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Sagefarmer
Silver Level Joined: 22 Apr 2013 Location: North Carolina Points: 81 |
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Thanks for posting the pictures. Now if someone had a youtube video of one of them actually picking some cotton, that would be great.
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CrestonM
Orange Level Joined: 08 Sep 2014 Location: Oklahoma Points: 8357 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrt5-3MNzA
This was in November of 2015. A buddy of mine has 3 of these 860s, and they do a great job. This video isn't a very good representation because there was a ice storm before they got to this field. The ice forms on the cotton, and pulls it out of the bolls, and a lot of time it falls on the ground. In favorable weather conditions, they strip the stalks very clean. As stock machines, these strippers are really pretty crappy, especially with today's high yielding varieties. He sped his 3 860s up, and did a couple hyper-mods, and those extractors are screaming, compared to the stock strippers. They're almost impossible to plug now (unless you just try to), and he can travel really fast in high-yielding cotton. He got 12 modules of cotton on 73 acres this year. That's a LOT of cotton! Those modified strippers just took it in stride. It was a sight to see, because that field is pretty much in town, and there were 3 860s (with 4 row broadcast headers), an 880 (with a 4 row "row" head), and 2 module builders (Run by Allis 7000 series tractors).
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desertjoe
Orange Level Access Joined: 23 Sep 2013 Location: New mexico Points: 13357 |
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Dang,,them cotton pickers sure bring back memories,,not of the mechanical pickers but the people cotton pickers,,,, I never did like pickin cotton, cause I was not good at it , I could weigh out maybe 150# per day,,,now I had an uncle that was skinny as a rail but he was a fireball at pickin cotton, he regularly weighed out 500# 'course there might be a few bolls and dirt clods in the sack Can't remember when the landowner showed up with the first mechanical picker, think it was a IH,,long bout the early 60's,,but they sure did leave lots of cotton on the plants and lots more on the ground,,but I knew it was the beginnin of the end of our fall money makin work,,,, |
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CrestonM
Orange Level Joined: 08 Sep 2014 Location: Oklahoma Points: 8357 |
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Dad did a lot of that hand picking as a very young kid. Not his most fond farming memories, except when he'd get worn out and his mom would let him lay on her sack, and she'd pull him along on the sack. Lol
He was glad when his Dad got a 2 row stripper mounted on a JD 620. His work was over! But....then he had to walk around the cotton wagon and stomp the cotton down. Being back there in a storm of cotton and dirt was no fun either....
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Ron Eggen
Orange Level Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Location: Lohman, Missour Points: 524 |
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Does anyone have the article put on sometime back about JD & Case-H using parts of a A-C stripper trying to develop a new cotton machine on a federal grant, but dropped it when they were successful and it would have cost too many jobs fixing up machines like the ones used today?
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CrestonM
Orange Level Joined: 08 Sep 2014 Location: Oklahoma Points: 8357 |
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Lol....another prime example of JD copying A-C....
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