Video: The 600mph Pumpkin Cannon
This is a real big-boy toy: a pumpkin cannon with a 97-foot-long barrel that shoots gourds roughly 4,000 feet, at a speed of 600 miles per hour. Tilted at a 45-degree angle, the cannon shoots about 3,500 feet high.
John Gill, a corn and vegetable farmer, and his construction buddy Gary Arold, built the pumpkin cannon in 2006 after they saw a friend’s smaller model.
The machine is simple. An air compressor fills two 1,000-gallon tanks to a pressure of 50-100 pounds per square inch. When Gill pulls open a butterfly valve, kapow! Pumpkin missiles.
Posted on October 10, 2009 | Filed Under Really
