Iowa Farm Equipment

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:05 pm

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

This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering 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.

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

Post by **Admin** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:32 pm

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

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:42 pm

Yeah, but it still is cool.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:06 am

Sweet, thanks for sharing Mark.

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

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:21 am

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. :dancing: