Pumpkin Chunkin' - Pumpkin Festival, Statesville, NC, 2007

In an event usually entered by school groups, my cousins from Lenoir and Hickory have built a unique punkin' chunker and enter it in punkin' chunkin' contests.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Pumpkin
• punkin'
• chunking
• chunkin'
• Iredell
• Statesville
• 2007
• festival
• trebuchet
• catapult

[jsbatheist]

chuck - to toss; throw with a quick motion

chunk - to cut, break, or form into chunks

[jimpemberton]

Perhaps engineers and physicists could be better etymologists, but you have to admit that a considerable amount of chunking indeed occurred at the end of the pumpkins' trajectories.

[heymomwatchthis]

Great video. There is just something addictive about throwing pumpkins!

Josh

-MCC Projectile Society Pumpkin Chunker Team Captain

[jimpemberton]

I certainly believe it. My cousins told me that the design for their tinker toy machine was initially conceived on the back row during choir practice one night.

[redexpman]

jim, love this vidieo... now when is the one from this year going to be up... I want to see me!!!

[jsbatheist]

I wasn't offering a complaint necessarily. It's that I have heard "chunk" incorrectly used for "chuck" many times. I don't know if "chunkin" in the title refers to chucking, or actual chunking. I sometimes can't help being pedantic over such things. ...that and I hate how it sounds. Haha!

[soccerdude247]

Awesome job on the video!

I wish I could've made it this year...but last year was quite fun as well.

[pegleggedone]

awsome video, althou it was kinda cold that morning.

bert

[ameliarhyne]

i love it... too bad we couldn't have been there! the music is awesome you did a great job jim!

amelia