Posted by KEH on October 30, 2012 at 11:30:39 from (209.213.19.196):
In Reply to: cotton, educate me posted by ericlb on October 30, 2012 at 06:12:24:
Plowing cotton with a mule meant walkingup and down the row at least 4 times plus one in the middle. This varied depending on how much grass was in the crop. It's understandable that men then didn't have a weight problem.
I always understood the standard weight for a bale of cotton is 480 pounds.
Presently, John Deere makes a cotton picker that puts the cotton into a large round bale, maybe 6 x 6 feet, weighting 5,000 pounds, and wrapped around the outside in plastic. These can be moved like round bales of hay except it obviously takes large tractors to pick them up. I think the gin needs some special equipment to process the round bales. CIH makes cotton pickers that make a small module, don't know how much it weighs. I think the JD system is going to be more popular.
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