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A large shearing shed houses hundreds of merino sheep in holding pens, while the central shearing floor features wooden catching pens and equipment stations where shearers work. The industrial woolshed design with corrugated walls and windows provides natural lighting for the wool harvesting operation. Men working as shearers and station hands move through the facility, managing the flock during the busy shearing season on this New South Wales sheep station.
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