Doffer 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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How Cotton Picker Parts Aid in the Cotton Seed’s Journey

You may have always wondered what path cotton took to make it from a cotton field to your wardrobe. Let’s chronicle cotton’s journey from a small seed to being extracted with cotton picker parts in order to become a mainstay in your closet: The plant: It may be hard to believe that your shirt was

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Four Non-Toxic Ways to Remove Rust from Cotton Picker Parts

Rust is one of those things that forms when metal is left exposed to the elements for a prolonged period of time, particularly moisture like rain, snow and dew. You’ll notice that a moist metal surface will oxidize before corrosion shows itself as discolored and peeling, flaky patches—this is rust. Or course, the best way

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4 Reasons to Avoid “Scrapping” and its Drawbacks

Modern cotton picker parts and innovative picker models have come a long way in a short time. If you’ve been growing cotton for more than a few decades, you know that even as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, cotton harvester equipment was wildly inefficient—it’s only through today’s modern technologies that we’ve been able to

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