Cotton Picker vs Cotton Stripper

The pickers would pick tall cotton and the stripper were designed to pick short cotton. We had short cotton because of the dry weather this year. There were 2 different heads for the stripper, the one shown here is the brush head, there are 2 bushes turning together pulling up on the cotton stalk bushing off the cotton bolls. The other head was a stripper head for broadcast planted cotton, it was angle iron fingers mounted close together and angled down toward the ground in front, as the cotton stalk would slide through the fingers it would strip the bolls off of the stalk, that is where the name stripper came from, now you know the rest of the story.  The picture of the 801 picker was taken at the Bostwick Cotton Gin Feistable, it is held the first Saturday of November each year.  So If you won't to see the cotton story first hand and a cotton gin in operation come on down to Bostwick, Ga., Nov 3,2012

Sam, I very much enjoyed the pictures and explanation.  I was involved with farming too far north to ever see cotton in person.  Thanks.