November 24, 2025 • 8 mins
Alan McLeary of Shearwell NZ catches up for our regular chat.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shine Shine.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is the Muster on Hakanui. I am joined in
studio this afternoon by Alan McCleary out of Sheerwour, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Hey mate, how are you today? Not bad?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Just bring that microphone to you a little bit closer
or get you hit your petite little frame in there
behind the chair.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
As we call it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Been a busy couple of months. Busy month, Yeah, no,
it has been andy. It's been full on. We've we've
had a few things, a few things happening. I actually
had to write a list.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Studio.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Nothing's rehearsed, nothing's wouldn't miss anything out either, you know, right,
so you got your list there, it's important.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What do you got? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We we we helped with the Belfa bark Up with
the Young Farmers, which was a really entertaining night.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It was really well attended and the and the it
was really entertaining.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Booms on the show actually later on, so it'll be
interesting to see her take on it too. But lot
barkups the Bow for One than One was recent as
well and just great events and the money's always going
back into local causes.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It did, it went into the local Scouts so being
an old Scout leader, I had to go to that one.
But I do think and some of the Scouts got
up to do the barking, and I honestly, you know,
you just wet yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The human bark is almost more popular than the dog bark.
This is a stirring thing about it. The kids got
right into it. It was funny. Is so, how were
you a Scout leader for me or many years? You know,
I don't know, but I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So you had the knee high beige socks to go
with the boots, and then and the khaki green shorts.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, and my hands.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I can't do the Scouts because they're so so full about.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So I was called the claw. That was my name.
There was your nickname. Heah, the kids called me the claw.
So well, you learned something new every day. I gave
the kids a lot of nightmares. But and what he
else have I been there?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I've been up at College Downs with the Cadet farm
up there. Did a day's day's tailing up there, which
was once again really enjoying. It was the kids were
really they're great kids up there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You're up there every year doing a couple of days tailing. Yeah,
I've actually tried it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think I should do two or three to be fair,
but I don't know if they'll have me. I think
I hold the telly up a wee bit.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think did a day at the christ Church Show.
Had a wander around.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It was quite well attended for the number.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Of sheep there, so it was good.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So there's quite a strong shape influence at the christ
Church Show.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, not so much, not so much the standardball your
main breeds, but more a lot of lifestyle breeders there,
your valleys and there was Kerry Hills from England there.
They were a dying breed, so they were there. So
it was interesting because I haven't seen them since I
saw in England, so there'd be quite a shagy breed,
are they No, they're short, but they've got a very
(02:57):
pricked years and quite the black and white faces. They're
beautifully marked. So yeah, so there's a bit more of
your hobby farmer sort of sheep there than mainly your
mainstream ones, but but still well attended.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
What else did we do? The owners came over for
a few days. Yeah, shout out share we are UK.
They listening to it. What we're saying here at the court,
pretty sure I've got a new job.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But they did tell me I had to find some
more customers or you might have to be looking for
a new job.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So come on, guys, get on, get on the ordering.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Get those she we are tags, Go and order them.
How's it been at the how's it going at the moment? Though,
you'll be flat out like a lizard.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, I'm like a broken down record. I keep saying
every month's getting better and better, but but honestly it is.
It's just and the phone hasn't been going so much
this this month. But we're doing a record month again.
And what else have we done? No, we've got We've
got the new yellow tag. We promised new colors, so
we've got a new green, and new orange and a
brighter yellow. So we are listening and they are delivering.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Is there what Cocky's asked for? Brighter tags? Yeah? Yeap
our our colors were a bit dull.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But what I've learned is the brighter the color, the
more likely or quicker they'll fade. So there's quite a
rigmarole getting a brighter color that holds fast. But the
guys are pretty dedicated and they seem to be working so.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And it works well when you're drafting and you're at
the gates and you can tell what's what.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
That's a simplistic part about having get a little bit
older too.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're just not quite so quick in the old vision.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Made of their glasses. So I was fifteen, No pingeon,
hold me with that crap.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I got mine laser, so people don't know I'm blind. Really,
I can't get mine laser anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Anyway, on what else I've been I did.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I went and crushed the rams at for the for
the ram fear, which they don't need a dig.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's just a waste of time.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And they might as well just make me a donation
because there's I got to look, there's no eggs on them.
You just turn up and every under Russell basically he
is there. They're clean as he's doing a great job there.
So that was don't tell the boss though. I was
doing a bit of outside work, will you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I won't tell the boss. One was doing work outside
of what he does.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, and getting ready for the Golden Shares we're sponsoring
up there because it's the World's again. So this is
our third year sponsoring part of the Golden Shares, So
I'm getting myself organized to go up there for that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So that's a bit of a perk. Do you go
up there every yet.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Didn't go up last year, but I have ye been
up the a couple of years before that. And we're
sponsoring Jack Fagan.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I've seen that this morning on his Zista post. Yeah, man,
he was. He was pretty pumped about the waggle woggle,
aren't he seventeen seconds to get them? Yeah, get the
feathers off? He got more. I think he got them
all off. Yeah, oh no, but he was pumped. Yeah,
that's fair. So how do you share an animal in
seventeen seconds? I mean, geez, when you're crutching it tasted
that long, just a bloody stretch. Her emmy's out.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, I suppose when that sort of money is involved
to in the prestige, it gives you a wee bit
of an age, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, it's big money, it is, and it's a speed
sheer circuits lucrative.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes, Yeah, we do the one at Oh no, I
think we do it at the way the way Moomoo one.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But I don't you do the way umu one. Don't
you know you do the way you we want this
effects in Southern field days.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yes, so yeah, we sponsored it last well, I helped
sponsor it last year, so we'll be doing the same
this year, I presume.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And Rays flared out with the tags we're forgetting them
printed and the likes.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
He is looks like we're going to have to get
another one, another printer in to keep up. It's just
it's getting too much for him.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So so you're still going up driveways yelling to cockies
and the likes. You're still doing a lot of very much.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So I think that's the farmers seem to be happy
with that. I don't try not to spend too much
time and annoy them too much, but it does seem
to be working. So it sort of shows too that
even if they've bought the tags, I'm I'm happy to
line up for an ear bashing or a or a
bit of praising.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Maybe. Do you get a bit of your beshing?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, No, you know we do sometimes yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, but that's the whole that's the whole thing about it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Going up there and they see your tags, and the
chances are people like, oh, I got your tag to
the duot, say, I will want to tag the hoggits
early boomfod.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
The's your option, right, yep, yeah, and tags aren't high
on our radar. Really like her fertilizer and seed and
everything else, but tags you you're liable to forget. So
it's I think it is good that I just turn
up and it prompts them along.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, yes, sure right, Alan McCleary, Shearwour, New Zealand. How
do people get in touch?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, you better give.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Us a tingle on two seven two three two double
four double eight?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Are you checking? And I got the number right? And no,
I'm just doing my due diligence.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Here are you and or ray on the eight hundred numbers?
So that's eight hundred seven triple nine eight nine. I
think I got that right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Go to Sheerwell Inzen on social media channels, Go and
google Sheerwell ins it as well. Details come up there too,
say Alan McCleary. Always a pleasure to have you come
into studio for a bit of a chim wag.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh thanks for having me mate.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Ala McCleary of Donaldson's Dairy, who also moonlights It's.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Sewell, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Always got to catch up with the great man himself.
As it is our next guests, We're away at Garston
catching up with Tom O'Brien. There was a recreation of
a classic New Zealand ad at the weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Tom tells us all about it. That's okay,
Shine Shine.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is the Muster on Hakanui. I am joined in
studio this afternoon by Alan McCleary out of Sheerwour, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Hey mate, how are you today? Not bad?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Just bring that microphone to you a little bit closer
or get you hit your petite little frame in there
behind the chair.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
As we call it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Been a busy couple of months. Busy month, Yeah, no,
it has been andy. It's been full on. We've we've
had a few things, a few things happening. I actually
had to write a list.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Studio.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Nothing's rehearsed, nothing's wouldn't miss anything out either, you know, right,
so you got your list there, it's important.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What do you got? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We we we helped with the Belfa bark Up with
the Young Farmers, which was a really entertaining night.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It was really well attended and the and the it
was really entertaining.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Booms on the show actually later on, so it'll be
interesting to see her take on it too. But lot
barkups the Bow for One than One was recent as
well and just great events and the money's always going
back into local causes.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It did, it went into the local Scouts so being
an old Scout leader, I had to go to that one.
But I do think and some of the Scouts got
up to do the barking, and I honestly, you know,
you just wet yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The human bark is almost more popular than the dog bark.
This is a stirring thing about it. The kids got
right into it. It was funny. Is so, how were
you a Scout leader for me or many years? You know,
I don't know, but I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So you had the knee high beige socks to go
with the boots, and then and the khaki green shorts.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, and my hands.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I can't do the Scouts because they're so so full about.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So I was called the claw. That was my name.
There was your nickname. Heah, the kids called me the claw.
So well, you learned something new every day. I gave
the kids a lot of nightmares. But and what he
else have I been there?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I've been up at College Downs with the Cadet farm
up there. Did a day's day's tailing up there, which
was once again really enjoying. It was the kids were
really they're great kids up there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You're up there every year doing a couple of days tailing. Yeah,
I've actually tried it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think I should do two or three to be fair,
but I don't know if they'll have me. I think
I hold the telly up a wee bit.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think did a day at the christ Church Show.
Had a wander around.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It was quite well attended for the number.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Of sheep there, so it was good.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So there's quite a strong shape influence at the christ
Church Show.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, not so much, not so much the standardball your
main breeds, but more a lot of lifestyle breeders there,
your valleys and there was Kerry Hills from England there.
They were a dying breed, so they were there. So
it was interesting because I haven't seen them since I
saw in England, so there'd be quite a shagy breed,
are they No, they're short, but they've got a very
(02:57):
pricked years and quite the black and white faces. They're
beautifully marked. So yeah, so there's a bit more of
your hobby farmer sort of sheep there than mainly your
mainstream ones, but but still well attended.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
What else did we do? The owners came over for
a few days. Yeah, shout out share we are UK.
They listening to it. What we're saying here at the court,
pretty sure I've got a new job.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But they did tell me I had to find some
more customers or you might have to be looking for
a new job.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So come on, guys, get on, get on the ordering.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Get those she we are tags, Go and order them.
How's it been at the how's it going at the moment? Though,
you'll be flat out like a lizard.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, I'm like a broken down record. I keep saying
every month's getting better and better, but but honestly it is.
It's just and the phone hasn't been going so much
this this month. But we're doing a record month again.
And what else have we done? No, we've got We've
got the new yellow tag. We promised new colors, so
we've got a new green, and new orange and a
brighter yellow. So we are listening and they are delivering.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Is there what Cocky's asked for? Brighter tags? Yeah? Yeap
our our colors were a bit dull.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But what I've learned is the brighter the color, the
more likely or quicker they'll fade. So there's quite a
rigmarole getting a brighter color that holds fast. But the
guys are pretty dedicated and they seem to be working so.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And it works well when you're drafting and you're at
the gates and you can tell what's what.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
That's a simplistic part about having get a little bit
older too.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're just not quite so quick in the old vision.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Made of their glasses. So I was fifteen, No pingeon,
hold me with that crap.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I got mine laser, so people don't know I'm blind. Really,
I can't get mine laser anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Anyway, on what else I've been I did.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I went and crushed the rams at for the for
the ram fear, which they don't need a dig.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's just a waste of time.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And they might as well just make me a donation
because there's I got to look, there's no eggs on them.
You just turn up and every under Russell basically he
is there. They're clean as he's doing a great job there.
So that was don't tell the boss though. I was
doing a bit of outside work, will you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I won't tell the boss. One was doing work outside
of what he does.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, and getting ready for the Golden Shares we're sponsoring
up there because it's the World's again. So this is
our third year sponsoring part of the Golden Shares, So
I'm getting myself organized to go up there for that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So that's a bit of a perk. Do you go
up there every yet.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Didn't go up last year, but I have ye been
up the a couple of years before that. And we're
sponsoring Jack Fagan.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I've seen that this morning on his Zista post. Yeah, man,
he was. He was pretty pumped about the waggle woggle,
aren't he seventeen seconds to get them? Yeah, get the
feathers off? He got more. I think he got them
all off. Yeah, oh no, but he was pumped. Yeah,
that's fair. So how do you share an animal in
seventeen seconds? I mean, geez, when you're crutching it tasted
that long, just a bloody stretch. Her emmy's out.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, I suppose when that sort of money is involved
to in the prestige, it gives you a wee bit
of an age, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, it's big money, it is, and it's a speed
sheer circuits lucrative.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes, Yeah, we do the one at Oh no, I
think we do it at the way the way Moomoo one.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But I don't you do the way umu one. Don't
you know you do the way you we want this
effects in Southern field days.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yes, so yeah, we sponsored it last well, I helped
sponsor it last year, so we'll be doing the same
this year, I presume.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And Rays flared out with the tags we're forgetting them
printed and the likes.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
He is looks like we're going to have to get
another one, another printer in to keep up. It's just
it's getting too much for him.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So so you're still going up driveways yelling to cockies
and the likes. You're still doing a lot of very much.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So I think that's the farmers seem to be happy
with that. I don't try not to spend too much
time and annoy them too much, but it does seem
to be working. So it sort of shows too that
even if they've bought the tags, I'm I'm happy to
line up for an ear bashing or a or a
bit of praising.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Maybe. Do you get a bit of your beshing?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, No, you know we do sometimes yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, but that's the whole that's the whole thing about it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Going up there and they see your tags, and the
chances are people like, oh, I got your tag to
the duot, say, I will want to tag the hoggits
early boomfod.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
The's your option, right, yep, yeah, and tags aren't high
on our radar. Really like her fertilizer and seed and
everything else, but tags you you're liable to forget. So
it's I think it is good that I just turn
up and it prompts them along.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, yes, sure right, Alan McCleary, Shearwour, New Zealand. How
do people get in touch?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, you better give.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Us a tingle on two seven two three two double
four double eight?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Are you checking? And I got the number right? And no,
I'm just doing my due diligence.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Here are you and or ray on the eight hundred numbers?
So that's eight hundred seven triple nine eight nine. I
think I got that right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Go to Sheerwell Inzen on social media channels, Go and
google Sheerwell ins it as well. Details come up there too,
say Alan McCleary. Always a pleasure to have you come
into studio for a bit of a chim wag.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh thanks for having me mate.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Ala McCleary of Donaldson's Dairy, who also moonlights It's.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Sewell, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Always got to catch up with the great man himself.
As it is our next guests, We're away at Garston
catching up with Tom O'Brien. There was a recreation of
a classic New Zealand ad at the weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Tom tells us all about it. That's okay,
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