Shear guts: Shearer puts in marathon effort to help injured mate
23 Dec, 2020 01:00 AM
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Ariki Hawkins shears in the middle of the night to his tally of 1052. Photo / Doug Laing
Hawkes Bay Today
It was a deserved a beer for Hawke s Bay shearer Ariki Hawkins, even if it was 6am on Wednesday morning.
It had been the biggest day and night of his shearing career.
On Wednesday, Hawkins completed two-standard eight-hour woolshed days back-to-back, starting at 7am on Tuesday and finishing at 3.45am on Wednesday after running out of sheep.
He broke some personal records along the way, shearing 500 in a day for the first time with a 7am-5pm tally of 585, shearing 1000 lambs two hours ahead of time and finishing with 1052 lambs in 14hrs 45mins.