littlered166 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 driving to FL this past week, I noticed that cotton was being put in large roll bales. Can anyone explain how that happens and how long can they sit in field without spoiling? video would be nice. Pembroke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagan Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Yeah it is dinosour toilet paper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH Forever Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cotton+picker+round+bake&&view=detail&mid=A42BB965599A3B6228A7A42BB965599A3B6228A7&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcotton%2Bpicker%2Bround%2Bbake%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Watch the video but cotton pickers in essence have a big round baler mounted to them and are fed via fan directly into the baler after leaving the picker head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH Forever Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 How long they can sit in the field? That I have no idea. I've only seen this on the interweb......it's all confusing to this IA farm boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafarm49 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 3 hours ago, IH Forever said: How long they can sit in the field? That I have no idea. I've only seen this on the interweb......it's all confusing to this IA farm boy. They will hold up fine for months but are ginned as soon as possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 They are Ok until it rains, days, weeks, maybe months here in the desert of California. Being 100 miles from cotton country I see it but don't know to much. In the 8x20 module days they put traps over them to keep fog ad dew off of them. Any cotton that gets wet is lower graded so lower priced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 I read a testimonial from a farmer claiming his cotton round bales withstood a hurricane while the normal bales got ruined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 They are wrapped in plastic and hold up well to the weather. In the south, most cotton is grown on sandy ground so it don't get waterlogged. Every round cotton bale is made by a JD picker. CIH pickers make a rectangular module. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 I thought CaseIH was out of the cotton picker business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Nope. They just don't sell many anymore. They were very big in cotton... https://www.caseih.com/northamerica/en-us/products/harvesting/module-express-cotton-pickers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jworley Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 14 minutes ago, Big Bud guy said: I thought CaseIH was out of the cotton picker business They are still listed on the CaseIH website. The pic below is a new one a neighbor bought in early 19. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkerwc4362 Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 The John Deere pickers, both styles, are about the only ones you see here in Southeast Alabama. The round bales save having to have a cart to carry the cotton from the picker to the module builder and having a module builder. The module builder is what compresses the picked cotton into the long rectangular bales that used to be the standard. The cart enables the picker to be dumped in the field without having to drive the picker to the module builder. In the picture above the picker drove to the module builder to dump. The new picker's are super expensive, but the claim is you don't need any support equipment, just the picker. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absent Minded Farmer Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 3 hours ago, acem said: They are wrapped in plastic and hold up well to the weather. In the south, most cotton is grown on sandy ground so it don't get waterlogged. Every round cotton bale is made by a JD picker. CIH pickers make a rectangular module. Who makes the module covers with the CaseIH logo on them? They're not listed in the parts catalog, unless I looked past it. I did find an ashtray in the parts breakdown. Thought that was interesting.... but not $45 interesting. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlered166 Posted October 28, 2022 Author Share Posted October 28, 2022 THANKS for the info on pickers. I have another question about cotton. See cotton #2 in forum coffee shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Doctor Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Aren't Case/IH cotton pickers and sprayers made in northern Minnesota? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Doctor Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 When at RPRU Alabama, one of the growers told of plastic sacks blowing into their cotton fields. The sacks are ground up into the cotton when harvested by the picker and cannot be removed. The plastic will not take dye so it remains usually white. If you walk through a black light and see specks in the cloth of a shirt, that is the scrap plastic which they cannot remove. Plastic garbage is also effecting our clothing. Please pick up that trash! Or better yet, decline the sack and leave it in the store. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jworley Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Here’s something that came out of some cotton at the local gin a couple of years back, it must have been laying in the field and they built a module on top of it and the module truck picked it up with the cotton. They found it stuck to the magnet in the cleaner. No telling how long it was in there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
806JR Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 9 hours ago, Diesel Doctor said: Aren't Case/IH cotton pickers and sprayers made in northern Minnesota? Nope,they are made in Benson, Mn which is west central area. They also build the self propelled sprayers and fertilizer spreaders in the same plant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 On 10/28/2022 at 5:59 AM, Art From Coleman said: I am remembering correctly, it has been over a decade since John Deere came out with the baler picker. 2010 ish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearclash Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 It’s my understanding that those bales are really heavy, in the order of 5000 lbs or so. There is a small manufacturing plant hardly 5 miles from me whose specialty is making aftermarket cotton harvester parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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