Picking Florida Cotton
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- We are officially done with peanuts and now cotton harvest is here. First day was full of hiccups but we got the ole 9996 working righ now.
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🇺🇸Thanks so much for checking out our channel! MY name is Jim. I was born and raised on a Peanut and Cotton farm in north FLORIDA. My dad started this farm 45 YEARS AGO. As a kid I always loved cameras and was making random videos throughout my childhood.So i've decide to get back to my roots.I hope you enjoy the videos! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE------
So many parts and all that friction, it's a miracle that all this farm equipment EVER works right. God bless you guys. Great admiration in yall's ability to stop farming and go to mechanicking ... Love that red, white and blue flying free ...
I did this in the early 90's in Moree NSW Australia 🇦🇺......it was a fun school holidays job........from weeding , spraying, irrigation and picking cotton.......great memories
Thank you farmers‼️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I like watching TH-cam, and I’ve got to be honest. Your videos are the only ones I actually check to see everyday if you have posted. I love watching you guys. Ya’ll are sooo cool. I’m excited for the merch!
Heck yeah thanks for the kind words. Click the notification bell and it will alert you when a new video is posted. Going to pick up the shirts tomorrow. Hopefully have everything ready to roll out by Oct 31st
@@FieldRows hey and just so you know, we are praying for you and your crops so you will have a great yield this year despite the crazy weather!
Waited and waited! Popcorn and peanuts! Im ready for the show!
Same
Growing up I used to chop cotton here in central Texas that was the good old days
I could smell this video. I miss being in the cotton fields with my Dad. He's dead and gone and my days being on a farm ended years ago. Cotton is my favorite commodity planted her in Louisiana. I am at least fortunate to live in the country with cotton fields around me.
Love your videos I’m a Indiana farmer fun to watch something different being farmed
My uncle used to take me to ride a picker when I was real little a few times a year. I eventually moved up to module builder once when I was around 10. Needless to say it was not a square module 😂 thank you for posting this because this is pure nostalgia for me!
Have seen cotton picking machines all my life but I never knew how complex they were. Quite a piece of engineering.
I miss harvesting cotton and peanuts in West Texas. Now I'm harvesting oil.
Not for long. Looks like Biden is winning and he is gonna ban oil.
Soooooo excited for this video. Loved picking cotton with my grandfather and father
Nice! Thanks for watching
I ran the in two rows when I was in Australia. Cotton is very labor intensive. Love the video
I’m sure 2 rows at a time took awhile. Thanks for watching
Greetings from Finland. Very interesting and informative video about cotton harvest, thanks!
Finland, awesome thanks for watching
Country boy from MO. Love watching how you all do things.
Really enjoy watching something closer to home!!! Gotta watch out for that Catty Whompus stuff!!!
Hurricane Delta flooded a lot of cotton when it came through, a field in a low area near me went under water. It was defoliated and ready to be picked. Now all of the boles are brown. Hope the guy had insurance to help a little bit.
Them hurricanes just keep coming man. Love the videos!
For sure
I enjoyed this a lot! Nice drone shots!!!
Awesome video very cool to see being from Missouri I have seen cotton fields and bales in the bootheal but never seen it being picked and stuff up close keep up the good work boys
Thanks!!
Great video it's go time for cotton the farms in Geneva are getting started this week.
Thanks buddy
Great video Jim and crew. Before your channel I had an idea what a cotton picker did but the details you show are appreciated. Hope this next big storm misses you guys or you're done already. They say it's coming our way in a day, something we don't need. Been out of the fields over a week already due to the rain.
Thanks for watching! Ohio in the house
Caddywompus on us is my family's new favorite phrase glad to hear it in another video lol
I thought about putting it on a T-shirt
You should I'd buy one maybe with a picture of keefe stuck with the strip till or a good break down lol
yall must have better shoots than us we got tons of cotton behind our cab and we a got a crustbuster bull buggey and a 9986 picker and a 9976
That camera fell so many times I started to feel like Randy. Peanuts or Cotton,you guys are awesome!
The GoPro’s are tough
That cotton picker is fascinating. Lots of parts, lots to go wrong. Up close I've only seen an IH two row that had a backwards M buried in it. It belongs to a collector up here in Indiana. I have no idea how they work, thank God you do. Stay safe, I enjoy looking in.
Thanks for watching Bill
Tractors matter 👏👏👏👏
Great video Guys
Nice! I’m gonna come down for a day and steal you picker and pick for a day! 😂
I sure miss it.
Probably a week we start
Very cool. I have never seen cotton harvest before .
Loved the video. Really interesting to see
Hey Jim great video. 👍That 9996 is picking clean. We’re still picking cotton out California I had rebuilt 4 bars today broken roll pins . My next door neighbor has 23 Cotton module trucks running nonstop
Thanks for watching Dustin
Thanks Jim I didn’t see Randy working??
Keffe is the bomb my grands kids bust out laughing at the things he dies and says but the whole crew are awesome as well best crew to have don’t let them go
For sure work with a great group of guys!
This video reminds me of how far we've come in picking cotton. When I grew up we had a one row Farmall picker and a bunch of trailers. The job for the youngens was to tromp the cotton and pick the ends where the picker missed. Lots of love to you and your family from Texas
Very true Robert. My dad started with a 2 row and before that it was the one row and before that it was 10 fingers
Get this: I recently discovered much to my shock that the Soviet Union never really switched a lot of their cotton harvesting to machinery (in Central Asia), they kept using a lot of hand labor all the way up to 1991. Even after the breakup, the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan used it until a few years ago (they controversially brought in school children to help pick it on some occasions). John Deere harvesters have now been imported by the country among others, so modernization is FINALLY starting to take place there.
He said first dump of the year!! Looks like picker head took first dump!! We have starting jitters too!! Don't feel bad!
Washing detergent with the push buttons work awesome for hand washing a little soap in the bottom and add water and you’re hooked up
Nice, I’ll have to try that
We always clean ours and Greas at the end of the night. That way you ain’t so nasty
Just found your channel love it so far! Great job!
Thanks!
Good video!!! Good luck with your harvest
Thanks!
Here in the Dothan area they still haven’t started cotton yet
Wow never seen that before 😜🤗. I bet that camera got some working words🤣🤣🤣
No doubt!
I know some pretty cool tricks you can do on top of one of those big modules
With the complexity and maintenance required of your cotton picker, would it be possible to use a cotton stripper, such as a JD 7460 stripper to harvest your crop?
The JD 7460 stripper is a lot less complex and a lot more economical than a picker, and where I used to farm, strippers were used exclusively.
Really enjoy your videos. Hope you make a bumper crop.
There is only one guy in our community that runs a stripper. I’m not sure why they are not used, I’ve heard a strip picker only works well in short cotton. Who knows
i used to run a boil buggy for 2 9965 pickers. in good cotton i would never stop.
Nice. Running the buggy is fun
I started watching you guys a couple weeks ago never knew there was loose cotton harvesters then a week later there’s a mod on fs19 coming out exactly like what you have
I gotta get that game. I downloaded it on PS4 just never took the time to learn it. Looks fun
Best farmer on TH-cam ☝🏼
Thanks buddy!
@@FieldRows np my friend🤝
good job we allways used john deere tractors and most equt
I like peanuts.
Question for you all: I’m sure I’m not the only one to ask but why is there so much cotton left in the field? Thanks for sharing your videos and your faith, stay safe and healthy guys and sweet babies. 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏
I know it looks like a lot but it’s really not worth picking it again. Some years pick cleaner than others a lot of times the cotton gets really tight in the boll when the spindle hits it it kind of half way picks it it
Gotta love those first day mishaps try keeping up with 40 at a time. 2 more to go through shop makes 41 this year. Good thing cotton pickn
Is late this year. Love the videos keepm coming
Wow could not imagine having 40 pickers how many acres of cotton you got?
@@FieldRows i just work on
Them. Started on my own in 2000. Just me and one full time and one part time. Some times i talk my wife in to putting spindles together for me. but that usually cost too much 😀.
Picking cotton is my favorite thing to watch, would love to be on a cotton farm
Amg. I love watching this. Now i want to grow cotton too! I live in Norway, possible? ;)
Norway that’s awesome, not sure if cotton would grow on Norway or not.
We about to start cotton in Alabama
I was born in Ft. Rucker! Hows it round them parts?
It’s pretty good been getting lots of rain lately
Hell ur late we already done 4350 acres as of today. Neighbors have done 6000
Them old pickers are in the junk pile where I worked
A tractor, American Flag and cotton should trigger a few folks
Very cool . Isn't hard keeping the modules together with only the top tarpped ?
No they are packed so tight they hold together easily. Only time they fall apart is if you don’t pack them enough.
It’s about cotton pickin time. Great vidja as usual man.
Awesome sunset shots!
Just in time for another freaking hurricane. Hoping won’t get too much of the wind and rain
Yeah I think it makes land fall tomorrow night
Yeah unfortunately so, rained us out today
Nice job
In the boothill of mo they been harvesting cotton for 3 weeks now
Levy county? My cows need peanuts and I bet they'd clean up that cotton for you too lol
where are y'all located since y'all got a John Deere called the John Deere people maybe they can help y'all if y'all are Missy because John dealership in Jackson if you're in Tennessee call the Jackson Tennessee one
North Florida
We started cotton on Saturday but the weathers been terrible since and I don’t think they’ve run since. I’ve done many a days running a module builder when the guys that pull our cotton for us when they need a hand though we run cotton strippers and depending on the cotton the builder drivers can be hard pressed
It rained here today and looks like a lot more coming
Hi from Ohio. Interesting, here it is corn and soy beans.
Thanks for watxhing Sara
and that corn and those soybeans are soaking wet and about to get rained on again lol
Jim’s talking about being ready to “roll”... sounds like he needs a CP??
You guy's have a very interesting business. There are so many things that can make or brake you. Just out of curiosity... what would you say your percentage of recovery is per sq acre. It looked to be very very good from the footage, but I also seen some small amount floating away as well as still in the field. Love the content by the way...and the cool cotton gin hats!!!
Not sure. I’d say on a good day you could gather 97%
@@FieldRows wow...technology and innovation in the machinery industry has been proven cost effective. But...there's still a need for improvement on the design of the machines....Imagine if you could pick 100% without any doubt. Over a period that 3% would have potentially paid for fuel or hired some more help....or hey...even buy more land or some more machines. I'm sorry if I'm boring...lol. my mind loves to calculate and my inner engineer never goes away. Thanks for responding. Love your content!
Mann, that was fascinating: Don't like the grease, heat and fluff mixture for working in - but that mechanism issomething else! from UK - we don't see anything like this - never knewthat cotton stripperheads were so "complicated" ....... + all the rest of the harvesting process in the field - WHAT HAPPENS if you have taile-end of Hurricanes? all that rainfall - does the cotton "Bale" get soaked and spoilt ? thanks for the show.
Thanks buddy. The tarp will keep a lot water off, hurricane Michael busted some modules into pieces though so hurricanes are never good.
Love it man keep em comin
I think I’m going to get you all some magnetic bases for Christmas!
Please !
I have a question, The cotton you're picking, has seeds in it still, correct?
I'm from North Florida I'm wondering if I've been to that area?
We’re starting picking tommorow in California
Nice, good luck
Another great video.
Hello guys how it going is cotton harvest going fine this year
I picked my first I a 9910 and 9920 then they bought a 9965 with no ac
I remembered seeing the boll buggies and module builders in the cotton fields at this time until around Christmas when I was growing up near Bainbridge. Lot of moving parts in older cotton pickers and even more in the round balers in the John Deere 7760 and CP690 cotton pickers now.
The new picker is awesome!
Will you clean up around the module builder?
Oh yeah!
Man oh man, lookin good boys!
Pete where ya been man I thought you left us, it’s been awhile.
Heck no!!! I have been workin like a sled dog. Project I have been on has went cadywhampus!
What happens after they are put into those big bales? How are they hauled off?
cousins do cotton with round baler like our hay baler? never seen the module style.
AWESOME video!
Great Video man !!! Where y’all located ?? I’m from the Panhandle of Texas ,
North Florida
Field Rows: .Question from a northern boy.. do you collect all the cotton that's on the ground after the module is compacted? seems like lots of wasted product for the wind to take...
Yeah we usually always go back and pick it up. If it’s a windy day it’s hard to get it all in the module builder.
What you got going on is the cotton in your beard!
Hahaha that’s when you know you have been in the cotton field
Give us dates for upcoming podcasts
Should have one out next Monday
@@FieldRows really enjoyed the 4th of july podcast . Love the family envolvement
How can I go about getting one of them hats I really like it
Do you grow Pima or upland cotton?
Wow that was great mate
Thanks buddy, you a Chad Reed fan?
@@FieldRows funny u say that I’ve meet him four times My mates son was a championship rider he broke his back and Chad Reed’s come out heaps of times and visit gave him a bike to it happen two yrs ago but still they talk to chad most weeks hows the family and weather there spring at the moment in sunny Sydney mate love the channel and need the peanut man become out
I gotta ask though boys... What happened to the flags? 12.6 to 13.1 subs since that video. Keep America Great!
We still got them. We need to put them back on.
What kind of drone do you have
Ive never seen a camera fall over so many times in a video lol
The Equipment is in fs 19
Miss picking cotton like a toothache,,,,,,,,,,,,
Really it’s the funniest thing on the farm to me
You the peanut farmer on tik tok that be falling all the time? Lol
Yes, That’s my twin brother randy
@@FieldRows awesome! I knew i seen y’all somewhere
How do you handle the spillage we see along side of the cotton 'bricks?' Hate to see it wasted!
We go back and pick it up, windy days make it almost impossible to keep it all in.
so how do you get those big bales to the gin
A big truck picks them up, I did a video showing it
Modules are a thing of the past. Roll pickers are here to stay cost a lot
more put don't need all those people and equipment.
I’d love to have one but can’t justify that large of a payment. Our 9996 is paid for and we only have around 700 acres or so.
I wanna come visit you guys since I’m not to far away
Where you from
From Bronson Florida and I live in Bronson Florida