Drum Carding at Wildflower Farm
     
Drum carding is much like hand carding, only on a larger scale.  The wool is picked and then put in the in feed tray where it is drawn into the carder.  The machine does all the work here.  My card was a hand crank model, but my husband added a pulley and motor to save my cranking arm.  It works great.  You just keep adding wool to the in feed tray until the larger drum is full of carded wool.  Then the wool is removed from the drum with a long spike tool and you have a batt that can be spun as is or rolled into a jumbo rolag.
 
  Pat Lees, Wildflower Farm