That is really hard graft. No cotton here, but I remember pitching hay bales and straw bales up onto the trailer with a pitchfork. If you've not seen it, think "slow motion pole vaulting". At less than five feet tall, and weighing about sixty pounds ( if I was carrying thirty pounds of hay), it was hard work.

Kevin Irwin it was a pretty decent year yield wise. Need prices to pick up some, but better than it could be. I’ve been called several things but it’s been a while since I’ve heard classy! Ha but thanks again and glad you enjoy the videos

@@southernfarmer prices up enough for u?

Yes they are

Thanks so much

aex132 it just doubles as a bulldozer , lol

Brenda Renfree your welcome, could have been much worse, just dented sheet metal

Roger Carrico yes it is. I could’ve been much worse

Chris Covillon thank you

Dennis Sanders that’s how it goes sometimes, thanks for watching

We just fixed it yesterday

salty 101 low feeling for sure

Glyn Robinson awesome, thanks for watching

t_r_b yep, it sucks

Daniel Kaz thanks for watching

Benjamin Lembree haha, maybe so, but I doubt it

Dwayne Koblitz it’s a heartbreaker for sure

Yea, & thanks

Christian Uhlemann not exactly, check out the “Cotton Picking Time” video from earlier this harvest season and it gives a pretty good overview of the moistener “water/soap” system that is used to clean the spindles off

@@southernfarmer thx man, doesn´t know there is a Erklärbärvideo..but thx for that.

Dale Mitchell thanks for watching

@@southernfarmer Can I ask why you drop bales before you reach the headlands when the following bale will not be completed before you reach the headlands.

Adrian Chetwynd many times we get as close as we can to the headland we intend to store the modules at, but many times we are going the opposite direction so that’s as close as we will be with that bale before turning. Also, if there is any thing at all on the edge of the field where you plan to turn and head back you are very limited on turning room with a bale on the handler. Another reason to drop them at “random” might be there may be a drain or mud hole to cross where the handler could potentially drape, or the picker it’s self might strain to the point of losing power.... which is never good, and just another avoidable problem. Thanks for watching

PeterCycles maybe so

Craig Faircloth yes after a rain, but this late in the season, and it had not rained in a few weeks, it would have to be a very heavy dew to get the seed wet enough to not be dry by the time the lint was.

Yea, can’t even see much with them. You have to rely on rear view camera a ton

Chad Smith idk if I’m that good at body work

@@southernfarmer when I was a kid my dad bought a wrecked '67 Charger and the front part of the frame was bent. He went 100% redn*ck and tied a chain around it and to a tree out back. He would rev up the car, slam it in reverse, and get it going as fast as he could until the slack ran out. After about doing that ten times the frame was mostly straight and his nerves were mostly shot. He drove that car for 5 or 6 years. After that he consider himself to be a "Frame and Body Man". So, by that logic, you just need a little OJT to get your John Deere body work certification. LOL. I wish we had camera phones back then to film some of the other crazy stuff he did.

Chad Smith hahah! That’s great! Sounds like he would have fit right in around here. Thanks for watching

5mph

@@southernfarmer we usually run between 2 and 4

Joel Henderson exactly

Michael Nichols often times we do, but if there are any muddy spots, drains, rough spots of any kind to cross we go ahead and try not to carry it through them or across them with the picker. Sometimes we would end up on the opposite end at which the bales were being lined up, which would be counter productive. The spear tractor burns minimum fuel anyways. Not really a big deal if the have to go a few extra rounds a day

John Smith about the only way to look at it now. Thanks for watching

tony gough not to bad once you do it several hundred times

@@southernfarmer we have a vast land in Ghana which is suitable for Cotton production. Can we work together. Its a 10,000+ acres

kwaku anim-asiedu probably a little to far for us to travel

@@southernfarmer OK, but I believe its worth it. Can I get your email address or whatsapp contact?

@@southernfarmer OK, but I believe its worth it. Can I get your email address or whatsapp contact?

Now got a African American owned dealer group in south texas

nikphoenix easier to turn at the end without the bale

nikphoenix spear tractor has ample time to place them exactly where they need to be

L5P Denali for sure

Yep I definitely would like to see all you’re equipment. Looks like you guys have a lot of nice equipment. John Deere all the way.

nick verkler once we get rained out most everything will make its way back to the shop and I’ll do one best I can, we’re still a little scattered at this point

So you can haul them in a covered module truck

I always setup them up at 94 they fit good in the module truck and some at 98

IKR?! I thought he came in a little low. Even wrecked, that sounds like a bargain.

brandon Cook I’m afraid so

Arable CanterburyNZ yes, insurance should cover most of it, but that was a custom harvest job🥴.... not our field

Thanks for watching

gary oakman about 5k lbs

I’m usually good for once a month maybe. Normally not show stopping but also usually not quite that noticeable as that big dent😬

@@southernfarmer I ripped the door off the back of a module builder when I was 13 lol

For sure

So, it's the tree's fault now??

@@tandemwings4733 haha 😂

Haha. May hurt the resale value tho🥴

@@southernfarmer It would be childish to even think about selling in that condition, surely. Me thinketh that it would easily be smart to have it repaired, no matter what the future plans are. Do you not have your equipment insured for accidental breakdown? It is probably close to 100% practice in our part of the world..

Napalm182 Napier thanks for watching

Jimmy Strain about 5k

F Huber ehhh. I guess

JD Farmer nope, not at all, barely even moving

My neighbor was draglining from his lagoon. Had 1200’ of hose laid out and hooked a power pole. He was going 8/10ths of a mile an hour. Creeping. Pulled the pole up out if the ground. Didnt even know it until he saw the lines sparking. Sometimes these low speed accidents can be worse than the high speed ones.

redbovine yep, especially with a 485 hp machine, the damage can be large with no inclination of anything going wrong until it’s way to late

@@southernfarmer Yep, especially that it is really only sheet metal. The driver wouldn't have any feel to that at all, until too late.

@@southernfarmer It's John Deere's fought, substandard metal, trying save a dime. No way that branch should've done that much damage. You did the best you could with what you had. First time viewer. Thanks for sharing the footage.

Mississippi

ho cool

Garbageman84 just part of it

I believe we have it all fixed now. Orders a few new pieces, never hurt any of the functionality of the picker

@@southernfarmer . Got to admit. I like hearing y'all talk. I've been in Arizona since '92. Everyone talks like a tv newscaster.

Haha

No doubt

Ford Tough

@@southernfarmer right under a Chevy

Poorhouse Racing yea I am, a rear panel for a 7760

Jim Baker lol, had stopped videoing 2-3 hours before the accident. I can’t even blame it on that.

SA Farmer could’ve been worse

Mark Anderson yep

Dave Evans closer than I like it

@@southernfarmer Indeed. Good luck with it, hope it's only superficial. 👍

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