Shepherds also find a pair of
shears useful when they come across a solitary sheep that has escaped the shearer at shearing time.
Thus, brittle punching
shear failure can occur owing to stress concentration near the column-slab joint.
"My goal now is to
shear in the Golden
Shears final."
For those bridges,
shear connections between precast slabs and steel girders typically draw a significant amount of attention from engineers.
When you
shear with hand
shears, which are so convenient for a small number of sheep, you don't have to worry about electricity.
He has been shearing since he was 10 and attained six championships in New Zealand last year, followed by a top 20 position at the prestigious Golden
Shears, where the cream of Kiwi shearers, the best in the world, come together for their national contest.
It was a superb result for the Golden
Shears debutant, who came late to blade shearing and was up against the mighty South African team, which claimed a one-two in the event.
"Consumers are now educated on the various uses of
shears," said Annette Garaghty, director of sales and marketing, Wusthof-Trident of America.
Shears (whether electric "clippers" or hand-shearing "blades'-their usual names) enter into the open area between the skin and where the wool forms into its fuzzy locks.
To raise plate for positioning on the
shear, the operator pushes buttons and air lift ball transfers do the work.
For instance, Brian Baumann of B&B Wrecking & Excavating Inc., a Cleveland-based demolition company, has a fleet of 10 different
shears of various sizes.