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Well let's go!

Gesa is on the road and visits the heroes of agricultural technology. It will be exciting!

- Dark Room!

There are Karsten and Hans-Jörg of John Deere in Zweibrücken, already.

New game, new luck. Here we go.

Gesa travels with the combine harvester this time. With the good old John Deere Lanz 250 from the 1960s.

- Hello! I have an appointment here. Can you let me in?

Green light for Gesa. A touch of Queen Mum and a welcome reception.

- Hello Karsten! Hi there!

- Hi Gesa. So?

- As you see I need a new one. Look, I don't even have a key. I only have a nail. I definitely need a new one.

- Do you have something for me?

- I think we can do something, yes.

- Okay, I'll come down, then.

- Here! What do you think of this beauty? Do you want something like that?

- Yes, doesn't look too bad! Where do I get it?

- You get it here in the John Deere factory Zweibrücken.

Combine harvesters made easy. Do-it-yourself. Don't waste time, let's go with station number 1.

Gesa is excited for good reason. She gets her first present.

- And this is how it all starts?

- This is how it all starts. This is good steel from thyssenkrupp from the pot. A very ordinary steel plate.

- As you can see, this is a centimeter thick. So we don't drill thin boards here, but really big racks.

- Really big racks!

- We have a nice laser here for you.

- Okay.

- He does it all for you. As you can see, he is already quite busy.

- Aah!

- Don't be startled! It's all good!

- Whadya got there?

- Done! Look, isn't that great?

Individually and with love: your own combine harvester.

And what does he have in mind?

- So Gesa, now we have to bend the thing a bit, so that it'll fit your combine harvester.

- Yes.

- For that we have this young man here. He's got some huge muscles going for him.

- He can bend it like it's nothin'.

A man. A machine.

- Yay! Awesome. Thanks!

- And pow! It's bent, isn't it?

- His arms would have done the job, too, I'm sure!

Gesas mission: building her own harvester. Karsten will kindly assist her also at the next station.

Here, it is all about precise ultrasonic measurement. The weld seams are put to test.

Gesa is in full control. The quality check goes according to plan.

Everything is looking good. We can move on to the next station: the body check.

- Gesa, you worked really hard.

- Yes.

- You built a great harvester.

- Yes, now I'll do the body check. Check. Check. Check.

- But not on me. You better to do it on this thing over there.

It's all about precision. Gesa proves her magic touch again.

Just like this guy. And now, we recommend to sit back and enjoy the images. I will shut up for a bit.

Okay, that is enough. Let's get an overview of the production line.

- That looks really good.

- Yes, slowly all the pieces come together and form a proper harvester.

- I'd say let's hop on and check if the engine starts.

- Let's do it.

Into the driver's cabin of the new S700. It is exciting.

- This is the moment where we turn the ignition for the first time, right?

- Exactly. These are the first strokes of the engine.

- So we'll do it now?

- Absolutely!

And? Is it running?

- Yay! We did it. it's working.

Perfect. So let's move on. What's next? Of course! We mount the tires.

Like before Gesa is doing all of it herself.

Okay? Well, alright. This is our cue to leave.

Karsten is showing Gesa the audit center. The final check is due but...

What are these two doing? Why are they disappearing behind the curtain?

- So this is the exciting part. We already finished the body check and now we are in the...?

- Darkroom!

- Look, when you turn your head your ear is glowing in the dark.

- If I didn't know that Iwas at John Deere I'd think you guys are a bit werd.

- But what we are doing here is quite important: We are scanning the vehicle for leakages.

- Exactly. That is your harvester and now we are about to perform the final check.

- Let's go over there and see. Everything is looking good so far.

- We are scanning the whole machine. If there were any leaks, we'd be able to see them in the black light.

- The oil is mixed with a special fluorescent liquid. We'd be able to see that in here.

- Just like your name over there.

And now on the road.

- Karsten assigned me a nice driving instructor: Hans-Jörg. Thank you. Show me how this thing works.

- A little different than your old harvester.

- I thought so.

In round one Hans-Jörg is behind the steering wheel.

- That looks good.

- I have to accelerate a little bit. If you move this forward you go faster.

- Very good.

- It looks like you did a great job with building this harvester.

- Right? It turned out really good.

Gesa looks a bit tense. But once she is in control she relaxes.

- Amazing. Not too bad, right? Woah, that's pretty steep.

- That's just in your head.

Uphill. Downhill.

- How do you like your new vehicle? Cabin with air conditioning.

- Wonderful. It's perfect.

- Let's do another round!

The great finale. Testdrive successfully completed! Congratulations Gesa!

- Guys, thank you so much. That was a really great day. Wonderful weather even. I learnt so much. Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Gesa, we have something for you.

- This is your driver's license. Without that you can't drive.

- Thank you. And in this nice green color. Awesome. I'll see you at Agritechnica?

- Sure, see you there!

Exactly. We see each other at Agritechnica.

Until then the journey goes on. Follow me to Agritechnica.

To be continued. We promise.