I’m from Indianola, and do a lot of gin work throughout northwest Mississippi, I believe I helped a guy from Houston with that press a couple years ago. I sent him a control program and info for the same type of press I service in Marks MS
Worked in textiles for 22 years seeing the bales come in one door and finished product out the last door to major retailers. Always wondered how it was ginned. Too bad so many textile jobs were lost to NAFTA and so many prosperous communities are now poverty ridden because of it.
We had a fire at a gin across the road. A bunch of what we call gin trash built up and it is thought that a cigarette lit it up. Luckily, nothing super important was burnt.
You want to see a cool gin, check out glasscock county coop in St Lawrence Texas. They even built there own compress and storage a few years ago. Huge A-frame seed house. Gin over 100k bales a year.
@@southernfarmer they have a website. It’s in the middle of no where west Texas. Nothing but cotton, pecan groves, and oil wells. And lots of drip irrigation.
I have a love hate relation with that press....I've removed and hauled the same cylinders out of ours to hydraulic shops, I think they are like 6-7k pounds each
Love your videos but you think about investing in a new mic! The audio peaking was killing me with headphones on. Not complaining just a suggestion. Cheers, brother 🍻
Ben Schneider yes that gin voice over was not good, my others were not muffled like that, not sure what happened, sorry about that. I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for watching!
THAT IS A HIGH DENSITY PRESS THAT PUT FEDERAL COMPRESS COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS OUR OLD GIN HAD A LOW DENSITY PRESS THOSE BALES HAD TO BE HAULED TO THE COMPRESS SO THEY COULD BE COMPRESSED TO A SIZE FOR SUITABLE SHIPPING TO THE TEXTILE MILLS MOST U.S. TEXTILE MILLS WERE IN OPERATION IN THE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA IN THE 60'S, 70s then they exited to ASIA, CHINA AND PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH