Cotton Picker vs Cotton Stripper
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Topic: Cotton Picker vs Cotton Stripper
Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Subject: Cotton Picker vs Cotton Stripper
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 5:22pm
I may have confused some people with my eailer post. The top picture is a 880 cotton stripper built a LaPort plant in 1982, It has F2 cab, engine, drive train, and rear steering axle. This stripper belongs to Ruark Farms in Bostwick, Ga. They also own the only operating cotton gin north of I-20 and east of I-75 in Northeast Ga. The bottom picture is a 801 cotton picker, built on a D17 power unit, it is powered by 262 gas engine. It was built in the 60's in Alabama. This one belongs to Roy Ashley from White Plains, Ga. He has a large collection of AC equip including a HD41 dozier. 
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Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 5:42pm
| 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 |
Posted By: D-17_Dave
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 6:34pm
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Thanks Sam for the pics. Some stuff we don't all get to see. ------------- Yea, I can fix that..... |
Posted By: Farrell(Utah)
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2012 at 6:42pm
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Sam, I very much enjoyed the pictures and explanation. I was involved with farming too far north to ever see cotton in person. Thanks. ------------- A(1937), 2 G, 2 WD45 diesels, 6 WD45 gas, UC, 2 WD, D17 gas, WF, Farmall 400, D12, Kubota B3030 |