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Red Power cotton pickers

grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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I live in a cotton state and I had no idea that the older pickers were mounted on regular tractors. The linkage to get the throttle, brakes, clutch,and steering up to the operator is crazy. Watching them run is awesome. When you think that there are folks there that hand picked cotton and then you go look at the 2018 machine. What a long way things have come!
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Good pics ! Thanks for posting them. I bet those old pickers were a nightmare for fire with the exhaust under the cotton.
 
Wonder if those are a dusty nightmare to operate.

Seems like harvest of corn and beans up here is always very dusty.
 
As a young boy I was carried to the cotton fields with mom, I was expected to pick also. At age 16 I chopped (hoed out) cotton for 4 dollars a day. After one day I sought easier work.
 
That's some wild-lookin' contraption for sure! Saw it in your other post first and kept trying to figure out what it was used for. Thanks for making a special post about it. Definitely isn't something you'll learn about in history class!
 
Any little side hilling with those loaded or even not would be a pucker event.

And I bet the people that hand picked see a picked field today and just can't get over the cotton left behind too.
 
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