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Re: Conversion of M Cotton Picker toHigh Cropper
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Posted by Guy Fay on January 14, 2003 at 12:17:34 from (169.207.192.112):
In Reply to: Conversion of M Cotton Picker toHigh Cropper posted by D Larson on January 14, 2003 at 11:53:16:
First, you don't get a high cropper- they're still pretty different tractors. The rear axles are different, for instance. The cotton picker tractors are designed to go from high clearence backward tractors to regular clearence forward tractors. To get them to forward, you put on the different platform and controls, and you flip the differential, as well as put on the low clearence front axle of whatever variety- I believe that front end was different too, have to look at the cotton picker parts book. Again, IH made a conversion kit to do this, and they were probably sold with the cotton pickers. Why not just leave it as is? Take the picker off if you have too, but the folks who are trying to make a high crop out of cotton picker tractors are probably screwing themselves in the long run- the cotton picker tractors are probably just as rare, if not more so. The folks who are putting on the forward operation platform, leaving the cotton picker drop axles on, and calling it a high crop, are kinda creating something that just never was run that way on a farm. I might be wrong about them never running that way on the farm, maybe someone from cotton country can chime in here. What makes a high clearance a high clearance is the chain drive drops and the high arch front axle, as well as the special hitch. Cotton pickers have the gear drive rear axles with the flange, a single front wheel (at least in the picker configuration, the other part of the year i regular clearence, they could have just about any front wheel and axle). I've been working on an article explaining the difference. Should appear soon.
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