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Ginners Marketplace COTTON FARMING IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE GINNING INDUSTRY.
Getting ‘Back To Basics’ In sports, it is inevitable that a player (or a team) will go into a slump. In every case, the recipe for getting out of that slump and back into high performance is to break down the training routine to “focus on the fundamentals.” Only then, when that foundation is re-established, can the player or team begin to move toward higher goals. Players must train harder, and teams must evaluate talent and performance, oftentimes making changes to the line-up. Across many regions of the United States during the 2015/16 ginning season, cotton gins faced a slump – some in bigger ways than others. Weather was the major contributing factor – from the unpredictable planting schedule in West Texas to the unfathomable unending rainfall throughout the harvesting/ginning season in the Southeast. This “stacked deck” of challenges required the ginning industry to look within itself to make the best of a bad situation.
with the result of reducing ginning costs. That has been great for the industry, and as long as the conditions justified it, there’s nothing wrong in taking advantage of the circumstances. Then came 2015…and the circumstances changed…much for the worse. Whether crops came out of the field early, seed cotton was extra trashy or the endless rains sent overly wet cotton to the gins, the “ginning game plan” had to change — drastically. And here is where you had to get “back to basics.” Gins had to come to grips with the limitations they had within their machinery make-up. Drying and precleaning machinery that processed 30-40 bales per hour now struggled to handle 20. Stick machines that had been bypassed for the past decade were suddenly put back into service, and some gins found they had not been repaired (or even touched) during their dormant
Adjusting The ‘Ginning Game Plan’ In recent years, whether the crop was small or large, the growing and harvesting seasons tended to be uneventful as a whole. As a result, gins were able to process at higher capacities, often bypassing specific machines, which, in turn, increased weekly throughput and reduced repair bills — all
Lummus Corporation has available the following quality, high-capacity used gin machinery. All machinery is offered “as is, where is” (unless noted otherwise) and is subject to prior sale. “As is” machinery can be repaired/reconditioned for an additional charge. 1 – Consolidated 96” R-5000 Stick Machine* 2 – Consolidated 120” R-5000 Stick Machines* 1 – Lummus 60” overshot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot MC Battery Condenser* 1 – 1997 model Ginning/Lint Cleaning Line, consisting of a 96” wide Model 700TM Feeder, 170-Saw ImperialTM III Gin, Super-Jet® Lint Cleaner, and Model 108 Lint Cleaner 1 – Belt-Wide 75-HP Flooded-Suction Hydraulic Booster Pumping Unit 1 – Lubbock Electric Hydraulic Pumping Unit for Gin Dor-Les® or E.E. Dor-Les® Press (single reservoir with multiple motor/pump groups) 1 – Lummus Bale Handling System for up-packing press 1 – Lot, miscellaneous Burner and Moisture Unit components (contact us for details) * - does not include any Steel Supports or Platforms
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2 – Lummus Model 66 Lint Cleaners with Condensers
1 - Complete 2/141 Gin Plant consisting of: Unloading System with 15” diameter single-lane Powered Telescope, Rock Trap with Trash Vacuum, 72” Unloading Separator/Feed Control with Vacuum Wheel and Flight-Saver, and No. 50 Unloading Fan; First-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Horn 3-Saw Stick Machine (with double 96” x 24” Vacuum Wheels), Second-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Continental 2-Saw Stick Machine; Distribution/Overflow System with Continental 2-Stand Conveyor Distributor and 72” Automatic Overflow Hopper with Breaker Cylinder; Feeding/Ginning System with two (2) Continental 141-Saw Gins (converted) and 96” Comet Supreme Feeders; Lint Cleaning System with four (4) 66” wide Continental 16-D Lint Cleaners (two tandem arrangements); Condensing/Pressing System with 50” Moss Battery Condenser, 20” x 54” Continental Bespress, and Bale Handling System with Bale Push Cart (manual) and Bagger (powered); five (5) Smith 35/40 Centrifugal Fans (only one season of operation)