 The Star of Texas Rocker, first covered by Texas Twisted last year, has attained a firm grip on a Guinness World Record.
On Saturday, Larry and Sherry Dennis held an official measuring of their enormous rocking chair in compliance with Guinness regulations. "We got it!" exclaimed Sherry, reporting that they have topped the current record-holder by a wide margin.
Three witnesses participated in the measuring, including a judge from Palo Pinto and a "big-wig" from Oncor, a Texas utility provider. The third, a highway patrolman skilled in weighing tractor-trailer rigs, helped in determining the chair's exact weight.
Surprisingly, the chair exceeded nearly every measurement previously reported. The rocker's width, believed to be 12 feet 6 inches, turned out to be an additional inch and three-eighths. Its height, once touted as an impressive 25 feet 9.5 inches, topped out at 29 feet 10.5 inches, more than 4 feet taller than originally thought.
The rocking chair's weight, however, turned out to be much less than anticipated. At 5,672 pounds, it fell short of the 8,000 pounds printed on the Dennises' souvenir mugs. Larry accounted for the difference due to the drying of the wood since the chair was first built.
Nevertheless, the Star of Texas Rocker crushes the current Guinness record-holder like a cat's tail, which is reportedly a puny 13-foot-high chair in Ontario, Canada.
Once the paperwork is completed, the Dennises must send it to Guinness for review, after which they should be issued an official certificate. |
