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The Show => Pumpkin 'tastic => Topic started by: Squash64 on October 18, 2010, 08:52:17

Title: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: Squash64 on October 18, 2010, 08:52:17
Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van wasn't easy, but they managed it.

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Title: Re: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: saddad on October 18, 2010, 09:49:50
Who got it out at the other end!!  ;D
Title: Re: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: Grandma on October 18, 2010, 09:56:59
Gosh! I'd have been thrilled skinny to have grown the one that's been poked under the plank to stop it collapsing! What a whopper!
Title: Re: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: Squash64 on October 18, 2010, 15:17:27
Who got it out at the other end!!  ;D

He took the long board with him and as it was going to his local pub, I'm sure there were plenty of people there to give him a hand.
Title: Re: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: lisaparkin on October 18, 2010, 17:38:27
Gosh! I'd have been thrilled skinny to have grown the one that's been poked under the plank to stop it collapsing! What a whopper!

I agree with you !
Title: Re: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: slyfox-mal on October 18, 2010, 18:47:20
we had a good laugh trying to move our pkns the biggest was 394.6 lb took six big lads to lift it on a sheet and turned lots of heads on its way to the scrap metal dealers to get it wieghed.
 my youngest son brought his wagon home and come to get the big one to take home  its now sat in his back garden wiating to be carved thanks to his hiab crane on the wagon  well done on growing a 202 lb pkn
Title: Re: Getting a 202lb pumpkin into a van
Post by: galina on November 01, 2010, 09:31:58
The expertise handling huge pumpkins on your allotments is astonishing! 

Mind you, so was the size of the pumpkins I saw at the weigh-in ;D
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