Very cool. Thanks for the pics and info everyone. No cotton being harvested here in NY. Very cool!:popcorn::popcorn:

Mentioning " No cotton being harvested here in NY"...........

I always thought growing tobacco commercially was limited to south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

But one time traveling along north side of Lake Erie and Ontario, in Canada on the interstate 401 I saw quite a few fields of it being grown.

Here is a link about what they call the Ontario Tobacco Belt.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...vUz2HswpL6tZ4l

Yes, very specific tobacco types grown up north. I think CT is where Cigar wrappers (outside leaf) are grown--it has to be raised under a canopy (cloth). Back in the 50's-70's there was a Canadian company that built processing equipment for putting tobacco in the barns. Guess it was used in the Canadian market and the Southeastern US. Keeping it Cadet related, IH dealers usually carried them, the extreme majority of tobacco was raised with IH equipment.

Great pics! I enjoy watching them. Got some pics four years ago, of them picking behind our house. They used the right color equipment. :biggrin2:

Is that the same truck they use to self load the entire "loaf" of cotton I posted?

I have no idea if that "loaf" is made up of a bunch of smaller bales or maybe it was blown into one of those trucks from the picker.
Compressed and then pooped out.
Maybe

Yeah they use the same type trucks for the ones in your pic. I have hauled those also, some of the farmers here are still using that type of stacking. The trucks will pick up and haul both types. The loaf you refer to, if I remember correctly is 7 bales

Check out this youtube the shows both types of bailing. I'm sure that most farmers are changing over to the round bale, it eliminates the use of additional equipment.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...9EDF&FORM=VIRE

I got to see the one in Montgomery run this summer. was pretty cool to see.