milofarmer1 - 1/17/2012 17:59
TXCUTTER - 1/17/2012 16:50
looks good, but it's going to need to move quite a bit faster than they have it moving to keep up with one stipper per builder. We are filling the basket on a 7460 in about 6 minutes in good cotton. He's using a 9 minute fill time and thats way to long.
I think you misunderstood. They are looking to build it to take a basket dump every 5 minutes. The 9 minutes figure is the total time of sitting under the stripper basket receiving a dump, and the time to unload the module when finished.
2.25 minutes to maneuver and unload the stripper into it.
5 minutes to pack while driving to the next dumping location.
7.25 minutes X 3 basket dumps
(JD7460
) = 21.75 minutes to make one 16ft module.
Plus a couple minutes to unload the module. So they would be pretty close to your 6 minute per basket figure.
They said their goal is to make one 16ft module per half hour. I think it looks to be possible.
I don't think the labor and equipment savings will be enough to pay for the Rube Goldberg invention myself.
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