It’s amazing what your YouTube algorithm will place in your feed. I get it. YouTube knows what I like, and keeps feeding me videos the subject. I watch ONE episode of some guy repairing a Rolex, and now every time he has a new video, YouTube makes sure it’s #1 on my list. I watch ONE episode of a compilation of dashcam videos, and now YouTube seems to think I want to watch every single dashcam video like it’s some sort of driver’s school movie marathon.
YouTube’s most recent present to me seems to be these videos from an Irish sheep shearing channel, where this guy goes all around the United Kingdom and shears sheep for all of us to watch. Yep, we get to watch the guy tip the sheep on its rear end, and by using either hand scissors or an electric shaver, he shaves all that matted, gunky wool off the sheep in just a few moments.
Such was the case with this video, where apparently a sheep that had been lost in a valley for three years finally got a decent shearing. NOTE – domestic sheep are bred to have their wool sheared off; while wild sheep – like bighorn sheep or Dall sheep – don’t have that wild wool-growing gene in their DNA.
So check out all the wool that comes off this big boy – and the care that the shearer uses around the sheep’s … well … rather larger nether regions.
Yeah, I’m wincing more than you think.
This YouTube channel also features shearing young lambs for their first true “haircut” – look, it’s not easy when some guy tips you on your bottom and starts taking clippers to your block and tackle …
And check out the efforts to shear what looks like a fierce, four-horned Jacob Ram. Dude … better you than me.
I get it. YouTube’s trying to do what everybody else is doing for me right now. Trying to get my spirits back up and my healing from recent surgeries accelerated. And if it means watching some Irish guy taking what looks like the equivalent of three blankets off of some ornery jumbuck, I’m good with that.
As long as he keeps those noisy clippers away from … well … you know …
Because that would be truly ba-a-a-a-a-ad…
Chuck The Writer 