How A Cotton Gin Works

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2 жыл бұрын

In this video, Matt visits with James Wages of Farmer's Gin of Humboldt to see how a modern cotton gin separates the seed, fiber, and trash from cotton that was mechanically picked by a cotton picker. See how far the modern cotton gin has come from the first cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1794 that revolutionized the cotton industry.
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@MarvinStroud3 2 жыл бұрын

My friend Bill Gibbs worked in gins during the summer to put himself through school in winter. Bill now has a PhD in Physics. Good Going, Bill.

@noahkleugh9323 2 ай бұрын

Great show! It illustrated the complexities of one of the essential industries in the country. I used to live in Lubbock TX where cotton was THE industry of the area.

@kerrykrishna 2 жыл бұрын

That was amazing to watch. This dude knows EVERYTHING about his plant! Thanks for putting this up Matt.

@woodstock048 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, very interesting to someone that grew up on a cotton farm in Lincoln, Co., TN. 70 years ago. I have ginned many bales from a wagon containing one bale, hand picked. My grandfather had a gin in Ardmore, TN./AL. with cotton warehouses. The last of the warehouses, long since used as cotton, burned two years ago. But, his old cotton scale at his gin is in use today for other purposes.. Thanks

@bruceb3786 2 жыл бұрын

A LOT different from the gin my Grandfather took his cotton to in Tillatoba, MS in 1955. I picked for 2 cents per pound in 1955. All I remember about that gin was seeing the finished bales, which my Grandfather said weighed about 400#. I do not think there was any equipment for separating seeds and lint, as is seen in this video. Being all hand picked at the time, there were no hulls in the cotton. The cotton was taken to the gin in an open top, expanded-metal wire-sided trailer, about 8' wide x 20' long x 6' high on 4 wheels, and was pulled behind a farm tractor or a pickup truck. The compressed bales back then were wrapped in burlap, and then banded. Those finished bales back then were nothing compared to the clean, clear wrapped bales in this video. That gin in Tillatoba was heavy-timber framed , with galvanized tin sides and roof. It collapsed from deterioration about 15 years ago. THANK YOU for a most interesting video!!

@powellmountainmike8853 2 жыл бұрын

My grandfather owned a cotton gin in Eutawville, SC. I remember in the early 1960 when the cotton picking machine first came into use. I also remember the days before that when cotton was picked by hand, and school kids would help bring the crop in to make a little spending money. My grandfather used a mule and wagon to move the bales from the baler to the railroad car on the siding next to the gin, and to carry the seeds from the hopper to the other railroad car.. That was where I learned to drive mules.

@jonathonlocklear1218 Жыл бұрын

I was just in eutawville, sc last weekend on my way home to walterboro sc

@MajesticDemonLord 2 жыл бұрын

Me, an IT Guy with no personal or professional interaction with Cotton: "Fascinating, please tell me more" (whilst also taking another look at the T-Shirt I'm wearing and having a new-found appreciation for it's manufacture)

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

With that comment, if you haven’t already seen them, you may be interested in my videos “How A Cotton Picker Works” and How Cotton Grows”.

@tavaramirez668 2 жыл бұрын

This was amazing. My grandfather worked in gins during and after the depression and war. He was in Texas, Oklahoma, and I think Tennessee. My mother remembers going with him and could tell me how it worked, but I had no mental image of it before now. She also remembers when he was the only one working during the depression and how dangerous it was. He would have loved seeing how it has changed.

@josephlacour8696 7 ай бұрын

I was led to this video by a study of slavery in the south where I grew up. I'm brokenhearted over the atrocities of our beginnings but I'm impressed by the modern industrialization of the process. More of us need to know. And be humbled. Keep growing responsibly, y'all.

@robertwilliamsjr.9195 2 жыл бұрын

I was raised in a gin in NE La., . My dad hauled the seed to the oil mill, cotton to the compress, and by-products, cottonseed meal/hulls for cattle feedback from the oil mill....most rural gins are closed now. huge co-op gins gin the cotton now.. after ginning season we hauled bale cotton to the wharves of NewOrleans, and to the textile mills in the Carolinas...I've done about everything you can do...plant/harvest/tromp the trailers, run sucker pipe, pull trailers, work the press..haul to compress...the scariest thing were the fires...evey now and then...

@Charles53412 2 жыл бұрын

This brought back a lot of memories ! I was a ginner in West Texas in the late 80's early 90's. Running old Continental Gin stands, where you had to monitor the seed roll continuously. Modules were a treat to gin, considering 99.99% was all trailered cotton and suction tubes. Bales were hand bagged and tied with wire. Our gin may have been small, but we were proud that it could gin 12 bales an hour all day long when conditions were right. Lots of memories of those days ! Thanks for taking me down memory lane !

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

Our gin was all trailered cotton and wire tied bales too.

@Charles53412 2 жыл бұрын

@@griggsfarmsllc LOL we didn't even have an electric hoist to weigh the bales, it was one of those chain hoists. Those were the days !

@samanthamurdock3752 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating! Love Electric Upgrade!!! In addition the cotton looks so clean!!! Nice Plant thanks for tour!!! Best Wishes!!!

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@fractode 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting videos on YT! 👍

@dennisconrad6124 2 жыл бұрын

That was very interesting. Having never been around cotton, the whole ginning process is really impressive.

@joegrassel 2 жыл бұрын

My dad ran a cotton gin in Corcoran, CA. He also traveled repairing other gins in the central valley in the off season. I learned so much and enjoyed every minute I was allowed to visit as a child. One of my first jobs was running a suction pipe.at that very gin before it was demolished. The smell of fresh cotton being ginned is absolutely wonderful and has stuck with me my entire life. Watching cotton cascading through the gin stands is mesmerizing. I feel lucky to have had those experiences.

@myview5840 2 жыл бұрын

What do you wear then?

@FiiZzioN 2 жыл бұрын

As someone that lives right next a gin, this really helped explain what was going on at the neighbors about 3 months out of the year.

@BigDaddy-yp4mi 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@bradleysmith5161 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Matt. Explained the gin process very well . I wish this video and other videos towards agriculture were a requirement for our younger generation to watch in schools.

@lesliebarnes2250 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much James and to Wages farm. We were talking about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and I went looking for how they worked. Realize this is much more high tech, but your video was fascinating for this city kid!

@SteveHolsten 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the great money I made ginning cotton during my ginning seasons between 1978 - 1994. My best year was in 1981 when we ginned 17 hours a day for about 7 straight weeks. On a good day; we were able to gin 10 bales an hour in the antique 1948 Murray Gin. I made $499.99 for 7 straight weeks. It was so aggravating needing just one penny to get to say I made $500 paychecks. They brought us dinner & supper from a local cafe during those long hard days. This was at the Hollywood Gin that was about 4 miles east of Arbyrd MO. This is where I learned to become an Assistant Ginner.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

I think our old family gin topped out at about 8 bales per hour

@SteveHolsten 2 жыл бұрын

@@griggsfarmsllc They were swooft back in their day.

@setac949 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you posted this. I grew up in Crockett County. Daddy grew lots of cotton. I worked in the fields every summer until 1969. I have handpicked it, hoed it, cultivated it with 2 row, 4 row and 8 row equipment, driven a picker. Everything is more automated today. I've been to Humboldt many times, but not lately. Thanks for posting.

@martylost167 2 жыл бұрын

What about a video on cottonseed mill for cattle and oil? My family has feed cottonseed mill to cattle for 50 years and I've always wondered how it's made.

@williamgibb5557 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Never saw the process described so well. Thank you. I prefer cotton over other products thanks to your hard work. Stay safe, healthy and happy. Have a good year , my friend.

@markmortensen4341 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely done for sure!! Explained so everyone can easily understand👍👍

@OTuit 2 жыл бұрын

Be sure to tell James thanks for the tour!

@burttodd992 2 жыл бұрын

That's a nice plant I am in the same thing been running a gin since I was 18 I love it

@Mtlmshr 2 жыл бұрын

Had no idea how technical a cotton gin had become,fascinating!

@youpattube1 2 ай бұрын

Very nice guided tour. Thanks.

@spandex7055 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating, who knew it was so detailed and complicated. Great video.

@jimpolk 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Answered a lot of questions I had that hadn't been answered on other gin videos. Great Job!

@amandabellnewcomb5952 2 жыл бұрын

Superb Video! Y'all did a fine job...one of the best videos I've seen to educate the public!

@johnjulie6657 2 жыл бұрын

We used to gin cotton in the Shafter/Wasco area of California. I miss those days!

@BaronVonPwn Жыл бұрын

Humboldt TN. I love seeing representation from my side of Tennessee. I grew up near dyersburg. Excellent video BTW

@hastingshayandtreefarm4402 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Really enjoyed it.

@user-jx9qo9lf3t 2 жыл бұрын

40yrs ago I lived in Dyersburg and worked at the Cotton Mill. We took raw cotton and synthetics to make fabric. The double baler at the end was not always automatic, I worked my butt off strapping those 500ibs bales by hand before the other side filled. Thanks for the flash back.

@DJ-bh1ju 2 жыл бұрын

He did a great job of describing product flow and how it's handled... I was hoping for more about how the fibers are trash are separated - the actual inner workings of the gin...

@jamesrichardson559 2 жыл бұрын

I watch a lot of how it works type videos and this one is excellent.

@cs_fl5048 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the cotton padding my Father in law put in chairs.. it was that short grain stuff at about 13:00.

@B10Esteban 4 ай бұрын

Extremely interesting.

@johnpierce1251 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid James explaining the process was fantastic went real nice with how you explained the harvest side well done stay safe my friend

@djs6466 2 жыл бұрын

gr8 video.. really enjoyed it... thanks so much for everyone's time in making it.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@robertsnearly3823 2 жыл бұрын

In my younger years I worked for a bit at the Clinton Cotton Oil Mill in Clinton OK about 1980. A rough and certainly dirty job. Something Mike Rowe would have gotten into. Wow, the memories. 😁❤

@TimNevins 2 жыл бұрын

Great show!

@pastormichaelhibbertminist7486 Жыл бұрын

great information....Thank you

@godofplumbing 2 жыл бұрын

One of the first things I remember learning in school was the cotton gin made by Eli Whitney.

@datgumkirby4477 Жыл бұрын

Musical choices got a new sub!

@Ukepa 2 жыл бұрын

what a good video! I always wondered how cotton was "produced"... thanks

@raypeters4525 2 жыл бұрын

VERY INTERESTING ! THANK YOU !

@campassi1961 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Mark - Hamilton AL

@1tigerbee 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent and Informative. Thank you

@barttraynor1220 2 жыл бұрын

Cool!! Very well done🙂

@hoss1905 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting 😊

@danwolfe7665 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! This was interesting!

@donhouse8720 2 жыл бұрын

Thank for this video

@michaelmontgomery4748 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Tipton County and have driven past the Burlison Gin every day, so cool to see what going on inside and especially being so close to home

@michaelrief4424 2 жыл бұрын

This was a really good video. I’m retired from an industrial service job so it’s neat to see someone else working. But I still don’t actually know how the Seeds are physically removed but that might be proprietary so I’ll just keep looking until I see a replica of an old time Gin in action.

@DHESS007 2 жыл бұрын

I thought James Wages was very informative and explained things pretty well. Good job and this was very helpful to understand how much cotton ultimately comes out of one of those bowles your picker picks.

@larrygrove9689 2 жыл бұрын

Good

@larrygrove9689 2 жыл бұрын

Good 👍

@kosycat1 2 жыл бұрын

dude could you imagine picking all that by hand

@harrypotter4309 2 жыл бұрын

First one of your vid's I've seen. Very interesting, I'm now a subscriber !!, we don't see any of the cotton growing industry in U.K. (although I have seen some aspects of it in USA & India) I look forward to watching many other of your vid's.

@nwpioneer2551 2 жыл бұрын

VERY INTERESTING. THANK YOU.

@kabby738 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@JTGriggs 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative video. Really enjoyed it. This is from a Griggs raised in Arkansas.

@greglester7666 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks

@donhouse8720 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video

@adroitredtiger 10 ай бұрын

Those safety photos at 4:06 will haunt me

@kimberlywagner1638 2 жыл бұрын

Great job, thank you

@mfc4591 2 жыл бұрын

very interesting. well done

@jeanhawken4482 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@jefflogue4884 2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to believe with the advancements in technology that they haven't made the picker gin the cotton at the same time they.pick it

@44hawk28 2 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly, the invention of the cotton gin is what actually kept slavery viable for a much longer period of time because up until then it was a lot of human labor used to clean the cotton. My mother was raised picking cotton, and when she retired she had more years and Telecommunications than probably any other woman on the planet. Having worked for the Bell system in Illinois, Southern Belle in the South when we lived in Florida and moving up to Michigan Bell 1966 when we moved up to Detroit. And then after she retired from the Bell System she went to work for Sprint where she had more years than any other three women in that company those three women were all three older than her.

@paulbrooks2024 2 жыл бұрын

I pick tobacco never cotton, corn, produce, water mellons,,inthe 60s , worked in textiles 45 years as a machine mechanic, in GA, NC SC Mex..retired now,

@walterradcliffe5639 2 жыл бұрын

Who knew, very interesting. Thank you. Curious on how it was processed before all the machinery.

@kevinbaker6168 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Missouri, but too far north for cotton. The area during the 1800's had a number of hemp growers, who raised it to produce rope. Look up the "Battle of the Hemp Bale's; Lexington Missouri" if you want to know something about that. I have a friend north of St. Joseph who has a tobacco allotment.

@TheMissPoovey 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Missouri grows quite a bit of cotton. My parents picked cotton, in Missouri. I have pictures of myself in a cotton field just a couple years ago near Sikeston MO. Investigate your state. Cheers

@kirkleythomas9280 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMissPoovey Hi Miss Poovey, I think Kevin means HE lives too far north in Missouri for cotton (northern Missouri). Yes, there are thousands of acres of cotton in Missouri, especially in the bootheel. Have a great day.

@TheMissPoovey Жыл бұрын

My apologies for my misunderstanding and posting about said error. Please forgive my lack of understanding and associated snark. I’ll leave these so everyone else will be informed, just in case there are others of whom have failed reading comprehension.

@davidkimmel4216 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You

@gillafunk 2 жыл бұрын

Super fun

@burttodd992 2 жыл бұрын

Great video buddy

@koopajr7681 2 жыл бұрын

I know a couple of cotton gin's in Haywood county myself good video

@roymaduro571 2 жыл бұрын

What engeneering, a marvel

@peteparker7396 2 жыл бұрын

Check out Glasscock County Coop gin in TX. They even have there own compress now. Fully automated, two feeders, 4 of the biggest stands Continental makes. Two very larger A frame seed house’s. For the last 10 years they average 90,000 bales a year. It’s a heckuva an operation.

@mr.electric8559 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. Good to learn how complicated this process is. Do they run the gin thru only the harvesting season, or does it run the whole year? In the opening drone shots, I could see many rolls of cotton in the background.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

It generally takes this gin from October through Thanksgiving to gin the crop that is brought. Other gins in areas that produce way more cotton, like in Texas, may run all winter before they get the crop ginned

@ou812hongkong8 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool I live 3 blocks from the gin

@robertmarino2158 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing operation, very well explained , the expense on the equipment has to be in the millions or billions , stay safe ! Number of employees working at this operation ?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know for sure but I’d say it takes 8-10 people to run it

@MrStarkiller2497 11 ай бұрын

i got a question i found an old mill and its got a huge drill bit but not attached to anything

@debcamp2359 8 ай бұрын

Good job! Now , we can find domestic solutions and products?? Maybe fashion cloth a d fabric??

@SuperBuckys 2 жыл бұрын

My grandfather ran the first gin maury city ever had. Now lol how far it's came

@coreythomas6576 2 жыл бұрын

A lot different than Mr. Eli Whitney's design. But it does the same thing. It is interesting how something invented so long ago has changed due to technological advances even though those advances deliver the same end product.

@Theguys1 11 ай бұрын

Fascinating….what are the riofits?😊

@danielginther4879 2 жыл бұрын

Buy American! Thanks for a very interesting video.

@jameslester3861 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the smell of burning cotton hulls on a cool fall day.

@bigjohn2048 2 жыл бұрын

Great job on the video. The question I have is what has happened to the cotton compresses. They used to take a full size cotton bale and press it down to about the size of a regular square bale of hay for storage and transportation. They used a huge press that would press the bale down so far with hydraulics and then huge iron wings on the side of the press would fold down and compound the pressure to two or three hundred tons. Then people would step into the open area next to the bale and pass thick steel wire around the compound pressed bale and give it a half twist thru slots in the press block. The would pass ten or twelve wires per bale to hold the shape and size of the bale. Every few bales a wire would break shooting an end of the wire out like a bullet. It was dangerous hot work. I used to work on the Cat engines supplying the hydraulic pressure. That was back in the eighties. I went by the old building a while back and it was empty. Are they no longer doing this operation or did they just move to a different location. I know a lot of the gins in this area have closed down.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

Modern gin presses are capable of compressing the cotton into the proper size needed for transport so there is no need to take the cotton bales to another “compress”. I know what you’re talking about as we used to have to take the cotton from our old gin to a compress

@BigDaddy-yp4mi 2 жыл бұрын

Notice the ghoulish posters on the left @4:08!

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

Yep a cotton gin can be a dangerous place

@jasonklatt3849 2 жыл бұрын

Our gin did 170,000 bales this year

@davidthurmond9016 Жыл бұрын

Used to have to go old school with a suck pipe they called it u had to get into the cotton trailers and suck the cotton out of them no matter if it was hot or cold

@williammatzek4660 2 жыл бұрын

Matt their is a little cotton raised here in Kansas. Sure seems like they leave a lot in the field.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

It looks like a lot more than it really is. A properly adjusted cotton picker is usually 95-99% efficient depending on the type of cotton variety

@thomasputko1080 2 жыл бұрын

Its actually better than How do they do it.

@caryenmon1903 2 жыл бұрын

Matt this gin we use is still ginning cotton. There supposed to be finished march.

@stevecobb7844 2 жыл бұрын

How many t-shirts per acre is that? 🙂

@TheCymbalProject Жыл бұрын

1882. 👍

@mikeyoung8126 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Matt so why did you guys shut down your gin?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

It was a small gin that relied heavily on labor instead of automation and was not profitable

@TheMissPoovey 2 жыл бұрын

@@griggsfarmsllc I saw a video that said hemp can replace cotton uses for the gin. If you’re looking for a new fiber.

@ThreePhaseHigh 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting so an average bail of cotton costs approximately how much In today’s market ? Kinda wish you would have introduce us to Eli .

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

Price of cotton varies depending on the futures market. Usually between $0.52-$1.00/lb. A cotton bale usually weighs between 480-500 lbs

@richardbeck3931 2 жыл бұрын

This would be amazing if we can get it on farming simulator 22

@scottporter1108 2 жыл бұрын

Does it have to be refined to be used as a end material?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 жыл бұрын

Yes