International Harvester continued to develop that model through the 1940s, and it evolved from machines that were built on a tractor chassis to machines more like combines with their own unique chassis and power unit. ![]() It was the first successful mechanical cotton picker to be put on the market, and one of those units affectionately dubbed, “Old Red,” resides in the Smithsonian Institution. The company rolled out its first production model, the H-10-H, in 1942 and said that more than 40 years of development went into the machine. That unit eventually failed, but the company purchased a design and tested that in the late 1920s and into the 1930s. Johnston proposed a vacuum-powered machine in 1922. Mechanical cotton harvesters were developed as early as the 1850s, but International Harvester didn’t begin to develop its own until E. ![]() In this excerpt from Red Combines 1915–20 20, explore the complete timeline of IH’s cotton-harvesting equipment line-from its origins in the 1920s, to its market dominance in the 1940s, all the way up to the 45,000-pound beasts that comb the fields today. (Banner image: 2009 Case IH Cotton Express 620: The 620 is a six-row cotton harvester that weighs in at 44,600 pounds and is powered by a 340-horsepower turbocharged six-cylinder engine.
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