What does it take to be a shearers' cook? | Landline | ABC Australia

"A good cook should be able to make anything out of nothing." This couple know how the secret behind a good feed. 🍴 This story is from 2016. Reporter: Tim Lee.

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[sonofagreatsouthernland]

Can't beat the honesty and warm hearted nature of country folk! Puts the city ppl to shame!

[fazem]

What a cool couple they are.. the old boy seems so wholesome! The type of man you would want for a dad.. wish you the best and many more years

[rodneypeters]

Worked as a shearer’s cook for a few years, bloody hard work but I enjoyed every minute of it, I cooked for the best bunch of blokes that you could wish to meet, there was lots of humour and piss taking.

[gerrykelly]

Salt of the Earth. Love their attitude..and the classer!

[JBoogie]

Look at his knuckles at 2:52! He's lived a hard life. Props to him & his wife for still working at their age.

[SheldonBeldon]

Everybody they interviewed had a unique personality and seemed extremely lucid and intelligent.

[colinmayes]

Proper people doing a damn good job, bless them.

[andrewhahne]

When you see these types of stories, it makes you so proud to be Australian seeing. People work so well in a close knit team well done to all of these types of Aussies

[janethartwig]

Dick and Cheryl are absolute treasures. They are going to be hard, if not impossible, to replace. Greetings from California USA

[peterah]

These people are great! I love how they all appreciate one another

[DomingoDeSantaClara]

I worked in a shed in NZ when I left school at 15, I remember overhearing the shearers planning to shear my long hair off so I was ready for them at lunchtime. Three of them made the move and I legged it out the door and down the road with no escape except over an electric fence, I happily took the shock then stood on the other side giving them the middle finger, happy days and a great bunch of guys.I still had long hair when i left....

[eldoradorail]

Someone show this to Karl Stefanovic, this is what real Australians are

[noahcount]

This story deserves multiple thumbs up!

[kaze]

Incredible. I love these untold stories of folks' everyday lives, its so interesting to others outside of this world

[davidmayers]

I have worked in wool sheds in my adult life but I remember as a young boy in the 70’s we were on a family holiday. We went to a shearing shed and as we walked in the Boss of the floor yelled, ‘Swans on the pond’, every person working in the shed stopped talking. My father asked the Boss what he had just said. The Boss replied, ‘Your wife and daughter are here. They won’t talk while they’re here in case they swear’.

[cococharliematenga]

One of my all time favourite episodes of Landline. Thank you.

[PS-Straya_M]

What a lovely couple, amazing work ethic them and all the team!

[johntrueblue]

I was a Rousey for several seasons working for 8 on the board, friggin hard work, time the dinner bell rang you could eat a horse but we mostly ate mutton, was so fit back in my late teens, was good times.
My hat goes off to the cooks, food in the gut and i was out like a light for the night :) then it began again at 4am.

[mc]

A good cook is worth their weight in gold. I haven't been a shearer, I was working in the middle of the NQ outback looking for gold. Our cook was what made my day bearable. "A way to a man's heart, is through his stomach"

[looking]

What a legend! At his age out an about