Rollers inside a Module Mover
Modules Waiting to be Ginned
The Final Product--Bagged Bales
Bales on a Truck--Ready for the Compress
Seed Stands and Transport
These trucks are owned by the gin. Farmers who use the gin pick up paper tags and tarps from the gin before they start harvesting. When the modules are finished, the gin sends out the trucks to move the modules to the gin yard. It is a good point when the modules hit the gin yard, the gin insurance covers them from that point.
This is the rear inside of a module mover. There are a series of rollers all along and across the floor which move the modules in and out.
This is just the beginning of cotton harvest in Nueces County. There were only about thirty modules waiting to be ginned when we visited. In a few weeks lines of modules such as this will sit along both sides of caliche roads that are a half mile long. This gin even has a remote site for module storage.
The gin office was suprizingly empty when we visited. No modules were on the scale and only one farmer was there picking up tags. This photo shows the current "bale count."
This photo shows a truck with a module that is being put on the conveor for intake into the gin. The actual gin building is to the right. The seed stands are in the rear left.
There used to be high stands under which the full cotton trailers were moved. Gin workers moved large vacuum tubes back and forth over the cotton sucking it up and into the gin. These days are no more. Instead, the modules are lined up on a conveyor belt and the cotton is mechanically swiped off the modules.
The closest module is in line. The farther module has been about have removed.
This is a line of finished bales that are awaiting loading on a truck for transport to a Cotton Compress. Down here, these are located near the Port of Corpus Christi.
Soon after this photo was taken this truck, it left the gin yard for the cotton compress. We estimated that there 100 bales on it.
Just to the south of the gin are located to large, high seed stands. During the ginning process, the seed is removed from the cotton lint. The lint is moved on for further cleaning while the seeds are moved by screw augers out to the seed stands. From here, the seeds are dropped into the back of tank trucks. The seed will be used for animal feed, cotton seed oil, etc.
