Thank you. I've been farming corn and soybeans my whole life but know nothing about cotton. It's cool how diversified your operation is. Keep up the good work!
That’s amazing this technology was available only as recently as WW2. My great grandmother told me stories of how she picked Cotten during the Great Depression and how much work it was day after day. Now a machine can do it.
Watched this after watching your 11/01/2020 video! For those of us that have never been around cotton or cotton pickers it was very interesting to hear your explanation and was very understandable!! Thanks for taking time to do that!!
Thank you for the video! We pass 2 huge cotton fields on the way to my son's new school and for the first time, I noticed it had been harvested and lots of cotton bells were there and I was curious as to how its done. Great video ! 😊
really great video. i searched for videos of people picking cotton manually and found my way to this. it's remarkable the amount of suffering this machine has eliminated, and with such technological grace. i think about the slaves that would have been on so many American cotton fields 200 years ago, or even less, and what kind of salvation this would have been. it's only a shame it took man so long to come up with this invention. thank you for uploading this!
This is really cool! We don't have much cotton I have seen where I live , so I didn't even know this machine existed. I didn't even know what a cotton plant looked like!
Being from the far north ive never been around the cotton industry, but I've always been fascinated with it, especially with how the massive cotton pickers work, thanks for this video, you've explained everything perfectly! I would even say much better than most other videos
I really appreciate this video. Only thing that I would mention is that my understanding is the doffers actually spin in the same direction as the spindles and at a faster speed to ‘unwrap’ the cotton from the spindle barbs. The taper in the spindles also helps this process. The ones I have worked on have the bars coordinated with the ground speed of the picker so the plant ‘sees’ the spindles move in and out of the plant and not pulling or pushing it. I haven’t worked on the round machines so I just assume this is still the case. Thanks again and I’m going to link it on my page. I sure won’t send much traffic your way unfortunately but it is about the best video (perfect length and detail) to show people that are unfamiliar with cotton and probably educational to some that are. Thanks agin... new subscriber.
Praying you have a wonderful high quality crop and plenty of it stay safe out there awesome informative video showing how everything works very good video
Great video! I've never seen a cotton picker in action before since I live up north. I'm a field service tech for JD and always wondered how these work so now I see!
Good video - bk in the 50's we had a 2 row stripper mounted on a H Farmall. Blower didn't have enough power to blow it to the back of the trailer - had one man in trailer throwing cotton to the back. Oh yea - no ac on tractor or in trailer.
Its weird that I came across this video. As an African American male that was born and raised in the South my grandmother absolutely despised these machines
I’ve filmed the footage on how a cotton plant develops but haven’t put it all together yet. Probably do that this winter. A time lapse is a good idea but is not possible in reality. The TV show that filmed us tried to do a season long one but it didn’t look good. Between the wind and different lighting each day it just didn’t come together well. And if the professionals couldn’t do it, I sure don’t stand a chance. Only way to do it properly would be to grow cotton indoors and do a time lapse that way. They also tried that but we found cotton won’t grow underneath special growing lamps.
@@griggsfarmsllc I'm astonished by the effort you put into just finding that out! Also, thanks for this video! You have no idea how much time I spent trying to decipher how this could work :)
Thanks for such a great explanation of how these machines work. I always was curious, now I actually understand. Here's to a prosperous and breakdown free year.
Just a couple of thoughts. Cotton picking machines were introduced in the mid to late 1950's in my teenage years. At that time the spindles were continuously wettened by water to help the cotton fibers to stick to it. Actually, the machines leaves some cotton on the stalk. The economy is in being able to harvest a large quantity in a short time. So a small waste does not substantially subtract from the overall profitability. Thanks for the great video.
Aaron O'Shea thank you. I appreciate it! So what topics would you be interested in learning about? If I have the ability to discuss a subject, I can work it in with other videos I have planned.
@@griggsfarmsllc how about the different types of tillage and when they're used? Or maybe what happens to your crop when it goes to the next stage (day trip out filming)?
The genius behind those pickers is huge , then when you see it you're all " that looks so practical " brilliant video 👍🇬🇧🎃 . And I do buy cotton at every opportunity. As I grow through life cotton's comforts become more important . 😁
I grew up in the South but never knew exactly how a cotton picker operated. Thanks for the lesson. Can you do a video about how the raw cotton is then turned into thread?
I can't do that because there are no textile mills in our area. I do have footage recorded of a cotton gin which separates out the seed and the trash from the lint and puts the lint into cotton bales. I have plans to make a video about it eventually.
Picking cotton this way although much much faster, seems like lots of pieces of the branches get chopped up and imbedded into the cotton. Hand picking seems like you have a way cleaner product
Liked, good explanation and demonstration. Best I've seen. I know all this well. Have run a JD.tractor mount, JD 99, and later the 2-99. All likely built before you were born. The newer machines seem to move through the cotton a lot faster than we did. What's you're target ground speed in good cotton? Thanks in advance.
@@griggsfarmsllc No interest to you. But about 10 years ago they were a several very nice, low hour 99's. 299's and tractor mounts sold for scrap metal.
We had a John Deere 99 and a JD 299 both were 2 row machines they were not very fast ... the New John Deere pickers are way ahead of the new Case IH with the way they put a round baler on there to replace the basket.. it can roll a bale and wrap it , and drop it in the field without stopping.. the Case IH STILL HAS TO STOP TO UNLOAD THE
While a cotton picker uses spindles to remove just the cotton fiber from the hull, a cotton stripper uses brushes and bats to strip the entire plant of everything but the stalk. It pulls in the lint, hulls, leaves, and unopened bolls. It uses a burr extractor to remove a lot of the excess trash but will still result in trashier, lower grade cotton. Strippers are typically used in drier areas of the country where the cotton is shorter and lower yielding. In lower yielding cotton, strippers will harvest more of the fiber and harvest quicker than a picker. In taller, higher yielding cotton, the picker is much more efficient and can cover more acres per hour.
@madkhaliqfarhan oh look, I found a democrat who constantly has to make the most innocent question about race or has to make it about it to feel morally superior. How's living in your parents' basement you leech?
I have notice cotton fields when I am driving thru SE Missouri, TN, MS, AL. In late October many fields look like they have been harvested, but there are no "modules" around in the field, and there appears to be some cotton bolls left on the plant. After doing some research, I figured that the modules have been hauled to a different site, and that there is an acceptable percentage of cotton that goes to waste because it is left on the plant. I learned also that not all farms make the modules and the raw cotton bolls go into a basket truck and down the road to the gin. And I can pick up a few nice pieces of raw cotton along the side of the road!! WHAT is the acceptable % of bolls left on the plant after harvest??
So the self contained picker with bale maker and everything can cost 900k. How much is one that doesnt? And how much is all the other equipment you need to buy?
John Deere doesn’t even make basket pickers any more. Case IH is the only manufacturer that does but last I heard, they only make about 10 per year. I haven’t priced one but I’d say a Case IH basket picker brand new is probably a little less than half the cost of a new JD baler. Not sure what new module builders are now days or if new ones are even being made anymore. If I had to guess I’d say around $15k. John Deere’s baler picker will eventually force smaller cotton farmers like myself out of business because there won’t be any viable harvest equipment alternatives for us and we won’t have enough acres to justify purchasing one of their machines.
and i was wondering the whole time if this type of cotton has seeds too, and if the harvester take them out., i know the big ones has but these small i've seen only on farm sim and videos.
Yes, the cotton still has seeds which must be removed before it can be sent to a textile company. Look up a video on 'cotton gin" and you will be amazed.
Having moved to NE Mississippi about 10 years ago I am surprised at how much cotton is left in the fields after the harvest. Seems like some adjustment could be made to equipment to be more efficient. I was told by one farmer when I ask him about that he said he just claimed the loss on his crop insurance. Doesn't make much sense.
A well adjusted and maintained picker typically is 95-99% efficient in harvesting the crop. Also, Some varieties do not pick as clean as other varieties due to the lint being held in the boll a lot tighter. Many times it looks like there’s a lot more cotton left in the field than there really is
Should show what happens when the evening dew hits the cotton and it jams up the spindles. Wow you want to talk about time consuming sit on a bucket with a razor knife undoing that mess
The picker usually gets between 90-99% of the lint. No harvester of any kind gets 100% of the crop. A lot depends on machine condition, the variety of cotton, and the weather conditions.
It's faster and seemingly more efficient, but I'm seeing a lot of cotton being wasted. Would be a lot less waste if there were a group of people to walk through the field and do it by hand. Can even call it exercise, proper exercise not like riding a bike and getting in the way of everyone. I know a load of white people and a massive caravan of hard working South Americans who would do it for little money without complaining about a hard days work.
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Back in my day it was all done by hand 👴🏻
indeed
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Farming Simulator 2019 sent me here. Not disappointed. Love learning about farming.
same here, it is all incredibly interesting
Same here, wanting to build a lego version
Same here
Dairy farming is the most complex of all.
They have to be animal and plant experts.
Source: two decades in the industry.
I need someone to run my module builder in tx y’all hmu 😂
That is the one thing I miss. I love working with Pickers. They are 10,000 parts working together, and I always enjoyed working on them
Thank you. I've been farming corn and soybeans my whole life but know nothing about cotton. It's cool how diversified your operation is. Keep up the good work!
Excellent video! Thanks for the slow-motion shots inside the heads. Amazing technology.
Thanks!
That’s amazing this technology was available only as recently as WW2. My great grandmother told me stories of how she picked Cotten during the Great Depression and how much work it was day after day. Now a machine can do it.
Your vids are always chocked full of information delivered in a way a novice can pick up. Thanks for that.
Good words . The more we know the better we appreciate 👍🇬🇧
its impressive someone came out with this design (and very impressive how the bushes don't break under the pressure of the harvester)
Watched this after watching your 11/01/2020 video! For those of us that have never been around cotton or cotton pickers it was very interesting to hear your explanation and was very understandable!! Thanks for taking time to do that!!
Whoa! Super cool!! With more than one use! Love it ❤
Thank you for the video! We pass 2 huge cotton fields on the way to my son's new school and for the first time, I noticed it had been harvested and lots of cotton bells were there and I was curious as to how its done. Great video ! 😊
You did a great job getting the stalks picked clean, almost nothing left in the field.
malardo
really great video. i searched for videos of people picking cotton manually and found my way to this. it's remarkable the amount of suffering this machine has eliminated, and with such technological grace. i think about the slaves that would have been on so many American cotton fields 200 years ago, or even less, and what kind of salvation this would have been. it's only a shame it took man so long to come up with this invention. thank you for uploading this!
Glad I stumbled on to this. Saved me/you from lots of questions! Thank You!!!
This is really cool! We don't have much cotton I have seen where I live , so I didn't even know this machine existed. I didn't even know what a cotton plant looked like!
Being from the far north ive never been around the cotton industry, but I've always been fascinated with it, especially with how the massive cotton pickers work, thanks for this video, you've explained everything perfectly! I would even say much better than most other videos
Thanks for watching and the kind words!
Excuse me? Who are you referring to as a 'massive cottonpicker'?
I really appreciate this video. Only thing that I would mention is that my understanding is the doffers actually spin in the same direction as the spindles and at a faster speed to ‘unwrap’ the cotton from the spindle barbs. The taper in the spindles also helps this process. The ones I have worked on have the bars coordinated with the ground speed of the picker so the plant ‘sees’ the spindles move in and out of the plant and not pulling or pushing it. I haven’t worked on the round machines so I just assume this is still the case. Thanks again and I’m going to link it on my page. I sure won’t send much traffic your way unfortunately but it is about the best video (perfect length and detail) to show people that are unfamiliar with cotton and probably educational to some that are. Thanks agin... new subscriber.
Praying you have a wonderful high quality crop and plenty of it stay safe out there awesome informative video showing how everything works very good video
Thank you for the information.
Great video! I've never seen a cotton picker in action before since I live up north. I'm a field service tech for JD and always wondered how these work so now I see!
Thanks!
Stopped at KS cotton field today. I showed my son where his shirts made of cotton come from. He had a good time walking through the field.
JULIE KENNEDY Munden awesome!
Good video - bk in the 50's we had a 2 row stripper mounted on a H Farmall. Blower didn't have enough power to blow it to the back of the trailer - had one man in trailer throwing cotton to the back. Oh yea - no ac on tractor or in trailer.
Its weird that I came across this video. As an African American male that was born and raised in the South my grandmother absolutely despised these machines
I would like to see a video of the whole cotton growing process, a timelapse would be cool
I’ve filmed the footage on how a cotton plant develops but haven’t put it all together yet. Probably do that this winter.
A time lapse is a good idea but is not possible in reality. The TV show that filmed us tried to do a season long one but it didn’t look good. Between the wind and different lighting each day it just didn’t come together well. And if the professionals couldn’t do it, I sure don’t stand a chance. Only way to do it properly would be to grow cotton indoors and do a time lapse that way. They also tried that but we found cotton won’t grow underneath special growing lamps.
@@griggsfarmsllc I'm astonished by the effort you put into just finding that out!
Also, thanks for this video! You have no idea how much time I spent trying to decipher how this could work :)
Thanks for such a great explanation of how these machines work. I always was curious, now I actually understand. Here's to a prosperous and breakdown free year.
Cool video! Very informative to see the spindles in slow motion
I never saw a cotton picker. I'm from New Jersey. Very interesting.
@@sharpenflat6002 what does that mean?
Very good and informative video on an American relic. Thanks
Just a couple of thoughts. Cotton picking machines were introduced in the mid to late 1950's in my teenage years. At that time the spindles were continuously wettened by water to help the cotton fibers to stick to it. Actually, the machines leaves some cotton on the stalk. The economy is in being able to harvest a large quantity in a short time. So a small waste does not substantially subtract from the overall profitability. Thanks for the great video.
Awesome job!
Thanks!
Love the flag on the top!
Another great video. Thank you. Worth a subscription. Please keep the explanatory videos coming. They're brilliant 👏
Aaron O'Shea thank you. I appreciate it!
So what topics would you be interested in learning about? If I have the ability to discuss a subject, I can work it in with other videos I have planned.
@@griggsfarmsllc how about the different types of tillage and when they're used? Or maybe what happens to your crop when it goes to the next stage (day trip out filming)?
The genius behind those pickers is huge , then when you see it you're all " that looks so practical " brilliant video 👍🇬🇧🎃 . And I do buy cotton at every opportunity. As I grow through life cotton's comforts become more important . 😁
That was very informative! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the education Matt - very interesting.
I've always wondered about cotton pickers, very easy to understand video. Thanks for the great video.
Glad it was helpful!
I grew up in the South but never knew exactly how a cotton picker operated.
Thanks for the lesson.
Can you do a video about how the raw cotton is then turned into thread?
I can't do that because there are no textile mills in our area. I do have footage recorded of a cotton gin which separates out the seed and the trash from the lint and puts the lint into cotton bales. I have plans to make a video about it eventually.
@@griggsfarmsllc
I will look for it. Thanks
I saw you on the American farm on the history channel
Good vid 👍
Amazing machine. Thank you for sharing this with us.
AWESOME video!
Thanks!
Great video, how it works. Thanks
Safety tip: keep hands clear. I just came up with that on my own.
Thank you. I have always wondered about this.
Slave driver. We spent half our child hood in a corn field. I would not trade 1 hour for anything else we had so much fun
Naw man, I hated picking cotton as a child.
I wish I was in Dixiiiie! Hoorayyy! Hooraaaayyy!
Thank you! So amazing! Great viseo🙏🏻🌻💕
My grandpa was always doing this by hand way back in his day he always sang a song it goes like wade in the water WADEEE in the water
Here in Brazil, we hve a small number of these amazing machines.
Picking cotton this way although much much faster, seems like lots of pieces of the branches get chopped up and imbedded into the cotton. Hand picking seems like you have a way cleaner product
Great video!
7ViewerLogic thanks!
Very nice! Regards from Brazil.
I saw some other parts of the plant going into the holding section. How does that get separated from the pure soft cotton?
The cotton gin removes the trash in the cotton. Here is a video on it.
ua-cam.com/video/yHN76G-1QOo/v-deo.html
Amazing
Liked, good explanation and demonstration. Best I've seen. I know all this well. Have run a JD.tractor mount, JD 99, and later the 2-99. All likely built before you were born. The newer machines seem to move through the cotton a lot faster than we did. What's you're target ground speed in good cotton? Thanks in advance.
mrih1586 thank you! I’d love to pick up a 499 or 699 one day to restore even though you can’t get some parts for them anymore
@@griggsfarmsllc No interest to you. But about 10 years ago they were a several very nice, low hour 99's. 299's and tractor mounts sold for scrap metal.
amazing video!
How do you clean remains after harvesting cotton
We had a John Deere 99 and a JD 299 both were 2 row machines they were not very fast ... the New John Deere pickers are way ahead of the new Case IH with the way they put a round baler on there to replace the basket.. it can roll a bale and wrap it , and drop it in the field without stopping.. the Case IH STILL HAS TO STOP TO UNLOAD THE
I remember when I was a little boy, my uncle had the ones you put on a tractor, things sure have changed
Roger Embry they sure have! I’d love to get one of the first self propelled pickers and restore it one day
Griggs Farms LLC I seen one a while back, can’t remember where , I live in west Tennessee
Stop by some day! We’d love to meet our viewers
@@rogerembry4777 There is one in Union City at the Discovery Park of America
How does it seperate the tree and stick debris from the cotton ?
What about those dusts with the cotton? Manually picked cotton wil barely have dusts.
I wanna do this it looks fun
Doesn't it damage the plants by running it over with those big wheels?
What is the difference between a picker and a stripper?
While a cotton picker uses spindles to remove just the cotton fiber from the hull, a cotton stripper uses brushes and bats to strip the entire plant of everything but the stalk. It pulls in the lint, hulls, leaves, and unopened bolls. It uses a burr extractor to remove a lot of the excess trash but will still result in trashier, lower grade cotton.
Strippers are typically used in drier areas of the country where the cotton is shorter and lower yielding. In lower yielding cotton, strippers will harvest more of the fiber and harvest quicker than a picker. In taller, higher yielding cotton, the picker is much more efficient and can cover more acres per hour.
Bro... Are you talking about a black man and his white wife? 💀
@madkhaliqfarhan oh look, I found a democrat who constantly has to make the most innocent question about race or has to make it about it to feel morally superior. How's living in your parents' basement you leech?
I have notice cotton fields when I am driving thru SE Missouri, TN, MS, AL. In late October many fields look like they have been harvested, but there are no "modules" around in the field, and there appears to be some cotton bolls left on the plant. After doing some research, I figured that the modules have been hauled to a different site, and that there is an acceptable percentage of cotton that goes to waste because it is left on the plant. I learned also that not all farms make the modules and the raw cotton bolls go into a basket truck and down the road to the gin. And I can pick up a few nice pieces of raw cotton along the side of the road!! WHAT is the acceptable % of bolls left on the plant after harvest??
It varies from year to year, variety to variety, and according to how mature the cotton is. I like to see 5% or less left in the field
Thanks!@@griggsfarmsllc
Hello I am Brazilian and I live in Brazil
what is the price of this cotton harvester there in the United States?
27 jan 2022 9:7 pm est(utc-5): moc.ereed (in-reverse) -> used-equipment says cheapest is 608,000 usd , priciest is 735,000 usd . maybe buying used-item decrease metal-waste in car-junkyard .
3:07 above front-tire says 'cp-690' is model-name .
So the self contained picker with bale maker and everything can cost 900k. How much is one that doesnt? And how much is all the other equipment you need to buy?
John Deere doesn’t even make basket pickers any more. Case IH is the only manufacturer that does but last I heard, they only make about 10 per year. I haven’t priced one but I’d say a Case IH basket picker brand new is probably a little less than half the cost of a new JD baler.
Not sure what new module builders are now days or if new ones are even being made anymore. If I had to guess I’d say around $15k.
John Deere’s baler picker will eventually force smaller cotton farmers like myself out of business because there won’t be any viable harvest equipment alternatives for us and we won’t have enough acres to justify purchasing one of their machines.
"Hand laborers" 🙄
The "politically correct " term.
Cotton was hand picked until about the 1940s when the Rust brothers were able to get their picker into production.
How old are you?
Starr Leredo triggered much
@@StarrLeredo snow flake
and i was wondering the whole time if this type of cotton has seeds too, and if the harvester take them out., i know the big ones has but these small i've seen only on farm sim and videos.
Yes, the cotton still has seeds which must be removed before it can be sent to a textile company. Look up a video on 'cotton gin" and you will be amazed.
thank you!, i'll look it up.
is the plant/branches not damaged at all?
Pretty fields of snow. The government should have never killed the hemp market. In 1920. So many good products. Lost.
good video :)
Keeping it real 💯
Keeping it real 💯
nice!
I see the stalks in there also not just cotton
How much is the price of the regular cotton picker
aman yemane John Deere doesn’t make basket pickers like this one anymore. A new baker picker is probably close to $800,000 now
Ours is a 2004 model similar to the one in the video that cost 60,000-80,000 in 2019.
Black people: *my ancestor*
White people: MY ANCESTORS
I knew the comments wouldn’t let me down
Bro... This aged like milk... 💀
@ how?
@@JakeyBro69 Not long after you said it, there's another comment featuring a white old man...
@ that didn’t age like milk though, the racist comments are really funny lmao
Wow my mother , who is 80 years old today told me they picked cotton $4 for 100 pounds of cotton.
That breaks my heart hearing this
How on earth can someone pay upward of a million dollars for just one machine and expect to make money? That's mind-blowing
How much does it cost
Having moved to NE Mississippi about 10 years ago I am surprised at how much cotton is left in the fields after the harvest. Seems like some adjustment could be made to equipment to be more efficient. I was told by one farmer when I ask him about that he said he just claimed the loss on his crop insurance. Doesn't make much sense.
A well adjusted and maintained picker typically is 95-99% efficient in harvesting the crop. Also, Some varieties do not pick as clean as other varieties due to the lint being held in the boll a lot tighter.
Many times it looks like there’s a lot more cotton left in the field than there really is
@@griggsfarmsllc Thanks for taking time to respond, also this makes sense seeing a field of white after the pickers have come through.
Note GETTING CLOSE TO ONE WHILE OPERATING IS HOT AS HELL
The Nutella jars are faster and better- 👴🏻
Thanks for growing cotton. It is a beautiful plant. I only wear 100% Cotton clothing. "The fields are white unto harvest".
Good to know!
What is the name of cotton seed ???
What part of TN?
Most of the cotton crops are non synchronized in nature
Yield is coming 2 or 3 phases
How this works in a non synchronized lands
How many centners per hectare?
There are 40 horgords per slimfeks.
my day to day life
Should show what happens when the evening dew hits the cotton and it jams up the spindles. Wow you want to talk about time consuming sit on a bucket with a razor knife undoing that mess
"Hey no cheating" 👴🏻
What is considered an acceptable amount of cotton fiber left in the field? To the untrained eye it looks like there is a lot of waste.
The picker usually gets between 90-99% of the lint. No harvester of any kind gets 100% of the crop. A lot depends on machine condition, the variety of cotton, and the weather conditions.
What is the name of tractor?
They don't make em like they used to
1000m² kg?
step 1. travel back in time to get a cotton picker that will last much longer than any john deere picker
It's faster and seemingly more efficient, but I'm seeing a lot of cotton being wasted. Would be a lot less waste if there were a group of people to walk through the field and do it by hand. Can even call it exercise, proper exercise not like riding a bike and getting in the way of everyone. I know a load of white people and a massive caravan of hard working South Americans who would do it for little money without complaining about a hard days work.
It looks like a lot of cotton is still left out there but in reality, most of the time it’s only 2-3% of the crop that is left behind.
Hand labourers...is that what we're calling them now lol
Slavery ended in the 1860’s. Cotton was still hand picked 100 years after that. So yes, hand laborers
"Back in my days-"
The one in the video is a lot different from the two my father has