.
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