Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Cotton Ginning Fun



Today was my first day of running a project at the new job. We ran a half dozen bales in the big gin, so Entergy made a killing off of Uncle Sam today. We are going to run another half dozen tomorrow. After we processed them we took them over to a commercial gin in Indianola, MS to do some testing on their equipment. I thought I would post a few pics to show the scale of this equipment, it is MASSIVE. The top picture is a full-size cotton gin. The bottom picture shows the bale press at the lab....it is a little bitty thing isn't it?

By the way....very cool website MapMyRun.com . If you want to know running, biking, or walking routes around your town or someplace you are visiting, this site is hard to beat. It also lets you map your runs so you can see how far you ran.

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