I was downtown Moline with some free time this morning, so I strolled over to the John Deere Pavilion to have a look at thei Tango mower display they recently set up. The Deere Pavilion is an interesting place to visit and they have displays of quite a number of pieces of the equipment that carry the John Deere name, from the little robotic mower at one corner, to huge agricultural, construction and logging equipment, and several pieces of historical significance to the company's growth.
Here's the outside of the building, which was fashioned to look like one of Deere's original factories that would have been just down the street from where the Pavilion is now, and the Tango mower in it's display.
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Here's a short movie I took of it for you viewing pleasure as it "mows" it's astro turf display.
One of the hosts at the Pavilion told me that after they had the display set up they had to call in the engineers because it didn't seem to be working as it should. After some head scratching they determined that the plastic in it's wheels traveling over the astro turf was causing it to gather static electricity, and when it went back to it's charging station is sort of zapped itself silly and didn't know what to do. A spritz of fabric softener on the astro turf took care of the problem.
Here's the outside of the building, which was fashioned to look like one of Deere's original factories that would have been just down the street from where the Pavilion is now, and the Tango mower in it's display.
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Here's a short movie I took of it for you viewing pleasure as it "mows" it's astro turf display.
One of the hosts at the Pavilion told me that after they had the display set up they had to call in the engineers because it didn't seem to be working as it should. After some head scratching they determined that the plastic in it's wheels traveling over the astro turf was causing it to gather static electricity, and when it went back to it's charging station is sort of zapped itself silly and didn't know what to do. A spritz of fabric softener on the astro turf took care of the problem.
