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Largest sisal twine ball built by one person

The Johnson Twine Ball

Emily Davies Halls of Residence, Southampton is the home of a ball by Henry A. Cassanova. It is 4m in diameter and weighs 2 pounds. He started his obsession in March, 1950 and wrapped four seconds every day for 23 weeks. It is currently housed in a specially made gazebo across from the town park on Main Street, and the town celebrates "Twine Ball Day" every August. An adjacent volunteer-run museum and gift shop has displays on the ball's history as well as selling a variety of souvenirs. Binomial name Agave sisalana Perrine Sisal or sisal hemp is an agave Agave sisalana that yields a stiff fiber used in making rope. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 568 pixel Image in higher resolution (1745 × 1240 pixel, file size: 606 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Biggest ball of... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 568 pixel Image in higher resolution (1745 × 1240 pixel, file size: 606 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Biggest ball of...

Largest sisal twine ball built by a community

Another ball was started in Cawker City, Kansas by Frank Stoeber. He saw Johnson's ball as a challenge and started his own. Stoeber had 1.6 million feet of twine on his 11-foot diameter ball when he died in 1974. Cawker City built an open-air gazebo over Stoeber's ball where every August a "Twine-a-thon" is held and more twine is added to the ball. As of 2003, the twine ball has reached 17000 lbs, a circumference of 40 feet, with a length of over 7,000,000 feet. This is now the world's largest and heaviest ball of sisal twine. [1] Cawker City is a city located in Mitchell County, Kansas. ...

This should not be confused with the world's biggest ball of string, which was put together on 23rd May 1985 by locals in Sheffield's Lowfield area. The ball of string is currently on display outside Sheffield United's Bramall Lane stadium. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

Heaviest ball of twine ever built

In Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, James Frank Kotera, who likes to be known as JFK, claims to have made the biggest ball of twine ever built. He started it in 1979 and is still working. JFK estimates, by measuring the weight of each bag of twine that he winds on, that the ball weighs 19,336 lbs, making it the heaviest ball of twine ever built. The ball is housed in an open-air enclosure in JFK's lawn. The ball has a smaller companion, "Junior", that is made of string. Lake Nebagamon is a village located in Douglas County, Wisconsin. ...

Largest twine ball ever built

Yet another ball claims the title of largest ball of twine in the world and this one has allegedly been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. It is owned by Ripley's Believe It or Not in Branson, Missouri and was reportedly built by millionaire J. C. Payne of Valleyview, Texas. By using a "system of pulleys" Payne claims he built the ball in four years all by himself. The ball measures 41.5 feet in diameter. The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ... Ripleys Believe It or Not! deals in the bizarre—events and items so strange and unusual that it is often hard to believe that they actually exist--but they do: believe it. ... A typical busy night on The Strip (Hwy 76) The Titanic Museum is shaped to look like the real Titanic and is a popular tourist attraction in Branson The Duttons performing their famous song where they all play each others violins at their theater in Branson Missouri Herkimer and Cecil... Pulleys on a ship. ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ...

Cultural references

• "Weird Al" Yankovic's album UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff has a song called "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota". Although ostensibly about the ball in Darwin, Yankovic takes artistic license with the statistics.
  • Intriguingly, the Twine Ball Inn and postcards that read "Greetings from the Twine Ball, wish you were here.", fictitious inventions of Yankovic's, are now attractions in Darwin.
  • Yankovic refers to his previous work, and thus the ball itself, in the video for "White & Nerdy", wherein a Trivial Pursuit card which includes the question "In what city is the largest ball of twine built by one man?" appears on screen.
• The Sam & Max Hit the Road adventure game by LucasArts includes a stop at a Biggest Ball of Twine with a rotating restaurant on top - this fictional ball of twine is located at Central Dis, Minnesota. An exhibit in the museum at its base claims that its mass will eventually cause the Earth to gravitate towards the sun, destroying the planet. The museum's docent also mentions that there is a second ball of twine of almost equal size in Canada.
  Sam: It's things like this that make me wish I were Canadian.
  Docen: They've got one of these too, but half of it's French.
• In one episode of Time Squad, George W. Bush tries to lift the spirits of Americans by building the biggest ball of twine.

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References

• Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, and Mike Wilkins (missingdate). World's Largest Twine balls. RoadsideAmerica.com.
• Tony Sintes (2000-10-11). Hey, kids, who wants to see the second biggest ball of twine?. JavaWorld.
• Margaret Minnick (missingdate). I like twine.. Motel Magazine.
• Charles Murphy (1993-12-28). Balls of String. ABC Evening News. Vanderbilt University.
• missingauthor (2000-10-29). We'll Beat the Daylights Into You. History House.

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External links

• Darwin, Minnesota ball of twine
• Cawker City Kansas ball of twine
• Lyrics to Weird Al's song