Speaking of cotton

Pair-a-dice farm

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I think I've put this on before but does anyone know what this is?
My grandad raised cotton until he retired in the mid 60's. We rent the farm out now but only corn soybeans and wheat are grown.
I'll check back tonight to see if anyone guesses right



 
That's a cotton picking cotton chopper. Something me and my brothers would loved to had.
Depending on soil fertility and avalability of moisture,we used 8" 9" or 10" wide hoes to thin plants to stand that distance apart. Seed was available delinted or you could ask the gin to blow your seed with lint attached into bags for next year's planting. Planters stopped up and made skips while useing the fuzzy seed. Dad would throw a fit when it sprouted but I sure liked haveing a row where the planter had clogged up. I always said every state should plant cotton for people who can't find jobs. I'm going to lay down,just thinking about cotton make's me tired.
 
We didn't raise cotton, but did raze burly tobbacky.
There were a neighbor that had some daughters to help in the tobacky and he said they were good hoers.
 
(quoted from post at 12:34:38 09/16/14) It is a cotton chopper. Here we used hoers to cut it out with a hoe. Tech had it right but I just had to add my comment.

Dad hired a couple of those once but they didn't work out,to much distraction to me and my brothers. :wink:
 
Not sure exactly what it is, but I'm guessing something to make cotton growing slightly less impossible than it is without it.

Apparently cotton was not particularly profitable for the small operator, either.
Grandpa Jones
 
Yep they are rotary cotton choppers. By the late 50's, when this picture was taken, one row cotton choppers were hard to find :D . This model of rotary chopper was made by a local machine shop.
 

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