Thanks, very interesting to someone that grew up on a cotton farm in Lincoln, Co., TN. 70 years ago. I have ginned many bales from a wagon containing one bale, hand picked. My grandfather had a gin in Ardmore, TN./AL. with cotton warehouses. The last of the warehouses, long since used as cotton, burned two years ago. But, his old cotton scale at his gin is in use today for other purposes.. Thanks
This brought back a lot of memories ! I was a ginner in West Texas in the late 80's early 90's. Running old Continental Gin stands, where you had to monitor the seed roll continuously. Modules were a treat to gin, considering 99.99% was all trailered cotton and suction tubes. Bales were hand bagged and tied with wire. Our gin may have been small, but we were proud that it could gin 12 bales an hour all day long when conditions were right. Lots of memories of those days ! Thanks for taking me down memory lane !
Great show! It illustrated the complexities of one of the essential industries in the country. I used to live in Lubbock TX where cotton was THE industry of the area.
Thanks so much James and to Wages farm. We were talking about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and I went looking for how they worked. Realize this is much more high tech, but your video was fascinating for this city kid!
I was led to this video by a study of slavery in the south where I grew up. I'm brokenhearted over the atrocities of our beginnings but I'm impressed by the modern industrialization of the process. More of us need to know. And be humbled. Keep growing responsibly, y'all.
A LOT different from the gin my Grandfather took his cotton to in Tillatoba, MS in 1955. I picked for 2 cents per pound in 1955. All I remember about that gin was seeing the finished bales, which my Grandfather said weighed about 400#. I do not think there was any equipment for separating seeds and lint, as is seen in this video. Being all hand picked at the time, there were no hulls in the cotton. The cotton was taken to the gin in an open top, expanded-metal wire-sided trailer, about 8' wide x 20' long x 6' high on 4 wheels, and was pulled behind a farm tractor or a pickup truck. The compressed bales back then were wrapped in burlap, and then banded. Those finished bales back then were nothing compared to the clean, clear wrapped bales in this video. That gin in Tillatoba was heavy-timber framed , with galvanized tin sides and roof. It collapsed from deterioration about 15 years ago. THANK YOU for a most interesting video!!
This was amazing. My grandfather worked in gins during and after the depression and war. He was in Texas, Oklahoma, and I think Tennessee. My mother remembers going with him and could tell me how it worked, but I had no mental image of it before now. She also remembers when he was the only one working during the depression and how dangerous it was. He would have loved seeing how it has changed.
Glad you posted this. I grew up in Crockett County. Daddy grew lots of cotton. I worked in the fields every summer until 1969. I have handpicked it, hoed it, cultivated it with 2 row, 4 row and 8 row equipment, driven a picker. Everything is more automated today. I've been to Humboldt many times, but not lately. Thanks for posting.
Awesome video Matt. Explained the gin process very well . I wish this video and other videos towards agriculture were a requirement for our younger generation to watch in schools.
Me, an IT Guy with no personal or professional interaction with Cotton: "Fascinating, please tell me more" (whilst also taking another look at the T-Shirt I'm wearing and having a new-found appreciation for it's manufacture)
My grandfather owned a cotton gin in Eutawville, SC. I remember in the early 1960 when the cotton picking machine first came into use. I also remember the days before that when cotton was picked by hand, and school kids would help bring the crop in to make a little spending money. My grandfather used a mule and wagon to move the bales from the baler to the railroad car on the siding next to the gin, and to carry the seeds from the hopper to the other railroad car.. That was where I learned to drive mules.
My dad ran a cotton gin in Corcoran, CA. He also traveled repairing other gins in the central valley in the off season. I learned so much and enjoyed every minute I was allowed to visit as a child. One of my first jobs was running a suction pipe.at that very gin before it was demolished. The smell of fresh cotton being ginned is absolutely wonderful and has stuck with me my entire life. Watching cotton cascading through the gin stands is mesmerizing. I feel lucky to have had those experiences.
40yrs ago I lived in Dyersburg and worked at the Cotton Mill. We took raw cotton and synthetics to make fabric. The double baler at the end was not always automatic, I worked my butt off strapping those 500ibs bales by hand before the other side filled. Thanks for the flash back.
I was raised in a gin in NE La., . My dad hauled the seed to the oil mill, cotton to the compress, and by-products, cottonseed meal/hulls for cattle feedback from the oil mill....most rural gins are closed now. huge co-op gins gin the cotton now.. after ginning season we hauled bale cotton to the wharves of NewOrleans, and to the textile mills in the Carolinas...I've done about everything you can do...plant/harvest/tromp the trailers, run sucker pipe, pull trailers, work the press..haul to compress...the scariest thing were the fires...evey now and then...
Very interesting! Never saw the process described so well. Thank you. I prefer cotton over other products thanks to your hard work. Stay safe, healthy and happy. Have a good year , my friend.
What about a video on cottonseed mill for cattle and oil? My family has feed cottonseed mill to cattle for 50 years and I've always wondered how it's made.
In my younger years I worked for a bit at the Clinton Cotton Oil Mill in Clinton OK about 1980. A rough and certainly dirty job. Something Mike Rowe would have gotten into. Wow, the memories. 😁❤
He did a great job of describing product flow and how it's handled... I was hoping for more about how the fibers are trash are separated - the actual inner workings of the gin...
I miss the great money I made ginning cotton during my ginning seasons between 1978 - 1994. My best year was in 1981 when we ginned 17 hours a day for about 7 straight weeks. On a good day; we were able to gin 10 bales an hour in the antique 1948 Murray Gin. I made $499.99 for 7 straight weeks. It was so aggravating needing just one penny to get to say I made $500 paychecks. They brought us dinner & supper from a local cafe during those long hard days. This was at the Hollywood Gin that was about 4 miles east of Arbyrd MO. This is where I learned to become an Assistant Ginner.
I thought James Wages was very informative and explained things pretty well. Good job and this was very helpful to understand how much cotton ultimately comes out of one of those bowles your picker picks.
Used to have to go old school with a suck pipe they called it u had to get into the cotton trailers and suck the cotton out of them no matter if it was hot or cold
This was a really good video. I’m retired from an industrial service job so it’s neat to see someone else working. But I still don’t actually know how the Seeds are physically removed but that might be proprietary so I’ll just keep looking until I see a replica of an old time Gin in action.
Great job on the video. The question I have is what has happened to the cotton compresses. They used to take a full size cotton bale and press it down to about the size of a regular square bale of hay for storage and transportation. They used a huge press that would press the bale down so far with hydraulics and then huge iron wings on the side of the press would fold down and compound the pressure to two or three hundred tons. Then people would step into the open area next to the bale and pass thick steel wire around the compound pressed bale and give it a half twist thru slots in the press block. The would pass ten or twelve wires per bale to hold the shape and size of the bale. Every few bales a wire would break shooting an end of the wire out like a bullet. It was dangerous hot work. I used to work on the Cat engines supplying the hydraulic pressure. That was back in the eighties. I went by the old building a while back and it was empty. Are they no longer doing this operation or did they just move to a different location. I know a lot of the gins in this area have closed down.
Modern gin presses are capable of compressing the cotton into the proper size needed for transport so there is no need to take the cotton bales to another “compress”. I know what you’re talking about as we used to have to take the cotton from our old gin to a compress
First one of your vid's I've seen. Very interesting, I'm now a subscriber !!, we don't see any of the cotton growing industry in U.K. (although I have seen some aspects of it in USA & India) I look forward to watching many other of your vid's.
Pretty much I believe. But Eli Whitney’s design was pretty much designed to remove the seed as there was no need to remove trash because all the cotton was hand picked at that time. Modern cotton pickers and strippers will grind some trash up in the fiber that has to be removed nowadays. Also Eli Whitney’s invention did not include a press to compact the fiber into a package that could be easily transported
Very interesting video. Good to learn how complicated this process is. Do they run the gin thru only the harvesting season, or does it run the whole year? In the opening drone shots, I could see many rolls of cotton in the background.
It generally takes this gin from October through Thanksgiving to gin the crop that is brought. Other gins in areas that produce way more cotton, like in Texas, may run all winter before they get the crop ginned
Amazing operation, very well explained , the expense on the equipment has to be in the millions or billions , stay safe ! Number of employees working at this operation ?
I live in Missouri, but too far north for cotton. The area during the 1800's had a number of hemp growers, who raised it to produce rope. Look up the "Battle of the Hemp Bale's; Lexington Missouri" if you want to know something about that. I have a friend north of St. Joseph who has a tobacco allotment.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Missouri grows quite a bit of cotton. My parents picked cotton, in Missouri. I have pictures of myself in a cotton field just a couple years ago near Sikeston MO. Investigate your state. Cheers
@@TheMissPoovey Hi Miss Poovey, I think Kevin means HE lives too far north in Missouri for cotton (northern Missouri). Yes, there are thousands of acres of cotton in Missouri, especially in the bootheel. Have a great day.
My apologies for my misunderstanding and posting about said error. Please forgive my lack of understanding and associated snark. I’ll leave these so everyone else will be informed, just in case there are others of whom have failed reading comprehension.
@@griggsfarmsllc yes,that was the old times, I'm from Texas the panhandle and my age back then I used to work in the gin,when we used the suction tube,in the trailer,now there's modules,etc....
The energy to run the generators would come from the motors running the machine. Since no generator is 100 percent efficient, you would only loose energy. Even if the generator was 100 percent efficient, you would never get more energy out of the generator than what you put in.
I am an engineer and I can’t tell you how many hours I have wasted trying to explain how a windmill on an electric car can not be used to run the car… Last week it was paddle wheels on an electric airplane to run it. Unless your trying to slow down to land it does not work…
Surprisingly, the invention of the cotton gin is what actually kept slavery viable for a much longer period of time because up until then it was a lot of human labor used to clean the cotton. My mother was raised picking cotton, and when she retired she had more years and Telecommunications than probably any other woman on the planet. Having worked for the Bell system in Illinois, Southern Belle in the South when we lived in Florida and moving up to Michigan Bell 1966 when we moved up to Detroit. And then after she retired from the Bell System she went to work for Sprint where she had more years than any other three women in that company those three women were all three older than her.
We get paid by the pound of lint we produce. That price is based on the futures price of cotton ply or minus any premiums or discounts we get for the grade of cotton. Cotton is graded on several factors: 1. Staple length-this is the length and fineness of the cotton fibers. 2. Micronaire-this is basically a measurement of how thick the fibers are 3. Strength-how sting the fibers are 4. Color- even though cotton “appears” as white, weather and other factors can cause the cotton to not be pure white. 6. Trash- the gin removes the majority of the trash but some of it is ground into the fiber during the harvesting and gin in process and cannot be removed by a conventional gin 7. Foreign matter- things other than plant trash such as plastic or grease can cause serious discounts. Plastic fibers from supermarket bags that blow into the cotton field can cause big problems. We also may get paid a little on the cottonseed if cottonseed prices are high. Otherwise the gin keeps the cottonseed to cover the cost of ginning the cotton
Wow that quite a process, so they really keep track of each load of Cotton through the Gin. As apposed to Corn or Soybeans a few straight forward tests at the scale and that's it.
Moisture is added back to the fiber to make it easier to compress into a bale. There’s not a lot of moisture added back, certainly not even close enough to make it mold or catch fire.
Check out Glasscock County Coop gin in TX. They even have there own compress now. Fully automated, two feeders, 4 of the biggest stands Continental makes. Two very larger A frame seed house’s. For the last 10 years they average 90,000 bales a year. It’s a heckuva an operation.
Can you tell me what a bale of mid grade Cotten costs at your mill@ 450 pounds? How much is the seed worth? I know it goes up and down just average price to get an idea?
@@josephpadula2283 look at December futures on cotton. That’s generally the month on what cotton is sold. Then you can add or subtract up to 4 cents a pound generally for quality.
Does the gin run 365 days or is it all milled then the guys who did the processing just keep loading the lorries as you sell the cotton. Very interesting btw
@@griggsfarmsllc so same as our Silver Spoon who turn beet in to thestart of sugar, we deliver beet and the refinery is open for a few months during harvest.
That was amazing to watch. This dude knows EVERYTHING about his plant! Thanks for putting this up Matt.
Thanks, very interesting to someone that grew up on a cotton farm in Lincoln, Co., TN. 70 years ago. I have ginned many bales from a wagon containing one bale, hand picked. My grandfather had a gin in Ardmore, TN./AL. with cotton warehouses. The last of the warehouses, long since used as cotton, burned two years ago. But, his old cotton scale at his gin is in use today for other purposes.. Thanks
This brought back a lot of memories ! I was a ginner in West Texas in the late 80's early 90's. Running old Continental Gin stands, where you had to monitor the seed roll continuously. Modules were a treat to gin, considering 99.99% was all trailered cotton and suction tubes. Bales were hand bagged and tied with wire. Our gin may have been small, but we were proud that it could gin 12 bales an hour all day long when conditions were right. Lots of memories of those days ! Thanks for taking me down memory lane !
Our gin was all trailered cotton and wire tied bales too.
@@griggsfarmsllc LOL we didn't even have an electric hoist to weigh the bales, it was one of those chain hoists. Those were the days !
Great show! It illustrated the complexities of one of the essential industries in the country. I used to live in Lubbock TX where cotton was THE industry of the area.
Awesome video. Really enjoyed it.
Thanks so much James and to Wages farm. We were talking about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and I went looking for how they worked. Realize this is much more high tech, but your video was fascinating for this city kid!
I was led to this video by a study of slavery in the south where I grew up. I'm brokenhearted over the atrocities of our beginnings but I'm impressed by the modern industrialization of the process. More of us need to know. And be humbled. Keep growing responsibly, y'all.
A LOT different from the gin my Grandfather took his cotton to in Tillatoba, MS in 1955. I picked for 2 cents per pound in 1955. All I remember about that gin was seeing the finished bales, which my Grandfather said weighed about 400#. I do not think there was any equipment for separating seeds and lint, as is seen in this video. Being all hand picked at the time, there were no hulls in the cotton. The cotton was taken to the gin in an open top, expanded-metal wire-sided trailer, about 8' wide x 20' long x 6' high on 4 wheels, and was pulled behind a farm tractor or a pickup truck. The compressed bales back then were wrapped in burlap, and then banded. Those finished bales back then were nothing compared to the clean, clear wrapped bales in this video. That gin in Tillatoba was heavy-timber framed , with galvanized tin sides and roof. It collapsed from deterioration about 15 years ago. THANK YOU for a most interesting video!!
This was amazing. My grandfather worked in gins during and after the depression and war. He was in Texas, Oklahoma, and I think Tennessee. My mother remembers going with him and could tell me how it worked, but I had no mental image of it before now. She also remembers when he was the only one working during the depression and how dangerous it was. He would have loved seeing how it has changed.
Glad you posted this. I grew up in Crockett County. Daddy grew lots of cotton. I worked in the fields every summer until 1969. I have handpicked it, hoed it, cultivated it with 2 row, 4 row and 8 row equipment, driven a picker. Everything is more automated today. I've been to Humboldt many times, but not lately. Thanks for posting.
One of the most interesting videos on YT! 👍
My friend Bill Gibbs worked in gins during the summer to put himself through school in winter. Bill now has a PhD in Physics. Good Going, Bill.
Be sure to tell James thanks for the tour!
Humboldt TN. I love seeing representation from my side of Tennessee. I grew up near dyersburg. Excellent video BTW
Awesome video Matt. Explained the gin process very well . I wish this video and other videos towards agriculture were a requirement for our younger generation to watch in schools.
Very nice guided tour. Thanks.
Me, an IT Guy with no personal or professional interaction with Cotton:
"Fascinating, please tell me more"
(whilst also taking another look at the T-Shirt I'm wearing and having a new-found appreciation for it's manufacture)
With that comment, if you haven’t already seen them, you may be interested in my videos “How A Cotton Picker Works” and How Cotton Grows”.
Fascinating! Love Electric Upgrade!!! In addition the cotton looks so clean!!! Nice Plant thanks for tour!!! Best Wishes!!!
As someone that lives right next a gin, this really helped explain what was going on at the neighbors about 3 months out of the year.
lol
My grandfather owned a cotton gin in Eutawville, SC. I remember in the early 1960 when the cotton picking machine first came into use. I also remember the days before that when cotton was picked by hand, and school kids would help bring the crop in to make a little spending money. My grandfather used a mule and wagon to move the bales from the baler to the railroad car on the siding next to the gin, and to carry the seeds from the hopper to the other railroad car.. That was where I learned to drive mules.
I was just in eutawville, sc last weekend on my way home to walterboro sc
And now kids have to work in MacDonalds -- is this progress
To me it looks like capitalism gone mad 🏝🏜🏖🏕
That was very interesting. Having never been around cotton, the whole ginning process is really impressive.
My dad ran a cotton gin in Corcoran, CA. He also traveled repairing other gins in the central valley in the off season. I learned so much and enjoyed every minute I was allowed to visit as a child. One of my first jobs was running a suction pipe.at that very gin before it was demolished. The smell of fresh cotton being ginned is absolutely wonderful and has stuck with me my entire life. Watching cotton cascading through the gin stands is mesmerizing. I feel lucky to have had those experiences.
What do you wear then?
40yrs ago I lived in Dyersburg and worked at the Cotton Mill. We took raw cotton and synthetics to make fabric. The double baler at the end was not always automatic, I worked my butt off strapping those 500ibs bales by hand before the other side filled. Thanks for the flash back.
I was raised in a gin in NE La., . My dad hauled the seed to the oil mill, cotton to the compress, and by-products, cottonseed meal/hulls for cattle feedback from the oil mill....most rural gins are closed now. huge co-op gins gin the cotton now.. after ginning season we hauled bale cotton to the wharves of NewOrleans, and to the textile mills in the Carolinas...I've done about everything you can do...plant/harvest/tromp the trailers, run sucker pipe, pull trailers, work the press..haul to compress...the scariest thing were the fires...evey now and then...
We used to gin cotton in the Shafter/Wasco area of California. I miss those days!
That's a nice plant I am in the same thing been running a gin since I was 18 I love it
I remember the cotton padding my Father in law put in chairs.. it was that short grain stuff at about 13:00.
I watch a lot of how it works type videos and this one is excellent.
Absolutely fascinating, who knew it was so detailed and complicated. Great video.
great information....Thank you
Very interesting! Never saw the process described so well. Thank you. I prefer cotton over other products thanks to your hard work. Stay safe, healthy and happy. Have a good year , my friend.
What about a video on cottonseed mill for cattle and oil?
My family has feed cottonseed mill to cattle for 50 years and I've always wondered how it's made.
Superb Video! Y'all did a fine job...one of the best videos I've seen to educate the public!
Nicely done for sure!! Explained so everyone can easily understand👍👍
Thanks! Learned a lot of new information. 😊👍❤️
Had no idea how technical a cotton gin had become,fascinating!
Awesome video. Answered a lot of questions I had that hadn't been answered on other gin videos. Great Job!
In my younger years I worked for a bit at the Clinton Cotton Oil Mill in Clinton OK about 1980. A rough and certainly dirty job. Something Mike Rowe would have gotten into. Wow, the memories. 😁❤
Who knew, very interesting. Thank you. Curious on how it was processed before all the machinery.
Excellent and Informative. Thank you
I live in Tipton County and have driven past the Burlison Gin every day, so cool to see what going on inside and especially being so close to home
Awesome vid James explaining the process was fantastic went real nice with how you explained the harvest side well done stay safe my friend
Great show!
gr8 video.. really enjoyed it... thanks so much for everyone's time in making it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Musical choices got a new sub!
He did a great job of describing product flow and how it's handled... I was hoping for more about how the fibers are trash are separated - the actual inner workings of the gin...
I miss the great money I made ginning cotton during my ginning seasons between 1978 - 1994. My best year was in 1981 when we ginned 17 hours a day for about 7 straight weeks. On a good day; we were able to gin 10 bales an hour in the antique 1948 Murray Gin. I made $499.99 for 7 straight weeks. It was so aggravating needing just one penny to get to say I made $500 paychecks. They brought us dinner & supper from a local cafe during those long hard days. This was at the Hollywood Gin that was about 4 miles east of Arbyrd MO. This is where I learned to become an Assistant Ginner.
I think our old family gin topped out at about 8 bales per hour
@@griggsfarmsllc They were swooft back in their day.
One of the first things I remember learning in school was the cotton gin made by Eli Whitney.
Great video. Mark - Hamilton AL
Extremely interesting.
I thought James Wages was very informative and explained things pretty well. Good job and this was very helpful to understand how much cotton ultimately comes out of one of those bowles your picker picks.
Good
Good 👍
Used to have to go old school with a suck pipe they called it u had to get into the cotton trailers and suck the cotton out of them no matter if it was hot or cold
Thanks for sharing
Very informative video. Really enjoyed it. This is from a Griggs raised in Arkansas.
Cool!! Very well done🙂
This was a really good video. I’m retired from an industrial service job so it’s neat to see someone else working.
But I still don’t actually know how the Seeds are physically removed but that might be proprietary so I’ll just keep looking until I see a replica of an old time Gin in action.
VERY INTERESTING ! THANK YOU !
Notice the ghoulish posters on the left @4:08!
Yep a cotton gin can be a dangerous place
Thanks! This was interesting!
Good job! Now , we can find domestic solutions and products?? Maybe fashion cloth a d fabric??
very interesting. well done
Very interesting 😊
Fascinating….what are the riofits?😊
Great job on the video. The question I have is what has happened to the cotton compresses. They used to take a full size cotton bale and press it down to about the size of a regular square bale of hay for storage and transportation. They used a huge press that would press the bale down so far with hydraulics and then huge iron wings on the side of the press would fold down and compound the pressure to two or three hundred tons. Then people would step into the open area next to the bale and pass thick steel wire around the compound pressed bale and give it a half twist thru slots in the press block. The would pass ten or twelve wires per bale to hold the shape and size of the bale. Every few bales a wire would break shooting an end of the wire out like a bullet. It was dangerous hot work. I used to work on the Cat engines supplying the hydraulic pressure. That was back in the eighties. I went by the old building a while back and it was empty. Are they no longer doing this operation or did they just move to a different location. I know a lot of the gins in this area have closed down.
Modern gin presses are capable of compressing the cotton into the proper size needed for transport so there is no need to take the cotton bales to another “compress”. I know what you’re talking about as we used to have to take the cotton from our old gin to a compress
i got a question i found an old mill and its got a huge drill bit but not attached to anything
First one of your vid's I've seen. Very interesting, I'm now a subscriber !!, we don't see any of the cotton growing industry in U.K. (although I have seen some aspects of it in USA & India) I look forward to watching many other of your vid's.
I know a couple of cotton gin's in Haywood county myself good video
What engeneering, a marvel
does it work on the same principal as Eli Whitney cotton gin just on a much bigger scale?
Pretty much I believe. But Eli Whitney’s design was pretty much designed to remove the seed as there was no need to remove trash because all the cotton was hand picked at that time. Modern cotton pickers and strippers will grind some trash up in the fiber that has to be removed nowadays. Also Eli Whitney’s invention did not include a press to compact the fiber into a package that could be easily transported
@@griggsfarmsllc thanks I didn't know
Awesome video Matt so why did you guys shut down your gin?
It was a small gin that relied heavily on labor instead of automation and was not profitable
@@griggsfarmsllc I saw a video that said hemp can replace cotton uses for the gin. If you’re looking for a new fiber.
Very interesting video. Good to learn how complicated this process is. Do they run the gin thru only the harvesting season, or does it run the whole year? In the opening drone shots, I could see many rolls of cotton in the background.
It generally takes this gin from October through Thanksgiving to gin the crop that is brought. Other gins in areas that produce way more cotton, like in Texas, may run all winter before they get the crop ginned
Amazing operation, very well explained , the expense on the equipment has to be in the millions or billions , stay safe ! Number of employees working at this operation ?
I don’t know for sure but I’d say it takes 8-10 people to run it
Thank you.
VERY INTERESTING. THANK YOU.
I live in Missouri, but too far north for cotton. The area during the 1800's had a number of hemp growers, who raised it to produce rope. Look up the "Battle of the Hemp Bale's; Lexington Missouri" if you want to know something about that. I have a friend north of St. Joseph who has a tobacco allotment.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Missouri grows quite a bit of cotton. My parents picked cotton, in Missouri. I have pictures of myself in a cotton field just a couple years ago near Sikeston MO.
Investigate your state.
Cheers
@@TheMissPoovey Hi Miss Poovey, I think Kevin means HE lives too far north in Missouri for cotton (northern Missouri). Yes, there are thousands of acres of cotton in Missouri, especially in the bootheel. Have a great day.
My apologies for my misunderstanding and posting about said error.
Please forgive my lack of understanding and associated snark.
I’ll leave these so everyone else will be informed, just in case there are others of whom have failed reading comprehension.
Great video. Thanks
Matt their is a little cotton raised here in Kansas. Sure seems like they leave a lot in the field.
It looks like a lot more than it really is. A properly adjusted cotton picker is usually 95-99% efficient depending on the type of cotton variety
My grandfather ran the first gin maury city ever had. Now lol how far it's came
Great job, thank you
Great video buddy
What happened to the suction tube,that men used to run the suction tube?
Most gins still have one but they’re only used for sucking cotton out of trailers which are hardly used anymore
@@griggsfarmsllc yes,that was the old times, I'm from Texas the panhandle and my age back then I used to work in the gin,when we used the suction tube,in the trailer,now there's modules,etc....
stupid questiopn but cant you put some generators on the gear wheels to get back some of the energy
The energy to run the generators would come from the motors running the machine. Since no generator is 100 percent efficient, you would only loose energy. Even if the generator was 100 percent efficient, you would never get more energy out of the generator than what you put in.
I am an engineer and I can’t tell you how many hours I have wasted trying to explain how a windmill on an electric car can not be used to run the car…
Last week it was paddle wheels on an electric airplane to run it.
Unless your trying to slow down to land it does not work…
Are you going to the mid south farm and gin show
I’m not but Kelly might be there on Friday
@@griggsfarmsllc ok 👍🏻
Very cool I live 3 blocks from the gin
Those safety photos at 4:06 will haunt me
Surprisingly, the invention of the cotton gin is what actually kept slavery viable for a much longer period of time because up until then it was a lot of human labor used to clean the cotton. My mother was raised picking cotton, and when she retired she had more years and Telecommunications than probably any other woman on the planet. Having worked for the Bell system in Illinois, Southern Belle in the South when we lived in Florida and moving up to Michigan Bell 1966 when we moved up to Detroit. And then after she retired from the Bell System she went to work for Sprint where she had more years than any other three women in that company those three women were all three older than her.
dude could you imagine picking all that by hand
Does it have to be refined to be used as a end material?
Yes
How heavy is a bale of finished cotton?
480-500 lbs
Interesting so an average bail of cotton costs approximately how much In today’s market ? Kinda wish you would have introduce us to Eli .
Price of cotton varies depending on the futures market. Usually between $0.52-$1.00/lb.
A cotton bale usually weighs between 480-500 lbs
Good video, lots on automated equipment. So how do you get paid for your Cotton. By your yield, are there docks for moisture, Foreign matter? Thanks.
We get paid by the pound of lint we produce. That price is based on the futures price of cotton ply or minus any premiums or discounts we get for the grade of cotton. Cotton is graded on several factors:
1. Staple length-this is the length and fineness of the cotton fibers.
2. Micronaire-this is basically a measurement of how thick the fibers are
3. Strength-how sting the fibers are
4. Color- even though cotton “appears” as white, weather and other factors can cause the cotton to not be pure white.
6. Trash- the gin removes the majority of the trash but some of it is ground into the fiber during the harvesting and gin in process and cannot be removed by a conventional gin
7. Foreign matter- things other than plant trash such as plastic or grease can cause serious discounts. Plastic fibers from supermarket bags that blow into the cotton field can cause big problems.
We also may get paid a little on the cottonseed if cottonseed prices are high. Otherwise the gin keeps the cottonseed to cover the cost of ginning the cotton
Wow that quite a process, so they really keep track of each load of Cotton through the Gin. As apposed to Corn or Soybeans a few straight forward tests at the scale and that's it.
Thank for this video
Why is moisture added back to the cotton before baling? Wouldn't that cause mold?..I'm mystified..totally. Thanks!
Moisture is added back to the fiber to make it easier to compress into a bale. There’s not a lot of moisture added back, certainly not even close enough to make it mold or catch fire.
Its actually better than How do they do it.
Check out Glasscock County Coop gin in TX. They even have there own compress now. Fully automated, two feeders, 4 of the biggest stands Continental makes. Two very larger A frame seed house’s. For the last 10 years they average 90,000 bales a year. It’s a heckuva an operation.
Can you tell me what a bale of mid grade Cotten costs at your mill@ 450 pounds?
How much is the seed worth?
I know it goes up and down just average price to get an idea?
I looked at future prices of 1.25 a pound but not sure if that is at the gin or a shipping dock somewhere.
@@josephpadula2283 look at December futures on cotton. That’s generally the month on what cotton is sold. Then you can add or subtract up to 4 cents a pound generally for quality.
Are there any chemicals in the process?
No
Thanks for this video
Buy American! Thanks for a very interesting video.
It's hard to believe with the advancements in technology that they haven't made the picker gin the cotton at the same time they.pick it
Does the gin run 365 days or is it all milled then the guys who did the processing just keep loading the lorries as you sell the cotton. Very interesting btw
It only runs a couple months a year
@@griggsfarmsllc so same as our Silver Spoon who turn beet in to thestart of sugar, we deliver beet and the refinery is open for a few months during harvest.