Abstract: A boll buggy includes a basket upon a wheeled frame. The basket is translationally elevated to a height so that the bottom of the basket is higher than the top of a module maker. Seed cotton is transferred from the basket into the module maker by chains running along the bottom of the basket and extended panel. Cotton is loaded into the basket on the boll buggy by moving the boll buggy alongside a cotton harvester and extending a load door from the basket to receive cotton from the cotton harvester.
Abstract: The back door of a cotton module builder is raised and lowered by a hydraulic cylinder extending from above the back door to a latch shaft extending across the back door. Movement of the hydraulic cylinder latches and unlatches latch bolts upon the latch shaft as well as raising and lowering the back door.