So proud of my Grandfather Robert White. It just goes to show how one sided people used to be. I would never wish this hate on any family.

@seanodwyer8691

6 жыл бұрын

Angel White. ahh think your grandfather @@@- Robert White is such fun guy ahh would actually pay him for me to work for him.'''

@dukatikiddukatikid7358

4 жыл бұрын

@Angel White your grandfather was a man of character and rock solid values,he and his men singlehandedly dragged these Neanderthals kicking and screaming into the 1980s. The union members were cowardly scum!

@Hillfarmlamb

2 жыл бұрын

Fare play to him such a load of 💩 shows how something so small can cause such rows but u are proud of your grandfather 👍👍👍

@shaun469

29 күн бұрын

Dad was a shearer all his life. Started with synott and dunbar in the early 60s as a presser. Rip dad.

that guy complaining about a sore elbow over wide combs. LOL. I shear with them without issue

How we only use wide coombs now though

I remember this dispute. It was a massive uproar all round

I worked for bob between 1982 and 1985 was a tough time got bashed at burke my partner got bashed as well and she was pregnant I wonder if the shearers would go back to narrow combs now

@seanodwyer8691

7 жыл бұрын

Stephen smith. @ Bob White should have been the lead actor in the 'Sunday too far.'' movie.. @ Iff yocan get rid off th mongrels the wool industry is fun.

@seanodwyer8691

6 жыл бұрын

sounds like a great man too be with. if he still around

@gantz4u

3 жыл бұрын

For every 2 men using a wide comb 1 man loses his job and I'll give you 10 cents a pound raw wool out the door. Just kidding. Im wearing a 10% wool 90% acrylic yarn "wool blend"

@gantz4u

3 жыл бұрын

Edit: Ive thought about it and realized anything you say can have real world ramifications of drunk Australians knocking each other about. Please understand my original post is meant to be a philosophical observation on the conditions of economics. In no way should it be interpreted as a call to violence.

I would be proud of him too.

When this first aired back in 1983 I was shocked to see my mate Paul being attacked by these arseholes .I was shearing with a union team and had always been in the AWU yet we ended up constantly fighting losers in places like Dubbo most of whom were not even shearers ,all bar myself were Aussies too . The whole thing was poorly presented by the AWU as hardly anyone knew what the big deal was [ the rate of pay was based on the number of sheep shorn in a given time with a narrow comb] In Adelaide I had no probs attending union meetings even though I was a Kiwi

Shows how dumb Unions were even in my industry in Australia. Very violent as always when Unions do not get their way. By the way we all use the wide comb now so the Union was dead wrong I was a 19 year old boy when this made history

Here from the Adam Friedland show

While the union has fought for decent working conditions and wages, nothing justifies violence especially like this

@outdatedfarmequipment2702

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with that but these coward scabs can make your blood boil.

@paulcoffey359

2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe the cop laughed about it!

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

@@paulcoffey359 He wasn't put out back because he was a bright spark.

Passion in the Bush. most interesting. Thanks.

@outdatedfarmequipment2702

2 жыл бұрын

Union power all the way.

Lol ozzies narrow minded😂

when times where simpler?

I'm using 98mm wide combs the sheep are now huge.

Union cranks. They never got any better.

@outdatedfarmequipment2702

5 жыл бұрын

Go easy kicking unions mate if it were not for them we would all be eating rice or baked beans on toast for dinner.

@adrenalize666

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. The original idea of the union movement was great. As usual greed and corruption ruinrd the Unions and the Labour Party.These are the same clowns that signed on to a shed and voted the sheep wet, then billed the cocky for a week of the roustabouts and presser sitting around doing nothing. The same clowns that wouldn't let us start at 5am on a Friday to leave early. @@outdatedfarmequipment2702

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

@@outdatedfarmequipment2702 ...which is coming if the union supported labor party achieves it's goal of implementing WEF policies in Australia.

Just let the man use his bloody Coombs

25% of shearers were losing their jobs .>>> only way they could have solved this dispute is to have quotas of 150 sheep per day some of the gun shearers could take 400 sheep in a day.>>>

That's crazy fighting over a few inches like those unions clearly must of been delusional thinking the narrow comb was the best option

@13thbiosphere

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of people were losing their jobs because of the increased efficiency and competition

@outdatedfarmequipment2702

2 жыл бұрын

Tough militant unions are what built the working class in this country not gutless arse kissing scabs.

@lumpofdirt69

Жыл бұрын

@@13thbiosphere no they weren't. That was just another excuse for these useless pricks to get some time off work and go behave like animals.

@lumpofdirt69

Жыл бұрын

@@13thbiosphere name one shearer that lost their job just because of their shearing combs.

@13thbiosphere

Жыл бұрын

@@lumpofdirt69 if you can do a job 30% more efficient it's inevitable that someone is going to lose a job it's just basic mathematics

This is crazy but each side beleived in it

Click goes the shears 😜🤣..Now what using wide combs lol..

Not sure what part of Australia it was but the farmer asked my uncle to work Saturdays & he agreed to which the local Shearer's took exception to because they thought they would have to work Saturdays as well. They ganged up & threatened to beat my uncle up if he worked on the Saturday. Funny thing is the farmer only asked my uncle because he knew the local lads didn't want to work Saturdays. Maybe they were jealous I don't know either way threatening to beat someone up because they get asked to do over time is out of order.

@geoffreytazprice5091

4 жыл бұрын

Shearing on the weekends was near as big a deal as wide combs mate. Union rules. Still don't shear on weekends here in Tassie. Reason why? at least 75-80% of shearers are AWU members

@geoffreytazprice5091

2 жыл бұрын

@DTL I was only a union member because of my uncle who's a staunch union man paid for mine my whole career. I was only a kid when this debacle was happening but the old fellas made sure you knew all about it.

A good Kontroll freak iss a dead one.''- sic.

The game has changed since the strike for the better if you ask me

No one gets it, it wasnt about shearing, it was about keeping the kiwis iout of Australia.Wide combs are heaps better to shear with and you make more money but the shearing industry is a frigging mess now. Anyone who learnt on wide combs finds it very difficult to shear with narrow gear, thats what kept the new zealanders out of the australian industry. Since wide gear came in the industry has gone to shit. Poor facilities, terrible toilets, unliveale huts and no union. I shear with wide combs but this strike ruined the industry. WE should have just adopted the wide gear like they did in Queensland and found other ways to keep the kiwi scabls out.

@peterdykzeul3074

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you call the Kiwis "Scabs"? They are not to blame for your current working conditions plus there were not enough Australian shearers at that time do do the work load. I was hitch-hiking at that time around the Coastal Highway and several times was told to say nothing in a local pub as there has been brutal fights between the Kiwis and Australians over the wide comb in that town. Most people that gave me a lift told me that many station owners preferred the Kiwi shearers over the Australian as they worked harder, did not work to the clock and so did not leave sheep in the yards over the weekend when an extra hour or two would have finished the work. The biggest irony is that the wide comb the Kiwis used was made in Australia.

@trackdusty

Жыл бұрын

@Andrew Murphy One of the few commenters with a brain. Thanks.

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

Note" no one remembers the AWU bloke with the fancy suit and nice car. ....

@maccaspope2275

Жыл бұрын

@@trackdusty What a bunch of nonsense. Kiwi's go over and show you fullas a better way of shearing and you complain. Useless bastards

@maccaspope2275

Жыл бұрын

How tha fuck are Kiwi's to blame for shit huts and toilets on Aussie farms?

How many packs of cigarettes is 36AUD a day back then, now?

@shaun469

29 күн бұрын

Whats your point?

@meljane8339

28 күн бұрын

@shaun469 in terms of economics, with cigarettes+beer+sugar+butter(etc), my "point" is regarding standards of normal "rations" (standard commodities rations, witch is millenia-long-accepted standard) [globally accepted] ratios to standard staples [universally accepted].

@shaun469

27 күн бұрын

@@meljane8339 cigarettes and alcohol are taxed outside of normal inflation. Probably not a good baseline.

@meljane8339

27 күн бұрын

@shaun469 it's a historic baseline, though. ...

@shaun469

27 күн бұрын

@@meljane8339 historic yes. Relevant today? No

What a disgrace by these thugs. Good on ya Bob, your a legend!!

wow haha what a silly situation

An extra inch matters

The difference ? easier work and less shearers required over the long haul that means less members( well less $$$) going to the union..bunch of grubs.

Good to see unions haven’t changed.. the real scabs!!

Was silly if they turned the wide comb over ...it was made in Australia

History aliken to or through books.(follow the herd.baa baa.hood)woofe wuf communicates e.g.of job or duty to respect for respect(police dog or just companionship)yet the voice is gauged buy the sayings actions &that of tru beat(ticka)

Good old fashioned union protectionism. 🙄 Don't wide combs dominate now? 🤔 Luddites. 🙄

I remember my uncles talking about this when they came back to New Zealand. Was there a racial overtone to this? My uncles were all big Maoris and they would laugh about fights they would get in.

Shudder to imagine how these blokes would have treated the aboriginal community.

@trackdusty

Жыл бұрын

BS. The AWU did a lot for working aborigines. I knew a couple who organised aboriginal labor in the cotton industry.

@flanno

Жыл бұрын

@@trackdusty such as?

@trackdusty

Жыл бұрын

@@flanno That's private, idiot.

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

@@flanno Who do you think mustered the flocks? as an example. I never met an aboriginal shearer but I knew a lot employed on the huge cotton farms such as Cubby Station and they were taking home big money.