The Rambowool story
Rambowool socks was named after our pet ram RAMBO.
Rambo was found abandoned in a paddock by my schnauzer Stollie.
Stollie
disappeared for a couple of hours and came back to the shearing shed,
slowly nudging this baby lamb to follow him, to where the shearers were
working.
Rambo came home with Stollie who protectively looked after him till Rambo was able to fend for himself. Rambo was hand reared and treated like one of the family (I think he thought he was a dog for the first 12 months of his life, he mimicked Stollie running and playing and following him every where)
Rambo had horns that were massive and like our Socks, Rambo was full of attitude. Rambo lived in our home paddock as a very spoilt ram with a collection of other ewes that are pets. Rambo lived to a ripe old age of 14 years
Rambo’s wool is used in the production of our wool socks, Australian made.
Our family established a Supplies Store in 1990 at Kyneton, Victoria Australia.
“rambowool.com.au” was established in 2008 to supply country clothing & shearing gear for our online customers where we now provide you with prompt service and competitive prices because at Rambowool we love to look after our customers and want you to come back.
Our solution is to provide you with an affordable and ever expanding range of products for you to choose.
Buying is easy, browse our product range, choose the item, add to our cart, provide your details and ASAP the items are dispatched to your address.
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John’s background
When you first go to the shearing sheds it always seems a place of ‘helter skelter’ and after a while, there’s always someone who has an appeal that others lack. Whenever you work for John Conlan you soon find out that he has a quality that draws people to him. Easy going and always a smile on his dial. Ever ready with a joke or story to tell.
John Conlan was born and raised near Kyneton, in central Victoria, and was a product of a large family. Four boys and seven girls. He took the chance, when he was fifteen, to attend a shearing school with the late Henry Salter, who taught John the fundamentals of shearing. Pretty soon John had gained a fair grasp of this shearing caper and by the time he was eighteen he had shorn 200 in a day and that was in narrow comb days.
“I had to go shearing”, John told me, “As there were that many kids in the house that fair dinkum two of ‘em got run over and the foxes got another two”. – Always joking John.
The big tallies seemed to come easy to John and he soon progressed to show shearing where he won many titles. Australian Champion five times, Golden Shears at Euroa, twice, amongst umpteen others. John has shorn all over the world, including NZ, USA, UK and South Africa. In 1993 John won the championship in the USA, which was then called the ‘World Title’. Having traveled so much you see and learn a lot and in South Africa, John reckons that the shearers were getting $30.00 per hundred in 1995 when he was there. He said “they were pinking them too – The boss made sure of that”.
Among some of John’s remarkable shearing feats is the 402 he shore in 1999 at the age of 49. “Would have got a few more except for the mud on the legs”. On December 14 1979, at Cobaw rangers John and his brother Mark shore 852 sheep in 7 ¼ hours. “It was the hardest day you could ever do” said John, “No back aid and a little narrow comb. Thank god for cold beer”. John was also inducted into the Shearer’s Hall of Fame in 2017.