When it comes to cotton harvest season, getting as much cotton picked as efficiently as possible is the most important thing on most farmers’ minds. So when a valuable piece of harvesting machinery breaks down, the first thing you must do is try to fix it as quickly as possible so everyone can get back
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Best Practices for Preserving Cotton Harvester Parts
Good maintenance helps cotton pickers last longer and delays the need to replace cotton harvester parts. Heavy high-use equipment that is exposed to many elements often does not stand up to everything you throw at it. Even if you take good care of your equipment, you also need to harvest efficiently, not only to secure
READ MOREAvoid Fire Hazards by Managing Cotton Picker Parts
Few things are more detrimental to your cotton harvest than a fire. It can destroy crops and equipment alike. Cotton picking is vulnerable to fire because the amount of dry material and friction creates a natural environment for it—unless you take precautions. Here are six good practices to help maintain cotton picker parts so they
READ MOREEssential Cotton Picker Operating Safety Guidelines
The cotton picker is several thousand pounds of complex, rotating machinery cutting its way through acres of cotton fields. If this doesn’t sound intimidating to you, operating a cotton picker is probably just another day on the job for you. However, just another day on the job can quickly become your last day on the
READ MOREDoffer Maintenance: Why Proactive Care Makes All the Difference
The doffer column is an essential part of your cotton picker’s operating system. Doffer lugs rotate in tandem at a speed many times faster than the rotating speed of the spindles to remove the seed cotton from the spindles with a stripping motion. The doffer lugs are a very delicate part of your cotton picker’s
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