HE’S A SHEAR THING! Snow’s Golden hands
It’s not a stretch to imagine a million sheep have passed through shearer Ian “Snow” Harrison’s hands in his lifetime, but there are four frisky ewes the Southlander will never forget.
The great-grandfather of eight and New Zealand’s oldest surviving Golden Shears finalist still has a chuckle recalling the crazy episode outside a TV studio in downtown Sydney when a few unruly sheep made a bolt for freedom ahead of a filming session.
“I was in a shearing and wool handling team that went to Australia.. There were about three or four sheep on the loose. They’d got out on William Street and the staff had to catch them so we had to give a hand there. They had them sort of half caught by the time we got there but we helped take them inside where the cameras were set up,” tells Snow, who’s been known by his nickname since he was a youngster.
