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  • DEXTER
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2023
    • 970

    Cotton harvest

    Cotton harvest began for me last week her in the central Panhandle. Nearly all dry land cotton was failed by insurance and even some irrigated fields were failed due to poor stands. First photo is my stripper (notice the flag on the left side). The farm I was on is next to I-27 and had people turn around and come back taking pictures and giving the thumbs up signal. Second picture is in the field. Click image for larger version

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  • Bandit1
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2023
    • 716

    #2
    Second pic?
    The artist formerly known as Johnbutte1

    What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. - Thomas Jefferson

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    • DEXTER
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2023
      • 970

      #3
      Hmm pics gone? Trying aga Click image for larger version

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      • Bandit1
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2023
        • 716

        #4
        Erm...0-2.
        The artist formerly known as Johnbutte1

        What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. - Thomas Jefferson

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        • 98aggie77566
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2023
          • 989

          #5
          I see the pic - nice!!

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          • DEXTER
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2023
            • 970

            #6
            Click image for larger version

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            • Bandit1
              Bandit1 commented
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              There it is, looking good.
          • Johnny Quest
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2023
            • 800

            #7
            id like to drive that thing. is it gps controlled too.
            Right wing nutt job

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            • DEXTER
              DEXTER commented
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              Has a mechanical auto drive called "row track". Once you get on they row push button on joystick and it follows the row. They are putting true GPS in the newer ones now
          • KWeber
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2023
            • 957

            #8
            hey Dex, you ever looked at the new pickers? not many up there, but they're something....
            makes the 4-row I drove 30 yrs ago an antique

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            • DEXTER
              DEXTER commented
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              Several neighbors have the new 8 row stripper balers. No pickers used around here.

            • FREON
              FREON commented
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              Do those new strippers have cleaners?

            • DEXTER
              DEXTER commented
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              Yes all have burr extractors now. JD started putting them on as standard equipment around the late '90s I believe
          • Danny Jansen
            Member
            • Aug 2023
            • 52

            #9
            Down here in the RGV we had 2 row pickers and before that it was pick by hand. I spent a lot of time picking cotton both ways, Also back then all the cotton bolls didn't open at the same time. Sometimes we picked a field three times. Also the cotton stalks would grow a whole lot bigger if we had a lot of rain. I remember cotton stalks being at least 8 foot tall sometimes and so thick you couldn't walk down a row. If you tried your clothes were green on the front from pushing through the branches. when the cotton got that big, there weren't many bolls and it was a bad year. My Dad always said thank goodness for crop insurance.

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            • Wado II
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2023
              • 1779

              #10
              I remember a cute little saying about $h!++/ng in tall cotton my dad liked to refer to.

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              • Bandit1
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2023
                • 716

                #11
                Anybody who used a John Deere cotton picker made anywhere from the mid 80s to late 2010s had a very good chance of using my dad's work. He worked as a welder in the John Deere plant in Iowa welding almost exclusively cotton pickers for many many years.
                The artist formerly known as Johnbutte1

                What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. - Thomas Jefferson

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                • DEXTER
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2023
                  • 970

                  #12
                  Wish I had a picture of my first cotton stripper. It was state of the art 4 row IH 1800 that the basket when straight up when dumping and a chain feed unload system. I was 1/3 partners with my brother and Uncle on it, a boll buggy and module builder. Signed a $50,000 owner financed loan at 1% interest for 5 years with the original owner. My Uncle has since passed but my brother and I are still farming cotton on our own now.

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                  • Mo1952
                    Member
                    • Aug 2023
                    • 71

                    #13
                    My wife and her sister inherited about 5oo acres of dryland cotton fields in Dawson county, near Lamesa. they held it for 6-7 years before sellling it,
                    I think they made 2 crops. I told them they sucked as cotton farmers.
                    MO

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                    • DEXTER
                      DEXTER commented
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                      That area now is lucky to make 1 dry land crop every 10 years now it seems
                  • KWeber
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2023
                    • 957

                    #14
                    a link only Dexter and a few of us understand...
                    Viewing a thread - Cotton stripper versus cotton picker
                    plus is from 10 yrs ago...
                    PS, my cotton picking days were in the early 90's.. out here, uvalde-medina co's back then pima cotton was all the rage
                    acct of price... pima was tuff to pick, tho acct of longer staple...a pima boll has 3 lock vs 4 for upland...
                    I dont think any pima has been planted here in many yrs...
                    if it was a good crop, we'd go back and scrap ( second pick after a couple weeks) to get late opening bolls
                    I dont think anyone scraps anymore, tho

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