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Written by Donovan Henderson - View Profile
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 |
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Maybe it's a guy thing, but there's just something incredibly satisfying about tossing a pumpkin a good 100-plus feet in the air and watching it splat down a football field away.
Addictive almost.
We (me, photog Erin Hooley and our video production guy Scott Reyes) went out to the Something from the Farm farm to watch a trebuchet in action. Say it with me — treb-u-shay. That's a fancy French word for a catapult-type thing that uses an 800-pound counterweight and a sling to fling pumpkins back into the pumpkin patch.
With a splat, thud and a boom (not really a boom, they are just smushy pumpkins after all, but you get the idea).
Jon Dory was inspired to make the trebuchet after building a scale model four years ago for his son's science project.
This is no science project.
It's a full-scale medieval destruction machine. Hyperbole, of course, but the good kind.
You can go to the Something from the Farm at the southwest corner of Timberline and Carpenter. It's behind the Redeemer Lutheran church.
There are three a corn mazes as well.
Say hello to manager Terry Kettenhofen when you're there.
And for a couple of bucks, you can fling a pumpkin.
It's very cool.
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