idealist vs realist: You can take the boy outta the country....

But you can't take the country outta the boy.

Hit up Agritechnica, Europe's biggest agricultural machinery trades show in Hanover around the middle of last month. I planned it so well that I went on the weekend before the submission deadline for the Copenhagen Bike Share project I was working on (ended up working on Sunday, Monday all night, and Tuesday morning, to courier it away to arrive on Wednesday morning).

Either way, still had fun. Niels had planned/hoped to go too, but appendicitis at the last minute and lack of a valid landed immigrant card can hold things up a bit :(

I went looking at things from 2 different view points I guess; industrial designer (with some of the projects at work, has caused me to pay more attention to surfaces, details, etc, as well as the use of standard components - namely lights), and the farmboy.

-Giant truck mounted wood chipper

-Logging Equipment

-Viking Lawnmowers - I think it's the white steel tubes that caught my attention, and how they follow through over the mower deck.

-Feed mixer from space - Or just Italy

-Krone (German) Bix X - a ginormous harvester

-Krone Big M - a ginormous mower

-Lely (Dutch) round baler - older design style

-Lely round baler - newer design style

-Lely round baler - newest design style

-Claas (German) Xerion - another huge tractor (might not look as big because I'm holding the camera straight above my head - those tires are at least 2m tall!)

-Claas Xerion - hood detail (the Xerion even more for me for the fact one of my bosses worked on the design of the first generation of these tractors, while he was doing more contract design jobs)