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...Channel’s coverage of World Championship Punkin Chunkin returns as homemade catapults, trebuchets and air cannons send pumpkins soaring through the Delaware skies.  For the 25th consecutive year competitors use these contraptions to send a pumpkin one-mile...
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TVbyTheNumbers.com
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tvbythenumbers/~3/cwMXI_w3_Jg/47750
Bull Ridin at Punkin Chunkin 09'
Mike Senese, co-host of Science Channel's Catch It Keep It and longtime redditor (user gtj on reddit) answers your questions. www.reddit.com He answered these questions from the rowdy midst of the 24th Annual Punkin Chukin World Championships, which he was hosting for Science Channel.
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...of the Pumpkin Launching Contraptions Found at Punkin Chunkin (image: Discovery.com) The staples of the Thanksgiving holiday are ingrained in our brains and we prepare accordingly year after year. The turkey in the oven, full of stuffing and gizzards. Pumpkin...
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Wired
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/11/get-your-trebuchet-ready-its-time-for-punkin-chunkin/
A slideshow/video collaboration done with Troop 43. A great weekend with beautiful weather! Here is the 3rd Annual Pumpkin Chunkin'! Enjoy! Music courtesy of: www.freeplaymusic.com
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...Delaware in hopes of capturing championship glory and possibly achieving the holy grail of Punkin Chunkin: launching a pumpkin one mile. Â Intense drama has been building since last year, when Young Glory III set a new world record with a 4,483.51 foot chunk....
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TVbyTheNumbers.com
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tvbythenumbers/~3/RX9iiOnRRmE/33853
This was our first mini Punkin Chunkin competition among friends. Any mechanical method acceptable. Saturday October 17, 2009. Four teams. Basketballs and mini pumpkins were sent flying. Our floating arm trebuchet hurled a mini pumpkin 348 ft and Team FAT won the day!
Pumpkin-throwing machines in action at the 2009 World Championship Punkin Chunkin near Bridgeville, Delaware, Nov. 7-8
Music Video for Punkin Chunkin
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...in front of the television and watch the 22 annual Punkin Chunkin competition on Science Channel. Punkin Chunkin is a pumpkin catapulting competition that hurls the colorful orange pumpkin through the sky. Science Channel is bringing back the Punkin Chunkin...
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Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-4819-Cable-TV-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Punkin-Chunkin-on-Science-Channel-for-Thanksgiving?cid=exrss-Cable-TV-Examiner
Chunk-n-ology air cannon chunkin' a punkin'
Yankee Siege is the record holder for the Adult Trebuchet catagory at the annual World Championship Punkin' Chunkin' held in Sussex County, Delaware. It stands 51 ft tall and weighs 55000 lbs. and this weekend it launched an 8-10 pound pumpkin a distance over 2000+ ft.
Poor boat
From Bridgeville DE one of the Air Cannons launches a pumpkin some 3000 plus feet downrange during the 24th Annual Punkin Chunkin.
This is a brief compilation of all my tailgating footage from Punkin' Chunkin' 2007 and 2008. Originally titaled, "PUNKIN CHUNKIN TAILGATING 2007 - 2008: Brunswick's Saga."
The Fall 2009 Rowan University Punkin Chunkin! Featuring the world's first dual leaf spring punkin chunkin ballista.
Highlights from the 2008 Chunk in Bridgeville, Delaware. Delaware Digital Video Factory 1709 Concord Pike Wilmington, DE 19803 www.DDVF.com www.PunkinChunkinVideo.com
What's to be done with fields-full of pumpkins when the jack-o-lantern market takes a back slide? Don't toss your hands up in dispair. Chunk those punkin's skyward. That's what Howard Taylor, director of Wellington Farm, USA, does. From now until the end of October, Taylor and others are celebrating the harvest at his living history farm located south of Grayling, Michigan. One way they celebrate autumn is with an authentic replica midieval seige machine, used to launch their glut of gourds towards the clouds. Jim Smith, Info Northeast news preporter and a big supporter of Wellington Farm, shares his punkin chunkin' knowledge in this Info Northeast Video Event Presentation.
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...will cover the event itself, begun by a group of friends bragging about who could throw a pumpkin the farthest. Some in the Chunkin group believe this is the year an air cannon will shoot a pumpkin the long-anticipated distance of a mile, Shade said, "but...
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The Salisbury Daily Times
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20090820/NEWS01/908200393/1002/rss
Overview of the machines at the 2007 Chunk
Popular Mechanics wrote about the changing dynanmics of Punkin Chunkin. But there's describing what it's like to hurl pumpkins 4000 feet with an air cannon, and then there's watching it happen. Photographer Brad DeCecco was on hand in Delaware to record the best of this cutthroat competition.
2008 Punkin Chunkin near Bridgeville, DE
Bad to the Bone's Saturday 2008 shot. It was a pretty good shot for the centrifuge class, but my camera couldn't follow it against the blue sky.
The World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition is held annually in Bridgeville, Delaware. Watch the Pumpkins fly!
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...each year to a field outside Bridgeville. Punkin Chunkin is less of an event than an experience, an immersion into a world of pumpkins and physics that is uniquely Sussex County. "It's a sport you don't have any other place in the world," said 10-year visitor...
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The Delaware News Journal
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http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081102/NEWS/811020374/1006/NEWS
Out at the pumpkin patch tuning up for the 2008 World Championships of Punkin Chunkin
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...how to be a team player, and how you can take a pile of nothing and make something out of it." Tolson's passion for Punkin Chunkin' is far from unusual. The little-known "sport" began in 1986 with four guys just throwing pumpkins for fun to see who could propel...
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Daily News Record
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http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=31330&CHID=41
A feature documentary sound mixed at Allied Post Audio about the Punkin Chunkin event held annually in Delaware. Directed and produced by Costa Mantis. Check out the website at www.flyingpumpkinsthemovie.com
3D model created from 'Testosterone Trap' trebuchet. Capable of hurling fruitcakes the length of a football field. A trebuchet is a catapult like siege engine. This one is designed to be built with materials from Home Depot.
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.
2007 Arroyo Grande High School Pumkin Throwing Contest.
A short music video showing some of the highlights of the 2007 Punkin' Chunkin' in Sussex County, Delaware.
Bridgeville, DE. After the air horns sound, watch out in front of the barrel. The small dark dot is a pumpkin.
Bridgeville, DE. After the air horns sound, watch out in front of the barrel. The small dark dot is a pumpkin.
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...On Saturday, a 10-year-old boy suffered a mild concussion after a glancing blow to the side of his head from a small pumpkin, said World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association President Frank Shade. Shade said the boy was treated by paramedics on site and...
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Asbury Park Press
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/NEWS/71105008/1001/rss
Amherst, Ohio Cub Scout Pack 427 earns money smashing pumpkins using a trebuchet
one heckova physics project
Pictures from Punkin Chunkin 2007
A video my dad filmed and edited of the 2007 Dutchess County NY Punkin Chunkin (pumpkin chucking) contest. Blame the humor on him.
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...the "Pumpkin Shooter," at the Morton, Ill., Punkin' Chunkin' contest. The Aludium Q-36 Pumpkin Modulator at the Punkin' Chunkin' contest in Morton, Ill., can launch a pumpkin several thousand feet and holds the record for the longest pumpkin launch at just...
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USA Today
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomTravel-TopStories/~3/168351012/2007-10-11-pumpkin-chucking_N.htm
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...Jim Dietz / Ap File Team "PumpkinHammer" watch their trebuchet as it launches in the Punkin Chunkin 2006 World Championship in Millsboro, Del. This year, the World Championship Punkin Chunkin contest takes place Nov. 2-4 in Bridgeville, Del. The event began...
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MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21197135/
Film by David Coon, The Troop 84, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, took first in the NWA Fall of 2006 Camporee, where the main theme was Pumpkin Chunkin'. Farthest Chunk of the season of an exact distance of 116'-4", with the pumpkin weighing in at about 15 lbs.. With boom and all the trebuchet was close to 20' tall. This Camporee took place in Highfill, Arkansas late October 2006. Troop 84 is proud to have represented Siloam and leave a little smack-down against all of the Fayetteville-Springdale area!!! Keep scrolling through the rest of our pumpkin chunkin videos to watch the not so fortunate of our competition.
A totally awesome display of Pumpkin Firepower! Pumpkin cannons on the fireing line in a free fire, free for all at the 2006 Pumpkin Chunkin in Millsboro Delaware, USA
Nick Graff's trailer for punkin chunkin, an annual pumpkin chucking competition that he edited for a class at Loyola Marymount University
Pumpkin being launched by the trebuchet built by SAR Academy in Riverdale, the Bronx. This was shot at Punkin Chunkin 2006 outside of Millsboro, Delaware.
Engineers Throwing Pumpkins. (Skip to 1:12 for the launch.) This is the winning launch by the Freshman team, with a distance of 580 feet. Thanks to Lumbermens for the donated lumber! Thanks also to FMC, Wilco, and Newberg Hardware for your support!
Vid. of giant trebuchet(Yankee Siege) launching pumpkins
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...Children played catch with small pumpkins. One team erected street signs that read Punkin Lane and Chunkin Way. Several thousand pumpkins will crash onto a cleared cornfield before the weekend is up. The biggest machine at the fair was the Yankee Siege, a...
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The Delaware News Journal
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061104/NEWS/611040313/1006/NEWS
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...get out there and partake in some of the festivities. Maybe they would have a better understanding. Are you crazy? I love pumpkin chunkin!! Its just a place for all us "rednecks" to have a good time... hahaha lighten up! I am going for the first time this...
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The Delaware News Journal
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061023/LIFE/61023026/1006/rss
2004 World Championship Punkin Chunkin Team Chucky Throw Punpkin more than 1/4 Mile!
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