Until 3 years ago one of my pleasures at work was being the mechanic during cotton picking season. Three years ago we stopped picking our cotton and hired a company to do it for us - much cheaper. We used two row "International" cotton pickers. I still have that attraction to the vibe around the coton picking so every year I go and join them for a day. This year the company came with a cotton picking "monster". This is a 6 row "John Deere" picker and is state of the art technology. The guy who drives it called it a user friendly picker (see POTW picture). To really give the experience I had would need may photos from that day but a choice for this gallery had to be made. It isn't the best shot I took that day but represents something of the size and force of the machine.