cozart.org http://post.cozart.org musings of an old-fashioned racker. posterous.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:34:00 -0800 Our Tree http://post.cozart.org/our-tree http://post.cozart.org/our-tree

I posted this to Facebook/Twitter last night, but I figured I would post it here as well. This year we went with a "Photograph" theme for our tree, so that we could remember all that happened over the past year.

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Whether they are round modules or the more traditional modules, they all get dumped onto a conveyor belt that moves them in to be processed by the machinery in the cotton gin.

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This year, instead of taking pictures of the actual harvesting of the cotton, I went to a local cotton gin to take some pictures of how they process the cotton after it leaves the field. With the drought, I was lucky enough to catch the gin on a day it was running.

Something relatively new to cotton harvesting is the round module. Basically, cotton pickers (I don't know if strippers can produce round bales or not) spit out these round bales behind them as they go, so they don't have to wait for a boll buggy. 

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By request...

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When I was little, tractors would be converted into strippers. They would attach all the necessary equipment to the tractor until its purpose was served, and then dismantle it. Honestly I wish I had a picture of one all put together, just to remember what they used to look like. This is just one piece that would sit behind the tractor cab. 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1009608/IMG_3006.JPG http://posterous.com/users/he6mn2gx2DdgK slade cozart slade slade cozart Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:03:00 -0700 Mission San Juan - San Antonio http://post.cozart.org/mission-san-juan-san-antonio http://post.cozart.org/mission-san-juan-san-antonio

Before we left San Antonio this past weekend, I put my Ansco Shur Shot to use at a couple of the missions in the south part of the city. Here is one of the images scanned after Wyatt and I developed the film this afternoon.

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Sundown does not signal quitting time during stripping. Even though it might be 5 o'clock somewhere, there are many more hours left to labor for most farmers.

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Love these two.

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This image should have actually been posted before the "Offloading" image, but I didn't plan ahead well enough. 

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Really it is called dumping, but I thought offloading might be a better title for the post. At some point I plan on going back and explaining the harvest process, or at least the different parts of it. It wasn't until I got a funny look in college when I mentioned the fact that my dad was stripping that I realized that not everyone is familiar with such terms, at least when it comes to farming.

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Fields of brown in the winter and green in the summer quickly turn into broad expanses of white in the fall, quickly stripped by farmers eager to reap the harvest.

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Many people unfamiliar with the harvesting of cotton often seem surprised at the amount of dust in the air. This past fall, while talking with a co-worker, they mentioned just how bad their allergies were. Curious, I inquired as to where they lived. The middle of a cotton field is probably not the best place to build a house for people with low tolerance of dust, even if it is in a "subdivision". Especially if said "subdivision" is just down the road from a cotton gin.

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