Stripper I spent day with in October
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Topic: Stripper I spent day with in October
Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Subject: Stripper I spent day with in October
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 4:41pm
Stripper worked very well on the short cotton we had this year because of the dry weather. 
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Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 4:51pm
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Looks like you had fun. Our strippers up here look a little different..... ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Warren(Oh)
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 4:54pm
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HAHA, reminds me of a conversation this past fall. Getting the cane ready, we thought of running an ad in the paper to hire strippers. Might not have gone over to well, though...
Cotton certainly needed some of the excess rain we got this past summer, rainging now...
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Posted By: Slade (TN)
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 5:06pm
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Sam you never cease to amaze me with your topic titles!!! Slade
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Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 5:11pm
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Sam - I have never known of a AC service rep that could pass up a stipper who was known to do a good job. Now us old sales guys however, never frequented such activity....... :-)
UT Milan NO til station did a lot of work on NO-TIL ultra narrow row cotton. We built a planter for them. Deere and Case built prototype strippers and used old AC heads. Seminars PROVED one could put an extra $1,000,000.00 of profit in ones pocket after 10 years on a thousand acres of cotton using UNR Stripper cotton system - All of a sudden the head of UTMilan center got an 'offer he could not refuse' Deere and Case deemed the project a failure and the successor received a joint grant from them for super staple cotton - hmmmmm lets see 1 $250,000 Cotton Stripper that would last 10 yrs with no upkeep vs. a $600,000 Picker that cost out the wazoo per acre picked , and lasted 4 years... Gee I wish I was smart enought to figure this one out.... but then maybe my memory is failing me.
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Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 5:12pm
| or would it be the mammories have failed me.... |
Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 5:20pm
| It was on a Wednesday, I went to family night supper and prayer meeting that night and told everyone a the table when I sat down " I have been with stripper all day" Should have seen their faces. I had to confess and show the pictures on my camera. |
Posted By: RickUP
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 7:27pm
| I never told anyone when I had to work with a stripper all day. I was strippin cotton most of the time. Sometimes silk. Never any revinue in the harvest though, darn.. Thats a nice lookin stripper by the way. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 7:49pm
| Made good use of an F2 cab. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 12:03am
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Being a northern guy, I don't know much about cotton pickin' machines but I assume a stripper removes the entire ball (bowl)?? of cotton the seeds and other debris are removed at the Gin? A picker removes the cotton from the rest of the "flower" right in the field. Am I close?
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 5:11am
| Yes Slade; Sams post has three times the number of views as posts on either side of his. |
Posted By: ky wonder
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 7:45am
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that is the cleanest i have ever seen a cotton harvester do,
most of the time the field's i have seen are still showing a great deal of white after the picker has gone thru ------------- i like old tractors of all colors |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 8:04am
| My first thought when I seen the topic was "I think that this is posted on the wrong forum!" LOL Darrel |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 9:14am
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Sam, that definitely is the cleanest field i've ever seen. I don't know much about cotton strippers either. Just figured the green machines did the same crappy job on cotton as their combines do in grains/corn/beans. So the stripper takes the bowl and all when it goes through? ------------- I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me! |
Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 9:34am
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Pardon my ignorance but I must ask. Is that machine all AC or just an AC cab on some other make. I have never seen an AC cotton harvester and actually didn't know they even made such a beast as this. Actually, I have seen smaller units mounted to WD-D series but never such a large self propelled by AC. ------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic" |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 10:57am
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AC made their own pickers and strippers. picker production ended late 60's? strippers ended late 70's? I have never heard anyone compare pickers and strippers to each other since I thought they each had their own climate/cotton types they were used in. We had 3 - 2 row/500 pickers (on D17)in south texas. never saw a stripper until went to north texas & panhandle area. I did always think the Ben Pearson pickers looked an awful lot like the AC, which were discontinued. They both did use the "RUST" picker unit design. Anyone know anything about the BP blue & yellow machines? Thanks for sharing the pic. I have to think most of the old AC pickers are long gone. I know ours were all junked in the 80's! S. Texas climate in not kind to steel, they were very rusty!
------------- 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: Clay
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 11:13am
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Looks like the stripper did a good job. By the way...how many dollars did you stuff ? lol |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 1:16pm
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when I was living in Michigan in 78-83 they used to say they made AC 'cotton pickers' in the LaPorte plant. Is that where those came from? ------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 1:24pm
------------- 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! |
Rick of HopeIN wrote:Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 1:41pm
| See my other post-This a cotton picker. |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 1:56pm
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thanks ------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: mlpankey
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 4:25pm
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so you like the big ole girls ------------- people if they don't already know it you can't tell them. quote yogi berra |