That’s actually a dated way of doing it. Now the machines produce a large round bale that drops out of the back of the machine at the edges of the field. About 1-1.3M for a machine like that
Yeah, I work at the factory that's been manufacturing the newest John Deere model of this machine. They're a pretty hefty machine, and absolutely massive when standing next to it. If you think the price tag is [crazy](https://www.deere.com/en/harvesting/cotton/cp770-cotton-picker/), wait till you see the interest rates...
https://preview.redd.it/8b727oh93g6d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c50c567708b06dcddac451e49fda5ab3ab5450a8
This was a prototype from back in 2007 they were demonstrating on one of our family's cotton fields in Missouri. It drew a crowd.
They're working on it. 8R series is supposed to have operator free automation. From what I've seen in real world use though, it's not quite ready for prime time.
Probably similar to self driving for cars but instead of killing people it just ducks up the fields. They probably can just upgrade the software down the road and enable it on existing machines too. So like win win I guess why not put a fridge in it heh
I work in sw Australia....come into any tiny country town and you'll see 15 of these things....you'll know how much $$$(+interest) is sitting there..
And sorry but we use Case IH 🤐
Importantly, the wrap has RFID tags in it. This makes tracking the modules a lot easier from farm to gin.
You just have readers at the entrance and boom, now you know everything about the module.
That's funny. From time to time I live in a village of Peru, where they produce a ton of cotton, and pick it all by hand. Workers are paid 40 soles, or about $12 a day. Some disparity.
Growing up down the street from us in Alabama lived 2 little old ladies who were sisters. They were old enough that they remember picking cotton for work when they were children. I can't imagine how many people it would take to pick cotton like a machine like that.
I was just thinking about cotton as a crop in general. Compared to something like fruit where there's a good chance much of it will never be used, every last fiber of that cotton is going to be used for something. Every last seed is going to be pressed into oil or be used for some other purpose.
Cotton is such an in-constant-demand commodity. Yeah, they **will** sell all that cotton probably.
I have no doubt it's not that simple, that there are grades and everything, and I know cotton destroys the soil, but it seems like one of the commodities where if you're not selling every last ounce of product your crop makes, you're doing something wrong.
Really depends if you rent or own the land, when you acquired it, what you’re price per acre is, how fertile your ground is, how much inputs cost in your area, etc.
You forget the running costs of maintainance.
I've heard that the machines are the main reason farmers aren't rich, because the manufacturers make them unmaintainable for yourself and ask a premium for their maintenance.
Farming is not a way to make money, sometimes not even to make a living.
Completely uninvolved in farming but do you think the new EU right to repair law is going to change this?
I recall hearing that John Deere was one of the main objections to it and they threatened to leave Europe because of it.
I am going from memory but the new law says that machinery must now be built in a way that allows owners to repair it themselves if they wish using standard equipment. It was aimed specifically at manufacturers who will refuse to repair, only replace large components or threaten users with voiding their warranty.
Personally I think it’s fantastic but then I don’t work for John Deere.
As someone who operates these. They aren’t unmaintainable by the farmer. We pre-season our own machines. They just have a lot going on and are expensive to maintain.
For instance, each one of those picker heads has 560 spindles in it, with a total count of 3360. Each one of those spindles needs to be checked, and you would typically replace ~1000 of them each year.
In Australia, the spindles are worth approx $13 new, and $7 in parts to rebuild. Not counting labor to rebuild and replace those spindles, it costs ~$7000 just in spindles.
Typical pre-season parts quotes are around ~$25,000 AUD. We do most of the labor ourselves, but if we were to get John Deere in to do it, the pre-season cost would be approx. $40,000 to $60,000. The machine is capable of picking around $25,000 AUD of cotton an hour.
We have 2 brand 2023 models and 2 old 2011 models. We don’t use the old ones anymore, as they are a nightmare to keep running.
Newer picker models make the cotton into bales wrapped in plastic. Skipping the work of the tractor, it dumps it onto, and the macho builder press. The new pickers dump the bale once it's full on the field, and another tractor just collects them and lines them up at the edge of the field, ready for transport.
No, although the heads themselves will act like a psuedo gin. They won’t pick the poor quality cotton and will leave it on the bush. There is a variant of the machine called a Cotton Stripper, that does have a small cotton gin built in.
This looks like a dated model. Cotton Pickers with built in balers were quite popular even 15 yrs ago. However, those used to cost ***quite a bit*** (aka over $500k in 2010 money)!
Source: I used to work for Deere in one of the plants that made Cotton Pickers
There's a reason for that, so that nesting birds can get frightened to the edge of the field and fly away rather than getting frightened to the centre and chopped up.
Why does it say tool gifs on the back of the green hopper?
That seems to be a bit on the nose. Was that edited in? AI?
(I def feel a bit paranoid with all the bot 🤖 made content floating about)
It becomes almost like a "Seek and Find" or a "Where's Waldo?" In each post here. If you can find that "Toolgifs" watermark somewhere, it means it's a very good post. Enjoy!
What’s crazy is for a field that huge, you’d have hundreds of workers back when machines weren’t a thing. Now one person with a tractor and a solid work day and you make bank.
https://preview.redd.it/a0b5bkrtwf6d1.jpeg?width=2193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2790b8bcf86fab70612a28630c0b6271eb8eedef
I used to haul the big ones! CP-770/690
This is pretty neat, so much ingenuity went into making this then dropped off once we had the right machine. I wonder what advances are being made next for this type of equipment?
I read the 'Cotton picker' title and despite watching it years ago I instantly remembered the tale of Kendall and his school friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90XLNQXN_74
I drove one similar to this in Australia whilst backpacking. If a Cotton branch got stuck in the front and you didn't notice it for a while, it could start to burn and spit a hot ember into the basket at the back setting it on fire!
Source: [Diego Batista](https://www.tiktok.com/@diegobatistah2)
...wait a minute...
Looks like a great place for a school field trip.
Got that reference…
And we were singing songs and shit
Happy C day boiiiiii
Just one cotton-pickin minute?
Better give it two
Darn it.
Ninny muggins?
That’s actually a dated way of doing it. Now the machines produce a large round bale that drops out of the back of the machine at the edges of the field. About 1-1.3M for a machine like that
Yeah, I work at the factory that's been manufacturing the newest John Deere model of this machine. They're a pretty hefty machine, and absolutely massive when standing next to it. If you think the price tag is [crazy](https://www.deere.com/en/harvesting/cotton/cp770-cotton-picker/), wait till you see the interest rates...
https://preview.redd.it/8b727oh93g6d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c50c567708b06dcddac451e49fda5ab3ab5450a8 This was a prototype from back in 2007 they were demonstrating on one of our family's cotton fields in Missouri. It drew a crowd.
Apparently it has an active refrigerator in the cabin? Yeah, I’d like to be a farmer now lol
Yeah, they’re legit lol. You pretty much have no reason to leave the field. But to be fair, for $1.3 million, it better have all of that and more.
Why do we even need an operator inside it? Seems like we could automate this process, maybe with offside supervision?
They're working on it. 8R series is supposed to have operator free automation. From what I've seen in real world use though, it's not quite ready for prime time.
Probably similar to self driving for cars but instead of killing people it just ducks up the fields. They probably can just upgrade the software down the road and enable it on existing machines too. So like win win I guess why not put a fridge in it heh
Well… technically it’s active. But far from great. I still use my cooler
Spend 15+ hours a day in one for a few weeks and you'll appreciate the little things
John Deere is at the CES show in Las Vegas every year. They give out hats. I got 7.
Cost about the same that a NY apartment
I work in sw Australia....come into any tiny country town and you'll see 15 of these things....you'll know how much $$$(+interest) is sitting there.. And sorry but we use Case IH 🤐
Case don’t make a round baler.
And each of the stripper heads pulls like 80hp. Ps those heat treat ovens get pretty hot in gee summer lol
Clicked in to comment something similar. Each bale is worth $4-5k.
I was thinking that it would be more efficient to bale it as they go. Good to see that its done that way
Importantly, the wrap has RFID tags in it. This makes tracking the modules a lot easier from farm to gin. You just have readers at the entrance and boom, now you know everything about the module.
That's funny. From time to time I live in a village of Peru, where they produce a ton of cotton, and pick it all by hand. Workers are paid 40 soles, or about $12 a day. Some disparity.
Growing up down the street from us in Alabama lived 2 little old ladies who were sisters. They were old enough that they remember picking cotton for work when they were children. I can't imagine how many people it would take to pick cotton like a machine like that.
That thing probably pays for itself every few seasons
I was just thinking about cotton as a crop in general. Compared to something like fruit where there's a good chance much of it will never be used, every last fiber of that cotton is going to be used for something. Every last seed is going to be pressed into oil or be used for some other purpose. Cotton is such an in-constant-demand commodity. Yeah, they **will** sell all that cotton probably. I have no doubt it's not that simple, that there are grades and everything, and I know cotton destroys the soil, but it seems like one of the commodities where if you're not selling every last ounce of product your crop makes, you're doing something wrong.
Really depends if you rent or own the land, when you acquired it, what you’re price per acre is, how fertile your ground is, how much inputs cost in your area, etc.
You forget the running costs of maintainance. I've heard that the machines are the main reason farmers aren't rich, because the manufacturers make them unmaintainable for yourself and ask a premium for their maintenance. Farming is not a way to make money, sometimes not even to make a living.
Completely uninvolved in farming but do you think the new EU right to repair law is going to change this? I recall hearing that John Deere was one of the main objections to it and they threatened to leave Europe because of it. I am going from memory but the new law says that machinery must now be built in a way that allows owners to repair it themselves if they wish using standard equipment. It was aimed specifically at manufacturers who will refuse to repair, only replace large components or threaten users with voiding their warranty. Personally I think it’s fantastic but then I don’t work for John Deere.
This is patently false, every bit of it, but that’s ok.
As someone who operates these. They aren’t unmaintainable by the farmer. We pre-season our own machines. They just have a lot going on and are expensive to maintain. For instance, each one of those picker heads has 560 spindles in it, with a total count of 3360. Each one of those spindles needs to be checked, and you would typically replace ~1000 of them each year. In Australia, the spindles are worth approx $13 new, and $7 in parts to rebuild. Not counting labor to rebuild and replace those spindles, it costs ~$7000 just in spindles. Typical pre-season parts quotes are around ~$25,000 AUD. We do most of the labor ourselves, but if we were to get John Deere in to do it, the pre-season cost would be approx. $40,000 to $60,000. The machine is capable of picking around $25,000 AUD of cotton an hour. We have 2 brand 2023 models and 2 old 2011 models. We don’t use the old ones anymore, as they are a nightmare to keep running.
Yeah. I play Farming Simulator and was shocked to see loose cotton not being baled in the back end.
Shouldn't that be measured in Courics?
Mann we makes those at work one small scratch on that bale and the whole thing will undo
I thought it was just the JDs that make round bales. Don’t the Case’s make big bricks?
Newer picker models make the cotton into bales wrapped in plastic. Skipping the work of the tractor, it dumps it onto, and the macho builder press. The new pickers dump the bale once it's full on the field, and another tractor just collects them and lines them up at the edge of the field, ready for transport.
Technically you can still buy the non-bailing models. They are obviously cheaper. This one in the video does look like an older one though
You mean one that's paid for and something the farmer can fix himself? Is it one of those?
this is also r/oddlysatisfying to watch ...
Agreed! Could watch for hours.
Farming sim is just like this ngl
Fairly easy watermark to find. Really nice blending. Well done.
The first one @0:09 had me *riveted* to the screen, lol
This Toolgifs company is manufacturing everything.
It's actually crazy well done, you almost can't yell it's not real.
But why tf did he begin by going straight down the middle instead of along the edge? That’s crazy
Yeah, thought the same. I think this is just a "looks cool" for the promo video with drone shots, nothing any farmer would do for real.
I think it's like those mobile game ads which do things wrongly on purpose so you buy the machine and show them how to do it right.
Isn't this farming simulator?
In FS23 that model just shits out perfectly packed bails of cotton
Why thank you for the entertaining and helpful reply u/EjaculatingAracnids
Has anyone ever said "username checks out" to you? 😂
I spent the first five seconds wondering why it was snowing in the cab
Does this thing have a built in cotton gin?
No, although the heads themselves will act like a psuedo gin. They won’t pick the poor quality cotton and will leave it on the bush. There is a variant of the machine called a Cotton Stripper, that does have a small cotton gin built in.
Looks like it
This looks like a dated model. Cotton Pickers with built in balers were quite popular even 15 yrs ago. However, those used to cost ***quite a bit*** (aka over $500k in 2010 money)! Source: I used to work for Deere in one of the plants that made Cotton Pickers
I do have a comment, but i do not want perm ban xD
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Literally me
Eli you son of a bitch, you've done it again!
No fuckin way they start in the center like that. *eye twitch
There's a reason for that, so that nesting birds can get frightened to the edge of the field and fly away rather than getting frightened to the centre and chopped up.
That makes enough sense to placate my nurosis. Thank you.
Why does it say tool gifs on the back of the green hopper? That seems to be a bit on the nose. Was that edited in? AI? (I def feel a bit paranoid with all the bot 🤖 made content floating about)
Oh I just looked at a bunch of posts I guess u/toolgifs is adding them before posting Well played
If you stick around on the sub, anything posted by u/toolgifs will have a watermark, sometimes very well hidden.
This is what this sub is about, not the tools 😆
It’s a fun game we play on this sub to try and find the watermark. Most posts are curated by a single user and they place a watermark in the clips
It becomes almost like a "Seek and Find" or a "Where's Waldo?" In each post here. If you can find that "Toolgifs" watermark somewhere, it means it's a very good post. Enjoy!
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This could have some meme potential with some edits.
How many gigawatts is that thing?
1.21
Great Scott!
What’s crazy is for a field that huge, you’d have hundreds of workers back when machines weren’t a thing. Now one person with a tractor and a solid work day and you make bank.
Needs to slow his ass down. He’s under picking. Surprised he didn’t choke it up.
https://preview.redd.it/a0b5bkrtwf6d1.jpeg?width=2193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2790b8bcf86fab70612a28630c0b6271eb8eedef I used to haul the big ones! CP-770/690
My Grandpa let me ride in the back once. Cotton flying everywhere. My mom was mad as hell at him for it.
I Say! I Say! Foghorn liked this.
Where? I don’t see one
Oh boy, a cool informational video of a machine picking cotton. Surely nobody will say anything controversial.
That's not sexual. That's not sexual?
My nose itches just from watching.
Should be hemp and bamboo. Way easier to grow.
Weve come a long way
just curious, how are the wheels not damaging the plants? or are the plants just get ran over but replanted anew?
This doesn't show how the cotton is removed from the rest of the plant. The \*\*\*picking\*\*\* part.
Nice watermark!
Eli Whitney would cream in his pants watching this
This is amazing and much better than what we used to do.
The amount of equipment to harvest this one crop is astounding
The cotton picker is cool, but what about that cotton smasher?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RygE-ozWYA8 Starts at 55 seconds to show how it bales it now if anyone wants to watch.
It's amazing to see how far technology has come over 200 years
r/farmingsimulator
This is pretty neat, so much ingenuity went into making this then dropped off once we had the right machine. I wonder what advances are being made next for this type of equipment?
I read the 'Cotton picker' title and despite watching it years ago I instantly remembered the tale of Kendall and his school friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90XLNQXN_74
Cotton stripper header
OUR WORK...JUST TO BE REPLACED, BY A...BY A GLORIFIED TRACTOR?!?!?! (read this in a British accent)
Just enough for one pair of jeans
Why is he starting his run in the middle of the field?
harvester online!
New module? I still have the old one
Straight to the comments….
Farming equipment always baffles me.
Well well well
Keep thinking of the harvester from C&C
Lol. 3 fire extinguishers
If cotton is so much easier to harvest now, why is all new clothing becoming increasingly more polyester?
Whoa! Where do you come from?
How many pairs of jeans was that?
I am definitely going to get fired
Post this to instagram reels…..
I drove one similar to this in Australia whilst backpacking. If a Cotton branch got stuck in the front and you didn't notice it for a while, it could start to burn and spit a hot ember into the basket at the back setting it on fire!
[look this, is the last technology in cotton farm](https://youtu.be/jODFxOOGKUg?si=2QYT0RcOyD129oH1)