Iowa Farm Equipment

Post by **Coyote** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:05 pm

I don't know if this is for real or not - it looks fabricated:

This incredible machine was built as a collaborative Â effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Â Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from Â John Deere Industries and Â Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft Iowa, yes farm equipment!

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

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

[wmp]http://necoyote.com/video/machine.wmv[/wmp]

Post by **Admin** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:32 pm

Our friends over at absoluteDSM.com have shown this to be a hoax: Snopes: Rumors Has It

Post by **Coyote** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:42 pm

Yeah, but it still is cool.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:06 pm

Sweet, thanks for sharing Mark.

And I don't care if it's fake Admin.

Post by **Coyote** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:21 pm

Adam - I received this 3 times this week - from Seattle to Austin to Columbus.
I thought it looked fake but didn't know for sure.

I also really just wanted to try out the new 'WMP' function. Â :dancing: