Cotton Harvest - Part 5

[Southern]

Here is pics of the large cotton farm in my area. Last time I was there, they planted 900 aces worth. I spent almost the whole day with them watching. The time spent was well worth it.

Here is a John Deere 4040 shredding stalks. After they open up the field. It shredded the stalks so they can bring in the KBH cotton house.


Here is the John Deere 4320 bringing in the KBH. He kinda got hung up on a hill. After some pulling and backing, he was free and moved to the new field.


The hitch on the KBH. So it don't use the hitch.


Another view of the KBH.


The farm ran 2 9930s to get the cotton picked.








Here is some pics loading up he KBH. And showing it in action. They dump the load into the KBH. And the packer pushes the cotton down. It took about 12 dumps to fill the KBH.








With the KBH full. The brought in the wagons to finish off the field. Since there wasn't enough to load the KBH again.


Time to empty the KBH. The door is unlocked. The KBH raises off the ground. And it slowly releases the cotton module.

[nickersonau]

thats pretty sweet

[frftoys]

Wow! I havnt seen pickers that small running around here in years. The oldest pickers I know of around here is a few John Deere 9970 4 rows. Most run 9986, 9996 and most around here run 7760's. We have 2. We had 5200 acres of cotton and I ran one of the 7760's on 2600 half while the other one ran the other 2600 acres. Those 7760 pickers are light years ahead of the 9986 and 9996 6 rows. We had 4 9996 six rows. Some run Case IH 625 and 635 module express. We once ran with the deeres we had a Case IH cpx 610 6 row and a 2044 Case IH 4 row. The 4 row picked the corners. and the 4 9996's and cpx610 picked the long rows. I know where a 2 row Allis Chalmers picker is sitting but the guy want sell it and he want do anything with it either.

[duplin97]

5,000 acres of cotton, dang. Where you at? Delta?

[frftoys]

I live in Georgia.. About an hour and a half north east of me a guy farms 19,000 acres of cotton near Statesboro Ga. He has 7 CPX 635 Case IH's. Word has it though him and Case IH had a falling out and hes going to all deeres next year including tractors. Another fellow Crenshaw farms he farms 9,000 acres he lives about 20 mins from me.

[Southern]

Ok, I can see why on those cotton farm sizes. In my parts most farms are under the 1,000 acres mark. There is a handful over that. Cotton isn't as big as it once was in my area. However there is some that still picks. I doubt I will ever see those new style pickers in action in my area.

[frftoys]

We have 9 gins in my county alone. We are gin poor HA HA

[Southern]

Jan 16, 2014 21:50:43 GMT -5 frftoys said:

We have 9 gins in my county alone. We are gin poor HA HA

Back in the day there was 4 in the area. Plus 3 yarn mills in town to process the cotton. At the time you either grew cotton, grain, and soys. Unless you grew corn for cattle food. Now corn has replaced cotton thanks to years of bad profits off the crop. All the yarn mills are closed, and only 1 gin still in operation. Cotton is almost a dead crop in my area.