Cotton Bale press, Docking, Trucking of cotton Silver Lake Growers Gin part 5

Cotton is baled with a huge hydraulic press. This is how the cotton is sold to companies before they make our clothes.

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Education

Tags:

• cotton
• bales
• silver
• lake
• growers
• gin
• press

[johnifly]

I work as a circular knitting machine operator and this is fascinating to see what goes into making cotton into yarn and seeing cotton in it's raw form being processed into something that can be knit! Thanks for sharing this with all of us!

[toxic806]

I WORK FOR ADM IN LUBBOCK TEXAS AND IN OUR BALE PRESS ITS JUST U AND NOBODY ELSE AND OUR MACHINES ARE NOTHING LIKE THIS EVERYTHING TO DO TO MAKE A BALE U DO I T BY URSELF..BUT ITS STILL VERY SIMILAR TO THIS VIDEO

[buzzclick500]

"Jump down, turn around, pick a bale o' cotton, jump down, turn around, pick a bale o' cotton...." ;]

[chechnya]

@Woden5599 lol California. Texas is the leading producer.

[NINO1560]

nice

[Woden5599]

I work n a gin in califorina we gin the best cotton n the world su Pima (sue-peemaa) we are Boswell I'm a mechanic we went to plastic strapped(p-600) but went back to wire (jenglo)

[chikomalandrin]

memories :lol i used to work all positions in a gin in louisiana :u we switched from wire to automated strapping :u nice vids.

[SkyLighteningBolt]

Great videos !