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Re: M cotton harvester?
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Posted by Harold H on November 09, 1999 at 07:26:50 from (207.244.55.64):
In Reply to: M cotton harvester? posted by Mr m Farmall on November 08, 1999 at 17:51:02:
Alex, If they have not been changed, the most noticable differences on your cotton picker tractor are, it has (or had) flange type rear axle housings and holes on the brake and clutch pedals. There are other minpr differences but these features are easily seen. The most common cotton picker model on the M was the model M-12. To mount the picker, bull gears were mounted on the rear axle housings, which raised and reversed the tractor. A tall single front (now rear) wheel was mounted in place of the tricycle boster. The picker was then mounted. The picker had a head which picked the cotton, fan for blowing the cotton to the basket, and a basket which was over the engine. The operator sat high over the head. In simplelified explination, rotating barbed tapered spindles, 20 on each bar, engaged the cotton from both sides of the stalks. These spindles picked the cotton from the bolls and doffers then removed the cotton from the spindles to be blown into the basket by the fan. When the basket was full it is was dumped into a trailer to be transported to the gin to be ginned. In the South all cotton was "picked" by cotton pickers as opposed to some areas out west which used cotton strippers to "strip" the cotton. The cotton picker picked only the clean cotton form the boll leaving the bolls on the stalk whereas the cotton stripper stripped the whole boll and cotton from the stalk. The picked cotton resulted in a much higher grade of cotton and was also much easier to gin. The principal is still the same on modern pickers but they are much larger and higher capacity and the cotton is usually placed in modules for transport to the gin rather than in trailers. You have now had a very symplified 101 course in cotton picking. Harold H
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