However, the festival committee is not planning just any old shearing display, they are in the process of organising 'The Run'.

In every way possible The Run will bring all the sights, sounds and smells of a working shearing shed to the main street of Barcaldine.

During The Run, which will go for the standard two hours of the second run of the day between 10am and noon, six shearers will take to the stands while shed hands and working dogs draft and pen up, rousies clear the board, pressers turn out bales and trucks deliver and take sheep away.

In replicating all the workings of a shearing shed, spectators won't know where to look for all the action.

The concept is the brainchild of Barcaldine Regional Council Mayor Rob Chandler, who has had a long association with industry having been a shearer himself.

"Many people have never had the opportunity to see a real shearing shed in full swing," Cr Chandler said.

"So we are planning on bringing it to them and it will make for a pretty interesting spectacle because there is always so much happening in a shed during shearing."

However, in order to turn The Run into a reality, it will require the combined efforts of a diverse group of people such as graziers, stock and station agents, shearing contractors, trucking companies and even engineers.

All will be needed to provide the infrastructure, such as stands, portable panels and loading ramps, the workforce and the sheep themselves in order to transform a vacant block in Barcaldine's main street into a working shed.

Around 250 sheep are expected to be shorn by the six shearers during The Run.

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