Do you use an old ?

mb58 · Sep 16, 2014

My posts rarely receive many responses. Here's another one that will likely continue the tradition.
We see a lot about old combines on YT but do any of you still use an old cotton picker? IH 422, JD 9910, etc.?

oldtanker · Sep 16, 2014

(quoted from post at 06:14:02 09/16/14) My posts rarely receive many responses. Here's another one that will likely continue the tradition.
We see a lot about old combines on YT but do any of you still use an old cotton picker? IH 422, JD 9910, etc.?

You should start by asking how many on here grow cotton.

Rick

SweetFeet · Sep 16, 2014

If you have one and can post a photo, that would be nice to see. I like to see the southern machines... never having been there myself.

Around here (southern MN) we primarily grow corn and soybeans. Some hay, and once in awhile some oats/wheat but really not much of that anymore.

John A · Sep 16, 2014

mb58, Here in Texas Most Cotton Growers run pretty new machines, simply Because when Your Pay Day is on the line..... It is NOW or Never!. You can't afford to have a really old machine, being between a great/good yr and your farm in Receivership!
There area few old machines scattered about on small operations, but they are not solely cotton growers!
Later,
John A.

JRSutton · Sep 16, 2014

Nope.

but I felt obligated to respond!

rustyfarmall · Sep 16, 2014

I'll bite my tongue and refrain from typing the first thought that came to mind.

howdy1960 · Sep 16, 2014

Dont grow cotton but but everything I have is old. Newest thing out there is a 2 yr old cat, but does any one really own a cat??? LOL

JMOR · Sep 16, 2014

(quoted from post at 10:07:49 09/16/14) Dont grow cotton but but everything I have is old. Newest thing out there is a 2 yr old cat, but does any one really own a cat??? LOL

still have the scales, cotton sack & a bonnet if anyone wants to use it or let wife pick.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Sep 16, 2014

At Red Power in Pennfield a few years ago I was looking at an old cotton picker mounted on an IH F20. While talking to the owner I mentioned that I am married to one of those, and he gave me a startled look. A former cotton picker I said.

LAA · Sep 16, 2014

I don't grow cotton or use the machine but I own a IH 1822 picker in real good shape, low hours, I bid on it at an auction thinking I would stop at $3000.00 with the thought of mounting two dics mowers on it and wound up buying it for $2300.00 and have not got around to modifying it yet but I will. It weighs over 20k and has a 160 HP engine so there is no way to lose.

howdy1960 · Sep 16, 2014

Mine will pick anything as long is for a horse but that's about where it ends.

Dave H (MI) · Sep 16, 2014

Most of the old cotton pickers won't...

What am I saying? We don't grow cotton here!

rrlund · Sep 16, 2014

My mind immediately went to that Minnie Pearl joke that ended "Holy cow,look at all those cotton picking Indians!".

37chief · Sep 16, 2014

There was a lot of cotton grown in the central valley of California. Now all I see is frit trees where the cotton fields were. where is cotton grown now? Stan

cumminspuller · Sep 16, 2014

Here in north Alabama and southern Tennessee there is not much cotton left. 20 years ago there were corn and beans here and there with cotton on 90% of the ground. Now it has flipped to the opposite with a little less cotton grown each year. We have a customer who still picks his first bale of cotton with a one row picker mounted on an M farmall. That is by far the oldest machine around running that I know of. There are maybe a hand full of 9920 and 9930 2 row. A decent amount of 9965 4 row machines. Everyone else has a Deere roller picker or a IH module builder picker. I'd love to see cotton come back to what it once was but I don't think it will anytime soon.

60 acre hillside · Sep 16, 2014

Cotton farming has gone to the Land of Polyester

JMOR · Sep 16, 2014

I still see some here in north central Texas every year, but nothing like what it was in the 40s & 50s, where every little town had a gin. Don't even know where there is one now! The gin in our back yard, literally, was powered by a two cylinder Fairbanks-Morse diesel with piston over afoot in diameter, pretty much like this three cylinder on a generator in a nearby town. Gin started around late August & was still running & playing catch-up at Christmas in some years. There were at least a half dozen other gins within a 15-20 mile circle, too.

Dr. Walt · Sep 16, 2014

No Cotton grown here now, a couple of old Cotton Pickers rusting away in the fields. 40 years ago Cotton was our primary crop. A big Casino sits where our Cotton Gin used to be, & we had the ONLY Cotton Gin in the State of Nevada. I have the LAST bundle of sequentially numbered Bale Tags for the "Nevada Ginning Company, Pahrump, Nevada".

About 25 years ago the major land owners got together and decided that they could make more money by sub-dividing their properties & selling it off as Real Estate, than they ever could by farming it. But, we do still have some SMALL acreages that are farmed. - Old habits don't die. LOL!

Doc :>)

jm. · Sep 16, 2014

Here is a old John Deer picker , in a museum Florence Arizona. Stumbled across it one day on one of my lost adventures.

showcrop · Sep 16, 2014

(quoted from post at 07:03:35 09/16/14)
I'll bite my tongue and refrain from typing the first thought that came to mind.

I couldn't think of a good enough way to put it.

Case Nutty 1660 · Sep 17, 2014

I wish I had taken pics of the ones I used to see in Arizona back 30-35 years ago, salvage yards had Rows of them parked now all are gone, IH and JD was what I seen there, like the one in the pick below and newer

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