>>2216494Never heard a shearer called a snob before. Sounds like you never met one. They're a bunch of hard arses. Shearing is a tough job. If someone doesn't want to get "fleeced" 20 dollars per animal to get someone to come and spend half a day driving out to their hobby farm, shit in a hole in the ground, and shear their couple of pet sheep, when they could be earning 1000 dollar a day somewhere else, they can always do it themselves. They'll need a couple thousand dollars worth of gear, and be dripping with sweat half way though the first one, and make a right mess of it the first few times. Shearing a full day you might as well run two marathons, and some people will pen up tens of thousands. When there's no more, they'll bugger off and circuit around the world, seasonally chasing more sheep to shear. Wool being less profitable is not because a shearer asks too much money.
