Shearing strength along the grain of small clear pieces of 41 woods in green condition VIII.

The angasto has hair or wool so long that its limbs are almost hidden, just before shearing-time, in the tresses that hang from the body half way to the ground.

Tamarack | 883 | 843 | |-| Both shearing stresses may act at the same time.

Apart from other considerations, there are many Australians who will be reminded by these songs of the life of the shearing sheds, the roar of the diggings townships, and the campfires of the overlanders.

This shearing apparatus consists of a solid steel frame with set screws for clamping the block within it firmly in a vertical position.

Making a shearing test 40.

They stood in the garish light of a Queensland bar, surrounded by an eager, gaping crowd of farmers, boundary-riders, sheep-shearers, who had come down to this township on the coast on business or pleasure at the end of the shearing season.

”—A pound a hundred is the price for shearing sheep, and several bitterly fought-out strikes have taken place about it.

The upland with its shepherd's hut, the sheep-shearing barn, the harvest storm, the hollow of ferns, and the churchyard with its dripping water spout are part of the wonderful landscape in Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)

This latter embraces all the machinery, both fixed and rolling; locomotives and cars coming under the latter,and the shop-machines, lathes, planers, and boring-machines, forging, cutting, punching, rolling, and shearing engines, pumps and pumping-engines for the water-stations, turn-tables, and the like, under the former.

In designing a shearing specimen it is necessary to take into consideration the proportions of the area of shear, since, if the length of the portion to be sheared off is too great in the direction of the shearing face, failure would occur by compression before the piece would shear.

"It is the practice to shear goats in the greater part of Phrygia because there the goats have heavy coats, of which cilicia (so called because the practice of shearing goats began in the city of that name) and other hair cloth materials of that kind are made.

These creatures adapt themselves to the shearing machines with wonderful equanimity and willingness, so that they are seldom or never injured.

Only a few years ago, every shearing shed had at least one minstrel who could drone out the refrain of a shearing song— “But, oh, boys, such sheep I never shore, As those that made us knuckle down at Goorianawa”

In designing a shearing specimen it is necessary to take into consideration the proportions of the area of shear, since, if the length of the portion to be sheared off is too great in the direction of the shearing face, failure would occur by compression before the piece would shear.

Shearing specimens are frequently cut from beams after testing.

Waggons were arriving with shearing supplies, for it was drawing nigh unto the great event of the year.

Part of the blocks are cut so that the shearing surface is parallel to the growth rings, or tangential; others at right angles to the growth rings, or radial.

Vertical section of shearing tool 37.

Times were ripe for setting up the most wildly inflated stock lamb-shearing traps.

If one of the ropes binding the shears breaks, the men who hold the pair are said to be unlucky; it is thought that they are soon to die.

The older men talk of the days of the Eureka Stockade and the younger of 'shearing wars' in North Queensland, while the traveller moves timidly among them wondering what under the world every third word means.

But I beg leave of you, however, to allow me to give one shear-darg (that is, one harvest-day's work) to the king, my master, that I may have an opportunity of convincing the brave clans, that I can hazard my life in that service as freely as the meanest of them.

Its peculiar characteristics are the perforated and striated scutiform area on the front of the cell and the perforated, or apparently perforated pyramidal lateral processes above each avicularium; these processes are much developed, and give the cell the form of a broad inverted shear-head.

[Shear-penny.]