WOOLSHED WARS
What does it take to drive farmer against another, erupting in scenes of violence keenly remembered more than thirty years on?
As bizarre as it sounds, farming men from the Central West were willing to attack and set fire to one another over the addition of three steel teeth to the standard combs used to shear sheep.
Former Central West journalist Mark Filmer has captured the shocking history of the wide comb shearing dispute in his book Three Steel Teeth Wide
