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  Monday, March 28, 2011

 Largest ball of copper: Rick Fortin sets world record (Video)

 
NEW BOSTON, N.H., USA -- Rick Fortin, a landscaper and self-described "recycling nut," started making a copper ball 10 years ago because he gets "bored during the winter" and now it measured 3 feet in diameter and weighed in at 922 pounds , setting the world record for the Largest ball of copper.
  Photo: Rick Fortin of New Boston unloads the 3-foot diameter, 922-pound ball of copper wire he created during the last 10 years. Photo courtesy: Bob Lapree
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  The Guinness world record for the largest rubber band ball weighs 4,097 Kg (9,032 lb) and was made by Joel Waul (USA) and was measured in Lauderhill, Florida, USA.

  Guinness World Records also recognized the largest soccer ball measured a diameter of 15.66 m (51 ft 4 in) and was created by KIA Motors and Emperors Palace Resort and Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa.

  As a landscaper, mason and self-described "recycling nut," Fortin said he often has leftover copper wire after a job, the New Hampshire Union-Leader, Manchester, reported.

   He started putting the ball together, sort of like balls of twine or rubber bands that have become Guinness world records.

   "I had so much wire coming in," he said. "I made trees with it at first. Then I started making this ball and got carried away."

  "I was quite happy with that number," he said after the weighing.

  Fortin said a fire consumed his house in 2003. All that was left to salvage, he said, was the Largest ball of copper in the world.

   The World's Largest Ball of Copper is not his only odd creation, though. He said he also has a 4-foot-tall wax sculpture, made from wax recycled from mostly burned candles. It's a mish-mash of objects, including dinosaurs, bears and grasshoppers.

  "Like I said, I get bored in winter," he said.


  
Related world records:      
  Biggest Soccer Ball: MTN

 Largest matzo ball: Tucson Jewish Food Festival

 Largest Ball of Paper: Enrique Miramontes and Ricardo Granados  

 Largest popcorn ball: Noble Popcorn Factory 

 Largest rubber band ball: Joel Waul

 Most people bouncing a tennis ball: RPT

 
    Largest clay pot: Korea

    
Largest LEGO Mosaic: DK and the LEGO Group (Video)

    
Largest Ring Binder: Impact Enterprises Inc.


    
Largest dome igloo: Eric Ouellette and his team

    
Largest Snowball: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth students

    
Largest Magnetic Sculpture: Tim Szeto and Denis Saveliev

   
Longest Ski Hat: Gini Woodward

  
Largest Grand Piano: Daniel Czapiewski

    
Largest piece of handmade recycled paper: Ryan International school students

    
Largest Wallet: Big Skinny

    
Largest T-Shirt: QAPCO

    
Biggest luminous pearl: Six-ton Chinese 'pearl'

    
Longest attached rope of Silly Bandz: Boynton Beach students

    
Largest Toast Mosaic: Laura Hadland

    
Largest Photo Mosaic: Revoli Cortez

    
Longest Plasticine sculpture: Flair

    
Largest skateboard: California designers


   
Monday, March 28, 2011


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