Those machines are huge... I have a 9965 picker and even mine is enormous.. The damage on the back is nothing.. You can repair it with a hammer.. No big deal... Once I had bend the whole basket of the picker because I forgot to close it all the way.. Happy to see other farmers in the same crop as me.. Totally different picker than what we have here!
So sorry that happened to you. It's always something! Hope you and your family are staying safe, have a good day. Thanks for explaining all the controls in the baler!
The second year I ran a 7760, I swung the back end into a tree. Luckily was going slow enough and didn’t warp anything. Only bent up the pulley for the wrap roller. That was a terrible feeling though.
The fact it's still all functioning sounds encouraging. I would start taking the obviously damaged parts off. Investigating everything. Might not be as bad as it looks
I love the channel. It brings back so many fond memories from my time picking cotton on my uncles farm in Beulah Mississippi. The hundred pound sacks became very heavy to pull for a young kid. Thanks for the channel.
That is really hard graft. No cotton here, but I remember pitching hay bales and straw bales up onto the trailer with a pitchfork. If you've not seen it, think "slow motion pole vaulting". At less than five feet tall, and weighing about sixty pounds ( if I was carrying thirty pounds of hay), it was hard work.
At least no one was hurt. That green steel can be fixed. In a few years you’ll be laughing about it over a beer. Wounded pride is all. Still sucks but that’s life. Might be able to hammer it out??
You know what's so great about your videos is not only the detailed explanation of the equipment but your classy enough to show when it doesn't always go right. Keep the videos coming and I hope your yield was what you were hoping for.
Kevin Irwin it was a pretty decent year yield wise. Need prices to pick up some, but better than it could be. I’ve been called several things but it’s been a while since I’ve heard classy! Ha but thanks again and glad you enjoy the videos
Could always be worse, thankfully no one was hurt. I got excited one night pulling away from Boll buggy with the basket up. Warped the lid, nothing a few chains and time couldn’t fix. Never did close or open quite right after that.
nick verkler once we get rained out most everything will make its way back to the shop and I’ll do one best I can, we’re still a little scattered at this point
It's ok when the boss prangs picker,I'd hate to be a hired hand on your farm and do that. Well you got time on your side to repair it. Having trees out in fields isn't that clever either. Do you have insurance cover for that?
@@southernfarmer It would be childish to even think about selling in that condition, surely. Me thinketh that it would easily be smart to have it repaired, no matter what the future plans are. Do you not have your equipment insured for accidental breakdown? It is probably close to 100% practice in our part of the world..
Ähm ya, could you please shortly explain to me for what the water getting used ? Are you spraying it in the cotton for better compression in the bales or what ?
Christian Uhlemann not exactly, check out the “Cotton Picking Time” video from earlier this harvest season and it gives a pretty good overview of the moistener “water/soap” system that is used to clean the spindles off
Craig Faircloth yes after a rain, but this late in the season, and it had not rained in a few weeks, it would have to be a very heavy dew to get the seed wet enough to not be dry by the time the lint was.
Fascinating! It's a shame that so many people, in this country take farmers, and farming for granted. I grew up on a small, very small farm, in south Mississippi, I salute You! Keep spoiling us!!
Those are complicated machines ..lol...lot to keep tabs on...dang trees cause a lot of damage to eqp...ive had my share of boo boos...ive got a winter job of rebuilding a 956 moco cutter bar ..last field of the year ...a custom job and wham...dang piece of drift wood shelled it...approx 22 hundred a module to rebuild...sure enjoy your videos..love seeing all your green machines.
Why are you dropping the bale in the middle of the field? Looks to me you could bring it to the end of the field so the pick up spear will not have to burn diesel going to get it.
Michael Nichols often times we do, but if there are any muddy spots, drains, rough spots of any kind to cross we go ahead and try not to carry it through them or across them with the picker. Sometimes we would end up on the opposite end at which the bales were being lined up, which would be counter productive. The spear tractor burns minimum fuel anyways. Not really a big deal if the have to go a few extra rounds a day
@@southernfarmer Can I ask why you drop bales before you reach the headlands when the following bale will not be completed before you reach the headlands.
Adrian Chetwynd many times we get as close as we can to the headland we intend to store the modules at, but many times we are going the opposite direction so that’s as close as we will be with that bale before turning. Also, if there is any thing at all on the edge of the field where you plan to turn and head back you are very limited on turning room with a bale on the handler. Another reason to drop them at “random” might be there may be a drain or mud hole to cross where the handler could potentially drape, or the picker it’s self might strain to the point of losing power.... which is never good, and just another avoidable problem. Thanks for watching
It happens.. It’s so easy with these baler pickers to make a mistake. I was turning on the end on a furrow irrigated farm with a narrow turn row a couple years ago I kinda bumped a telephone pole with the handler fortunately i barely touched it and it didnt tear anything up. Enjoy the videos!
My neighbor was draglining from his lagoon. Had 1200’ of hose laid out and hooked a power pole. He was going 8/10ths of a mile an hour. Creeping. Pulled the pole up out if the ground. Didnt even know it until he saw the lines sparking. Sometimes these low speed accidents can be worse than the high speed ones.
@@southernfarmer It's John Deere's fought, substandard metal, trying save a dime. No way that branch should've done that much damage. You did the best you could with what you had. First time viewer. Thanks for sharing the footage.
@@southernfarmer when I was a kid my dad bought a wrecked '67 Charger and the front part of the frame was bent. He went 100% redn*ck and tied a chain around it and to a tree out back. He would rev up the car, slam it in reverse, and get it going as fast as he could until the slack ran out. After about doing that ten times the frame was mostly straight and his nerves were mostly shot. He drove that car for 5 or 6 years. After that he consider himself to be a "Frame and Body Man". So, by that logic, you just need a little OJT to get your John Deere body work certification. LOL. I wish we had camera phones back then to film some of the other crazy stuff he did.
That’s really interesting watching you run those cottonpickers. Really enjoyed it 👍👍👍❤️
The 7760 is an awesome 👌 picker thank you for showing us how they work,they are pretty much used anywhere cotton is grown.
Yes they are
Those machines are huge... I have a 9965 picker and even mine is enormous.. The damage on the back is nothing.. You can repair it with a hammer.. No big deal... Once I had bend the whole basket of the picker because I forgot to close it all the way.. Happy to see other farmers in the same crop as me.. Totally different picker than what we have here!
aex132 it just doubles as a bulldozer , lol
So sorry that happened to you. It's always something! Hope you and your family are staying safe, have a good day. Thanks for explaining all the controls in the baler!
Brenda Renfree your welcome, could have been much worse, just dented sheet metal
BE PROUD COTTON FARMERS, BECAUSE THE MAN IN BLACK
JOHNY CASH FAMILY WERE ALSO COTTON FARMERS 👍👊👊👌👌👍👍👊👊
Your field is very good. Now if you specify a factory cotton plant. I am from Kazakhstan. Cotton is grown in the southern region of Kazakhstan.
Awesome vids :-)
Daniel Kaz thanks for watching
The second year I ran a 7760, I swung the back end into a tree. Luckily was going slow enough and didn’t warp anything. Only bent up the pulley for the wrap roller. That was a terrible feeling though.
t_r_b yep, it sucks
The fact it's still all functioning sounds encouraging. I would start taking the obviously damaged parts off. Investigating everything. Might not be as bad as it looks
Roger Carrico yes it is. I could’ve been much worse
I love the channel. It brings back so many fond memories from my time picking cotton on my uncles farm in Beulah Mississippi. The hundred pound sacks became very heavy to pull for a young kid. Thanks for the channel.
That is really hard graft. No cotton here, but I remember pitching hay bales and straw bales up onto the trailer with a pitchfork. If you've not seen it, think "slow motion pole vaulting". At less than five feet tall, and weighing about sixty pounds ( if I was carrying thirty pounds of hay), it was hard work.
For what you pay for those beautiful machines it’s terrible to do something as innocent as hitting a branch. Very happy that it still bailed okay.
Dwayne Koblitz it’s a heartbreaker for sure
Just curious why don't y'all build the round bales 94"?
I bet you felt about a inch tall after you did that.
Joel Henderson exactly
At least no one was hurt. That green steel can be fixed. In a few years you’ll be laughing about it over a beer. Wounded pride is all. Still sucks but that’s life. Might be able to hammer it out??
John Smith about the only way to look at it now.
Thanks for watching
Page 9
Footnote 2
Language = Bloomfield's remarkable book.
headed = endocentric
non-headed = exocentric
It looks like a sheet metal damage to me. No big deal :)
PeterCycles maybe so
You know what's so great about your videos is not only the detailed explanation of the equipment but your classy enough to show when it doesn't always go right. Keep the videos coming and I hope your yield was what you were hoping for.
Kevin Irwin it was a pretty decent year yield wise. Need prices to pick up some, but better than it could be. I’ve been called several things but it’s been a while since I’ve heard classy! Ha but thanks again and glad you enjoy the videos
@@southernfarmer prices up enough for u?
Give the guys at Bennet tractor parts in Aubrey arkansas a call. Maybe they have one their parting out.
Could always be worse, thankfully no one was hurt. I got excited one night pulling away from Boll buggy with the basket up. Warped the lid, nothing a few chains and time couldn’t fix. Never did close or open quite right after that.
Going to do a full equipment tour after harvest?
L5P Denali for sure
Yep I definitely would like to see all you’re equipment. Looks like you guys have a lot of nice equipment. John Deere all the way.
nick verkler once we get rained out most everything will make its way back to the shop and I’ll do one best I can, we’re still a little scattered at this point
It's ok when the boss prangs picker,I'd hate to be a hired hand on your farm and do that. Well you got time on your side to repair it. Having trees out in fields isn't that clever either. Do you have insurance cover for that?
Arable CanterburyNZ yes, insurance should cover most of it, but that was a custom harvest job🥴.... not our field
That’ll buff right out.
Benjamin Lembree haha, maybe so, but I doubt it
That's not wrecked.... A bit of schoolgirl drama here. It's just dented. Easily fixed.
Haha. May hurt the resale value tho🥴
@@southernfarmer It would be childish to even think about selling in that condition, surely.
Me thinketh that it would easily be smart to have it repaired, no matter what the future plans are.
Do you not have your equipment insured for accidental breakdown? It is probably close to 100% practice in our part of the world..
New sub here from Tupelo Mississippi!
Glyn Robinson awesome, thanks for watching
Love the channel u have a beautiful family brotha never seen cotton harvested loving it
Chris Covillon thank you
Prices
I’ve never even been on a farm and I’m a yankee so I’m not sure why this was suggested to me, but it’s very interesting!
Thanks for watching
Why don’t you have your cs690 module set at 94?
So you can haul them in a covered module truck
I always setup them up at 94 they fit good in the module truck and some at 98
I winced when I saw the headline. And then I watched. This, folks, is bravery
Ähm ya, could you please shortly explain to me for what the water getting used ? Are you spraying it in the cotton for better compression in the bales or what ?
Christian Uhlemann not exactly, check out the “Cotton Picking Time” video from earlier this harvest season and it gives a pretty good overview of the moistener “water/soap” system that is used to clean the spindles off
@@southernfarmer thx man, doesn´t know there is a Erklärbärvideo..but thx for that.
Do you make sure the seed will crack before you start. We look at lint and seed moisture.
Craig Faircloth yes after a rain, but this late in the season, and it had not rained in a few weeks, it would have to be a very heavy dew to get the seed wet enough to not be dry by the time the lint was.
Ouch! Sorry man.
half million dollar lol nice flex bro
IKR?! I thought he came in a little low. Even wrecked, that sounds like a bargain.
Fascinating! It's a shame that so many people, in this country take farmers, and farming for granted. I grew up on a small, very small farm, in south Mississippi, I salute You! Keep spoiling us!!
Thanks so much
I feel for you. It just tears a person apart when something like that happens.
salty 101 low feeling for sure
Those are complicated machines ..lol...lot to keep tabs on...dang trees cause a lot of damage to eqp...ive had my share of boo boos...ive got a winter job of rebuilding a 956 moco cutter bar ..last field of the year ...a custom job and wham...dang piece of drift wood shelled it...approx 22 hundred a module to rebuild...sure enjoy your videos..love seeing all your green machines.
Dennis Sanders that’s how it goes sometimes, thanks for watching
It will buff
We use stripper balers, never used a picker. It looks like you are going faster through that field than we could
5mph
@@southernfarmer we usually run between 2 and 4
Why are you dropping the bale in the middle of the field? Looks to me you could bring it to the end of the field so the pick up spear will not have to burn diesel going to get it.
Michael Nichols often times we do, but if there are any muddy spots, drains, rough spots of any kind to cross we go ahead and try not to carry it through them or across them with the picker. Sometimes we would end up on the opposite end at which the bales were being lined up, which would be counter productive. The spear tractor burns minimum fuel anyways. Not really a big deal if the have to go a few extra rounds a day
Is that a Helena sign across the road. Ex ag pilot and Helena retiree here. Really enjoying the grounds eye view of cotton.
Dale Mitchell thanks for watching
@@southernfarmer Can I ask why you drop bales before you reach the headlands when the following bale will not be completed before you reach the headlands.
Adrian Chetwynd many times we get as close as we can to the headland we intend to store the modules at, but many times we are going the opposite direction so that’s as close as we will be with that bale before turning. Also, if there is any thing at all on the edge of the field where you plan to turn and head back you are very limited on turning room with a bale on the handler. Another reason to drop them at “random” might be there may be a drain or mud hole to cross where the handler could potentially drape, or the picker it’s self might strain to the point of losing power.... which is never good, and just another avoidable problem. Thanks for watching
Why dont you carry the completed module to the end of the row vs dumping in the middle?
nikphoenix easier to turn at the end without the bale
nikphoenix spear tractor has ample time to place them exactly where they need to be
I was always curious why those pickers have so many mirrors compared to a combine
Yea, can’t even see much with them. You have to rely on rear view camera a ton
It happens.. It’s so easy with these baler pickers to make a mistake. I was turning on the end on a furrow irrigated farm with a narrow turn row a couple years ago I kinda bumped a telephone pole with the handler fortunately i barely touched it and it didnt tear anything up. Enjoy the videos!
We all screw up at least once a year lol
I’m usually good for once a month maybe. Normally not show stopping but also usually not quite that noticeable as that big dent😬
@@southernfarmer I ripped the door off the back of a module builder when I was 13 lol
John deere should have a black history museum.
Now got a African American owned dealer group in south texas
That's why you shouldn't video and drive!! Lol
Jim Baker lol, had stopped videoing 2-3 hours before the accident.
I can’t even blame it on that.
How much does a bale weigh?
gary oakman about 5k lbs
Mighty nice helena sign lol
Bummer about your picker, glad only the tree got hurt.
Yea, & thanks
Thanks for the breakdown and how it all works And you’ll never hit that limb again
Here at 4,000 subs and looking forward to when you have 500k 🙏🏻 good luck
it's a cotton picker not a tree trimmer. wink.
Haha
Where are yall located, man they have some big fields around the tunica casinos
You should just cut down that tree and the stump after cutting it down, then it won't be in the way anymore.
For sure
So, it's the tree's fault now??
@@tandemwings4733 haha 😂
O Deere he’s a ford owner lol
Ford Tough
@@southernfarmer right under a Chevy
Sh*t happens.
Thats a cool cotton picker 😀👍
We just fixed it yesterday
We’re u flying in reverse? Damn that’s a Huge dent for a tree limb hitting it no way u we’re going slow
JD Farmer nope, not at all, barely even moving
My neighbor was draglining from his lagoon. Had 1200’ of hose laid out and hooked a power pole. He was going 8/10ths of a mile an hour. Creeping. Pulled the pole up out if the ground. Didnt even know it until he saw the lines sparking. Sometimes these low speed accidents can be worse than the high speed ones.
redbovine yep, especially with a 485 hp machine, the damage can be large with no inclination of anything going wrong until it’s way to late
@@southernfarmer Yep, especially that it is really only sheet metal. The driver wouldn't have any feel to that at all, until too late.
@@southernfarmer It's John Deere's fought, substandard metal, trying save a dime. No way that branch should've done that much damage. You did the best you could with what you had. First time viewer. Thanks for sharing the footage.
It’s not too bad.......my wife has bigger dents..
Time to break out the big hammer. LOL
Chad Smith idk if I’m that good at body work
@@southernfarmer when I was a kid my dad bought a wrecked '67 Charger and the front part of the frame was bent. He went 100% redn*ck and tied a chain around it and to a tree out back. He would rev up the car, slam it in reverse, and get it going as fast as he could until the slack ran out. After about doing that ten times the frame was mostly straight and his nerves were mostly shot. He drove that car for 5 or 6 years. After that he consider himself to be a "Frame and Body Man". So, by that logic, you just need a little OJT to get your John Deere body work certification. LOL. I wish we had camera phones back then to film some of the other crazy stuff he did.
Chad Smith hahah! That’s great! Sounds like he would have fit right in around here. Thanks for watching
How many acres of cotton do yall have
Jimmy Strain about 5k
Then it's not wrecked lol
SA Farmer could’ve been worse
i didnt know you worried about moisture
Might as well go get the dozer and rid the field of that tree.
Thats going to take some money to fix
brandon Cook I’m afraid so
It'll pull out.
Could have been worse.
F Huber ehhh. I guess
That looks cosmetic. The only thing it should effect is the resale value.
Sorry, buddy.
I believe we have it all fixed now. Orders a few new pieces, never hurt any of the functionality of the picker
@@southernfarmer . Got to admit. I like hearing y'all talk. I've been in Arizona since '92. Everyone talks like a tv newscaster.
Georgia or Alabama
Mississippi
ho cool
Just getter done
Napalm182 Napier thanks for watching
No sir that's not cool at all but it happens to the best of us
Garbageman84 just part of it
That is a lot to keep up with for sure.
tony gough not to bad once you do it several hundred times
@@southernfarmer we have a vast land in Ghana which is suitable for Cotton production. Can we work together. Its a 10,000+ acres
kwaku anim-asiedu probably a little to far for us to travel
@@southernfarmer OK, but I believe its worth it. Can I get your email address or whatsapp contact?
@@southernfarmer OK, but I believe its worth it. Can I get your email address or whatsapp contact?
You ain't getting nothing for Christmas. S_ _ _ t happens
Poorhouse Racing yea I am, a rear panel for a 7760
You need to clean off your wrap floor belts
No doubt
I BET JOHNY CASH WOULD LOVE PICKING COTTON WITH MACHINERY LIKE THESE INSTEAD OF PICKING BY ✋ THE HE AND HIS FAMILY PICKED COTTON
That ain't even close to being wrecked son.
Dave Evans closer than I like it
@@southernfarmer Indeed. Good luck with it, hope it's only superficial. 👍
If you ain't trading paint, you ain't racing.
Opps
Mark Anderson yep