Allis cotton days
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Topic: Allis cotton days
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Subject: Allis cotton days
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 2:39pm
 Michael from New Mexico is the operator ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 2:53pm
 ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 3:20pm
 ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 3:25pm
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I wanted to get there to see this show...would be neat to see. ------------- Matt Folkers FOLKERS RESTORATION Restoring vintage things to last so the future can enjoy our past. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 3:37pm
 Here is a picture of what's inside the pod or boll . 4 or 5 chambers on the pod each with 2 or 3 seeds in it . Cotton Strippers are more like rakes in that they rakes the pod loose . The machine cleans it some and then it dumped into a module builder ( smasher) and then the mill comes and hauls it the the gin mill for the final processing before a textile mill would purchase. Pretty neat process for someone who has only been around beans corn and wheat. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 3:46pm
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That would have fun to attend. Thanks for sharing |
Posted By: den/southern illinoi
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 3:50pm
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Thanks for the great pictures Pat. Congrats to Creston for the show. ------------- Own 4 wheel 20, 2-5015, 5020 and associated equipment and 2 electric forklifts. |
Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 4:37pm
| Wow! How many machines are there? Kinda looks like 10 or so. Finishing up fall field work here. Weather looks good there also. Would love to have attended. Thanks for the pics.. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 6:14pm
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OH WOW!!! Thank you for the pictures Pat!, was kinda hoping to find a way to get out there, but it’s just a bit too far right now, Creston, my hats off to ya sir!, you pulled it off! ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 7:05pm
You sure about that, that shirt don't look pink in the picture.  ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Pat the Plumber CIL wrote:Posted By: jvin248
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 7:31pm
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. That looks like quite a show, like all brand new machines! Closest I've seen cotton is watching griggs farms on YouTube. Modules and bales. They do a lot of corn and beans and how I started watching. Now I'll have to look up how the AC's work. . |
Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 8:18pm
Yea, J W,, I was a little more 'official'...wore a shirt with A-C on it.... |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 8:34pm
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I had hoped to make it but hadn't got finished with harvest. Hope there was a good turn out. Would of loved to ran one of the machines for Creston. ------------- 8070FWA,7080 BlackBelly, 7045,2 200s,D19,D17,G, WD,45,UC,7 AC mowers and lots more! "IT TAKES 3 JD's TO OUT DO AN ALLIS, 2 TO MATCH IT IN THE FIELD AND 1 FOR PARTS!" |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 5:50am
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Looks like a very interesting show. Hopefully the turnout was good enough to make it an annual event, and I can make it there next year. Thanks for the pictures, Pat. Darrel |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 9:27am
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I will make it to this some time, keep having them Creston lol! I've never been around stripped cotton, we always picked in South Texas. Thanks for sharing the pics with us who could not make it. ------------- 210 "too hot to farm" puller, part of the "insane pumpkin posse". Owner of Guenther Heritage Diesel, specializing in fuel injection systems on heritage era tractors. stock rebuilds to all out pullers! |
Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 10:35am
| Creston/Pat...Creston, thanks for what you are taking on...Pat, thanks for the documentation and passing it on..I had planned on making that trip,,,but..Dale |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 11:26am
| Thanks for sharing. Looks pretty neat |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 11:52am
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Thanks for sharing the good times with the rest of us. Cotton striper is very different than any a cotton picker I have been close to. From what I see and read out here on the left side of the cotton belt, module builders are only worth scrape price. Just heard an acreage report for California, just over 100,000 acres. Once over a million acres of cotton out here.
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 2:07pm
 ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 2:08pm
 ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 2:08pm
 ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 2:14pm
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Thanks to Creston for putting on this show. Very informative presentation that Creston gave for the Stripper machines and cotton growing. Thanks to all the people that traveled as far as they did . Plenty of guys from Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, ND ,Michigan etc etc . Hopefully Creston can keep this going. If you get a chance, definitely make this a Bucket list trip. Love to see different crops and the techniques, technology and effort it takes to grow and harvest. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 7:49pm
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I'm sad I missed out on this as I'm just now getting fall tillage done due to the recent heavy rains. I sure hope it was a success and will happen again next year.
Thanks for sharing pics for those of us who couldn't attend, Pat! ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2025 at 7:51pm
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