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Stuff That Weighs More Than Me: The World’s Largest Jack O’ Lantern (2011)

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Well after the world’s largest pumpkin is grown, the world’s largest jack o’ lantern cannot be far behind.  This beauty was created by renowned carver Scott Cully.  The pumpkin was grown by Chris Stevens from Wisconsin.

Scott Cully has created several world record breaking jack o’ lanterns.  Scott got a the big carving bug when his wife brought home a 400 pound pumpkin in 1988.  Apparently, after a few bottles of high-end English hard cider he and his wife just started carving.  Cully’s pumpkins escalated from that day and he continues to carve larger and larger pumpkins.  Scott carves traditional jack o’ lanterns with scary faces and typically uses simple hand tools for the carving process.  Oh and by the way, Scott hates pumpkin pie.

The jack o’ lantern pictured in the video took two days to create (approximately one hour of carving per 100 pounds) and was displayed at the New York Botanical Gardens in October of 2011.

I don’t have a whole lot of stats on this beauty other than the fact that it weighed in at 1,810.5 lbs.  Oh, and the world’s largest jack o’ lantern weighs more than me.

BOO!

Love,

The Fat Chick

Stuff that Weighs More than Me: World’s Heaviest Limo

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Okay kids, this ride goes way beyond your average stretch limo and even puts those stretch Hummers to shame.  This bad boy is HUGE.  Towed by a 440 horsepower semi, the trailer rides smoothly on 22 wheels.   The Midnight Rider boasts a bar, three separate lounges and sports a crew of five including a driver, a co-driver, a hostess and two bartenders.  You’ll never get bored on this thing as each of the lounges is equipped with a large screen television and high isolation entertainment system, with satellite television, movies, music, & live feed capabilities.  Going to the prom?  You could probably carry half your graduating class!  This rolling wonder can comfortably host you and 39 of your closest friends.  Heck, I’m ready to grab my cell phone and move in to this thing!

Here’s the stats:

Width: 8 ft., 5 in.

Height: 13 ft., 8 in.

Length: 70 ft.

Turning Radius: 48 ft.

Area: 460 square ft.

Weight: 25.5 tons

Check out the video here:

Conclusion: The world’s largest limo weighs more than me.

And, party on Wayne, party on!

Love,

The Fat Chick

Stuff That Weighs More Than Me: The Giant Spud from the Famous Idaho Potato Tour

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Well pass a bucket of butter and sour cream and collect a bushel load of chives for this baby!  Meet the giant potato from the Famous Idaho Potato Tour.  This spectacular spud travels around on its wheeled semi trailer truck bed and visits towns around the country.  Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Idaho Potato Commission and raising funds for charity Meals on Wheels, this tremendous tuber brings smiles to the faces of old and young alike.  And this thing is huge, oh yes!  Here’s some stats:

Truck Width: 13 ft.

Truck Height: 12 ft.

Truck Length: 72 ft.

Potato Growth Period if Real: 10,000 years

Number of Idaho Potatoes it Would Take to Match Giant Spud: 32,346

Average Baking Time: 2 years and 9 months

Weight (of the potato sans truck): six tons (12,130 pounds)

CONCLUSION: Giant Spud from the Famous Idaho Potato Tour weighs more than me.

Stuff that Weighs More than Me: World’s Biggest Pumpkin

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Well it IS fall even if the weather in Southern California doesn’t seem to reflect it.  106 in October?  Are you kidding me?  It makes me sad for the kids that go and buy pumpkins to carve in early October.  Sure, where I grew up in Wisconsin, the weather is cool enough for those pumpkins to last a week or two.  But here?  In 100+ degree temperatures?  A carved pumpkin has a shelf life of a day or two at most.

Speaking of which, did ya see the pumpkin in the video up there?  Did ya?  Now that is one giant gourd!  I love watching how excited everybody is at the weigh in.  And it is pretty amazing.  This pumpkin utterly crushes the previous world record holder–outweighing its nearest competitor by over 200 lbs.  These pumpkins are really amazing–growing by 40 or even 50 lbs. per day in peak growing season.  In fact, rapid growth can lead to bursting, which is one massively messy problem to have.

I think even Linus would agree this is one Great Pumpkin!

I don’t have a lot of stats for this one other than the fact that the pumpkin is the first ever to reach the one-ton mark.  And at 2009 pounds the world’s heaviest pumpkin weighs more than me.

Stuff that Weighs More than Me: Space Shuttle Endeavor on top of an Airplane

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Yesterday, many of us in the LA area watched in awe as the Endeavor Space Shuttle, nestled on top of its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flew all around over our heads. I got to see it as it crossed Highway 134 on its way to JPL. Traffic was backed up for miles with drivers craning their necks to see the flying behemoth. (This redefines Southland rubbernecking, by the way.) Be told, this thing is BIG. I was thrilled to see it–first and foremostbecause I love space stuff, but also because I thought, “Cor, that thing probably weighs more than me!”

And indeed it does! Let’s look at the stats:

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft:
Model: 747-100 (modified)
Wingspan: 195 ft. 8 in.
Length: 231 ft. 10 in.
Height: Top of vertical stabilizer, 63 ft. 5 in. To top of cockpit area, 32 ft. 1 in.
Vertical tip fins on horizontal stabilizers: 20 ft. 10 in. high, 9 ft. 7 in. long.
Airspeed limits with, and without an orbiter: 250 knots or Mach 0.6
Weight: Basic weight, NASA 905: 318,053 lbs.

Endeavor Space Shuttle Orbiter:
Length: 122.17 ft (37.24 m)
Wingspan: 78.06 ft (23.79 m)
Height: 58.58 ft (17.25 m)
Main Engines: Three Rocketdyne Block two-A SSMEs, each with a sea-level thrust of 393,800 pounds-force (1.75 meganewtons)
Maximum Payload: 55,250 pounds (25,060 kg)
Payload Bay dimensions: 15 ft by 60 ft (4.6 m by 18.3 m)
Empty Weight: 151,205 lb (68,585 kg)

So even if we’re assuming that the plane had already used most of its 47,210 gallons of jet fuel and that the orbiter was empty, we’re still looking at a whopping combined weight of
OVER 500,000 lbs.

CONCLUSION: Space Shuttle Endeavor on a Plane Weighs More than Me

Stuff that Weighs More than Me: World’s Biggest Cheeseburger!

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Now that is some serious toppings kids. And there’s no question that this is a big, Big, BIG burger! This world-record-breaking patty was cooked and created at the Black Bear Casino Resort near Carlton, MN. I think you might just want to ask for a to-go box before you even start this bad boy. Here’s the stats:

Diameter: Over 10 feet

Patty cook time: 2 hours–flipped via crane and cooked for another 2 hours

Bun cook time: 7 hours

Calorie count: 4.1 Million

Weight: over 2,100 lbs.

Conclusion: The World’s Largest Cheeseburger weighs more than me.

Stuff that Weighs More than Me: Blue Whale Tongue

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I’m sure you could guess that a whale weighs more than me.  I mean whales are BIG.  I mean REALLY big.  But what you might not know is that the whale is the big mouth of the sea.  Seriously.  Whales need big mouths to eat their very big dinners.  During the high feeding season, a whale will consume 4-6 tons of teeny tiny krill per day.  In order to do so, their throats expand to take in as much as 50 tons of water in one gulp!

The blue whale is also the loudest creature on earth.  Blue whale song can reach 188 decibels.  For comparison’s sake, a jet engine on takeoff is about 140 decibels and the human pain threshold is 120 decibels.   Luckily the whale’s song doesn’t hurt the ears of other underwater animals who have ears that can tolerate such high amplitude. The song of a blue whale can be heard up to 500 miles away.

And then we have the blue whale’s tongue.  This thing is massive y’all.  Here’s the stats:

Estimated length: 19 ft.

Estimated area: Large enough for 50 people to stand upon it.

Estimated Weight: About 4 tons

Conclusion: A whale’s tongue weighs more than me.

 

Stuff that Weighs More than Me: Giant Hovercraft

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In keeping with this week’s James Bond theme, I recently watched “Diamonds are Forever”.  My husband had yet another opportunity to wonder about my sanity this week as I jumped up in the middle of the movie and pointed at the screen.  “Just LOOK at that giant hovercraft!” I cried.  “I’ll bet that thing weighs more than me!”  He rolled his eyes. “Yup, I’m sure it’s as blog worthy as it is sea worthy,”  he said.  “Now will you sit down so we can watch the rest of the movie?”

I did a little research and I discovered that the giant hovercraft does indeed weigh quite a lot.  The one featured in the film is an SR.N4 (Mark I) and is one of the largest commercial hovercraft ever built.  This one was the Princess Margaret (of British Rail’s Seaspeed)  and it initially operated between Dover and Boulogne.

Built by the British Hovercraft Corporation, the Princess Margaret was designed to ferry people and automobiles from Britain to Continental Europe.  She operated from 1968 until 2000 (when the abolition of Duty Free made the service unprofitable).  You still visit the Princess Margaret at the Hovercraft Museum.

At the time of the shooting, the hovercraft was a Mark I.  It was later converted to a Mark III.  Any way you slice it, the Princess Margaret was a big girl.  Here’s the specs:

Length: 39.68 meters (130 feet)

Beam: 23.77 meters (77 feet)

Height: 11.48 meters (on landing pad) 37 feet

Power Source: 4 x 3,400 shp Rolls-Royce Proteus Gas turbines

Load: 250 passengers and 30 cars

Weight: 165 tons

Conclusion: The Princess Margaret Mark I Hovercraft weighs more than me.

Stuff that Weigh(ed) More Than Me: The Beatles

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In all of this week’s talking about helping one another, I found myself humming 2 different songs by The Beatles.  “I get by with a little help from my friends”  and “Help!” (see above).  Now you can’t even believe how much cyberspace is committed to arguing about how big or small these guys are.  I’ve seen people actually trying to compute the heights of various Beetles, by analyzing the number of bricks in a building standing next to them and doing advanced algorithmic equations based on the known heights of various amps and musical instruments.  All I can say is, some folks just got too much time on their hands.  (Warning: seriously scary time warp on the previous link…)

Anyways, here are the (not undisputed) stats:

Paul: 5′, 9.5″, 158 lbs.

John: 5′.8″ (Boot size, US Size 9, Waist 29″, Inseam (for white suit) 31″)  159 lbs.

George: 5′, 8″, 142 lbs.

Ringo: 5′, 6″, 136 lbs.

Total weight (at time of calculation) 626 lbs.

Conclusion: When last measured, The Beatles weighed more than me.

Stuff That Weighs More Than Me: The World’s Biggest Bucket

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Worlds Biggest Bucket

In keeping with our “spring cleaning” theme, I thought I’d explore cleaning stuff that weighs more than me.  So now, I present to you, the world’s biggest bucket.  Actually this is the big bad bucket SEQUEL.  The original big bucket was built in Tennessee in 1887, but was damaged by arsonists in 2005.  (Why would anyone want to burn the big bad bucket?)  Anyways, this NEW behemoth (made from cedar) can hold over 1500 gallons of, well whatever you want to put in there.  Add a REALLY big mop and you could clean the world with this bad boy!  Here’s some stats:

Location: Cannonsburgh Village–located at 312 South Front Street, Murfreesboro, TN

Capacity: 1550 gallons

Weight (empty): 1520 lbs.

Weight (full of beer, minus foamy head): 13,920 lbs.

Conclusion: The World’s Biggest Bucket Weighs More than Me

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