IDK about your local slang, but if "mids" is compressed weed, then many of the trichomes will already have been burst and hash yields will be low (if you make true hash rather than a solvent extract). If you stretch a thin screen (you could make one from tights (pantyhose)) over a frame, then break your bud up over and on to it, then tap the frame gently, a quarter of good weed will yield enough for a couple of joints. This way, the weed will still be good to smoke. In terms of pressing it, if you have dry palms you can just use the palm of one hand and the thumb of the other to press it into a little piece. I don't have dry palms, so I make hash in my shoe- wrap the trichomes in some kind of plastic (a baggie will be fine), put it in your shoe, then walk around all day. The friction and pressure will press the hash up nicely. However, I imagine that you will lose a bit of hash in the pressing process, however you do it, and it'll be particularly significant with such a small quantity. Having said that, IMO pressed hash is a better smoked than loose trichomes.
As I often say, solvent extracts aren't really hash, but you could make some. Most people prefer BHO to QWISO, and you have to accept that you are going to experience some mechanical losses (i.e. you won't end up with all the THC in your finished product).
