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Evelyn Zoraphel Woodruff
Liberty, SC · 5 months ago
HOT

This is a cotton mill worker removing full bobbins of yarn from the spinning frame. They are called doffers.

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Sandra H
Evans, GA · 5 months ago
HOT

DONT MAKE FUN OF MANUAL LABOR. my grandma worked 44 and half years in a cotton mill.GAVE her a good retirement. Granpa retired from VA with health benefits for both and retirement.These people worked hard to raise 3 KIDS after our parents died young.NEVER LOOK DOWN ON ANYONE. IT COULD BE YOU ONE DAY.

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Don Mills
Lemoore, CA · 2 months ago

I work in the mill and I was doffer not as fast as him

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Bart Smith
Mobile, AL · 2 months ago

Bobbin removal. Did that at a cotton mill when I was a teenager.

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Pedro Barrera
San Juan, TX · 5 months ago

Cotton mill I used to work in a place like this in Brenham Tx. They ended up closing the mill years later . This was an awesome place they made all kinds of cloth for jeans , cloth of terry towels all kinds of fabric . Too bad they closed down

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this&that
Eugene, OR · 3 months ago

unfortunately automated machines have taken over. they don't need lunch breaks, medical insurance, or any pay. modernization has always been a human trait. we older folks remember hard work. it's a big adjustment but we have made progress which is what we do .progress. I still can't figure out my TV remote, new terms and symbols, scan, apps, downloads. 😵‍💫😱 brings me to tears and major stress. Progress is not for the faint of heart! 😲

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Kathy Adkins
El Paso, TX · 3 months ago

I want to thank each of you who have done not only work in the mills but also any other type of repetitive work. I don’t think there are too many people who would be able to do this type of work for a long time. My hat is off to you!!

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Shirlee Gleeson
Cleveland, OH · 2 months ago

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Chris Libbey
Indian Township, ME · 2 months ago

hurry up before the weaver starts yelling, hurry up I'm losing money!

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Wilmer Nunez
Miami, FL · 2 months ago

Don’t work too hard. They will deport you

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Douglas Pule
Minneapolis, MN · 2 months ago

bro do you get paid by the hour or by the piece? cause if you get paid by the piece you're a damn millionaire pulling those that damn fast but if you get paid by the hour you're going to make them millions while you get the "KIBBLES AND BITS"

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Nano Waters
El Reno, OK · 2 months ago

looks like smaller ones of the ones hanging before they go into a different process 🤔

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Miku Gutierrez
Westminster, SC · 2 months ago

cotton or thread spools

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PackMan
Concord, NC · 2 months ago

The heart of America's workforce up until the 1990's. Bill Clinton's North American Free Trade Agreement put many thousands of hard working Americans out of textile jobs. All went to Asia for the cheap labor along with the introduction of Walmart that destroyed the small family businesses selling textile products.

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Rebecca Farnsworth
Westbrook, ME · 5 months ago

You know what. How many people have done Piece work. Maybe people don’t know what that is. You get payed by the pieces you do. You do 50 you get paid for 50. You do 100 you get paid for 100 the more you do the more money you make. I think everybody should do piece work and see how hard it is to make more money. They want it easy to sit there and do nothing and make They should try piecework where you work your butt off and work to get your money

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Bonnie Blount
2 months ago

I loved working in a Cotton Mill he's a Doffer I was a spinner I hung the bobbings on top to connect the tread to the bobbings when they filled up he took them off it was good pay but very bad for your lungs it caused Brown Lung

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Christine Casper
Cheyenne, WY · 2 months ago

I worked in a small factory once my whole day was inventory while inspecting each design of prints on bags back packs etc. when I would go home my hands hurt so bad because the conveyor belt they came down on was metal and hot. I quit in a month shortest job I ever had. Infinity respect for factory workers.

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Greg
Danville, VA · 3 months ago

I worked in Dan River cotton mills lots of people wouldn't even stay a whole shift.

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Roger Morris
Inman, SC · 3 months ago

my whole family worked in a cotton mill at one time or another.There were a lot of wonderful people worked in these mills.My Grandparents raised 11 children working there.They picked more than their share of cotton with little children in tow.There is a lot of truth in the saying I sold my sole to the Company Store.Ive been told my Grandfather went a very long time without ever drawing a paycheck because his check went to pay for Clothes,Food and essentials for his family's well being.Like I said Very Hardworking good people.

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Rudolph E Mills II
Atlanta, GA · 2 months ago

This is “ The Spinning Room “

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Rhonda Untied Holdren
Zanesville, OH · 2 months ago

He’s got it down!

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Micah Jenkins
Weaver, AL · 5 months ago

My dad worked 42 years in the pipe shop to provide for 4 kids. In 1964 He built us a two story brick home with 4 bedrooms and a full basement for $11,000.00. GOD is good and the family still owns the house to this day.🙏🙏🙏.!!!.

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Roger Rholetter
Westminster, South Carolina · 5 months ago

Spinning frame in cotton mill

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Carole Napoli
Iva, SC · 2 months ago

my grandma worked in the weave room for 45 years for Cannon Textiles. She dealt with these everyday.

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Monique Devlin
Lewiston, ME · 2 months ago

My dad worked hard at the mills

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Rebecca Staats
Wayne, MI · 3 months ago

oh oh and I would have said it's bonnets coming off of champagne or Asti--they're all one sellable name and now the gold goes on pink gold or blue gold or silver gold with the wire to hold the cork and sometimes even they do it decoratively and the screw opening bottles. thank you for that explanation.

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AmyBeth Price
Beckley, WV · 2 months ago

Thank you for all the hard workers out there.

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james hicks
Benton Harbor, MI · 2 months ago

thanks

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Corri Bischer
Chattanooga, TN · 2 months ago

i hope they reuse, recy le or repurpose these.

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mswingsfan
Charlevoix, MI · 2 months ago

Bowling pins.

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Owen Shelton
Ocala, FL · 2 months ago

Who cares what they are???

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shadoodle
Odessa, TX · 2 months ago

thems tha biggest doobies Iv ever seen

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Joey Turner
Hazard, KY · 2 months ago

Cotton thread

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Tylor Did
Mexico City, CMX · 2 months ago

They're called spools

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Dee Whitt
Woodbridge, VA · 2 months ago

He's got a serious flow. That technique has been mastered.

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it's nuts
Port Huron, MI · 2 months ago

yet no one wanted state what the things are.lol

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Karma
Atlantic City, NJ · 2 months ago

shampoo bottles

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Tudy Jerry
Palm Bay, FL · 2 months ago

thread spools

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Deborah Hall
Twentynine Palms, CA · 2 months ago

lol

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Tim Roseboro
Bonanza, OR · 2 months ago

spools of thread?

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Howard McEachron
Portland, OR · 3 months ago

That’s really kind of amazing

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Susan Welsh
Mechanicsburg, PA · 3 months ago

Do you know that if you recycle a 2 lt. Coke bottle, you can make 50 lbs of polyester yarn.🤔

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BBCashe
Sarasota, FL · 2 months ago

Amazed that jobs like this aren’t already replaced by robots. Maybe they should be. Lots of RSI potential here.

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Cyndie Christopher
Cave City, AR · 2 months ago

My Papaw worked in a cotton mill and retired with an excellent pension, he was a hard working man..💕

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Peggy
Ashburn, GA · 2 months ago

Albany GA. also had a mill called cotten mill we made fabrics worked in the weave r00m💕💕💕

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MistinaLee
Spokane, WA · 2 months ago

We don't have these kinds of factories up in the Far North where I live...so I had no idea what he was doing. Thanks for the education!

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Daniel Alderson
Burnsville, MN · 3 months ago

He’s very good at his job!👍🏼

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Kathleen Fountain
Clover, SC · 3 months ago

thread off a spinner

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KimmyBean
2 months ago

I worked piecework jobs for many years. Started at a Shirt Factory right out of High School. Left on a Friday to start an Automotive Factory job on Monday. At first, we made rubber parts for 'American Made' vehicles only, then slowly transitioned to Any/Every made ANYTHING. Parts anywhere from vehicles to dishwashers, elevators, etc. The pay was good back then, but you earned every penny! They hired young employees, mostly women as not many men made it long term. Said it was 'women's' work. 🙄 Many disabilities were made there due to the repetitive process and physical demands required to get the job done. Then one day the factory moved to Mexico. I don't know how I made it as long as I did, but I'm paying for it now. I am 60 and have the body of a 90 year old. I worked everyday, raised 3 kids, and helped support a self employed husband. I can vouch for women/MEN working this type of work... WE WORKED OUR A$$E$ OFF!

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Charlie Orta
Fresno, CA · 2 months ago

these are empty spools for thread at a large clothe factory. they are being tossed out at the end of the skeen to replace them with new spools of thread like you see at the top rack.😆