Farmers’ son and aspiring engineer designs Lego shearing shed in hopes it will be commercialised

The options from toy manufacturer Lego seem just about endless these days, but one design that is not available to buy is the humble shearing shed.

That was something 15-year-old Angus Dohle, from Tahara, Victoria, wanted to change.

The son of western Victorian sheep farmers Sam and Julie Dohle, Angus has built a Lego shearing shed by borrowing components from other kits.

He has submitted it to Lego’s Ideas scheme, meaning it is in the running to be commercialised by the business.

Trial and error

It was not easy building a Lego shearing shed without a kit to work with.

Angus, whose parents introduced him to Lego when he was “old enough to stop eating the pieces”, had to get creative in replicating unique parts of the shearing shed, like the…