Only sixty years ago, cotton from the field was pulled to the gin in a wagon with wire screen sides. Today, the “boll buggy” dumps its load into a “module builder” which presses out a loaf of cotton that is hauled to the gin by a 16 wheeler. An image from our documentary project, “Cotton Tale.” Will Wofford mans the module builder and Josh Johnson pulls the load with the Houck Farms John Deere 7810.
Southern Documentary Journal
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