A standard package of shorn wool in a fabric pack, weighing at least 100 kg.
some 7,995 wool bales were offered at the latest auction in the South Island
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Just one fibre of Damara hair found in a wool bale can devalue the bale by 50 per cent.
It would be nice to think that a local company would be interested, but generally the very fine wool bales attract customers from Italy, Japan, or Korea.
The injury was the direct consequence of the driving of the truck because the driving of the truck had dislodged the wool bale.
One of the more interesting sections deals with the riverboat trade, taking goods upriver and bringing the wool bales out.
There's fencing, tractor safety, judging and handling sheep and wool, pressing and stencilling a wool bale—in all there are 15 or 16 events.
We lit a tallow candle, and having stuck it in an old bottle, we sat down upon the wool bales and began to smoke.
It was no fun sweating down in a dark dusty hold, ineffectually trying to keep up with the regulars as they spun huge wool bales about on the end of their hooks.
A horse team is dragging a wagon laden with wool bales.
I was pretty handy with rolling big wool bales through the shed and out onto the loading dock.
I can remember, as a little girl, helping my father to load wool bales on to the back of a truck in the middle of the night.