Call that a pumpkin? THIS is a pumpkin!
It weighs in at a mighty 35 stone and sits proud at more than three feet wide. And for Barry Truss this pumpkin is his pride and joy.
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Barry is the envy of all his mates at his local, the Severn Stars in Beckbury.
The 60-year-old planted his pumpkin in April and it then grew and grew and grew.
In fact it grew so big that it was too big for the scales at the pub, which was hosting the competition. Instead Barry, of Ryton Road, Beckbury, near Shifnal, used a small digger to carry the pumpkin to a nearby farm to use its weighbridge.
It recorded a weight of 486 pounds, twice Barry's weight and comfortably beating the 14 other entries including his wife Carol's 220 pounder – which came second.
