After tractors, balers and earth-moving vehicles I have now moved on to another element of farming - be it only translating: milking robots. My neighbouring farm has not moved on to this invention yet, so we still see the fifty-odd cows walk past our house in the morning and in the evening. I still find that rather nice, although it does mean a lot of work for the farmers.The funny thing about the translation of the manuals is that the Dutch company writes their manuals in English. The manuals are then translated into other languages (including Dutch) while the master version is the English original manual. If there are any doubts about the other language versions, they refer back to the English version.
Of course, this makes sense as English is an international language and the robots are sold to countries as far away as Japan. Still, it is strange to translate a manual into Dutch that was written in English by a Dutch company...
http://www.cornesag.com/eng/milking/parts.html
