Shearing Sheep

Background

Almost everyone has done the "Sheep Shearer" quest. However, what most people don't realize is that they can make a lot more money than what the farmer paid for gathering some wool.

Wool has value on the Grand Exchange because people buy wool to make ball of wool. Then those balls of wool become cloth, which is used for the P2P Construction skill, and other uses as well.

For this reason, wool is in demand. However, it's not the funnest task. You have to chase around sheep to get it, and it can be time consuming. That's why most players don't collect wool, leaving a money-making opportunity for players that ARE willing to shear some sheep.

Method

Start off at Lumbridge. Store all of your armor and inventory into the bank. Withdraw only an item called "Shears". If you don't have that item, you can purchase it as the Lumbridge General store (just north of Lumbridge Castle) for 1gp.

A little north of the Lumbridge General store is a sheep field. Here you can click on the sheep to "Shear" them, which basically means to cut their wool off. This wool goes into your inventory each time you Shear a sheep.

Keep shearing the sheep until your inventory is filled with wool. Once you inventory is full, just use the home teleport spell to go back to Lumbridge. Go to the top floor of the Lumbridge castle for the bank, and store your wool there. Then repeat the process.

Profits

There are tons of sheep in the sheep field, so you should have no problem collecting an inventory full of wool.

It takes 2 minutes to collect 27 wool, use the bank, and return to the field. So if you do this method 30 times every hour, and get 27 wool each time, you will have 810 wool every hour.

So what is the hourly profit of shearing sheep? Using the current Grand Exchange price of wool, here's the hourly profit of this method:



Have fun gathering all that fluffy goodness!