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Posted: 12/18/2016 9:35:43 PM EST
I was driving through part of Texas today that grows cotton crops and noticed that after the harvest there was still a lot of cotton in the fields that will be wasted. Why don't poor people make a deal with the farmers to go in and manually pick the left overs and pay the landowner a royalty?  Seems that it would be a good deal all the way around. 
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:37:17 PM EST
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Fuck you.

I used to have to pick the end rows like that.

It sucks, you get very little cotton, and it just makes you hate your Dad.



Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:37:34 PM EST
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I was driving through part of Texas today that grows cotton crops and noticed that after the harvest there was still a lot of cotton in the fields that will be wasted. Why don't poor people make a deal with the farmers to go in and manually pick the left overs and pay the landowner a royalty?  Seems that it would be a good deal all the way around. 
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Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:38:12 PM EST
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Fuck you.

I used to have to pick the end rows like that.

It sucks, you get very little cotton, and it just makes you hate your Dad.

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Even with what's left behind, it can't be picked by hand efficiently enough to be economically viable.
It does make old, cranky, miserly cotton farmers feel like they've gotten every last scrap out of their field, though.

Basically, you're out of your cotton-pickin mind if you think this would work.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:40:24 PM EST
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Would you have to sing while you pick it?




Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:40:30 PM EST
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Oh, Lawdy, pick a bale a cotton. Oh, Lawdy, pick a bale a day.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:41:34 PM EST
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My grandfather picked cotton so I wouldn't have to...
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:43:30 PM EST
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Folks use to pick it and take it to the gin but it's not worth it financially. Too labor intensive. How about the farmer or the contractors set their stripper just right and minimize the leftovers.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:43:53 PM EST
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Why would they do that ?

When the gov gives them $$ of doing nothing.

I agree OP, there are many things "poor" could do to earn some $$

As a teenager I would pick up corn that was missed/knocked down during harvest.
Many times I made $10-15.00 per hour - back in the 70's/80's that was big money.
Bought my first street bike when I turned 16 that way
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:44:26 PM EST
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Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:45:57 PM EST
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I live in cotton/cattle country. You could pick ends all day and not make enough money to buy a ride home.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:46:13 PM EST
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Yeah, I've done that and it sucks. Just driving a cotton rood without a cab tractor is suck enough. 
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:46:26 PM EST
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Folks use to pick it and take it to the gin but it's not worth it financially. Too labor intensive. How about the farmer or the contractors set their stripper just right and minimize the leftovers.
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Yeah.  I don't think OP realizes that cotton compresses quite a bit and what looks like a "lot" in the field after you run a stripper and chuck it into a module builder is really like 3 shirts and a pair of socks worth of cotton.

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:47:04 PM EST
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That's some funny shit right there.

Classic video.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:47:45 PM EST
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Even with what's left behind, it can't be picked by hand efficiently enough to be economically viable.

It does make old, cranky, miserly cotton farmers feel like they've gotten every last scrap out of their field, though.

Basically, you're out of your cotton-pickin mind if you think this would work.
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Fuck you.

I used to have to pick the end rows like that.

It sucks, you get very little cotton, and it just makes you hate your Dad.




Even with what's left behind, it can't be picked by hand efficiently enough to be economically viable.

It does make old, cranky, miserly cotton farmers feel like they've gotten every last scrap out of their field, though.

Basically, you're out of your cotton-pickin mind if you think this would work.


Unless you use slaves.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:47:47 PM EST
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My mom, aunts and uncles picked cotton in central Texas as kids during the depression.

Their stories about how much it sucked ass is enough for me.

And poor people today aren't like poor people back then. These modern ones ain't gonna do shit but get their EBT and still bitch about that being too much like work.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:49:17 PM EST
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I think the poor people should be forced to eat other poor people until they're are none left.

Hussein Obammy aka dildo
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:49:20 PM EST
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Because they are not hungry.

Yes, I have picked cotton.  No, it is not fun or easy.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:49:45 PM EST
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Even with what's left behind, it can't be picked by hand efficiently enough to be economically viable.
It does make old, cranky, miserly cotton farmers feel like they've gotten every last scrap out of their field, though.

Basically, you're out of your cotton-pickin mind if you think this would work.
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Oh, I was "cotton tromping".  Basically arranging and trying to compress the cotton to make more fit in the trailer.

Since I was being "paid", I should pick the ends when I wasn't getting a heart attack jumping on the cotton, or trying to avoid suffocation when the cotton picker dumped.

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:50:38 PM EST
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Unless you use slaves.
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Farm kids are basically slaves.

Except not paid as good.

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:51:54 PM EST
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I grew up in cotton country and thank God that I never had to pick any.

When I was a kid I would occasionally see folks out picking the left overs.

Mechanical cotton pickers don't leave nearly as much these days as they used to.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:53:50 PM EST
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Link Posted: 12/18/2016 9:54:29 PM EST
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OP, you may have TX has your location but you sure don't act like. That question was just flat out asinine. What are you a Hoodrat?
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:02:08 PM EST
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Aren't most of our poor kids living in the inner city.

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:05:03 PM EST
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Farm kids are basically slaves.

Except not paid as good.
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I just looked.  I filed my first tax return in 1985 (I was 10) for $170 in earnings.  I think I would have filed for more, but my family waited until August to file for my SSN because that was the year my school started requiring one.  

In '86 I got to run one of these!

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:06:07 PM EST
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My account isnt worth the giggles...
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:06:12 PM EST
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Is that real or a shop?

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:06:40 PM EST
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Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:09:30 PM EST
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Well played, OP. Well played. Best I've seen in a long time.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:11:06 PM EST
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... still amongst the funniest video on the internet
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:11:24 PM EST
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I just looked.  I filed my first tax return in 1985 (I was 10) for $170 in earnings.  I think I would have filed for more, but my family waited until August to file for my SSN because that was the year my school started requiring one.  

In '86 I got to run one of these!

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Farm kids are basically slaves.

Except not paid as good.


I just looked.  I filed my first tax return in 1985 (I was 10) for $170 in earnings.  I think I would have filed for more, but my family waited until August to file for my SSN because that was the year my school started requiring one.  

In '86 I got to run one of these!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Module_Builder.jpg/220px-Module_Builder.jpg
Damn Boy! Running a cotton module at 11 years of age. What the fuck are you doing here?
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:11:46 PM EST
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OP, you may have TX has your location but you sure don't act like. That question was just flat out asinine. What are you a Hoodrat?
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No, I grew up on a ranch so I don't know anything about picking cotton.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:14:36 PM EST
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That's one of the best YouTube videos I have ever seen.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:16:24 PM EST
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I just looked.  I filed my first tax return in 1985 (I was 10) for $170 in earnings.  I think I would have filed for more, but my family waited until August to file for my SSN because that was the year my school started requiring one.  

In '86 I got to run one of these!

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At the time (not sure about now) farm workers could be paid .10 under the minimum wage.

My Dad NEVER paid more.

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:18:26 PM EST
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It would only be cost effective if you could get people to pick it for free.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:18:34 PM EST
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No, I grew up on a ranch so I don't know anything about picking cotton.
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OP, you may have TX has your location but you sure don't act like. That question was just flat out asinine. What are you a Hoodrat?
No, I grew up on a ranch so I don't know anything about picking cotton.

Wish you would have explained yourself a bit more then. I would have been more even handed. I'm kind of good with geography so what part of Texas? Don't have to name the ranch if you don't want. XIT and Goodnight is all I know.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:20:58 PM EST
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Would give $20 to see folks dressed like your retarded avatar in the Summer.  By 1pm and you'd be dead as a door knob.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:21:09 PM EST
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Damn Boy! Running a cotton module at 11 years of age. What the fuck are you doing here?
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Farm kids are basically slaves.

Except not paid as good.


I just looked.  I filed my first tax return in 1985 (I was 10) for $170 in earnings.  I think I would have filed for more, but my family waited until August to file for my SSN because that was the year my school started requiring one.  

In '86 I got to run one of these!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Module_Builder.jpg/220px-Module_Builder.jpg
Damn Boy! Running a cotton module at 11 years of age. What the fuck are you doing here?


In 1992 I got my TXDL and high-tailed it to an easier life of delivering pizza and then into the Army at 18.  There's a reason I'm all about my white collar life.    

Fuckin' tractors now though, you just program the GPS and they go!  I would have loved that as a kid.  You know how hard it was to read and pull a sandfighter at the same time?  
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:22:44 PM EST
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At the time (not sure about now) farm workers could be paid .10 under the minimum wage.

My Dad NEVER paid more.

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I got minimum wage (a princely $3.35 as I recall), just like every other hired hand running a hoe.  My grandparents were big ole egalitarians.  
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:24:24 PM EST
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When they harvest the cotton fields around here there seems to be a ton of picked cotton in the ditches and on the sides of the roads wasted, let alone the stuff left in the fields.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:25:13 PM EST
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I got to pick during one harvest when i was a kid.  It was miserable and painful - i elected to mop floors and clean bathrooms in a grocery store the next year.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:27:15 PM EST
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My mom, aunts and uncles picked cotton in central Texas as kids during the depression.

Their stories about how much it sucked ass is enough for me.

And poor people today aren't like poor people back then. These modern ones ain't gonna do shit but get their EBT and still bitch about that being too much like work.
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Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:30:05 PM EST
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In 1992 I got my TXDL and high-tailed it to an easier life of delivering pizza and then into the Army at 18.  There's a reason I'm all about my white collar life.    

Fuckin' tractors now though, you just program the GPS and they go!  I would have loved that as a kid.  You know how hard it was to read and pull a sandfighter at the same time?  
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Farm kids are basically slaves.

Except not paid as good.


I just looked.  I filed my first tax return in 1985 (I was 10) for $170 in earnings.  I think I would have filed for more, but my family waited until August to file for my SSN because that was the year my school started requiring one.  

In '86 I got to run one of these!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Module_Builder.jpg/220px-Module_Builder.jpg
Damn Boy! Running a cotton module at 11 years of age. What the fuck are you doing here?


In 1992 I got my TXDL and high-tailed it to an easier life of delivering pizza and then into the Army at 18.  There's a reason I'm all about my white collar life.    

Fuckin' tractors now though, you just program the GPS and they go!  I would have loved that as a kid.  You know how hard it was to read and pull a sandfighter at the same time?  
I remember the sandstorms from the early 1980s. Running sandfighters were a fact of life back then. When the winds blew across Dawson, Martin, Howard and those counties. They fucking blew hard!
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:34:59 PM EST
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Wow, how have I never heard that???

Thank you!

Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:44:30 PM EST
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Wish you would have explained yourself a bit more then. I would have been more even handed. I'm kind of good with geography so what part of Texas? Don't have to name the ranch if you don't want. XIT and Goodnight is all I know.
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Hill Country
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:47:48 PM EST
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Wish you would have explained yourself a bit more then. I would have been more even handed. I'm kind of good with geography so what part of Texas? Don't have to name the ranch if you don't want. XIT and Goodnight is all I know.
Hill Country

Cotton is definitely not King there. Didn't see much in my travels in high school or when going to South Texas back in the day.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 10:59:49 PM EST
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Never picked cotton.  Grew up in cattle and chicken country.  I hauled hay and shoveled shit.  Also worked construction making chicken houses.  Unlike welfare, those things encourage people to make the most out of their education, unlike the worthless kids today.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 11:02:39 PM EST
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Fuck you.

I used to have to pick the end rows like that.

It sucks, you get very little cotton, and it just makes you hate your Dad.

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Link Posted: 12/18/2016 11:07:31 PM EST
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Never picked cotton.  Grew up in cattle and chicken country.  I hauled hay and shoveled shit.  Also worked construction making chicken houses.  Unlike welfare, those things encourage people to make the most out of their education, unlike the worthless kids today.
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Hauled hay, moved and otherwise messed with cattle and fences and drove a big tractor doing all kinds of tractor related things starting at 10 years old. $1.50 / hr.

And I was damned glad to have it, it was good money for a kid. Hard work but satisfying and worthwhile. Hell, I miss it.

Mr. Crouch also paid me a bonus of .10 cents / bale for hauled and stacked. That was the real money!  
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 11:08:38 PM EST
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My Dad picked it. He said they had some poor ass sandy dirt in SW GA. Only once did he ever pick 100lbs and he said it liked to have killed him. Took all day of going as hard as he could.
Apparently, that was the benchmark amongst the cotton pickers to see if you had game. He knew then and there he would never make it picking cotton. He was probably middle school aged and he was competing against grown men.
Link Posted: 12/18/2016 11:12:26 PM EST
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My Dad picked it. He said they had some poor ass sandy dirt in SW GA. Only once did he ever pick 100lbs and he said it liked to have killed him. Took all day of going as hard as he could.
Apparently, that was the benchmark amongst the cotton pickers to see if you had game. He knew then and there he would never make it picking cotton. He was probably middle school aged and he was competing against grown men.
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I remember my Mom saying how if there were too many hulls in a bag it would just be called garbage and not counted. That they had to be careful to pick clean bolls.
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