Ohio Eastern Expo pics

tim s

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Here are a few random pics I took at the Expo,I got busy and didn't get many pics.
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Great pictures Tim. Really different machines than I've ever seen here. I see chains and sprockets all over the cotton picker, but I don't see anything coming off the PTO, or belt pulley. Do you know how it was driven?
 
It was driven like a mounted corn picker with chain off the PTO, I would say that is the oldest Deere cotton picker..
 

It appears to me that it was one of those John Deere implements that you started to mount on a
Monday morning, & by Thursday after noon it might be ready to try out.
 
So many of those types just got permanently mounted on a tractor and left there. LOL.
As clean and original as that cotton picker and tractor looked I was surprised the pto drive was not hooked up ? At least that's the only way I seen it could be hooked up to run ?
 
I wonder how well it worked. Imagine the first successful mechanized cotton picker. It probably paid for itself very quickly. You would be happy to dedicate a tractor to it! Maybe get the local community to pay for it!
 
Nice pictures.
What's labeled a cotton "harvester" is actually a cotton stripper,
it doesn't have the ability to pick cotton.
It was used to strip the cotton stalk of whole bolls, and bolls with cotton locks.
The elevator dumped everything into a trailer, which was then taken to the
cotton gin. Stripped cotton brought a lower price, since it was so trashy.
That 420 Hi-Boy, is that the one that was on display in the JD center
when it was in operation?
 
Yes it looked to have a stripper bar sort of like a corn picker and a awkward way of moving the bolls up to the elevator,, it looks like it all sorta worked..and it looked like the 2 setting there lived on the same farm back in their day,and since I know near nothing about cotton it did intrigue me...
 
thanks for the pics. that is indeed a model 15 cotton stripper. these were being used before pickers were on the market. deere's first self propelled picker was sold in 1949 and tractor mounted one row units came about the same time. this unit (or one just like it) was sold at a polk auction a few years back. I would have liked to add it to my collection of cotton pickers and tractors but did not persue it. glad to see its making the rounds. not many of them around.
 
Tim did you happen to see where it was from? I sold 3 of those no.15 strippers to a guy in Pennsylvania by name Ron and he said he had it mounted and was taking it to a show last week.
 
Very nice pics from both of you. I especially like the cotton stripper, buck rake, breaker plows- definitely stuff you dont see every day. Thanks!
 
I was looking for you on Friday didn't see u my buddy Henry from Canada was asking about u hope he ran into u I left around 3
 
I was there on Friday morning till Sat afternoon, I meant to take more pictures but got busy and hot,, the sun was strong both days, I met a lot of YTr's..
 
I really liked that yellow M ! I would guess it is an original paint or an extremely old repaint ? Is it yours ? So hard to find original tractors. There were several at this show.
The pink M someone brought in from local area of Ohio was interesting. They did a good job on it.
 
I didn't put the drive chain on for the show to prevent any one from sticking their hand where it shouldn't be if it was operating
 
more like you bought it put it on a tractor and possibly took it off once and the second time you put it on you left it on for good
 

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