Videos Offer Insight to Picker Care and Maintenance
August 18, 2011 Cotton Incorporated has posted four recently completed videos related to cotton harvesting and maintenance of picker harvesters in the Cotton Harvest Systems section of their Web site.
The first video covers the three current seed cotton storage and handling systems: the traditional system using boll buggies and module builders, and the two new on-board module-building harvest machines from Case IH and John Deere. The remaining three videos deal with spindle-type cotton harvesters/preseason maintenance procedures, specifically:
- proper row unit tilt positions of front and rear spindles,
- maintenance of spindles and spindle bushings, and
- bar height and condition.
“These videos provide a way to communicate some complex tasks in a short amount of time, and they also are allowing us a unique way to capture the knowledge of experts such as Herb Willcutt, who recently retired from Mississippi State University,” states Dr. Ed Barnes, director of agricultural research with Cotton Incorporated.
To access the videos directly, please click here.
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