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| Running The Hydraulic Wool Press - More Wool Please! |
It wasn't a bad day at the wool pool ... temps in the high 80's, but with the fans going inside the buildings it was tolerable. One of the 2 wool presses was acting up all day with electrical problems, so the young workers fell behind. Not sure what time they got to leave!
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| The "Light Vegetable Matter" Pile - There's More Where That Came From! |
The 2 predominant classes of wool in this area are "Medium" wool & "Light VM". The LVM is generally medium wool that has excessive chaff, hay, etc in the fiber, usually from feeding indoors in with hay racks & allowing hay to fall down on the necks & backs of the sheep.
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| Washington County Wool Pool - Last Load Of The Day! |
The last load of the day came in around 5:15PM and consisted of 6 different clips ... meaning that the shearer had fleeces from 6 different flocks in the trailer.
It's back to Washington on Tuesday to start the small flocks of less than 125 sheep. Today our largest flock had 519 fleeces of medium wool - only 1 basket was LVM which is quite an achievement to be so clean.
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