My the basket on my fruit press is rather crappy wood. This winter I
am going to replace it.

For very little cost I can replace the staves (or whatever the wood
parts of the basket are called) with much better quality oak with a
decent finish. It dawned on me that by simply making the basket a few
inches taller I could increase the press volume somewhat. I have the
clearance on the ratchet mechanism to handle a few more inches of
basket height. This is a ten gallon press if that makes a difference.

Is there any good reason to NOT do this? I understand it would make
pressing smaller volumes a little harder.