I wish more TH-cam farmers would explain thier machines like this man did in this vid. Im no farmer but farming channels are popping up in my feed and im hooked. Great vid, you get a 👍 from me.
New subscriber. I’m from Kentucky, but some of my people are in Tishomingo County. Great explanation of getting a cotton picker cleaned up for work. Thanks!
Great channel man. Been around southern agriculture all my life. You explained the function of the picker heads as well as anyone i have been around. They are complicated. Loved the way you showed what all the displays in cab mean. It really helps the non ag viewers on what goes on in the cabs, I will be mentioning your channel in my upcoming videos because i like your content and i think most of my subscribers will as well. I subbed and have a lot of your videos to watch.
It's my first time seeing cotton bales in real life (yes, first time in the South, lol). I was so dumbfounded by them I had to find a video to explain how it happened! Your video answered all of my questions, thank you!
I just looked at one of them module expresses it makes the module I can you take so long time unloading it a John Deere don't never stop it keeps on trucking I said John do for you
Farmers are so lucky, they get to have brief glimpses of the pretty plants between bouts of mechanicing. Interesting to see how those newfangled baler units work. I guess the module builder will soon go the way of the cotton trailer.
As a Corn & Soybean farmer from Ohio, quite interesting to see what you go through. My first thought was to power wash the head but I see you explained the procedure in the comment section. I would hate to guess what that head weights, looks like Deere could step it up on the lift cylinders. Our harvest season falls inline but I would like to see the operation in person. Don't mind if you see a Yankee at the end of your field watching......😁
Joliet John we keep them pretty clean each day with high pressure blowers, we will clean the heads out once every week or so with a high volume hose, sometimes the high pressure may damage a moisture pad, water line or possibly even a doffer pad. But they are high pressure steam cleaned with soap at the end of every season
Nasty job. We take a water hose and wash ours. Have plenty of help after heads are cleaned. It is craze how those doors pop open by their selves sometime.
I'm 16 from Virginia and I've been very interested in farming since I was 13. I like this kind of content because where I live at all that ever grows is cotton, corn, wheat, & soybeans. But mainly cotton, I was wondering what the differences are between the Case IH Module Express and the John Deere CP690 other than the fact that one does square modules (Case) and the other does round modules (Deere). By the way all I've grown up around was Case equipment and honestly John Deere I've grown more fond of mainly because you just get tired of seeing one color and you want to see some diversity. Talk crap about Case all you want I don't care because I'll agree with ya. #JDSAREBETTER
Robert Riley that’s awesome man, thanks for watching, I’m not familiar at all with Case pickers, the heads I know are a bit different and I’m pretty sure Cases have to stop unload their module where Deere baler picker can unload on the go. We will average about 250 acres per day with 3 pickers. 2 690’s and 1 7760 John Deere
@@southernfarmer Thank you so much sir! Now I know what harvester to invest in whenever I get the chance to start my own farm! Btw your videos have actually taught me more than this youtuber I watch that says he knows everything John Deere but I can tell when someone knows everything and when someone doesn't know a damn thing.
Nelson Hendricks it holds 4 rolls which picks 96 round modules, that will last about 2-3 days. Next video will have us loading some! Stay tuned and thanks for watching 👍🏼
Any reason the John Deere CP 690s are all around these parts but no Cases? (Nerd alert) I like Farming Sim, but I just can’t see the worth of paying extra for the John Deere.
J Lyons Time during a Harvest is so valuable, Deere round bale pickers can bale & eject on the move, never stop. Case has to stop to unload, then unless you want a square module on the center of your field you have to haul it to the end
Not sure of the exact history of that particular farm. Think it was actually mostly cattle in the years prior to 1970ish Haven’t seen any old structures that resemble any homes that slaves would have lived in.
Rob Warihay yes, many guys out west with smaller plants and narrow rows use strippers and I’m sure always will. They are in a dryer climate and the stripper takes lint, boll, and all off the stalk to my understanding. Actually never seen one first hand. So no real knowledge of a cotton stripper, but there are CS690 just like we have CP690s
GJ explaining that stuff. Always wonder about those heads. Good to see some good ole Mississippi accent on the TH-cams! Good Evening from Lafayette County!
I wish more TH-cam farmers would explain thier machines like this man did in this vid. Im no farmer but farming channels are popping up in my feed and im hooked. Great vid, you get a 👍 from me.
Half Nelson thanks man, appreciate it
I wish it would have been around two or three hundred years ago
George The Tar Heel Gardener it’s a heck of a machine
New subscriber. I’m from Kentucky, but some of my people are in Tishomingo County. Great explanation of getting a cotton picker cleaned up for work. Thanks!
Thomas Williams thanks for watching
thanks for the video I love seeing things I've never seen before :)
jetegtmeier71 thanks for watching
Great channel man. Been around southern agriculture all my life. You explained the function of the picker heads as well as anyone i have been around. They are complicated. Loved the way you showed what all the displays in cab mean. It really helps the non ag viewers on what goes on in the cabs, I will be mentioning your channel in my upcoming videos because i like your content and i think most of my subscribers will as well. I subbed and have a lot of your videos to watch.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the videos
It's my first time seeing cotton bales in real life (yes, first time in the South, lol).
I was so dumbfounded by them I had to find a video to explain how it happened! Your video answered all of my questions, thank you!
You need one of them John Deere round bio cotton picker
Thanks for the video. I remember when I was picken cotton 1970 with a Ben Pearson at McConnell farms Wasco California
Awesome
i have to watch this for my homework and its very interesting😀
I just looked at one of them module expresses it makes the module I can you take so long time unloading it a John Deere don't never stop it keeps on trucking I said John do for you
I'm sorry I thought we were still on the international cotton picker
Farmers are so lucky, they get to have brief glimpses of the pretty plants between bouts of mechanicing. Interesting to see how those newfangled baler units work. I guess the module builder will soon go the way of the cotton trailer.
Eventually
In my area, we do not plant cotton. So I little knowledge of the modern way.
But I do see it is amazing nowadays.
J McCracken thanks for watching
Amazing machines thanks for showing us how they work.
Nicolas Orozco your welcome, thanks for watching
Get yourself a trailer or truck with a water tank and hook a high pressure washee on it to clean the heads quick easy n clean fast
Da Grinch does it always get those hard to reach places
As a Corn & Soybean farmer from Ohio, quite interesting to see what you go through. My first thought was to power wash the head but I see you explained the procedure in the comment section. I would hate to guess what that head weights, looks like Deere could step it up on the lift cylinders. Our harvest season falls inline but I would like to see the operation in person. Don't mind if you see a Yankee at the end of your field watching......😁
Maxium4x4 com on down
Where in Ohio are you? I got to help live work stay for a week in Bluffton
@@JamesTyreeII Mississippi
That expensive machinery justifies a portable steam cleaner and tank
Joliet John we keep them pretty clean each day with high pressure blowers, we will clean the heads out once every week or so with a high volume hose, sometimes the high pressure may damage a moisture pad, water line or possibly even a doffer pad. But they are high pressure steam cleaned with soap at the end of every season
Nasty job. We take a water hose and wash ours. Have plenty of help after heads are cleaned.
It is craze how those doors pop open by their selves sometime.
rodom53 yep! We do too every couple of weeks. But mostly just hand clean them for daily maintenance.
What type of picker you guys use?
@@southernfarmer 9996
I'm 16 from Virginia and I've been very interested in farming since I was 13. I like this kind of content because where I live at all that ever grows is cotton, corn, wheat, & soybeans. But mainly cotton, I was wondering what the differences are between the Case IH Module Express and the John Deere CP690 other than the fact that one does square modules (Case) and the other does round modules (Deere). By the way all I've grown up around was Case equipment and honestly John Deere I've grown more fond of mainly because you just get tired of seeing one color and you want to see some diversity. Talk crap about Case all you want I don't care because I'll agree with ya. #JDSAREBETTER
Robert Riley that’s awesome man, thanks for watching, I’m not familiar at all with Case pickers, the heads I know are a bit different and I’m pretty sure Cases have to stop unload their module where Deere baler picker can unload on the go. We will average about 250 acres per day with 3 pickers. 2 690’s and 1 7760 John Deere
@@southernfarmer Thank you so much sir! Now I know what harvester to invest in whenever I get the chance to start my own farm! Btw your videos have actually taught me more than this youtuber I watch that says he knows everything John Deere but I can tell when someone knows everything and when someone doesn't know a damn thing.
I just came across your channel and watched a couple videos. Really enjoyed them, so decided to subscribe. 👍👍👍❤️
Don Morgan appreciate it! Thanks for watching
Can you show when you put the wrap in? Great video want to see more.
Nelson Hendricks it holds 4 rolls which picks 96 round modules, that will last about 2-3 days. Next video will have us loading some! Stay tuned and thanks for watching 👍🏼
Just subscribed to your channel! This video is fascinating!
Brenda Renfree glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching
how many times a year can you pick the cotton?
Mp Stenz only once
Any reason the John Deere CP 690s are all around these parts but no Cases? (Nerd alert) I like Farming Sim, but I just can’t see the worth of paying extra for the John Deere.
J Lyons Time during a Harvest is so valuable, Deere round bale pickers can bale & eject on the move, never stop. Case has to stop to unload, then unless you want a square module on the center of your field you have to haul it to the end
What city are you from in Mississippi
Was that farm at one point part of a slave plantation? I know the subject is taboo to some Southerners so my apologies if you are one of them.
Not sure of the exact history of that particular farm. Think it was actually mostly cattle in the years prior to 1970ish
Haven’t seen any old structures that resemble any homes that slaves would have lived in.
If you don’t mind me asking are you from Noth Mississippi? Like Tupelo earlier? Because it looks like a place like 10-20 minutes from me lol
Booboo 06 we work McCullough place on county line
@@southernfarmer okay thank you
Very Interesting and informative
Why are they just 6 rows in those big fields seams like you could have a 12 row or 16 like in corn
mark ives some strippers are 8 & 10 row I think, but you also have to get down the road at some point from field to field
What does a Cotton Stripper do that a Cotton Picker doesn’t? Do they still make Strippers?
Rob Warihay yes, many guys out west with smaller plants and narrow rows use strippers and I’m sure always will. They are in a dryer climate and the stripper takes lint, boll, and all off the stalk to my understanding. Actually never seen one first hand. So no real knowledge of a cotton stripper, but there are CS690 just like we have CP690s
same doubt
The stripper also uses a bur extractor. About 27% is lint for a cotton stripper...no pickers in the Panhandles.
GJ explaining that stuff. Always wonder about those heads.
Good to see some good ole Mississippi accent on the TH-cams!
Good Evening from Lafayette County!
Jonathan Knighton thanks for watching
Greenwood here. Where abouts yall at clarksdale?
Randolph, near Oxford
@@southernfarmer Pontotoc area got family that lives over that way.. Lee county here..
@@southernfarmer I’m from hurricane I think I’ve meet y’all before in the Feilds
The doffers pull the cotton off the spindles not the moisture pads the moisture pads clean the spindles
Cotton Dude exactly
Nice Channel! 😉
Chelsea Bowen thanks for the comment, how would you like to be featured in our next episode?
Bud! Yer window/mirror cleaning technique ...oooof
Alex H can’t win em all I guess
Don’t know if you ever heard of us but I work for the Sturdivants if you know them
Dustin Greer I don’t know them, y’all getting close to the finish line with the Gin?
Yea man we finished last week 13000 bales ginning with lummus 128s averaged around 350 to 400 bales per day
I’m assistant manager at due west gin in Glendora Mississippi yaw keep us rollin
HEY! I'm from Mississippi! Meridan Collensvile area!
Howdy
@@southernfarmer Howdy to you too! I sure do miss it down there, I recently moved to Minnesota to take care of my grandmother.
@@ohividy2093 nothing like the South
Lots of Spiders in the Cotton Plants?
Len M. Some yes...
I don’t live far from yall
Grow organic!!!!!
Cotton?