ISRAEL: Largest rocking-horse constructed by Israeli carpenter recognised by the Guinness Book of Records

Record ID: 396388

  • Title: ISRAEL: Largest rocking-horse constructed by Israeli carpenter recognised by the Guinness Book of Records
  • Date: 4th October 2010
  • Summary: KADIMA, ISRAEL (OCTOBER 3, 2010) (REUTERS) MOR SITTING ON TOP OF LARGEST ROCKING HORSE, SUN IN BACKGROUND
  • Embargoed: 19th October 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA10ZO3OKJBS5B0FBDUTWAJ3PAF
  • Story Text: Israeli carpenter Ofer Mor is really rockin' this weekend, after his one-of-a-kind giant hobby horse was recognised as the largest in the world by the Guinness Book of Records.
    The 6.1 meter (20 feet) tall, 7.6 meter (24.9 feet) long, 3.2 meter (10.4 feet) wide rocking horse Mor built in his workshop in a small community in central Israel, broke the previous record which was set in 2004 in Japan. That horse measured 4.8 meters.
    "It was a big, amazing dream. It was many times bigger, biggest of my...what I can do. And many many good people in Israel and out of Israel helped me design, helped to build this dream and make the largest rocking horse in the world," Mor told Reuters Television.
    According to Mor, several small businesses and volunteers donated most of the money needed to build the horse, mainly in the form of work days and building material.
    Mor said the price of the horse, whose construction took a whole year, is around 500,000 U.S. dollars.
    Weeks before the official measuring by Guinness representatives, the project was hit by a snag when Mor learnt that a Canadian group were planning to build a bigger horse than his design.
    So he made last minute changes to his horse to fend off the competition from Canada.
    Mor said that unlike his competitors, who were carpenters, he was a designer.
    "Unlike the other horses, the other big horses that are in the world, the Canadian and the Japanese horses, I look at it not in a point of view of carpenter but a designer. So the horse...the shape is very accurate, the colours, every detail in the horse is made by exactly the plan I did," he said.
    In order to build the horse, which can carry up to 50 children at a time, Mor used two tons of wood, over 20,000 screws and nails and 300 litres of paint.
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