Hold on a cotton picking second

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domesticatedwolf420@reddit

Why would they be putting it out in the middle of a field?

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

No, cotton falls from top to ground, and note the empty field behind at the end and the cotton picker in front of the truck at the start

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InitialWin89@reddit

I would have upvoted this multiple times btw

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LuzjuLeviathan@reddit

How is it there in the first place? How did it get put there like that?

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jokzard@reddit

Cotton picking machines bails cotton in either rolls or like this. Both use similar trailers to pick up cotton at the fields.

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There is a difference between a cotton picking machine and a cotton stripping machine. Pickers will make large round bales. Pickers have to dump into a module builder. The module builder packs down the cotton into a module ( like the one pictured in the video). Then module trucks come and pick up the module in the field and transport it to the gin.

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BlacktopProphet@reddit

Thank you for saving me a bunch of typing. Cotton pickers vs cotton strippers is right there with wind turbines vs windmills for me lol

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jrshall@reddit

Well now, hold on just one cotton pickin' moment.

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JoePumaGourdBivouac@reddit

Pickers versus strippers is the difference in whether the remove the entire boll or not. Strippers are common in Texas whereas the southeast use spindle pickers which more or less pull the cotton from the boll.

Any machine in the last 10+ years, at least produced by Deere, makes its own round modules. Module builders are almost history at this point. Which is great, less labor and one less piece of machinery to own.

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tc6x6@reddit

West Texas uses strippers, South Texas uses pickers.

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JoePumaGourdBivouac@reddit

I wonder what Arizona uses.

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Angry_Hermitcrab@reddit

If deere makes it, it's in a size that only a deere trailer can pick up and if it will somehow cost more money to make one that will pick it up. Then if you do make one deere lawyers will say it's ip.

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Objective-Outcome811@reddit

And if you need to fix it you better f"*clean lawyer up.

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driverman42@reddit

We had a couple of farmers here (Texas panhandle) try the smaller square bales. What a pain in the ass.

I ran module trucks for 11 seasons. From when I I started in 2012 to what it is now is really interesting.
My last season was last year, and out of 5 module trucks, I was the only one running, and 75% of my work was picking up broken rounds.

In my first season, there were over 30 module trucks running, and it was awesome!

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-Marcellus-@reddit

Video is obviously in reverse.

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BleedForEternity@reddit

Nah, it’s not. I thought it was at first too.

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-Marcellus-@reddit

.si ti seY

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BleedForEternity@reddit

I suggest you re watch it. Truck is obviously in reverse. Video is not.

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Solnse@reddit

I'm betting the video is reversed.

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flatdecktrucker92@reddit

Is it a walking floor then? Because otherwise how did the cotton end up pushed 2 ft up onto the trailer when there was nothing left to push against?

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

Yes. Watch the rollers, they're already turning at the start to pick up and push the bale into the truck.

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flatdecktrucker92@reddit

I see it now, I was watching on a very small phone screen and thought that maybe he was just backing up into a more solid pile than this clearly is. Never worked with this type of trailer before

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

Yeah, this is a module truck. Specifically for hauling cotton modules like this or four round bales end to end from field to gin.

I've never seen a trailer being used for this, but I think they do exist and could haul two modules. Round bales can be loaded onto regular flatbeds, especially if they have extensions mounted on them, or I've seen special built doubles just for cotton round bales that will hold 6 each.

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driverman42@reddit

On hydraulic units, the PTO drives the chains, and the direction of the chains is driven by a sensor on the front wheel. Front wheel rolls forward, chains unload as the truck pulls forward The front wheel goes backward, and the chains pull the module into the truck. There's a sensor in front, so when the module hits that sensor, the chains stop. The chains stop if the wheels stop. Module trucks are awesome.

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flatdecktrucker92@reddit

Sounds fancy

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nothingspecifical1@reddit

Watch the rotation of the rollers on the bed, if it was reversed they’d be rotating the opposite way

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dwntwn_dine_ent_dist@reddit

Yes, that’s what reversing does.

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Big-Permission1243@reddit

It absolutely is reversed. Look at the very beginning chunks of cotton magically flying into the truck before it picks up the bale.

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Sir_Uncle_Bill@reddit

Nope. This is what it is. It gets the bottom of the cotton dirty too.

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Farm_father@reddit

Nope, that’s how they load them. Baler makes the module, then pulls away to a new spot for the next one so the semi can load up. Then the trailer can tip and the floor helps to “walk” the bale out

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Solnse@reddit

Very interesting.

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Kahne_Fan@reddit

So, the falling cotton is actually attaching itself to the main block of cotton?

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Natural_Panic@reddit

nb4 someone complains about the phrase “cotton-picking” being racist even though the post is literally about picking cotton.

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Silver-Tea-8769@reddit

Fuck that. White people picked cotton too.

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The_Mall_Shogun@reddit

Well, voluntarily... and for money... and without the threat of extreme violence or death if they refused. But go off

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Silver-Tea-8769@reddit

The treat of staving to death isn't good enough for you?

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lemme-emi@reddit

Thank you

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r0d3nka@reddit

Still do, but used to too.

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Imaginary-Onion-1877@reddit

Unexpected Hedberg

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Unlucky_Nobody_4984@reddit

RIP

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alonzo83@reddit

Yessir, my grandfather picked it as a kid. If you were poor, you picked cotton.

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Tractorista@reddit

My dad did

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derpsomething@reddit

I see you’ve found footage of me at dennys

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Nekrosiz@reddit

The trucker she told you not to worry about

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tyschooldropout@reddit

Never hauled this I have an important question. Do the bale physics randomly clip through the trailer and send the whole vehicle flying 69 feet in the air, or is that just in Farming Simulator?

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GreenBean-9389@reddit

Are you sure it was 69 feet exactly. Because whenever it happened to me maybe it was 68.5 feet in there air.

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Tricky_Big_8774@reddit

My brother-in-law's sister's friend's cousin's uncle supposedly saw it actually happen in real life

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BearVersusWorld@reddit

Did your uncle check the tire pressure first

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TDOTBRO@reddit

Can confirm. I’m the trailer. Currently orbiting space as we speak.

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mydeadface@reddit

Hey, there's a free Tesla out there somewhere.

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TDOTBRO@reddit

Blasting some sweet David Bowie

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

You know the answer already. It is Farming Simulator, after all.

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Prankishmanx21@reddit

You only got 69 ft? Usually I get sent into orbit.

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tc6x6@reddit

Doing it the old school way, with a module instead of bales.

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Aggravating-Abroad44@reddit

Thats insane. Im in awe of what people are capable of.

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Picnut@reddit

Sorcery

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shana104@reddit

What happens if the 09523 is all jumbled in transit?

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moondog__@reddit

I just became frighteningly aware of a warmup song that I did in choir when I was in middle school. The lyrics went "jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton, jump down turn around pick a bale a day. O' lordy pick a bale of cotton O' lordy pick a bale a day" just now struck me as maybe a little racist for a bunch of middle schoolers to be singing everyday as warmup

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ProperKing901@reddit

🧸 : ten minutes into Netflix and chill.

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AndromedanPrince@reddit

why the trailer gottta be brown🤬 /s

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PsionFrost@reddit

Even trucks are getting into sushi these days.

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BearVersusWorld@reddit

It's like watching a snake eat another snake

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itzpiiz@reddit

Her: I swear I never do this!

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yickinyender@reddit

Have driven commercially for the past 6 years. This gives me a lady stiffy. Good stuff.

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Jj1Oo2Ee3@reddit

I always wondered how they got those on a truck.

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Flappybird11@reddit

Using a public restroom and you hear the door next to you

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AaronTuplin@reddit

Me: This video must be reversed
The video: Cotton falls from under the tarp

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Old-Register-6102@reddit

$5 there's a Lumper fee

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yankee_chef@reddit

Why are the bales all different colors? Yellow, Pink, Blue?

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ItsChloeTaylor@reddit

reverse this to see what my first waking 20 minutes looked like this morning

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bloopie1192@reddit

That's right you slut... take it all in that back door.

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Wuzzy88@reddit

I should call her...

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cromagnone@reddit

There it is.

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Star_Wargaming@reddit

Mmmmmmm, that felt good.

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peregrinus19@reddit

u/RecognizeSong

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RecognizeSong@reddit

Sorry, I couldn't recognize the song.

I tried to identify music from the link at 00:00-00:36.

I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub ^(new issue)

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ReceptionMuch3790@reddit

Oddlysatisfyong would love this

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MandatumCorrectus@reddit

Daniel Deluxe - Star eater

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Express-Society-164@reddit

Think this would work on pallets??

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

Have you seen pallets wrapped well enough that this would work on them?

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Express-Society-164@reddit

This was a joke 😂🫡

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

So are some of the pallets

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Express-Society-164@reddit

Hey now I’ve had the benefit of working at a warehouse with a wrapping machine. So it would possibly work for me lmao

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

I'm still going to actually say it wouldn't realistically from the ground level, just because the pallets wouldn't be as flexible as the cotton and wouldn't be able to tip back because of the pallets behind.

If it was on level, like sitting on a walking floor of the warehouse that the truck backed into and they both rolled pallets forward together, I'm sure it would work just fine.

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redieit@reddit

How do they avoid risk of fire due to static charges?

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2nosabes@reddit

the video was played in reverse. it isn't loading. It was unloading

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

Unloading to a picked cotton field. Right.

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phoncible@reddit

There's little wheel/conveyor things on the bottom of the trailer that help guide in the cotton.

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tvieno@reddit (OP)

Nope. About 0:28 on the right you see a clump of cotton fall to the ground.

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northwest3690@reddit

Video is in reverse.

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

Sure, because they want to put the cotton onto the empty plants behind, right?

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SavvyEquestrian@reddit

Yeah, because cotton still falls with gravity, even when the video is reversed.

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SourceCreator@reddit

Now play it in its original forward motion and it won't seem so amazing, because it's not ..

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

Yeah, because they're obviously putting the cotton down to put onto the empty plants behind.

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SavvyEquestrian@reddit

Quite a few of you in here have shown how overconfident you are ok this one thing.

What else are you that overconfident and straight wrong about?

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tvieno@reddit (OP)

This is the forward motion. Watch again and you will see clumps of cotton fall to the ground.

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WulfgarofIcewindDale@reddit

Now that was fuckin cool

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RogerEpsilonDelta@reddit

whats the point of that cone being there? If you dont see that massive bail of cotton you sure aren't going to see that cone.

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

The cone is to mark the end of the module. So they can keep it being pushed forward until fully in with the floor chains. It's not there as a "hey, watch out"

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tvieno@reddit (OP)

Maybe it is for where the cotton harvester unloads at.

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