Dec 9, 2009: Stagecoach

Looks like a well preserved example, of an old Wells Fargo stagecoach.



But it ain't. :headshake

It may look like a typical stagecoach just waiting for a horse to come pull it along, but that's far from the case. The stagecoach is made exclusively out of toothpicks -- and an awful lot of glue!
Terry Woodling, 72, has been making things from toothpicks since 1981 and got his latest idea after seeing a miniature replica for sale. "I started with the wheels first," Woodling said. That, he says, was the easy part. "It's a little more than a toothpick in length,” he said when describing the width of part of the wheel. It's taken a lot of those little guys: 1.5 million toothpicks to be exact.
It hasn't been cheap, either. That's because Woodling estimates he's spent more than $1,200 in toothpicks alone.

1.5 million!:eek: No wonder it took him 15 years.

Terry hopes to donate the stagecoach to a museum. He already has a handful of pieces at museums around the state, like the Elkhart Railroad Museum and the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis. Woodling submitted his pieces to the Guinness Book of World Records, but found out it didn’t qualify since it was made with glue.

What, they have a category for stagecoaches made of 1.5 million toothpicks and no glue? :rolleyes: I don't get it?


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A whole new meaning for "splinters in the ass".

didn’t qualify since it was made with glue.

Picky picky.

Trivia fact: The glue was made from the horses that were originally intended to pull the completed stagecoach.

Trivia Fact: The Guinness people are all jagoffs.:jagoff:

Clearly the glue is the villain in this story.

Curse you, Glue!

in the UK the main brand of stick glue it/was Pritt stick. Me and my classmates all called it prick stick at least until we could read and realised it wasn't. Good job we had no idea what a prick was then. other than a sharp thing. I bet our parents and teachers giggled like loonies behind our backs. Especially as the second most common brand was UHU (yoohoo). They has very different smells "Hey, can we swap glues? my UHU smell funny and I want the prick stick."

The question is: do you think this is what his wife meant when she asked him to take up a hobby? :)

He thought it was unladylike for her to be chewing on a toothpick, so he glued them all together.;)

holy bananas. another example of too much time, too little to do. Does it say if that thing is full size?

It's really not as daunting as it seems. It only works out to an average of 274 toothpicks per day...for 365 days...for 15 years.

Nevermind.

Cloud;616945 wrote:

holy bananas. another example of too much time, too little to do. Does it say if that thing is full size?

It says 250 lbs, so I'd guess not, but still pretty damn big.

Watch the video in the original link - That baby IS full size!

You're right, I didn't watch the video before, because of the Nissan commercial at the beginning. I think the 250lbs is very low, or that happened when it was only partially done. :confused:

I dunno - It may weight 250. The glue and a bunch of toothpicks are going have the same density as a coach built with solid oak.

What else was a 72 year old to do for the last 15 years?

Uh, chase young women? ;)

They keep getting away.

Exactly, so he can keep chasing and not have to find something else to do.

Maybe, if he can use the stage coach as transport, he can catch up with them.

He obviously hasn't been chasing any athletes...