west Texas cotton harvest-2

[Redmallard]

Where in West Texas was this filmed at .

[dutch621]

@Redmallard

Southwest of Lubbock. Not this year though.

[aloamericano]

esta es una excelente maquina para el departamento del cesar en Colombia

[vaggos92ste]

what he cotton seed???? my god!!! is perfect. send me in the message please mark and article seed cotton. please please

[oakbluff350]

thats a good picker

[swedecutter]

Why is cotton grown on ridges & how are these made & what sort of drill is used.

I'm from the UK so know nothing of the crop.

[dutch621]

@swedecutter

We plant on ridges to be able to keep the sand from blowing. If we plant flat it's very hard to keep it from blowing.

We use a John Deere MaxEmerge planter.

[TheBrassHole]

I heard that in the panhandle of texas they don't have to use arsenic base chemicals to strip the burrs. Is this true? Cotton burr compost is not contaminated from this one part of the country? Right?

[kc5deb]

Looks like the boll buggy driver was attempting to hit road gear before he had to turn around.

[Metti95]

Which Volume has the Cotton Harvester and the Trailer.

[dutch621]

The cotton picker can dump twice into the boll buggy, 4 Buggy dumps make one module and a module will hold 15-16 bales on average.

[simtrachope]

is this a smaller farm or a huge one with up to 10 pickers on a field?

[dutch621]

Well. we are not that small but we've never had 10 pickers in 1 field.

Most we've had was 8 strippers in the field, 4 boll buggy's and 6 or 7 module builders.

The harvest crew we hire has on 2 pivckers, al lthe rest are strippers.

[cottonkid26]

4 bale cotton in just about unheard of in these parts. And this makes me miss the harvest season even more than ever! Nice video BTW!

[johndeere1993]

what was the yeilds like. Nice video btw

[dutch621]

Just under 4.

[PEANUTGRWR]

dutch, does that thing completely fill up a sam stevens buggy with one basket full???

[dutch621]

Pretty much. They have a bigger buggy too that can handle a little more cotton.

[simtrachope]

so no dumping on the go with this huh?

[dutch621]

nope

[WBOS72]

Dutch,

Thanks for posting those. Never seen a cotton harvest before. Why do some harvesters bale the cotton, and others don't?? Is that just a preference?

Thanks,

Will

[dutch621]

Around here all farmers use module builders to pack the cotton into a big "bale"(module). Then special trucks from the gin come and get the module and haul to the gin.

There are still some areas in the US where they still use trailers to haul the cotton to the gin but most have switched to modules as it is much more efficient.

[DFarms001]

Cool video!

Is it hard to keep on the row?

[dutch621]

It has a row guidance system.