How A Cotton Gin Works

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In this video, Matt visits with James Wages of Farmer's Gin of Humboldt to see how a modern cotton gin separates the seed, fiber, and trash from cotton that was mechanically picked by a cotton picker. See how far the modern cotton gin has come from the first cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1794 that revolutionized the cotton industry.
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@MarvinStroud3 2 года назад

My friend Bill Gibbs worked in gins during the summer to put himself through school in winter. Bill now has a PhD in Physics. Good Going, Bill.

@woodstock048 2 года назад

Thanks, very interesting to someone that grew up on a cotton farm in Lincoln, Co., TN. 70 years ago. I have ginned many bales from a wagon containing one bale, hand picked. My grandfather had a gin in Ardmore, TN./AL. with cotton warehouses. The last of the warehouses, long since used as cotton, burned two years ago. But, his old cotton scale at his gin is in use today for other purposes.. Thanks

@noahkleugh9323 2 месяца назад

Great show! It illustrated the complexities of one of the essential industries in the country. I used to live in Lubbock TX where cotton was THE industry of the area.

@bruceb3786 2 года назад

A LOT different from the gin my Grandfather took his cotton to in Tillatoba, MS in 1955. I picked for 2 cents per pound in 1955. All I remember about that gin was seeing the finished bales, which my Grandfather said weighed about 400#. I do not think there was any equipment for separating seeds and lint, as is seen in this video. Being all hand picked at the time, there were no hulls in the cotton. The cotton was taken to the gin in an open top, expanded-metal wire-sided trailer, about 8' wide x 20' long x 6' high on 4 wheels, and was pulled behind a farm tractor or a pickup truck. The compressed bales back then were wrapped in burlap, and then banded. Those finished bales back then were nothing compared to the clean, clear wrapped bales in this video. That gin in Tillatoba was heavy-timber framed , with galvanized tin sides and roof. It collapsed from deterioration about 15 years ago. THANK YOU for a most interesting video!!

@kerrykrishna 2 года назад

That was amazing to watch. This dude knows EVERYTHING about his plant! Thanks for putting this up Matt.

@robertwilliamsjr.9195 2 года назад

I was raised in a gin in NE La., . My dad hauled the seed to the oil mill, cotton to the compress, and by-products, cottonseed meal/hulls for cattle feedback from the oil mill....most rural gins are closed now. huge co-op gins gin the cotton now.. after ginning season we hauled bale cotton to the wharves of NewOrleans, and to the textile mills in the Carolinas...I've done about everything you can do...plant/harvest/tromp the trailers, run sucker pipe, pull trailers, work the press..haul to compress...the scariest thing were the fires...evey now and then...

@tavaramirez668 2 года назад

This was amazing. My grandfather worked in gins during and after the depression and war. He was in Texas, Oklahoma, and I think Tennessee. My mother remembers going with him and could tell me how it worked, but I had no mental image of it before now. She also remembers when he was the only one working during the depression and how dangerous it was. He would have loved seeing how it has changed.

@powellmountainmike8853 2 года назад

My grandfather owned a cotton gin in Eutawville, SC. I remember in the early 1960 when the cotton picking machine first came into use. I also remember the days before that when cotton was picked by hand, and school kids would help bring the crop in to make a little spending money. My grandfather used a mule and wagon to move the bales from the baler to the railroad car on the siding next to the gin, and to carry the seeds from the hopper to the other railroad car.. That was where I learned to drive mules.

@jonathonlocklear1218 Год назад

I was just in eutawville, sc last weekend on my way home to walterboro sc

@samanthamurdock3752 2 месяца назад

Fascinating! Love Electric Upgrade!!! In addition the cotton looks so clean!!! Nice Plant thanks for tour!!! Best Wishes!!!

@bradleysmith5161 2 года назад

Awesome video Matt. Explained the gin process very well . I wish this video and other videos towards agriculture were a requirement for our younger generation to watch in schools.

@Charles53412 2 года назад

This brought back a lot of memories ! I was a ginner in West Texas in the late 80's early 90's. Running old Continental Gin stands, where you had to monitor the seed roll continuously. Modules were a treat to gin, considering 99.99% was all trailered cotton and suction tubes. Bales were hand bagged and tied with wire. Our gin may have been small, but we were proud that it could gin 12 bales an hour all day long when conditions were right. Lots of memories of those days ! Thanks for taking me down memory lane !

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

Our gin was all trailered cotton and wire tied bales too.

@Charles53412 2 года назад

@@griggsfarmsllc LOL we didn't even have an electric hoist to weigh the bales, it was one of those chain hoists. Those were the days !

@dennisconrad6124 2 года назад

That was very interesting. Having never been around cotton, the whole ginning process is really impressive.

@joegrassel 2 года назад

My dad ran a cotton gin in Corcoran, CA. He also traveled repairing other gins in the central valley in the off season. I learned so much and enjoyed every minute I was allowed to visit as a child. One of my first jobs was running a suction pipe.at that very gin before it was demolished. The smell of fresh cotton being ginned is absolutely wonderful and has stuck with me my entire life. Watching cotton cascading through the gin stands is mesmerizing. I feel lucky to have had those experiences.

@myview5840 2 года назад

What do you wear then?

@MajesticDemonLord 2 года назад

Me, an IT Guy with no personal or professional interaction with Cotton: "Fascinating, please tell me more" (whilst also taking another look at the T-Shirt I'm wearing and having a new-found appreciation for it's manufacture)

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

With that comment, if you haven’t already seen them, you may be interested in my videos “How A Cotton Picker Works” and How Cotton Grows”.

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@fractode 2 года назад

One of the most interesting videos on YT! 👍

@FiiZzioN 2 года назад

As someone that lives right next a gin, this really helped explain what was going on at the neighbors about 3 months out of the year.

@BigDaddy-yp4mi 2 года назад

lol

@martylost167 2 года назад

What about a video on cottonseed mill for cattle and oil? My family has feed cottonseed mill to cattle for 50 years and I've always wondered how it's made.

@lesliebarnes2250 2 года назад

Thanks so much James and to Wages farm. We were talking about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and I went looking for how they worked. Realize this is much more high tech, but your video was fascinating for this city kid!

@setac949 2 года назад

Glad you posted this. I grew up in Crockett County. Daddy grew lots of cotton. I worked in the fields every summer until 1969. I have handpicked it, hoed it, cultivated it with 2 row, 4 row and 8 row equipment, driven a picker. Everything is more automated today. I've been to Humboldt many times, but not lately. Thanks for posting.

@SteveHolsten 2 года назад

I miss the great money I made ginning cotton during my ginning seasons between 1978 - 1994. My best year was in 1981 when we ginned 17 hours a day for about 7 straight weeks. On a good day; we were able to gin 10 bales an hour in the antique 1948 Murray Gin. I made $499.99 for 7 straight weeks. It was so aggravating needing just one penny to get to say I made $500 paychecks. They brought us dinner & supper from a local cafe during those long hard days. This was at the Hollywood Gin that was about 4 miles east of Arbyrd MO. This is where I learned to become an Assistant Ginner.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

I think our old family gin topped out at about 8 bales per hour

@SteveHolsten 2 года назад

@@griggsfarmsllc They were swooft back in their day.

@williamgibb5557 2 года назад

Very interesting! Never saw the process described so well. Thank you. I prefer cotton over other products thanks to your hard work. Stay safe, healthy and happy. Have a good year , my friend.

@jimpolk 2 года назад

Awesome video. Answered a lot of questions I had that hadn't been answered on other gin videos. Great Job!

@burttodd992 2 года назад

That's a nice plant I am in the same thing been running a gin since I was 18 I love it

@markmortensen4341 2 года назад

Nicely done for sure!! Explained so everyone can easily understand👍👍

@johnjulie6657 2 года назад

We used to gin cotton in the Shafter/Wasco area of California. I miss those days!

@youpattube1 3 месяца назад

Very nice guided tour. Thanks.

@OTuit 2 года назад

Be sure to tell James thanks for the tour!

@cs_fl5048 2 года назад

I remember the cotton padding my Father in law put in chairs.. it was that short grain stuff at about 13:00.

@Mtlmshr 2 года назад

Had no idea how technical a cotton gin had become,fascinating!

@spandex7055 2 года назад

Absolutely fascinating, who knew it was so detailed and complicated. Great video.

@johnpierce1251 2 года назад

Awesome vid James explaining the process was fantastic went real nice with how you explained the harvest side well done stay safe my friend

@josephlacour8696 7 месяцев назад

I was led to this video by a study of slavery in the south where I grew up. I'm brokenhearted over the atrocities of our beginnings but I'm impressed by the modern industrialization of the process. More of us need to know. And be humbled. Keep growing responsibly, y'all.

@BaronVonPwn Год назад

Humboldt TN. I love seeing representation from my side of Tennessee. I grew up near dyersburg. Excellent video BTW

@amandabellnewcomb5952 2 года назад

Superb Video! Y'all did a fine job...one of the best videos I've seen to educate the public!

@DJ-bh1ju 2 года назад

He did a great job of describing product flow and how it's handled... I was hoping for more about how the fibers are trash are separated - the actual inner workings of the gin...

@user-jx9qo9lf3t 2 года назад

40yrs ago I lived in Dyersburg and worked at the Cotton Mill. We took raw cotton and synthetics to make fabric. The double baler at the end was not always automatic, I worked my butt off strapping those 500ibs bales by hand before the other side filled. Thanks for the flash back.

@hastingshayandtreefarm4402 Год назад

Awesome video. Really enjoyed it.

@robertsnearly3823 2 года назад

In my younger years I worked for a bit at the Clinton Cotton Oil Mill in Clinton OK about 1980. A rough and certainly dirty job. Something Mike Rowe would have gotten into. Wow, the memories. 😁❤

@djs6466 2 года назад

gr8 video.. really enjoyed it... thanks so much for everyone's time in making it.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@jamesrichardson559 2 года назад

I watch a lot of how it works type videos and this one is excellent.

@Ukepa 2 года назад

what a good video! I always wondered how cotton was "produced"... thanks

@raypeters4525 2 года назад

VERY INTERESTING ! THANK YOU !

@pastormichaelhibbertminist7486 Год назад

great information....Thank you

@michaelrief4424 2 года назад

This was a really good video. I’m retired from an industrial service job so it’s neat to see someone else working. But I still don’t actually know how the Seeds are physically removed but that might be proprietary so I’ll just keep looking until I see a replica of an old time Gin in action.

@TimNevins 2 года назад

Great show!

@godofplumbing 2 года назад

One of the first things I remember learning in school was the cotton gin made by Eli Whitney.

@B10Esteban 5 месяцев назад

Extremely interesting.

@1tigerbee 2 года назад

Excellent and Informative. Thank you

@kimberlywagner1638 2 года назад

Great job, thank you

@greglester7666 2 года назад

Great video. Thanks

@nwpioneer2551 2 года назад

VERY INTERESTING. THANK YOU.

@donhouse8720 2 года назад

Thank for this video

@danwolfe7665 7 месяцев назад

Thanks! This was interesting!

@michaelmontgomery4748 2 года назад

I live in Tipton County and have driven past the Burlison Gin every day, so cool to see what going on inside and especially being so close to home

@donhouse8720 2 года назад

Thanks for this video

@kabby738 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing

@datgumkirby4477 Год назад

Musical choices got a new sub!

@barttraynor1220 2 года назад

Cool!! Very well done🙂

@DHESS007 2 года назад

I thought James Wages was very informative and explained things pretty well. Good job and this was very helpful to understand how much cotton ultimately comes out of one of those bowles your picker picks.

@larrygrove9689 2 года назад

Good

@larrygrove9689 2 года назад

Good 👍

@walterradcliffe5639 2 года назад

Who knew, very interesting. Thank you. Curious on how it was processed before all the machinery.

@campassi1961 2 года назад

Great video. Mark - Hamilton AL

@harrypotter4309 2 года назад

First one of your vid's I've seen. Very interesting, I'm now a subscriber !!, we don't see any of the cotton growing industry in U.K. (although I have seen some aspects of it in USA & India) I look forward to watching many other of your vid's.

@JTGriggs 2 года назад

Very informative video. Really enjoyed it. This is from a Griggs raised in Arkansas.

@mfc4591 2 года назад

very interesting. well done

@hoss1905 Год назад

Very interesting 😊

@koopajr7681 2 года назад

I know a couple of cotton gin's in Haywood county myself good video

@peteparker7396 2 года назад

Check out Glasscock County Coop gin in TX. They even have there own compress now. Fully automated, two feeders, 4 of the biggest stands Continental makes. Two very larger A frame seed house’s. For the last 10 years they average 90,000 bales a year. It’s a heckuva an operation.

@davidkimmel4216 2 года назад

Thank You

@jeanhawken4482 2 года назад

Fantastic

@kevinbaker6168 2 года назад

I live in Missouri, but too far north for cotton. The area during the 1800's had a number of hemp growers, who raised it to produce rope. Look up the "Battle of the Hemp Bale's; Lexington Missouri" if you want to know something about that. I have a friend north of St. Joseph who has a tobacco allotment.

@TheMissPoovey 2 года назад

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Missouri grows quite a bit of cotton. My parents picked cotton, in Missouri. I have pictures of myself in a cotton field just a couple years ago near Sikeston MO. Investigate your state. Cheers

@kirkleythomas9280 Год назад

@@TheMissPoovey Hi Miss Poovey, I think Kevin means HE lives too far north in Missouri for cotton (northern Missouri). Yes, there are thousands of acres of cotton in Missouri, especially in the bootheel. Have a great day.

@TheMissPoovey Год назад

My apologies for my misunderstanding and posting about said error. Please forgive my lack of understanding and associated snark. I’ll leave these so everyone else will be informed, just in case there are others of whom have failed reading comprehension.

@burttodd992 2 года назад

Great video buddy

@44hawk28 2 года назад

Surprisingly, the invention of the cotton gin is what actually kept slavery viable for a much longer period of time because up until then it was a lot of human labor used to clean the cotton. My mother was raised picking cotton, and when she retired she had more years and Telecommunications than probably any other woman on the planet. Having worked for the Bell system in Illinois, Southern Belle in the South when we lived in Florida and moving up to Michigan Bell 1966 when we moved up to Detroit. And then after she retired from the Bell System she went to work for Sprint where she had more years than any other three women in that company those three women were all three older than her.

@bigjohn2048 2 года назад

Great job on the video. The question I have is what has happened to the cotton compresses. They used to take a full size cotton bale and press it down to about the size of a regular square bale of hay for storage and transportation. They used a huge press that would press the bale down so far with hydraulics and then huge iron wings on the side of the press would fold down and compound the pressure to two or three hundred tons. Then people would step into the open area next to the bale and pass thick steel wire around the compound pressed bale and give it a half twist thru slots in the press block. The would pass ten or twelve wires per bale to hold the shape and size of the bale. Every few bales a wire would break shooting an end of the wire out like a bullet. It was dangerous hot work. I used to work on the Cat engines supplying the hydraulic pressure. That was back in the eighties. I went by the old building a while back and it was empty. Are they no longer doing this operation or did they just move to a different location. I know a lot of the gins in this area have closed down.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

Modern gin presses are capable of compressing the cotton into the proper size needed for transport so there is no need to take the cotton bales to another “compress”. I know what you’re talking about as we used to have to take the cotton from our old gin to a compress

@robertmarino2158 2 года назад

Amazing operation, very well explained , the expense on the equipment has to be in the millions or billions , stay safe ! Number of employees working at this operation ?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

I don’t know for sure but I’d say it takes 8-10 people to run it

@debcamp2359 9 месяцев назад

Good job! Now , we can find domestic solutions and products?? Maybe fashion cloth a d fabric??

@SuperBuckys 2 года назад

My grandfather ran the first gin maury city ever had. Now lol how far it's came

@MrStarkiller2497 11 месяцев назад

i got a question i found an old mill and its got a huge drill bit but not attached to anything

@gillafunk 2 года назад

Super fun

@roymaduro571 2 года назад

What engeneering, a marvel

@jefflogue4884 2 года назад

It's hard to believe with the advancements in technology that they haven't made the picker gin the cotton at the same time they.pick it

@mr.electric8559 2 года назад

Very interesting video. Good to learn how complicated this process is. Do they run the gin thru only the harvesting season, or does it run the whole year? In the opening drone shots, I could see many rolls of cotton in the background.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

It generally takes this gin from October through Thanksgiving to gin the crop that is brought. Other gins in areas that produce way more cotton, like in Texas, may run all winter before they get the crop ginned

@adroitredtiger 10 месяцев назад

Those safety photos at 4:06 will haunt me

@Theguys1 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating….what are the riofits?😊

@kosycat1 2 года назад

dude could you imagine picking all that by hand

@paulbrooks2024 2 года назад

I pick tobacco never cotton, corn, produce, water mellons,,inthe 60s , worked in textiles 45 years as a machine mechanic, in GA, NC SC Mex..retired now,

@danielginther4879 2 года назад

Buy American! Thanks for a very interesting video.

@coreythomas6576 2 года назад

A lot different than Mr. Eli Whitney's design. But it does the same thing. It is interesting how something invented so long ago has changed due to technological advances even though those advances deliver the same end product.

@williammatzek4660 2 года назад

Matt their is a little cotton raised here in Kansas. Sure seems like they leave a lot in the field.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

It looks like a lot more than it really is. A properly adjusted cotton picker is usually 95-99% efficient depending on the type of cotton variety

@ou812hongkong8 2 года назад

Very cool I live 3 blocks from the gin

@davidthurmond9016 Год назад

Used to have to go old school with a suck pipe they called it u had to get into the cotton trailers and suck the cotton out of them no matter if it was hot or cold

@alanmcgregor4909 2 года назад

Good video, lots on automated equipment. So how do you get paid for your Cotton. By your yield, are there docks for moisture, Foreign matter? Thanks.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

We get paid by the pound of lint we produce. That price is based on the futures price of cotton ply or minus any premiums or discounts we get for the grade of cotton. Cotton is graded on several factors: 1. Staple length-this is the length and fineness of the cotton fibers. 2. Micronaire-this is basically a measurement of how thick the fibers are 3. Strength-how sting the fibers are 4. Color- even though cotton “appears” as white, weather and other factors can cause the cotton to not be pure white. 6. Trash- the gin removes the majority of the trash but some of it is ground into the fiber during the harvesting and gin in process and cannot be removed by a conventional gin 7. Foreign matter- things other than plant trash such as plastic or grease can cause serious discounts. Plastic fibers from supermarket bags that blow into the cotton field can cause big problems. We also may get paid a little on the cottonseed if cottonseed prices are high. Otherwise the gin keeps the cottonseed to cover the cost of ginning the cotton

@alanmcgregor4909 2 года назад

Wow that quite a process, so they really keep track of each load of Cotton through the Gin. As apposed to Corn or Soybeans a few straight forward tests at the scale and that's it.

@jasonklatt3849 2 года назад

Our gin did 170,000 bales this year

@ThreePhaseHigh 2 года назад

Interesting so an average bail of cotton costs approximately how much In today’s market ? Kinda wish you would have introduce us to Eli .

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

Price of cotton varies depending on the futures market. Usually between $0.52-$1.00/lb. A cotton bale usually weighs between 480-500 lbs

@mikeyoung8126 2 года назад

Awesome video Matt so why did you guys shut down your gin?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

It was a small gin that relied heavily on labor instead of automation and was not profitable

@TheMissPoovey 2 года назад

@@griggsfarmsllc I saw a video that said hemp can replace cotton uses for the gin. If you’re looking for a new fiber.

@ilfarmboy 2 года назад

does it work on the same principal as Eli Whitney cotton gin just on a much bigger scale?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

Pretty much I believe. But Eli Whitney’s design was pretty much designed to remove the seed as there was no need to remove trash because all the cotton was hand picked at that time. Modern cotton pickers and strippers will grind some trash up in the fiber that has to be removed nowadays. Also Eli Whitney’s invention did not include a press to compact the fiber into a package that could be easily transported

@ilfarmboy 2 года назад

@@griggsfarmsllc thanks I didn't know

@caryenmon1903 2 года назад

Matt this gin we use is still ginning cotton. There supposed to be finished march.

@scottporter1108 2 года назад

Does it have to be refined to be used as a end material?

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

Yes

@stevecobb7844 2 года назад

How many t-shirts per acre is that? 🙂

@drdulas5055 2 года назад

So Matt you do not get paid until someone buys your bales? And then do get paid for the other things like the seed and the mop style cotton the man mentioned? Has it ever happened your cotton was not sold or where does his market work from? Sorry for all the questions I never heard how this process happened when selling the cotton.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

We market our cotton through a marketing cooperative that sells it for us. They give us an advance payment for part of what the cotton will sell for and pay us the balance throughout the following year. If cottonseed prices are high, the gin will pay us a few cents per pound for the cottonseed. The gin does not charge us to gin the cotton and in return they keep the cottonseed and and any other byproducts they can sell.

@josephpadula2283 2 года назад

Can you tell me what a bale of mid grade Cotten costs at your mill@ 450 pounds? How much is the seed worth? I know it goes up and down just average price to get an idea?

@josephpadula2283 2 года назад

I looked at future prices of 1.25 a pound but not sure if that is at the gin or a shipping dock somewhere.

@griggsfarmsllc 2 года назад

@@josephpadula2283 look at December futures on cotton. That’s generally the month on what cotton is sold. Then you can add or subtract up to 4 cents a pound generally for quality.

@ppercut 2 года назад

stupid questiopn but cant you put some generators on the gear wheels to get back some of the energy

@woodhonky3890 2 года назад

The energy to run the generators would come from the motors running the machine. Since no generator is 100 percent efficient, you would only loose energy. Even if the generator was 100 percent efficient, you would never get more energy out of the generator than what you put in.

@josephpadula2283 2 года назад

I am an engineer and I can’t tell you how many hours I have wasted trying to explain how a windmill on an electric car can not be used to run the car… Last week it was paddle wheels on an electric airplane to run it. Unless your trying to slow down to land it does not work…