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Looking for sheep wòol

  • 05-08-2017 08:05PM
    #1
    jasushaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭


    Just looking is there anyone selling sheep wool? Looking for loads of it


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  • #2
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    what price?


  • #3
    jasushaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭jasushaw


    ganmo wrote: »
    what price?

    What's the value now per kg?


  • #4
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    http://www.britishwool.org.uk/sales.php?type=latest


  • #5
    jasushaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭jasushaw


    ganmo wrote: »
    http://www.britishwool.org.uk/sales.php?type=latest

    Ye was looking myself there 60c -70c per kg. Have you got any to sell


  • #6
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    i'm gonna hold onto this years and hope for a better price next year


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  • #7
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    ganmo wrote: »
    i'm gonna hold onto this years and hope for a better price next year

    Did u see what happened stantheman:D


  • #8
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Did u see what happened stantheman:D

    Did he put up a pic?
    I remember someone saying they sold last years wool with this years


  • #9
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    ganmo wrote: »
    Did he put up a pic?
    I remember someone saying they sold last years wool with this years

    He was loosing money anyways as he kept wool from the year before


  • #10
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Not quite there yet, but if it dropped by the same percentage again next year as it's done for the last two years, I'd just get the shearer out in any type of weather, shear them wet or dry, and fire the wool into manure heap to spread back onto land. A lot of planning to try and get a shearer to turn up on a dry day and look after the product, bag, store and possibly transport wool for reward this year.


  • #11
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Green farmer wrote: »
    Not quite there yet, but if it dropped by the same percentage again next year as it's done for the last two years, I'd just get the shearer out in any type of weather, shear them wet or dry, and fire the wool into manure heap to spread back onto land. A lot of planning to try and get a shearer to turn up on a dry day and look after the product, bag, store and possibly transport wool for reward this year.

    I've shorn wet sheep,not nice, only did it for an hour one evening finishing up, legs were destroyed after it with heat, salt in the wool coming through the clothes.
    Unfortunately wool is nearly a hazardous waste now...hopefully it'll come again, usually if a product gets cheap enough, they get uses for it.


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  • #12
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    rangler1 wrote: »


    Unfortunately wool is nearly a hazardous waste now...hopefully it'll come again, usually if a product gets cheap enough, they get uses for it.


    Hopefully the only way is up, from here. Making the easy care and exlana sheep more attractive If the price trend continues. Was watching a programme recently. a hill farming family in the U.K found a way of mixing wool and bracken or ferns together and making a moss peat out of it. Think they used it extensively in the Chelsea flower show this year or something.


  • #13
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    jasushaw wrote: »
    Ye was looking myself there 60c -70c per kg. Have you got any to sell

    I sold mine about 2-3 weeks ago for 50 cents 😱


  • #14
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    ganmo wrote: »
    i'm gonna hold onto this years and hope for a better price next year

    Assuming that wool is worth more next year would the year old wool be worth as much as the 2018 wool.

    If not how much would wool have to make keeping it for the year worthwhile. It takes up a fair bit of space if you have any amount of it and a small amount is hardly worth keeping.


  • #15
    123shooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭123shooter


    House insulation was supposed to make a market for it, but the sheepswool insulation never caught on due to price and availability.

    Try some sheep that don't have to be sheared :D:D


  • #16
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    Assuming that wool is worth more next year would the year old wool be worth as much as the 2018 wool.

    If not how much would wool have to make keeping it for the year worthwhile. It takes up a fair bit of space if you have any amount of it and a small amount is hardly worth keeping.

    We've 4 big bags of it and I reckon old wool is about 20c cheaper so if next years price is 80c I'll be quids in. Plus there's a bit of a niggle between the buyers here so quantity helps when negotiating


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