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Man sets Guinness record with 4,594-pound rubber band ball |
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Written by asap
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
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A rubber band ball is pushed to a scale for a weigh-in before its certification by officials from Guinness World records.
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An Oregon man has set a new Guinness World Record by creating the biggest ball made of rubber bands.
Steve Milton, 26, of Eugene, Ore., used more than 175,000 rubber bands to build the 4,594-pound rubber band ball that was certified Tuesday as the world's largest by Guinness officials.
Four bodybuilders rolled the multicolored, 5 1/2-feet tall ball onto a giant scale in downtown Chicago for the official weigh-in.
"I feel very excited right now. It's just amazing; it's out of this world," said Milton, who began building the ball in November 2005.
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A FAMILY AFFAIR
"It was just a great project with me and my kids," said Milton, who worked on the ball with his 6-year-old son, Bryce Milton, and soon-to-be stepson, Austin Johnson, 7. "We did a little bit of research on how big rubber band balls are, and realized there was one out there that was 3,120 pounds (1,404 kilograms) and we knew we could do it."
Milton credited his success to a simple credo: add to the ball every day, even if it was for just a few minutes.
"We tried to do at least ten to 20 pounds (9 kilograms) a day," said Milton, who moved the ball to the garage after it dawned on him the growing globe would soon be too big to fit through the door.
Milton's fiancee, Nicole Johnson, said she thought at first that her family might be a little crazy.
"I was wondering," Johnson said. "But it turned into a fun project for all of us."
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