Back in my day it was all done by hand 👴🏻

Man, I remember when me and the boys use to do this by hand

Farming Simulator 2019 sent me here. Not disappointed. Love learning about farming.

Black people: *my ancestor*

That is the one thing I miss. I love working with Pickers. They are 10,000 parts working together, and I always enjoyed working on them

Made right here in Des Moines Iowa. Proud John Deere employee.

Back in the day we didnt use machines-👴🏻

Excellent video! Thanks for the slow-motion shots inside the heads. Amazing technology.

That’s amazing this technology was available only as recently as WW2. My great grandmother told me stories of how she picked Cotten during the Great Depression and how much work it was day after day. Now a machine can do it.

Thanks for such a great explanation of how these machines work. I always was curious, now I actually understand. Here's to a prosperous and breakdown free year.

Amazing

I really appreciate this video. Only thing that I would mention is that my understanding is the doffers actually spin in the same direction as the spindles and at a faster speed to ‘unwrap’ the cotton from the spindle barbs. The taper in the spindles also helps this process. The ones I have worked on have the bars coordinated with the ground speed of the picker so the plant ‘sees’ the spindles move in and out of the plant and not pulling or pushing it. I haven’t worked on the round machines so I just assume this is still the case. Thanks again and I’m going to link it on my page. I sure won’t send much traffic your way unfortunately but it is about the best video (perfect length and detail) to show people that are unfamiliar with cotton and probably educational to some that are. Thanks agin... new subscriber.

Glad I stumbled on to this. Saved me/you from lots of questions! Thank You!!!

Amazing machine. Thank you for sharing this with us.

its impressive someone came out with this design (and very impressive how the bushes don't break under the pressure of the harvester)

Thanks for the education Matt - very interesting.

Watched this after watching your 11/01/2020 video! For those of us that have never been around cotton or cotton pickers it was very interesting to hear your explanation and was very understandable!! Thanks for taking time to do that!!

Its weird that I came across this video. As an African American male that was born and raised in the South my grandmother absolutely despised these machines

Your vids are always chocked full of information delivered in a way a novice can pick up. Thanks for that.

Good video - bk in the 50's we had a 2 row stripper mounted on a H Farmall. Blower didn't have enough power to blow it to the back of the trailer - had one man in trailer throwing cotton to the back. Oh yea - no ac on tractor or in trailer.

Being from the far north ive never been around the cotton industry, but I've always been fascinated with it, especially with how the massive cotton pickers work, thanks for this video, you've explained everything perfectly! I would even say much better than most other videos

really great video. i searched for videos of people picking cotton manually and found my way to this. it's remarkable the amount of suffering this machine has eliminated, and with such technological grace. i think about the slaves that would have been on so many American cotton fields 200 years ago, or even less, and what kind of salvation this would have been. it's only a shame it took man so long to come up with this invention. thank you for uploading this!

Thank you. I have always wondered about this.

Praying you have a wonderful high quality crop and plenty of it stay safe out there awesome informative video showing how everything works very good video

Just a couple of thoughts. Cotton picking machines were introduced in the mid to late 1950's in my teenage years. At that time the spindles were continuously wettened by water to help the cotton fibers to stick to it. Actually, the machines leaves some cotton on the stalk. The economy is in being able to harvest a large quantity in a short time. So a small waste does not substantially subtract from the overall profitability. Thanks for the great video.

This is really cool! We don't have much cotton I have seen where I live , so I didn't even know this machine existed. I didn't even know what a cotton plant looked like!

You did a great job getting the stalks picked clean, almost nothing left in the field.

Thanks. Was looking for a good video on how the spindles work. This is the best vid I have seen by far!

The genius behind those pickers is huge , then when you see it you're all " that looks so practical " brilliant video 👍🇬🇧🎃 . And I do buy cotton at every opportunity. As I grow through life cotton's comforts become more important . 😁

Great video, how it works. Thanks

Cool video! Very informative to see the spindles in slow motion

Very good and informative video on an American relic. Thanks

That was very informative! Thanks for the video!

Great video! I've never seen a cotton picker in action before since I live up north. I'm a field service tech for JD and always wondered how these work so now I see!

Safety tip: keep hands clear. I just came up with that on my own.

Thank you! So amazing! Great viseo🙏🏻🌻💕

Awesome job!

Slave driver. We spent half our child hood in a corn field. I would not trade 1 hour for anything else we had so much fun

I would like to see a video of the whole cotton growing process, a timelapse would be cool

Here in Brazil, we hve a small number of these amazing machines.

Very nice! Regards from Brazil.

Stopped at KS cotton field today. I showed my son where his shirts made of cotton come from. He had a good time walking through the field.

I never saw a cotton picker. I'm from New Jersey. Very interesting.

Another great video. Thank you. Worth a subscription. Please keep the explanatory videos coming. They're brilliant 👏

amazing video!

Love the flag on the top!

I saw you on the American farm on the history channel Good vid 👍

AWESOME video!

Great video!

I wish I was in Dixiiiie! Hoorayyy! Hooraaaayyy!

nice!

I grew up in the South but never knew exactly how a cotton picker operated. Thanks for the lesson. Can you do a video about how the raw cotton is then turned into thread?

I wanna do this it looks fun

How do you clean remains after harvesting cotton

My grandpa was always doing this by hand way back in his day he always sang a song it goes like wade in the water WADEEE in the water

Liked, good explanation and demonstration. Best I've seen. I know all this well. Have run a JD.tractor mount, JD 99, and later the 2-99. All likely built before you were born. The newer machines seem to move through the cotton a lot faster than we did. What's you're target ground speed in good cotton? Thanks in advance.

is the plant/branches not damaged at all?

I saw some other parts of the plant going into the holding section. How does that get separated from the pure soft cotton?

I've always wondered about cotton pickers, very easy to understand video. Thanks for the great video.

Wow my mother , who is 80 years old today told me they picked cotton $4 for 100 pounds of cotton. That breaks my heart hearing this

01:30 Imagine being a rabbit or some other animal going through that 😲 But I assume that doesn´t happen very often. Nice video btw - for someone like me who didn´t really know how those machines work before I saw the video 😀

"Hand laborers" 🙄

good video :)

We had a John Deere 99 and a JD 299 both were 2 row machines they were not very fast ... the New John Deere pickers are way ahead of the new Case IH with the way they put a round baler on there to replace the basket.. it can roll a bale and wrap it , and drop it in the field without stopping.. the Case IH STILL HAS TO STOP TO UNLOAD THE

I remember when I was a little boy, my uncle had the ones you put on a tractor, things sure have changed

Note GETTING CLOSE TO ONE WHILE OPERATING IS HOT AS HELL

and i was wondering the whole time if this type of cotton has seeds too, and if the harvester take them out., i know the big ones has but these small i've seen only on farm sim and videos.

What about those dusts with the cotton? Manually picked cotton wil barely have dusts.

I knew the comments wouldn’t let me down

So the self contained picker with bale maker and everything can cost 900k. How much is one that doesnt? And how much is all the other equipment you need to buy?

What is the difference between a picker and a stripper?

What part of TN?

Keeping it real 💯

What is the name of cotton seed ???

Picking cotton this way although much much faster, seems like lots of pieces of the branches get chopped up and imbedded into the cotton. Hand picking seems like you have a way cleaner product

Doesn't it damage the plants by running it over with those big wheels?

How much is the price of the regular cotton picker

I have notice cotton fields when I am driving thru SE Missouri, TN, MS, AL. In late October many fields look like they have been harvested, but there are no "modules" around in the field, and there appears to be some cotton bolls left on the plant. After doing some research, I figured that the modules have been hauled to a different site, and that there is an acceptable percentage of cotton that goes to waste because it is left on the plant. I learned also that not all farms make the modules and the raw cotton bolls go into a basket truck and down the road to the gin. And I can pick up a few nice pieces of raw cotton along the side of the road!! WHAT is the acceptable % of bolls left on the plant after harvest??

Hello I am Brazilian and I live in Brazil what is the price of this cotton harvester there in the United States?

How much does it cost

How many centners per hectare?

my day to day life

What is the name of tractor?

1000m² kg?

Having moved to NE Mississippi about 10 years ago I am surprised at how much cotton is left in the fields after the harvest. Seems like some adjustment could be made to equipment to be more efficient. I was told by one farmer when I ask him about that he said he just claimed the loss on his crop insurance. Doesn't make much sense.

"hand labor" lol

How on earth can someone pay upward of a million dollars for just one machine and expect to make money? That's mind-blowing

Most of the cotton crops are non synchronized in nature Yield is coming 2 or 3 phases How this works in a non synchronized lands

Hand labourers...is that what we're calling them now lol

step 1. travel back in time to get a cotton picker that will last much longer than any john deere picker

Should show what happens when the evening dew hits the cotton and it jams up the spindles. Wow you want to talk about time consuming sit on a bucket with a razor knife undoing that mess

What is considered an acceptable amount of cotton fiber left in the field? To the untrained eye it looks like there is a lot of waste.

The Nutella jars are faster and better- 👴🏻

Pretty fields of snow. The government should have never killed the hemp market. In 1920. So many good products. Lost.

the old way is much better

they are the wrong color

No BLM members were harmed on the making of this video.

The one in the video is a lot different from the two my father has

Thanks for growing cotton. It is a beautiful plant. I only wear 100% Cotton clothing. "The fields are white unto harvest".

God I doing