Saturday, December 12, 2009

A little something from the Home State!

I found this incredible post at Darla's beautiful blog - go see her sometime! But why I wanted to share this with you is 1) so I could always find it again, and 2) I grew up with John Deere tractors in the good old mid-west - Iowa in fact - on a farm near "the Limestone Capital of the World"! How's that for famous! LOL!

This incredible machine was built at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa. Yes, farm equipment.

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort.

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.

2 comments:

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Wow!! That was awesome! And to think it was mostly machine parts! Amazing! Thanks for sharing
Hugs
SueAnn

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Enjoyed the video and the bouncing balls.
Is some of it computer generated?
Darla finds the best video's, she spreads so much enjoyment. Thank you for sharing this as I missed this one.
Have great Christmas time Cindy!

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