1960's Allis Chalmers Dealer Movie Guardians Of Cotton Profit

[@MrBer43]

For you who didn’t know the blue picker in the video was a Ben- Pearson Rust Picker manufactured I Pine Bluff Arkansas. Just saying.

[@auntwayne]

Thanks guys.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Dang that was some beautiful cotton... back when you could actually make some decent money with cotton. Course it's the same lousy 60 cents a pound on average year in year out that it was back in the early 70's... why there's no money in it anymore unless you're farming several thousand acres. I've heard of AC cotton pickers but never seen one in actual running condition. They just never seemed to catch on, at least around here. IH had the undisputed best cotton pickers from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Deere one rows were a hot mess, and their 99 series double row self propelled machines weren't a whole lot better. It wasn't until the 699 series and the 9900 that Deere really started pulling even with IH... The IH single rows were always better, and the 200 series double row self propelleds were good machines. The 400 and 800 series, well, there weren't too many of those around either-- they just didn't last like the older 200 series did. We had 4 IH double row self propelleds over the years-- two old 220A's, a 214A, and a 416 diesel. The 400 just wasn't as well built or designed as the older machines. I always liked the looks of the 782 IH pickers, but they were WAY too new and thus too expensive for us to be able to afford. Then Case IH and Deere both were neck and neck when they came out with their first four row pickers, and then five and six row. Deere pulled WAY ahead of IH on their drum design when they went to inline picking units. Deere has the superior picker now and you don't hardly even see any CIH pickers around any more in the field-- where they used to dominate now it's all Deere green machines. Course, we'd have stuck with IH but CASE IH basically said, "Screw the customer" and quit providing parts. Without parts, ANY machine is just "scrap iron waiting to happen" and for years us smaller farmers scrounged the fence rows and junk yards for parts to keep going, and then finally all those old machines just went to the scrap yard themselves. After the way the dealer OUTRIGHT LIED to me when I bought the 416 from him, when I asked him, "CAN YOU GET PARTS FOR THIS MACHINE?" and he said, "sure we can!" and then the first time I had a breakdown I got a sob story and a week of runaround on obsolete parts network and then told I was SOL, so I sold it for scrap a few years later and replaced it with a DEERE picker-- DEERE backs up their machines with PARTS SUPPORT... Case IH turned me into a Deere man, and now that New Holland bought Ford Tractor Division and did the same thing to us on Ford tractors and implements, Case/New Holland has firmly made me a DEERE guy... Later! OL J R :)

[@robertpayne2717]

In my area a former IHC DEALER RUNS JOHN DEERE S NOW THEY SOLD THEIR DEALERSHIP ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO....THOSE ROUND BALES THE JOHN DEERES MAKE ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE SQUARE BALES THAT IHC MAKE

[@robertpayne2717]

Still can't see how a Farmer can pay for a 800,000 USD PICKER

[@robertpayne2717]

The only AC cotton equip I saw in my area were one 4 row brush head stripper and one platform stripper and all I know is that the ginners didn't like them !!!!!

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@robertpayne2717 like Grandpa always said, "they can't... The bank owns it! He just runs it for them"

[@jackievenable1069]

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