Agritechnica day 3

The third and last day fiddling around in Agritechnica. The exhibition halls we left for the last day concentrated mostly on beet and potato farming, feeding and forestry, with a little toys department, less tractors and cereals and grass machinery.

We also walked through the Systems & Components fair which was located in the middle of Agritechnica. It was mainly meant to be a B2B event, but some of the components (e.g. lights) were quite interesting. The main blip is from the stand of one of the gearbox manufacturers (I think it was called Schmal). More gears (ZF) in the extra #1.

In the extra #2 a wild boar at the Ropa stand. Nothing runs like a Deere, except a boar perhaps? In the extra #3 hose and pipe spaghetti on a beet harvester header. Can't remember the name of the company, or see it in the photos.

The route choice in the morning was probably the best possible, and the simplest, and also what I meant to choose on Monday, but missed a crossing then. We were at the parking lot more than 15 minutes earlier than previous days, though started out a little later than Monday.

One reason it went so well was that the traffic on the nearby motorway is one-way on the fair mornings. They call it "Measure A" in the radio and I suppose the locals know what that means. It wasn't in use on Monday though, as Monday was still technically a "preview" day although in practice it was just another fair day, just pricier tickets, but not for the members of DLG, the organizing association.

We had gone through the last halls by 1:30 pm and I asked what Jussi would like to see again before we leave for the airport. He said "toys". He wanted to buy a tractor! Though a 1:32 scale model, it was a bit of a problem to transport it home as the package was quite big and there really wasn't much extra space in our backpacks. I ended up fitting it in my camera backpack and in the process dropped some papers, which luckily weren't important any more, but having my name and other details on them made me feel uncomfortable.

One of the best things about agricultural fairs is that you see some friends and acquaintances. On Tuesday we had lunch with Lauri's godfather, who was also on the same flight both ways as was one his colleagues I know, on Monday we met a couple of guys I also know from the university, and on the flight back there were two more familiar faces. Funny that you see as many or more friends in a fair in Germany as you would in a Finnish fair!