The sheared fleece is taken to a skirting table.  The skirting table is made with slots which allow debris to fall to the floor.  First, the fleece is shaken vigorously to remove any second cuts.  Second cuts are short pieces of wool produced when the shearer goes over an area a second time. 

       The fine-wooled rambouillet will only grow about 2 to 3 inches of wool per year, but since the wool is so fine and dense, a fleece can weight up to 20 pounds from a large ram!  Some of the other breeds can grow 4 to 6 inches of wool, but the fleece is not as dense and may weigh about 10 or 12 pounds. 

       Often celebrated in biblical stories and more modern rhymes, the sheep is seldom appreciated for the full scope of benefits it brings mankind.
       A provider of both food and clothing, the sheep has the natural ability to provide much more.
       Lamb and wool are environmentally correct, natural products that suit the new environmental consciousness of America.
       Sheep are the perfect tool for controlling weeds and brush, helping land managers avoid mechanical and chemical means of control. Effective and efficient, sheep offer a low-cost alternative that is entirely natural. In fact, they work so well that corporate and government land managers have adopted or hired their own flocks to help in reforested areas and watersheds, have found sheep effective in reclaiming areas infested with noxious weeds, and used flocks to graze areas like ski slopes and under power lines where other means are ineffective. In California, sheep have even been used to graze fire-breaks.
       Not the newest or flashiest of weed whackers, sheep may still be the best thing going.
       Society has often embraced the throw-away mentality, using and abusing our non-renewable resources.
Synthetic materials do just that, but wool offers consumers quality clothing without the environmental cost. Producing 8-10 pounds of beautiful wool a year, sheep provide the environmental benefits of grazing weeds and brush while growing their annual "crop" of wool that becomes your beautiful wool dress, suit or coat. Plus, wool can be used for environmentally friendly tasks like cleaning up oil spills or insulating houses, jobs that usually fall to synthetic materials that are resource-intensive to produce and hard to safely dispose. Wool is a great alternative.
       Lamb is produced from natural renewable resources like grass, along with weeds and brush that would otherwise grow uncontrolled to create fire danger. Sheep are unique grazers, preferring weeds and providing a service in clearing them from fields and forests to improve plant and wildlife habitat. And all while creating a nutritious meat product essential to daily nutritional balance.
       That's the long and short of it. Sheep provide a tool to help the environment. Sheep -- they are good for the environment.