Guess what's on fire.....

[LivinADream]

Good friend of mine burnt up his combine 2nd day cutting last week. Its not cheap. His was for rice and he had ins on it but not near enough to cover damage... total loss

[Dale Moser]

cotton stripper not picker.

I think there is cotton strippers, then there is cotton pickers......or maybe it's just where your farm is. Seems like up in the panhandle they call it a cotton stripper, but the greatness of Farmdog calls'em a cotton picker.


Either way, I'm surprised more of them don't burn down they way they work them non stop in this heat, and all the crap that accumulates up under and inside them.

[Howard]

yeah its listed as cotton picker on policy. I grew up on farm, etc... but half the stuff this guy calls to add I have to google. I dont mean this but some of the items I have never heard of and thought I have heard it all. He lost a GPS system on a tractor year or two ago to lightning strike. The unit was like 22 grand. 14 of it in tractor cab. When farming hundreds or thousands of acres he said human error will get you off on straight rows. They get to end and help turn tractor around and let go of wheel till other end. Drives itself and make perfect rows. technology in everything I tell you!

then there was the combine that hit a bridge on feeder rd near hwy 59 cause too tall....that was bad claim too all these drivers.... I tell you!

[TXBlkCld]

Now that's a cotton pickin fire right there !

That's cotton pickin funny right there. ^^^^^.

[Jaspro]

you'd be burning up too if you had to haul Jaspro around

Not Jaspros but I started to make a joke - how funny. I'm sure he will poke fun about diff in combine and cotton picker

"how can a man of your size comment about this..."

Hardy Har Har.

I think there is cotton strippers, then there is cotton pickers......or maybe it's just where your farm is. Seems like up in the panhandle they call it a cotton stripper, but the greatness of Farmdog calls'em a cotton picker.

Either way, I'm surprised more of them don't burn down they way they work them non stop in this heat, and all the crap that accumulates up under and inside them.

Dale you can't start picking until the cotton is dry. Most spend the mornings servicing the machines and washing up the drums and blowing all the loose cotton off the machine before going to the field. If this wasn't done a whole lot more would go up just like that. Those little green unopened bolls are like a firecracker in the machine.

Picker or Stripper depends mostly on the area of Texas and variety of cotton planted. A picker pulls the lint loose from the boll while a stripper takes it all off the plant(no pun intended.)

This is a combine on fire.



This is one of our pickers at work.

[BBReezen]

There is a difference between strippers and pickets. Two totally different machines in the way they work. I didn't grow up around cotton so I don't know the specifics in the differences but I work for a scale company and we build scale systems to put on strippers and pickers. We've done both and the same concept is there just different cotton removal techniques. The difference between JD and Case is night and day too on the way the whole machine works.

[fireman0684]

If you would have bought a John Deere, you wouldn't have had any problems.....

[Jaspro]

it was a John Deere 9986...is that better

If you would have bought a John Deere, you wouldn't have had any problems.....

Let me help you with your eye exam.

[M16]

If you would have bought a John Deere, you wouldn't have had any problems.....

That's true. Hard to burn up when they won't even start. John Deere.........never again.

[garfish]

Guy goes into an insurance office and says he wants some fire insurance.

Salesman says, "ok, you want flood also?"

Guy says, "nope, I don't know how to start a flood."

[fireman0684]

Just saw the comments, and I may not be the smartest guy in the world but that combine is red. I have never in my life seen a red John Deere, that's where I was coming from while assuming this was a case.... Just an observation

[Texas Huntin']

Just saw the comments, and I may not be the smartest guy in the world but that combine is red. I have never in my life seen a red John Deere, that's where I was coming from while assuming this was a case.... Just an observation

Two different pictures, the OP is a cotton picker(the John Deere), the combine is just for show(unknown make), and there in two different types of fields.

[Texas Huntin']

Let me help you with your eye exam.

I think he was referring to the combine not the OP.

[fireman0684]

Alright I went back and read the entire thread. I guess I just missed where it was mentioned that a John Deere was on fire. There are definitely cotton pickers and cotton strippers. Pickers are used in areas where the moisture is higher cause they can run them while it is a little damp. We run strippers because of price and it is always dry in the Lubbock area