FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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New Bales for Wool

Year : 1972 | Producer : Don Murray
Men tying wool bales, attaching metal hooks. Wool being opened out by machine. Man handling wool in cage. Man with large suction tube over wool in truck trailer. Wool in accumulator. Wool compression. Core samples of wool being ejected from tubes into plastic bags. Men packaging finished bale and sending it to weighing section by hoist and monorail. Recording figures on ledger. Wool bales loading them onto trailer and bales on tractor. Fleece with label and forklift loading the bales onto semitrailer tray. Semitrailer past weighing station. Man looking at scale in station. Stacked bales, fork-lift stacking bales in store. Forklift loading bales into shipping container. Bales being unloaded from containers and expanding as they are opened.
Access No. 141868 | 6 mins 7 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |