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Farming hoist
Posted on 10/28/17 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 10/28/17 at 8:37 pm
I have seen deer and fish hoists in here. How about a cotton hoist? Got a 3 point hitch on the front of our new Deere to move cotton bales around. This is about 5200 lbs. Have a mover on the back also. Pretty good load when carrying on the front and back.
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Posted on 10/28/17 at 8:39 pm to highcotton2
What you overcompensating for baw? That’s a 500 lb bail of cotton.
Posted on 10/28/17 at 8:40 pm to highcotton2
Posted on 10/28/17 at 8:52 pm to beebefootballfan
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What you overcompensating for baw? That’s a 500 lb bail of cotton.
It's actually 5200 lbs. About 4 bales of seed cotton.
Posted on 10/28/17 at 9:44 pm to highcotton2
That's legit.
The guys picking our cotton have a Mexican on a 8300 bouncing the front end up every time he hits a bump.
The guys picking our cotton have a Mexican on a 8300 bouncing the front end up every time he hits a bump.
Posted on 10/29/17 at 6:45 am to highcotton2
Cotton, have you had any issues with the Dicamba stuff going on? Random question I know, doing some academic work on it.
Posted on 10/29/17 at 8:09 am to highcotton2
Your tractor is cleaner than my truck. 
Posted on 10/29/17 at 8:42 am to highcotton2
Nothing runs like a Deere
Posted on 10/29/17 at 9:04 am to highcotton2
That's a beautiful tractor 
Posted on 10/29/17 at 9:43 am to 10MTNTiger
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Cotton, have you had any issues with the Dicamba stuff going on? Random question I know, doing some academic work on it.
We had dicamba cotton and soybeans along with non dicamba cotton and soybeans. We did not encounter any drift problems.
Had a neighbor spray some dicamba on some cotton right before dark when the wind had died down. He thought he was doing good because the wind had laid. You do not want to spray at sundown because of temp inversion it will move around. Ended up drifting across the road into some soybeans and stunted them. As much rain as we had the beans needed stunting back so it really probably helped them. It just looked bad for a week or two.
This post was edited on 10/29/17 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 10/29/17 at 11:16 am to highcotton2
Cool. Thanks for the info. I may bother you again in a month or so, Im writing my thesis that involves Dicamba, been talking to some folks in Arkansas and Missouri. Helps to hear from folks that actually have real experience using it
Posted on 10/29/17 at 11:17 am to 10MTNTiger
Pretty sure they're expecting double the acres next year. Lot more data points.
Posted on 10/29/17 at 1:05 pm to tipup
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Your tractor is cleaner than my truck.
I'm going to deduct a point for no armor-all on the tires
Posted on 10/29/17 at 2:42 pm to 10MTNTiger
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Cool. Thanks for the info. I may bother you again in a month or so, Im writing my thesis that involves Dicamba, been talking to some folks in Arkansas and Missouri. Helps to hear from folks that actually have real experience using it
I have experience with it also. We sprayed about 1500 acres worth this year, and had a good experience. We'll likely spray it across every acre not in corn next year. It's a great tool if used properly. I'll help if you need me.
Posted on 10/29/17 at 2:48 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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Posted on 10/29/17 at 3:06 pm to highcotton2
Here's a question I've been wondering about: It appears that cotton farmers are going more and more to the round bails vs the long square loafs. Are the round bales that much of an improvement? I'm guessing the reason why there's still loaf bales is the equipment is still around and paid for but in 20 years all you'll see is rounds.
Posted on 10/29/17 at 4:26 pm to Chuker
Those are called modules. You would have a picker with a basket to catch the cotton when the picker basket is full you have another person on a tractor pulling a " boll buggy" which is just a big trailer that can dump the cotton over into another machine called a module builder. This module builder is also hooked to another tractor. This machine has a packer that you have to run back in forth in the cotton to keep packing it tighter and tighter until you make one big module of cotton. Then you pull the builder off of the cotton and have to put a big tarp over the top of it to protect the cotton from rain. So you have two tractors and operators tied up doing all this. The round bale you see is completely made on the picker wrapped in plastic and dumped out the back. It is mainly a labor saving machine and not necessarily a money saving proposition. That picker is about $750,000. It costs over $800 just to fill it up with fuel.
Boll Buggy dumping into module builder.
Boll Buggy dumping into module builder.
This post was edited on 10/29/17 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 10/29/17 at 4:27 pm to highcotton2
Always amazed how expensive those are. Even compared to a grain combine
Posted on 10/29/17 at 4:35 pm to highcotton2
Points off for no foot in pic.
Posted on 10/29/17 at 4:37 pm to highcotton2
You ever get nostalgic about the old way of picking? I miss it a little sometimes... Mostly at breakfast. We'd have 4 pickers, 4 builders, 3 buggies, and a ground crew. There was one fella that cooked while everyone else serviced every morning and around 9:30, we'd eat a Mexican style dish and then either eggs + sausage, bacon, ham, cocktail wiener, or hot dog wrapped in tortillas before going to the field.
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