How Cotton Harvesting Works | Australian Farming | Vlog 286

[@Condamine123456]

I live in blackwater qld and i see many cotton fields currently grow massive respect to our farmers who do this for a living and that machine is a feat of engineering

[@peteparker7396]

I’m a bit late but because I own two of these strippers, and have run these all of my life. The reason it’s not getting all the lint is two fold. One, he’s got the bats and brushes spread apart wide. And that’s because the stalks are big and you don’t want bark in your lint. And I guarantee you the reason those rolls looks dirty with leaves and bolls is the saws in the burr extractor are worn, and so are the doffer brushes that brush the lint off the saws. There are also bars that are adjustable over the drums but that isn’t why it’s not as clean. If the bars are in to close you’ll have lint in the burrs out of the discharge. You can use all brushes in your row units, they make a set that’s stiffer then normal and they work really well. I noticed also it was one unit that seemed to be worse than others. Odds are there a bad spot in the bats where a stalk or rock, anything even a stick can get stuck between the rolls and wear a spot out. They have a ton of adjustment, and you just have to take the time to do it. They did it do it. My two machines are solid 12 row on 36 inch spacing. Deere is the only one that builds strippers and pickers. All the others couldn’t compete any more.

[@mojoden]

I think Brad was having a bit of a 'Russell Coight' moment with the first driver, Matt.

[@darrenedmonds1163]

The smell of cotton opioid is very stimulating. Great to detox cancer sufferers.

[@ARyan-ln1db]

Amazing footage Brad. We have really enjoyed the full cycle of the cotton.

[@shanepfeffer7857]

Great video again Brad, we only ever grew cotton once, back when you had to spray heaps of times and conditions were not the best. We had a picker and should have used a stripper. No profit at the end of the day, even the following crops were down on yield compared to where we had sorghum.

[@Rogster559]

Great footage Brad very interesting how the stripper operates, will you plant another crop for next year

[@Berne2830]

Nice video Brad, seems old mate wasn't to keen on heading to Walgett 🤣🤣🤣

[@bobcrawford2105]

Very informative video thanks Brad. Guess the header/ stripper units are high maintenance needing lots of lubricant’s to protect bearing’s

[@gardnep]

Stripper seem to be leaving a lot less cotton that a picker but then the yield is much lower. On those figures 90 big bales x 3.8 cotton bales at 74% yield off 74 ha is about 3.4 bales / ha or 1.4 / acre. @current dpi price of $685 (dryland cotton probably has shorter staple length and lower grade?) minus costs, including the $18 / bale for gladwrap, is better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick. I remember being wrong once before? Great job for taking the bullet on the camera, Brad. Thanks for the video. Good luck with the rest of the stripping.

[@rodrod383]

you are good with your numbers for sure, but I bet their yields might be a bit higher and dryland can have some good grades with the newer seed varieties plus there is a seed check for the seed being sold for cattle feed and the molts possibly being sold for other uses.....in the USA sometimes the gin covers the wrap cost too as part of the seed check

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Petty close numbers, we will find out when it goes through the gin😁👍 the gladwrap is closer to $50 a round bale I think

[@charleswelch249]

That's a lot of work dealing with cotton. Great video Brad and I hope you made a profit with all the expenses with your crop. Those pickers do a lot of work fast.

[@aussiemate60]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@roberthocking9138]

Great video and drone shots Brad . Very interesting. To the untrained eye it seems to leave quite a bit of cotton behind.

[@johng8082]

Yes my thought as well....first thing I thought was need a vacuum cleaner or something to suck up the leftovers, no doubt has been tried but someone will come up with the answer.

[@rodrod383]

@@johng8082 it is a lot less than it looks like it is a very small % of the overall crop

[@peternewman958]

This cotton was grown to suit a stripper, when grown to suit a picker you get more cotton as the plants are closer together and when picked not as much is left behind. However this was planted not knowing the certainty of rainfall. Picker cotton has been planted with a reliable water source.

[@alandawson2813]

Hello guys, another great video,

[@michaelmason1087]

G'day brad once again great video an drone footage you be doing Matt out of a job soon how many acres did you have under cotton.👍

[@thejacksonbrothers]

I need this job! He only did the night shots, I’ll keep sabotaging his drone if he gets too good- Matt

[@michaelmason1087]

@@thejacksonbrothers that's gold brad 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@paulbuckley7832]

Great insight regarding the cotton stripper Brad.

[@laurencecharlton8760]

Top vid,as usual!👍Something you would never see here.👍👍🇬🇧Fasrtrac ideal 🚜 for leading off.

[@alanlaub4890]

Good job Bradley. Your methods are right down to earth and quite enjoyable.

[@willian.direction6740]

I did 18 grape harvests about 12 LONG weeks per season and it was good to see Jim in a "coma" when you jumped in I know the feeling. Picking head speed and ground speed was the trick to a good job there too and not tipping it over in the steep Vineyards. Thanks Brad and Jim and Matt for showing us how it works.

[@trevoryarrow5780]

Great video Brad. Love the night time shots.

[@raeanker3078]

Thanks for that lads, always appreciate getting to know how different crops are planted then all the way through to harvest. Cheers.

[@bobbymac1100]

Have seen cotton harvested now thanks very interesting. 🇦🇺😎

[@allandrennan4916]

Interesting stuff Brad, Thankyou.

[@darrenedmonds1163]

You guys are collecting the taste of stars. Very useful for Ukraine

[@StephenWruck-vm9ww]

Hi Brad, thank you for taking us along harvesting cotton and how it all works. Thanks Stephen

[@willrichford7822]

Awesome video, neat to see how it's done. Keep up the great work.

[@PeterLongworth-u8d]

Thanks for showing us the in's & out's of it all Great job

[@colinkennedy8730]

Thanks team for that very enjoyable to see ,on how it’s going would you grow again

[@thejacksonbrothers]

All going well we will be putting in 250ha this year👍

[@duncanm6589]

Hi Brad, top video showing how it all works.

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day very cool video mates

[@vico100]

Good detailed video, that was interesting

[@peternewman958]

Great job on the drone BRAD if you were flying Matts old drone.

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Brad did the night shots and I snuck down and did the daytime ones😁👍 he did a good job- Matt

[@peterduffy3871]

The new pickers are light years ahead of the old 9965 I used to drive! Still a bit sad to not see boll buggies and module builders

[@stephenpaget3660]

Great video

[@stevetrowbridge7101]

Looks like they need new bags and brush’s show the gin and hauling the cotton to gin great videos Texas cotton farm

[@thejacksonbrothers]

It’s in the pipeline👍

[@karstenhansen6826]

Great following you mates 💪😎 Why are there so far betwen the rows?...🤔

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Cheers, it so there is available moisture in a drier season for the other plants👍

[@villainjohnnoel8075]

Hi from France,i've been following you guys for a while, i've got a really dumb question,would your agricultural operation (your farm) be a big farm,à medium sized farm or a small farm ?i'm asking because here in France farms are alot smaller, from your drone footage those fields look absolutly humungous.Great little chanel by the way.

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Thanks! We are probably considered a medium farm, our biggest paddock is 300ha but our average paddock size would be 50-100ha

[@keithpadbury9818]

You might be interested in a farming channel called Toms Brook Farm. It is a cropping farm in Western Australia. www.youtube.com/@tomsbrookfarm

[@DG-ne8iq]

Hello, We don't grow cotton in France. Which is better: pickers with brush rollers, or traditional pickers with tapered barbed spindles? what's the point of alternating 2 rows of cotton with a cereal crop: limited useful soil water reserves?,thenk you very much.

[@1brymark]

What winter crop will follow the cotton?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Chickpeas will be going in once it dries up👍😁

[@williammurfin6354]

Hey Brad what was that other tractor towing at night there?? Is that a type of plow to cut the old stalks off???

[@shanepfeffer7857]

It looks like the slasher.

[@rodrod383]

you have to cut off the stalks or they can start to regrow.....in most parts of the USA you have to so it so that boll weevils will not survive to the next year.....but those are apparently not an issue in Australia....plus the stalks can get in the way of future planting with it being sores for some crops than others

[@williammurfin6354]

@@rodrod383 But Matt or Brad said that they are planting --Oh I forgot what he said but he did say they were going plow it to replant afterwards. Anyway I'm sure Matt will pull me up as usual.

[@booka83]

The mechanism for lifting and carrying the bales of cotton is what was on the tractor day and night.

[@tallboy49]

It was a slasher. They slash the stalks to lessen the long trash then work the ground to rip out the roots so the plant does not start to grow again.

[@carltauber2939]

This is really interesting, I've never seen cotton being harvested before. May I ask what the difference is between a stripper and a picker?

[@jefftheaussie2225]

The stripper uses brushes to flick the cotton off as Brad showed us, a picker uses lots of spindles with small teeth on them to wind the cotton off. They turn one way to wind the cotton on then reverse to wind it off again. Very expensive and complicated set up. The worn out spindles make good welding chipping hammers but how many of them do you need? The stripper looks quite a simple set up in comparison. I wonder how well it works when the plant wants to pull out?

[@stuartcarter3649]

Brilliant that video BRAD-STAR. 👍🇦🇺

[@daleboulton1169]

Mind those power lines….

[@PgP736]

❤ from Norway

[@edwardaw1]

Seem to be leaving a bit

[@aussieshane89]

What are yas going to do with all the woody stems left? Will you burn them or plow them in? They look more like sticks then stubble

[@thejacksonbrothers]

In the night drone footage you might of briefly seen a tractor pulling a big slasher with basically chops them up👍😁 unfortunately we weren’t able to get much footage of it happening

[@stakman78]

1st comment. Keep it up lads. Thanks Brad.

[@darrenedmonds1163]

Oysters of the land guys

[@johnjordan4647]

Hey Brad can you explain for us uninitiated why do they harvest a row of cotton then leave the next row and go to the next.

[@booka83]

Turning at the end of the rows. Leaving a run between makes it easier on the machines especially with the wide heads out the front. See it all the time harvesting and sometimes planting.

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up Brad which was your favourite stripper miss miles or miss km looked like one left more mess than the other, top video thanks

[@opel1996]

Why is the row spacing so wide

[@rodrod383]

for a dryland area it is skip row......you are betting that you get less rain and the roots will spread especially the upper closer to the surface roots to the clear area to get more available moisture.....even more so if you are getting smaller rains.....in their case this season I think they got some better than average rains

[@Bructer21]

Why do they carry the bail around with them for sometime

[@leonbystrzanowski]

To try to row them up and make collection more efficient

[@mutluaydin3822]

How come you guys leave some rows empty

[@darrenedmonds1163]

These harvesters are similar to boats. They capture helium 3 and 4 from the moon

[@Foz300]

I wonder why the bales are less than 2000kg?, they should be 2200kg+ unless I'm missing something?.

[@stephenbradbury460]

How many layers of plastic wraps bail

[@thejacksonbrothers]

It only overlaps by about a meter I think 👍😁

[@adamgrace7121]

Cotton eye joe...live action yip yip

[@eddief3326]

more trash in the cotton than when it is picked with a picker . i have work at the cotton gins and picked cotton for 20 years

[@seanworkman431]

Land Ships.

[@murphyrp01]

What the hell are we growing cotton in Australia for? Isn’t this the wrong climate or are they pulling out excessive water from our river systems?

[@raeanker3078]

And your point of expertise is in what.

[@peterrayner7659]

It is the perfect climate and this cotton is grown using rain and no irrigation

[@rodrod383]

their crop is dryland no irrigation and they made the decision so they could use different weed control chemicals to break the weed pattern and get rid of some persistent weeds

[@PeterEllis-xv5ct]

Dryland Cotton Crop

[@bobhudson6659]

Allied question. What are you doing? You are using up precious air that another useful person could use. Next thing you will want all trucks off the road - or have you gotten past that question? Also what is your real name instead of hiding behind a pseudonym?

[@PeteWilliams-sb7nf]

Great video Brad very informative,do you get paid per bale or per tonneau depending on quality purity etc,and was the cotton crop worth planting ?

[@thejacksonbrothers]

Seems like it was worth growing but we won’t know the true figures until it goes through the gin👍

[@jefftheaussie2225]

We went down the Newell a week ago and there was lot of cotton round the Gin at Moree. Lots of bales in the paddocks too. Looks like it might have been a good year for cotton. They are still trying to strip sorghum further north, certainly around Pittsworth, it has been very wet up there. Sprouted sorghum is something you don’t hear of often.