Cotton Harvest - Oct 2005 Photo Gallery by alli and daniel walton at pbase.com

Cotton Harvest - Oct 2005

My parents, two younger brothers, and a handful of employees farm about 5000 acres in eastern North Carolina. About 3500 acres of that is cotton! Alli and I went down to the farm for the first weekend of picking cotton.

Cotton stalk	Cotton in the bur		4-row Cotton Picker
Thousands of spindles pull the cotton out of the bur	Picker spindles up close	Each bar has 18 spindles	Cotton is pulled off the spindles and then sucked up the big black pipes into the basket
Picker in action		Pick until the basket is full	Cotton picker dumps into the boll buggy
	Boll buggy	The boll buggy dumps into the module builder	The module builder compresses the cotton into a huge block
Cotton module truck in action	A module is roughly 15 bales of cotton	A bale of ginned cotton weighs 500 pounds
	Off to the cotton gin	Lunch in the field	My brother Zac and girlfriend Stephanie
My brother Sam		Cotton Harvest
	My sister Sharon and her son David
Little David		Big David	Alli running the module builder
	We picked 10 modules in a day
	Daniel running the module builder		Full Moon

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luke		03-Apr-2009 02:47
where i live we have just finshed picking cotton and i was working on the module builder which is good fun becuse you can jump in to the the builder i love it

Guest		01-Apr-2008 11:21
I'm applying for a job helping out with this year's cotton harvest in Southern Queensland, Australia. Your pictures are a wonderful aid for me to understand the details of the harvesting process....I am most grateful...James Gaffney

alli and daniel walton		15-Nov-2006 18:21
Thanks :) Nope, not organic.

Charles		14-Jul-2006 03:35
Great shots, Organic Cotton??

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