I like the Deere baler pickers. Id love to see the Case IH module picker in action. Ive never seen one operate. Youre having so much fun i dont know if your picker will stay around for another season😂
If you buy one, look into getting a large front end loader and a module spear. You can make modules at 100% and load them on a flatbed instead of 80% to get them on a module truck.
Good video, always wondered about the baling. If it was constant or had a basket area it waited to fill. I am sure you will make a indepth video on the inside of one, one day
I'll be glad to see your farm with a round baller picker. Not only will it bost harvest time, save money and eliminate wast but save your poor wife's fingers. Hope she's doing better every day.
matt i had my owen semi i once was going to up date n i figured one more year well that was mistake i ended up with a 22000.00 dollar over haul n in oder to recover i had to keep running it n end up rebuilding a trans to but it a chance we take but if u put paper n pencil to what u save in labor n fuel u be not using to extra tractors on bale machines n kelly b less stressed doing it the way ur ur running older stuff so do ur math it might come out better to swich u never said back about the one guy u was looking to hire that had alot knowledge i take it didnt work out keep up the good videos i enjoy watching them
You look like a kid in a candy store driving the new picture. Thank you for sharing your farming, expertise and ups, and downs of forming life with us non-farmers.
We traded a 9965 and a 9960 four row pickers for one 7760 round bale picker. We traded an 8 row planter and went back to 6 row. One man and one machine takes the place of 2 pickers, a boll buggy, 2 module builders, 3 tractors and 7 people. We bought it used in 2013 and we've never looked back. It's here every morning ready to go to work. It doesn't complain about it being too hot or too cold. It doesn't get drunk on the weekends. It doesn't want to borrow money. The sheriff doesn't come looking for it for back child support. It doesn't keep the rest of your shit tore up all the time. Worth every penny we paid for it.
Welcome to the round bale cotton mafia! I giggled when you said it must be hard to get an 8 row header down the road,,,, trust me, it’s not fun. Especially when you go to 12 row 40’s. But! They have made them to come off a lot like a combine header with the trailer and all. While you boys use the CP we run the CS so before the accumulator we have a burr extractor making the CS machine with 12 row header a tad heavier. Word of advice? Do NOT get them anywhere near a mud hole you do not want to get them stuck.
This cotton picker amazing ! Outstanding piece of equipment , I watch Bale's hay on U - tube , a friend of his in Arizona picking cotton with a J. D. Cotton picker , just remarkable ! A video to watch , amazing ! Stay safe , enjoy & have fun ! The best to the Griggs family , can hardly wait for the change over on the Griggs farm , " Rock on " !
Only difference on the CP690 heads are the doffers. The rods are bigger around, a single long bolt that holds the top of the doffer, and also the adjustment is just a single bolt. Talking about stopping at 13% moisture, we don’t lol. I’ve picked hours without a moisture reading cause it stops reading after 14%. We go off weight but yea you don’t won’t to stop the feeder belt up. A tip for ya, when first staring in the morning or damp cotton, push the button in the floorboard, it runs your builder. Warms up your oil and belts which keeps it from stopping up. I like to constantly run it till I’m at around 50 or 60”. Then may let the accumulator get half full then run it again a couple times. Also guess the right deal came along lol
Funny how fast you recuperated from "I can't wait for cotton picking to be done!" to giddy to custom pick more cotton. Looks like a good machine. Remind your buddy that his three year old machine will be four years old by next harvest and maybe he wants to upgrade and sell you this one, it looks plumb wore out already. ... Doing some rough math off your stats it looks like $40 of wrap material per 'bale'? Is that like an inkjet printer ink game ('free' printer and expensive ink)? Then the machine holds five rolls of wrap for over $4,000 to run all day? Compared to the cotton buyers free supply of tarps for modules? Seems like a big expense. Then I saw cotton buyers complained about plastic wrap material disposal in some videos I looked at a while back when you mentioned your next picker dream purchase. Too bad you couldn't be given a woven cotton wrap from the cotton factory to load in your machine where the wrap just runs through their normal process as if raw cotton.
The plastic wrap protects the module from rain and there is less material loss, so the cost of the wrap can be made up in more cotton depending upon the weather. The round modules cut down on the field crew needed to handle the cotton and lower the overhead costs associated with cotton handling, building a square module, and special equipment needed for square module transport. The round module balers have revolutionized cotton picking.
Isn’t fun harvesting 6 rows behind an 8 row planter. 😂 That’s why hopefully there’s going to be an 8 row corn header on our farm this year. What happened to grumpy old man Matt?
Wait... after NEXT season's harvest??? If you factor in the anticipated inflation and other economic factors, it seems to always come around to, when you find a deal you can live with, you do it. At least for us that's the way it works.
We’ve only got like one or two farmers around me that run picker balers, everything else is stripper balers or still a lot of just cotton strippers, but the newer machines are nice.
I’ve always had a hankering for cotton farming ever sense I was inFFA in high school when I went to actions and trying to buy equipment and renting land I found out I couldn’t make it it was so much money and a huge gamble back in the 80s just to plant I guess it was a dream breaker for me I agree with the new pickers even though there a million dollars you don’t have the expense of labor and other equipment to run that operation great video Greg
My old man is getting older and older and I can't be around for cotton harvest these last couple years and onward to build modules and I am begging him to get something like this. I've ran a few and they are life changing and every time I go back and run my dad's picker... It feels like I'm going back in time. With good labor being hard to find and expensive these days to have a buggy and builder going, these are becoming more and more viable especially since you can find some decent ones sub 200 now in the right places. These units are life changing and you can't go wrong upgrading. Great content, +1 Sub
Mr Griggs its not my money but if you can afford it I say get it. Farming is stressful enough. Kelley would surely appreciate it you got a keeper there with Kelley. God bless you and your family ,,,, Fred T
Sure hope Kelley is healing up well and feeling better. That new baler picker is amazing technology! The increase in productivity and reduced labor cost sure seems to make it a good investment! I'll be happy for you when one is operating on your farm, Matt! Best to you and family...
I like watching US farm channels and just came across yours. Great video, amazing piece of kit from Deere! It looks a though it will be quantum leap in harvesting cotton. Thanks for going to the trouble to make and share.
what is the problem with CIH cotton picker?" it makes a standard module that they say is denser than you module builders and easier for the gins to process
Hi from Australia Matt. Have you done your cost benefit analysis yet. Don’t possibility of do custom work if you finish your own early plus use of labour to do other jobs earlier giving you more free time. You may even be “told” to take Kelly on second honeymoon (did you here that Kelly lol). The biggest down side is that you may not be able to drive it if Kelly gets her hands on it LOL. I’d say odds on for 23 harvest it’ll be doing it.
3 questions sir. How’s Kelly’s fingers doing? Have you ever heard of a root harvester for getting cotton off the ground?? And was that the first time you have ever had cab cotton??? Lol. Hope you had a safe holiday season, can’t wait for this year’s crops!!!
@@griggsfarmsllc I’ve never been around pickers but I know we’ve shoved some 5-6 bale an acre cotton through strippers. It wasn’t at 5 mph but I do see what you mean about more trash our modules don’t look as clean but also don’t look that much worse when running burr extractors. I also feel like a stripper does a better job of getting the cotton off the stalks. Thank you for you answer though!!
I like the Deere baler pickers. Id love to see the Case IH module picker in action. Ive never seen one operate. Youre having so much fun i dont know if your picker will stay around for another season😂
I'd be hard pressed to find a CaseIH module picker running in West TN. They are just not that popular
Thank You for letting us ride with you. Fantastic machine
Very enlightening technology is awesome isn’t it? Cool to watch.
I really enjoy your videos i really enjoy watching them
Kinda giggled a bit...."cab cotton".....first I've seen that! Glad you had a good time running that machine!
If you buy one, look into getting a large front end loader and a module spear. You can make modules at 100% and load them on a flatbed instead of 80% to get them on a module truck.
Good video, always wondered about the baling. If it was constant or had a basket area it waited to fill.
I am sure you will make a indepth video on the inside of one, one day
I'll be glad to see your farm with a round baller picker. Not only will it bost harvest time, save money and eliminate wast but save your poor wife's fingers. Hope she's doing better every day.
You sure left a lot of cotton behind the picker.
😂 damn I thought you pulled the trigger
This so neat that you drive this picker, it would be a lot safer to for Kelly to.
matt i had my owen semi i once was going to up date n i figured one more year well that was mistake i ended up with a 22000.00 dollar over haul n in oder to recover i had to keep running it n end up rebuilding a trans to but it a chance we take but if u put paper n pencil to what u save in labor n fuel u be not using to extra tractors on bale machines n kelly b less stressed doing it the way ur ur running older stuff so do ur math it might come out better to swich u never said back about the one guy u was looking to hire that had alot knowledge i take it didnt work out keep up the good videos i enjoy watching them
You look like a kid in a candy store driving the new picture.
Thank you for sharing your farming, expertise and ups, and downs of forming life with us non-farmers.
We traded a 9965 and a 9960 four row pickers for one 7760 round bale picker.
We traded an 8 row planter and went back to 6 row.
One man and one machine takes the place of 2 pickers, a boll buggy, 2 module builders, 3 tractors and 7 people.
We bought it used in 2013 and we've never looked back.
It's here every morning ready to go to work. It doesn't complain about it being too hot or too cold. It doesn't get drunk on the weekends. It doesn't want to borrow money. The sheriff doesn't come looking for it for back child support. It doesn't keep the rest of your shit tore up all the time.
Worth every penny we paid for it.
Good to see you have a run in the picker to wet your appetite. You’re like a kid in the candy shop.
Welcome to the round bale cotton mafia! I giggled when you said it must be hard to get an 8 row header down the road,,,, trust me, it’s not fun. Especially when you go to 12 row 40’s. But! They have made them to come off a lot like a combine header with the trailer and all. While you boys use the CP we run the CS so before the accumulator we have a burr extractor making the CS machine with 12 row header a tad heavier.
Word of advice? Do NOT get them anywhere near a mud hole you do not want to get them stuck.
This cotton picker amazing ! Outstanding piece of equipment , I watch Bale's hay on U - tube , a friend of his in Arizona picking cotton with a J. D. Cotton picker , just remarkable ! A video to watch , amazing ! Stay safe , enjoy & have fun ! The best to the Griggs family , can hardly wait for the change over on the Griggs farm , " Rock on " !
Nice to see Matt so happy for a change after tough harvest 2022. Thanks for the good explanation. It will save you some videoing time down the road.
Only difference on the CP690 heads are the doffers. The rods are bigger around, a single long bolt that holds the top of the doffer, and also the adjustment is just a single bolt.
Talking about stopping at 13% moisture, we don’t lol. I’ve picked hours without a moisture reading cause it stops reading after 14%. We go off weight but yea you don’t won’t to stop the feeder belt up. A tip for ya, when first staring in the morning or damp cotton, push the button in the floorboard, it runs your builder. Warms up your oil and belts which keeps it from stopping up. I like to constantly run it till I’m at around 50 or 60”. Then may let the accumulator get half full then run it again a couple times.
Also guess the right deal came along lol
It wasn’t my machine so I wasn’t taking the risk. Lol
I think we may test some limits this fall…
It's good to see you this happy and chipper picking cotton. That machine's going to make a great big difference to you and and Kelly and the family
Funny how fast you recuperated from "I can't wait for cotton picking to be done!" to giddy to custom pick more cotton. Looks like a good machine. Remind your buddy that his three year old machine will be four years old by next harvest and maybe he wants to upgrade and sell you this one, it looks plumb wore out already. ... Doing some rough math off your stats it looks like $40 of wrap material per 'bale'? Is that like an inkjet printer ink game ('free' printer and expensive ink)? Then the machine holds five rolls of wrap for over $4,000 to run all day? Compared to the cotton buyers free supply of tarps for modules? Seems like a big expense. Then I saw cotton buyers complained about plastic wrap material disposal in some videos I looked at a while back when you mentioned your next picker dream purchase. Too bad you couldn't be given a woven cotton wrap from the cotton factory to load in your machine where the wrap just runs through their normal process as if raw cotton.
The plastic wrap protects the module from rain and there is less material loss, so the cost of the wrap can be made up in more cotton depending upon the weather. The round modules cut down on the field crew needed to handle the cotton and lower the overhead costs associated with cotton handling, building a square module, and special equipment needed for square module transport. The round module balers have revolutionized cotton picking.
Matt you ever ran armour beans and 4.2 maturity?
No I've never planted Armour soybeans. And the earliest beans we usually plant is 4.7
This is the video that started my hooked for your channel!
Isn’t fun harvesting 6 rows behind an 8 row planter. 😂 That’s why hopefully there’s going to be an 8 row corn header on our farm this year. What happened to grumpy old man Matt?
He took a vacation…🤣
Wait... after NEXT season's harvest??? If you factor in the anticipated inflation and other economic factors, it seems to always come around to, when you find a deal you can live with, you do it. At least for us that's the way it works.
We’ve only got like one or two farmers around me that run picker balers, everything else is stripper balers or still a lot of just cotton strippers, but the newer machines are nice.
Try before you buy. Great idea.
I’ve always had a hankering for cotton farming ever sense I was inFFA in high school when I went to actions and trying to buy equipment and renting land I found out I couldn’t make it it was so much money and a huge gamble back in the 80s just to plant I guess it was a dream breaker for me
I agree with the new pickers even though there a million dollars you don’t have the expense of labor and other equipment to run that operation great video Greg
My old man is getting older and older and I can't be around for cotton harvest these last couple years and onward to build modules and I am begging him to get something like this. I've ran a few and they are life changing and every time I go back and run my dad's picker... It feels like I'm going back in time. With good labor being hard to find and expensive these days to have a buggy and builder going, these are becoming more and more viable especially since you can find some decent ones sub 200 now in the right places. These units are life changing and you can't go wrong upgrading. Great content, +1 Sub
Those were really fast years.
Oh yes, The ole JD 4020. I have heard farmers say. You ain't a farmer unless you have a nd 4020. Great video Matt. Yes it is Kelly. LOL
Mr Griggs its not my money but if you can afford it I say get it. Farming is stressful enough. Kelley would surely appreciate it you got a keeper there with Kelley. God bless you and your family ,,,, Fred T
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😳Love it CAB COTTON !!! GLAD TO SEE YA CHILLING MATT !!!!!😂😂. Thanks so much!!
Sure hope Kelley is healing up well and feeling better. That new baler picker is amazing technology! The increase in productivity and reduced labor cost sure seems to make it a good investment! I'll be happy for you when one is operating on your farm, Matt! Best to you and family...
I like watching US farm channels and just came across yours. Great video, amazing piece of kit from Deere! It looks a though it will be quantum leap in harvesting cotton. Thanks for going to the trouble to make and share.
id be thrilled for your wife! Having kids that aint interested in farming, her life would be so much easier not having to fight with the kids!
what is the problem with CIH cotton picker?" it makes a standard module that they say is denser than you module builders and easier for the gins to process
I bet your super excited for cotton picking 2023, looking forward to following alone.
Thanks for sharing.
Hay they got a lot used pickers at kennett mo
May your budget let you reach for a bail cotton picker. You sounded like little kid at Christmas.!
One man operation fast and efficient you need one of them for sure can you convince Kelly hope you can get one it'll make your life easier👍🏻😉🙋♂️
Gotta sell your cotton equipment to the guy y’all were helping, he’s in need of a good well taken care of 6 row picker
the video i’ve been waiting on specifically lol
Great video as always. I would like to say thank you for all that you and your family have done. God Bless all of y'all.
Oh I hope you get one. What a game changer for you. Less equipment and labor in the field.
Little do you know 😊
That is the biggest snow flakes I ever seen. Ha Ha
can not wait to see you get to up grade for your and elly sake
We all love your videos
Good 👍 afternoon my friend Matt have great Sunday man
So true about your grandaddy and electric power.
Hi from Australia Matt. Have you done your cost benefit analysis yet. Don’t possibility of do custom work if you finish your own early plus use of labour to do other jobs earlier giving you more free time. You may even be “told” to take Kelly on second honeymoon (did you here that Kelly lol). The biggest down side is that you may not be able to drive it if Kelly gets her hands on it LOL. I’d say odds on for 23 harvest it’ll be doing it.
I truly thing Matt and Kelly deserve the upgrade. Hard work is good for the body. But there comes a time. And age doesn't wate.
He won’t let her drive it. He does all the easy stuff and leaves her the crap to do.
I’m laughing
You had me excited, I thought you bought one!
Are those new holand you got going to be big enough to pick up a bale of cotton
Yes. Modules are around 5000 lbs. tractors have capacity to pick up 12,000 lbs or so
Doing hay in the water ways ain't fun on that farm
Is Jordan related to Dwayne East ? I worked in the trucking business and I dealt a lot with Dwyane he was from your area.
I don’t know
Hi Matt. If you bought a picker like this would you grow more cotton?
Maybe a little more. See the next video
3 questions sir. How’s Kelly’s fingers doing? Have you ever heard of a root harvester for getting cotton off the ground?? And was that the first time you have ever had cab cotton??? Lol. Hope you had a safe holiday season, can’t wait for this year’s crops!!!
Fingers are slowly improving.
No I haven’t.
No it’s not lol
@@griggsfarmsllc that’s great news. We will keep praying for you guys on the other side of TN. Enjoy your downtime
Hey I've been there many of times
Did you fall in love?
Looks like you need to slow down a bit. Seem to be leaving a lot. You told Carter not to go too fast.
My impression is your about to pee your pants with excitement.😂😂😂
I can neither confirm or deny…
Seems like if you have the wheat crop going in on time you would be capturing a hidden benefit.
One things for sure, that picker wouldn't have a problem paying for itself if not just in labor cost. Hope you find a deal by next harvest.
The sooner the better!
Cab cotton 😢
Doesnt the side of those modules get wet since they are uncovered?
Not really. The cotton is packed so tight that rain doesn’t blow water into the sudes
Just curious why y’all don’t run strippers up there? You can get 8 and 12 row strippers?
Strippers are meant for shorter lower yielding cotton. Plus the cotton grades aren’t as good due to increased trash
@@griggsfarmsllc I’ve never been around pickers but I know we’ve shoved some 5-6 bale an acre cotton through strippers. It wasn’t at 5 mph but I do see what you mean about more trash our modules don’t look as clean but also don’t look that much worse when running burr extractors. I also feel like a stripper does a better job of getting the cotton off the stalks. Thank you for you answer though!!
🎉2023🎉