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Friday, October 01, 2010
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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Next I put the pallet into the hole and fitted it with a peice of foam. Then I filled the gap between the pallet and the pumpkin with dirt and some extra peices of foam. After that I dug some sand from around the pumpkin to create a sand trail onto the pallet so the pumpkin could be slid more easily. It proved very effective, as once the pumpkin reached the end of the sand trail it became more difficult to slide until more sand was layed down in front. Me and three other guys barely managed this.
Once on the pallet, I took a 2200 lb test tow rope and wrapped it around the center beam inside the pallet. My mom's car was then brought around the side of the house and the rope was hooked up to some hooks on the underbody of the car. The pumpkin was then very slowly dragged up out of the hole, around the side of the house, up to the curb. It probably would have looked pretty funny to someone else, lol, but hey, it worked. A little while later fellow Bloomington grower David Ray showed up with his trailor, his pumpkin already loaded (bigger than mine), and him, me and the three other guys were able to lift my pumpkin into his trailor.
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