Piston Pump Helps Drive Cotton Module Loading Procedure

World cotton production in 2006/07 is forecast at 115.7 million bales, and global cotton consumption is forecast at a record of nearly 121 million bales, with 13.2 million acres dedicated to cotton in the United States alone. Cotton is one of the most heavily traded commodities on the world market, and whose value is influenced by how fast the product leaves the field and gets to the gin for processing into fiber. Module Truck Systems (MTS, Lubbock, TX) designed a specialized truck, a cotton module mover, to facilitate quick transportation of cotton from the field to gin yard, using the Heavy Duty Series 2 Hydrostatic Pump from Eaton Corp. (Cleveland, OH) to drive the loading chains that holds the raw cotton as it loads into the trailer bed.