The new way to pick cotton plenty of pics

Down under farmer · May 16, 2012

Thought you guys might like these. Not long back from driving this brand new machine. At 6 rows and 500hp it can cover 100ac/day with just 2 people. it took 10 people and 2 pickers to do the same area the old way making modules. The bales are 8ft high and 8ft long and weigh about 2.5 ton. The bale chamber is just like a big belt round baler that rolls plastic around he bale to hold it together and protect it from rain. If the plastic splits its a big job to pick all that cotton up by hand and throw it back in the front again. There has to be a better way to do that. I don't wont to be working on one of these when they get older more sensors and wires than you can poke a stick at as all the baler is automatic and has a small basket in front of it to hold cotton while it applys the plastic wrap and drops the bale so you don't have to stop. With a bale on the retriever on the magnum some times it need more weight on the front than the nose tank full of water would give just made it more fun to drive.

Rollie NE PA · May 16, 2012

Thanks for the pics. Interesting. I enjoyed them.

Ken Macfarlane · May 16, 2012

The last pic of the 4wd, looks like what we call forestry tires on it. The have the wide spacing like that and really thick carcass for driving over piles of brush. Whats the story on that rig?

4020deereboy · May 16, 2012

Cool pics I always love your pics please keep them coming .. I just hope you never need a free wiring diagram for that picker.

rick deere · May 16, 2012

some of the farmers around here have 3 or 4 of those this year theyve been out for awhile now.At least 2 or 3 years.old news in arkansas

SweetFeet · May 16, 2012

Thanks for sharing - very interesting. You have some impressive machinery. Beautiful blue sky makes a great background. Gee, one bale of cotton weighs more than our old Farmall Regular tractor does.

Anonymous-0 · May 16, 2012

If I had known it would have been this much trouble, I'da picked my own da mn cotton!!!

UncleTom · May 16, 2012

very interesting, how many pair,s of jeans in one of those bails?

JerryS · May 16, 2012

My great grandpa said something like that.

Old Bob · May 16, 2012

This has came a long way from the first cotton picker my Dad and Grandpa bought. It was a John Deere 1 row that mounted on a 620 John Deere tractor. Took a long time to put it on the tractor every year, then take it back off to use the tractor to make a crop the next year, but was better than picking by hand. Dumped the cotton in a wagon that probably held 3 or 4 bales of cotton, depending on the person who was packing in the trailer with his feet. This was in the very early 60's. My Dad and Grandpa are both gone now. Sure was hard work back then. Many moons ago.....

JBMac76 · May 16, 2012

Not uncommon to see that bumper sticker here in the Deep South.

Howard H. · May 16, 2012

Thanks a lot for the pics! Those are great! Where are these taken??

Bob - here is a pic of my grandpas old MM cotton stripper. Out of all my collection of old iron & tractors, I think I like it the best...

I'm going to try and get it mounted onto a UB Moline one of these days, though they used to run it on a JD G.

Hard to believe how far things have come in 50 years. Hard to imagine where they will be in another 50....

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NCWayne · May 17, 2012

I second that notion......LOL.....especially since looking at the pics tells me this one has even more bells and whistles than the 9930 ever thought about having.....

Down under farmer · May 17, 2012

These pics where taken near St goerge near the Queensland New South Wales boarder in Australia These machines have been out here for the last 3 years but the bloke i have been going with has only changed over to this way this year from doing it with a 9970 and 9966 and making modules. The 4wd tractor had been being used to laser level a new feild for next year dont know why the tyre is off looks like it had been siting for a long time it was going last year as they where using it and 4 case ih 4wds and laser buckets building a new ring tank for water storage

ASEguy · May 17, 2012

Very impressive spread and set-up there. I'm curious about the second crop.

cumminspuller · May 17, 2012

Thanks for sharing the pics. These have become very popular around here in the past 3 years. Only 2 of the red ones that I know of and one of them is getin gsold and replaced by a green one. Everyone that I know that has them says they pay for themselves 2 ways. 1.) Saves the man power, fuel and equipment hours in the field while picking. 2.) While those workers that are normally in the field running a boll buggy or module builder do not have to be there. They can be doing fall tillage and getting wheat put in the ground. Very nice machines though. A long ways from a 699 and 9900 HAHA

john *.?-!.* cub owner · May 17, 2012

Thanks for the pictures. My wife was raised in central Arkansas (U.S.) and is always telling me how hard work it was picking cotton by hand. I will show here these pictures and say I don't know why she says picking cotton is such hard work, it looks pretty easy for me. Just before i run for the door. :lol:

Texasmark1 · May 17, 2012

Very nice large scale operation. Thanks for the nice pics. I agree with your comment about when the baler gets older.

Here in W. Texas, on the caprock....flat as a pancake (like in your picture) for like 500 square miles or so, they bale it in large square bales. No covering on it however. I guess it doesn't rain that much when the cotton is being harvested.

Mark

Tx Jim · May 17, 2012

(quoted from post at 10:41:44 05/17/12)
Here in W. Texas, on the caprock....flat as a pancake (like in your picture) for like 500 square miles or so, they bale it in large square bales. No covering on it however. I guess it doesn't rain that much when the cotton is being harvested.Mark

The machine that does large rectangular cotton modules in Texas and other cotton producing states is called a module builder not a baler.

4020deereboy · May 18, 2012

It's a cool machine for sure but wow can you imagine working on that thing after its picked cotton for 30 years

Texasmark1 · May 18, 2012

Well great Texas Bro. How's I'm supposed to know that . All I know
about cotton is my daddy got a degree in Cotton Brokerage from
TAM (not TAMU back then, a college) and graduated in
1929.......otherwise I just wear it. Grin. Otherwise all I know is the
bales I saw on the Caprock going to visit my sister getting her MS
at TT in Lubbock from the USAF base where I was stationed in
Altus, OK.

Mark

Pair-a-dice farm · May 18, 2012

Nice pictures. It's funny how much it looks like Mississippi county Arkansas. I'm a partner on a small cotton farm there. Most still use the modules but there are a few cotton balers around. The first that I saw was 3-4 years ago.

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