Shearing Station - Kinchega Woolshed 2
by Lexa Harpell
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Shearing Station - Kinchega Woolshed 2
Artist
Lexa Harpell
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Photograph - Photographs
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Shearing Station - Kinchega Woolshed by Lexa Harpell.
Step into the past when Australia rode high on the sheep's back in the boom times of the Australian Pastoral History.
The sheering shed now stands in silence, the faint smell of sheep urine and lanolin seeps from the timbers of the holding pens - where the sheep would await to be ushered to the sheering station for the men to swiftly remove their fleece - then back into the paddocks till next season.
Kinchega is thought to have had around 6 million sheep pass through its shed to be sheered of their fine wool for export around the world.
Heritage Listed – Kinchega Woolshed sits approx 150kms south-east of Broken Hill in New South Wales and originally built in 1875.
The structure was built from nearby river gum trees and clad in corrugated iron.
Sitting high off the ground for ventilation.
A large sheep station – running about 160,000 sheep and employing 73 men at its peak. Wool bales were transported along the Darling River by two steam steamers.
During its production it witnessed hand shearing bladed being replaced by mechanical shearing equipment powered by a steam traction engine. Then replaced by kerosene then diesel and later electricity.
The woolshed was restored in 1993.
Australia.
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January 27th, 2021
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