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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 7620571" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>We have a TPW which we hire out to neighbours. Had it around 20 years but was expensive then.</p><p>BW imported a number of them and used some in the depots for packing small batches and also for packing up sheets to reduce space.</p><p></p><p>A wool press is completely different to a cardboard press as wool will always return to its original bulk so needs to be held down after each pressing before the next lot goes in. It also has another unusual property in that it never spreads sideways when compacted. I did a lot of work on wool presses and revolutionised the presses in the depots as well as making compactors to increase weight with the sheets bundled together.</p><p>The original wool presses used were made by a company called Bank Bottom and were top fed and pressed by chains and hydraulics each end of the press.</p><p>The first improvement came in the late 80's by converting a Hop press to a wool press which was made by a local company on the Romney Marsh, Marsh Engineering. These made the first bulk presses where whole skeps of wool were tipped in and bales of 300kg were made and wire tied.</p><p>There were efforts made to develop better presses, one used a vacuum system to such out all the air, not very successful. Another was based on a press that compacted cigarette filters made in Belgium. This relied on having a huge amount of travel in the chamber, both from the bottom and top. I believe these are still used in Newtown. They were a nightmare to install as they had to dig a hole some 20' deep.</p><p></p><p>More recently another company has been making a better press similar to which Marsh made that is faster, however they need a lot of hydraulic power to get to 350kg.</p><p></p><p>BW also had some farm presses made by a company in Shropshire, I am not sure what happened to all of these, they were about half the price of the BTW but only worked on external hydraulics from a tractor, whereas the BTW has an electric hydraulic pump or can run off a tractor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 7620571, member: 699"] We have a TPW which we hire out to neighbours. Had it around 20 years but was expensive then. BW imported a number of them and used some in the depots for packing small batches and also for packing up sheets to reduce space. A wool press is completely different to a cardboard press as wool will always return to its original bulk so needs to be held down after each pressing before the next lot goes in. It also has another unusual property in that it never spreads sideways when compacted. I did a lot of work on wool presses and revolutionised the presses in the depots as well as making compactors to increase weight with the sheets bundled together. The original wool presses used were made by a company called Bank Bottom and were top fed and pressed by chains and hydraulics each end of the press. The first improvement came in the late 80's by converting a Hop press to a wool press which was made by a local company on the Romney Marsh, Marsh Engineering. These made the first bulk presses where whole skeps of wool were tipped in and bales of 300kg were made and wire tied. There were efforts made to develop better presses, one used a vacuum system to such out all the air, not very successful. Another was based on a press that compacted cigarette filters made in Belgium. This relied on having a huge amount of travel in the chamber, both from the bottom and top. I believe these are still used in Newtown. They were a nightmare to install as they had to dig a hole some 20' deep. More recently another company has been making a better press similar to which Marsh made that is faster, however they need a lot of hydraulic power to get to 350kg. BW also had some farm presses made by a company in Shropshire, I am not sure what happened to all of these, they were about half the price of the BTW but only worked on external hydraulics from a tractor, whereas the BTW has an electric hydraulic pump or can run off a tractor. [/QUOTE]
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