Cotton Picker Maintenance 101

[@Johns_Online_Guide]

Thank you for this awesome video! I'm a content writer and needed some info on cotton picking for a John Deere Cotton picker and this made my research a whole lot easier. All the best from Cape Town, South Africa.

[@terrencekanzig4270]

My dad’s a retired farmer from Kansas (wheat, soybeans, corn) and we were talking about how cotton harvesters, especially how the spindles work. We mostly had it down but this video really answered a lot of questions we both had. (I thought the liquid helped remove the cotton, I was wrong) It’s quite a machine, very complex and I can see the level of maintenance you have to do. Running a combine harvesting wheat is a cake walk compared to this. Thanks for the video, it helped my understanding a lot.

[@QballIL]

Great overview of the machine. I've seen the machines in the field, but never seen that detail.

[@dglasgow0]

Great and very informative video. If you get a chance shows us the inside of a bar and the planetary gears up top. Also talk about how the picker grease is loaded into the machine and then dispensed. Also cover the water and spindle clean solution. Once picking starts watching the rolls being made and dropped would be great too. Once again thanks for the good information and appreciate the time and effort you put into the videos. Really enjoyed watching it.

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll try to get by the shop and make another video detailing these requests. Thanks for watching!

[@terrencekanzig4270]

I forgot to ask…What were the doffers made of before…um what’s that stuff called? Oh yeah, Polyurethane! I ask because I was watching a video of a one row IH cotton picker a guy restored and the whole cotton picker/stripper unit was very similar to modern ones. But I know they didn’t have…um…what’s that called? Polyurethane back then. Thank you and thanks for the video. I showed it to my 86 year old dad and he was delighted.

[@johndeere1681]

Really enjoyed both videos on cotton picker maintenance. This information has been most helpful as I may be performing maintenance and repair on a large fleet of pickers.

[@lynnallen1585]

I have been helping my cousin (in NE GA) pick his cotton : he has a JD 9970 (4 row) since 2017. He picks, and I operate the module builder. My cousins and neighbors used to use IH (McCormick) 1- and 2-row pickers - those days are long gone. I remember helping my cousin work on his IH header spindles back during the early 1980’s.

[@gurpreetsinggh9882]

Please give full information about John Deere 9970 basket picker display

[@jimbuford4147]

I'm 83 and grew up in Western TN picking cotton but not with a machine. I kind of miss the old ways. Thanks for the vid.

[@joesteel1261]

Very informative.Can't wait to see it in the field.

[@JesseBarefield]

Jonathan is the best hands down everyone in graceville chipley area use him also great personality too

[@dtoften]

Awesome video and very detailed. Keep it up!

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Thanks for watching!

[@saeedanwar4423]

I was curious to know about picking system of such machines and rightly its maintenance is similar to that of Helicopters.Great education ..Thank you so much

[@peanutsmith1462]

Never ran a 6 row but sure have picked many many acres with a four row 9960 jd working on cotton picker and peanut picker I despise working on them but it’s got to be done I’m here in Dothan al

[@gurpreetsinggh9882]

Can you please give me all information about display of 9970 four row . Please 🙏

[@FieldRows]

We have a 9996. Every year we take out all of our dolphers out and get them ground down. Unfortunately last year they were done incorrectly and the 5th dolpher on all 12 wrapped in cotton!!!

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Get to cutting.... I HATE cutting off wrapped spindles. Great job on your podcast. We should talk sometime. I think we are on the same page with this. I really want to educate the public on what we do and why we do it. They need to see we are really trying to produce a safe and sustainable product for the entire world all while taking care of the environment. Good job on your channel and keep up the good work!

[@ssnino]

Most hatefull job for me is to unwrap the cotton of a stuffed spindle ! Seems to take forever 🙂

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Absolutely!

[@loborobertson7212]

Good video 🇺🇸👍👍🤠

[@GallagherCorporation]

8:24 - "POLYURETHANE! Everything is made out of polyurethane!" If you have any polyurethane product ideas, let us know!

[@ssnino]

Nice work. This vdo is very informative

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Thanks for watching. Where are you from?

[@ssnino]

@@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida i am from greece !

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Very cool. Do you farm and if so what crops?

[@ssnino]

@@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida sorry for the delay. I am a farmer .we grow 200 acres with my brother. thatmake us relativy big here ! The acriculture here is low scale. We cultivate mainly cotton almost half of fields and the rest are seeded with tomato, sunflower, rapeseed wheat and other crops. Our equipment is old as you can see in our channel . Greeting and keep posting

[@landrace2010]

How much do they charge for that service?

[@jon-xq2lc]

i work on a cotton farm in Georgia, what do you use to change the moisture pads out? and how long does it take to replace all your pads when they are ready to be changed

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

I hire the guys in the video to do it now but when I used to do it I’d slice all the old ones off with a knife. I took a flat head screwdriver and heated it so I could bend an 90 degree hook on the end and used it to stretch them into place. Doesn’t take too long. Thanks for watching.

[@jon-xq2lc]

@@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida awesome i made the same tool with a flat head screwdriver, there a few farmers down here in Georgia that take days to do this job, i got my handy tool out and showed them boys how its done..., thanks for the reply

[@henriquelucastristan]

That's a very good demonstration! I'd like to see how much these parts cost. It seems to be very expensive and complex maintenance. I'm not used to cotton farming... Are all parts original? Are there other manufacturers?

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

Thanks for watching. There are aftermarket parts available. We use a mix of aftermarket and OEM parts depending on what we are working on. The yearly maintenance is pretty expensive if you keep it in top shape line you should.

[@bryantaylor6485]

Does the seed stay on the plant when the cotton spins off?

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

The lint grows off of the seed. The seed and lint are harvested. It’s then taken to the gin where the seed and trash are removed and the lint is pressed into universally sized bales that are ready to be shipped around the world.

[@eddief3326]

a week and all those spinals i dont think so. been there done that . thay must not be changeing spintal in the nuts or bushings.

[@JenkinsFarmsJayFlorida]

We didn’t punch those spindles. We bought them as complete unit, new nuts and everything. Thanks for watching!

[@zemingyu93]

Hi Jenkins, my father is running a factory of manufacture this spindles. And I have some of them on my hand. Would you like a sample of 10 for free? If you could share a address with me.

[@gyromurphy]

All I'm saying is.... There need to be more of these in zombie movies

[@robmitchell3633]

Wow that thing is complicated. Lots of moving parts.

[@gerdesoto262]

After watching these video of the repairs of the cotton picker, The parts that was shown it looks like very poor of a grade metal is been used for the parts of that header of the cotton picker. THATS JOHN DEERE FAULT FOR USING VERY POOR QUALITY MATERIAL THATS MADE INTO PARTS!! AND YOUR PAYING FOR IT. THAT SHOULD BE TAKING TO COURT BECAUSE JOHN DEERE IS COSTING YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS