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That's interesting. You'll never see that kind of farming in my neck of the woods. I see the machines don't get all the cotton. If that was a corn field you could feed a small heard of hogs over the winter in that field.
 
Thank you very much for posting that. I don't get to see that around here and it is interesting. My compliments to the drone driver - that was some nice work.
 


I thought that the one picker was going to back into the tractor on the trailer. Where do they dump the trailers, into semi's? Thanks for the pictures, they are the best from the drones.
 
I'm sure you have been to Levelland and heard this song written by James McMurtry, son of Larry McMurtry who wrote the novel Lonesome Dove. I love that country out there, but would not want to live there. We harvest the same way in north central Texas these days but the fields are smaller. Thanks for the video.
song Levelland lyrics
 
Watch for the shadow of the drone on the ground, when the machine shadows are going away from you...pretty neat to see the harvest.
 

Those "trailers" are called Boll Buggies. After the strippers dump into them, the buggies haul the cotton to the module builders, usually at the ends of the field. After the modules are made, the farmer calls the gin and they send out trucks to pick them up and haul back to the gin. This video shows that part a little better. I didn't post it first cause I don't know anybody in it like in the other video.
another cottton harvest video.
 
twosteppin,

Really interesting to see something different from the usual corn/beans harvested up here. Thanks for posting.
 
That's a far cry from the 2 row tractor mounted pickers that was used when I was growing up. Actually the module builders are becoming old school now. There are mostly round bale pickers in NEAR but there are still quite a few modules. There is nothing prettier than a field of fully opened cotton. Well almost nothing :D
 
I got to ride in a smaller version of one of those a while back in Louisianna. I think this is a different type harvestor than the ones used further east acording to the guy I was riding with. These use a little different method for picking the cotton and look different in the front part from his. I'm not talking about the new ones that make the bales tho, he said it was in the picker part. Do you know if that's correct?
 
(quoted from post at 18:36:37 01/17/15) I got to ride in a smaller version of one of those a while back in Louisianna. I think this is a different type harvestor than the ones used further east acording to the guy I was riding with. These use a little different method for picking the cotton and look different in the front part from his. I'm not talking about the new ones that make the bales tho, he said it was in the picker part. Do you know if that's correct?
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I think they are either pickers or strippers....not sure which is more common now.
 
Wasnt sure if that was the drone or a rabbit the way it hopped across the rows. lolPicked up that immediatly . Pretty nifty!
 
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