Then Ownby put the boat in a local watering hole and his wife recorded video of him paddling in the pumpkin.
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Ownby says he got the seed for the massive pumpkin from last year's record-breaking pumpkin grown Tennessee. That gourd weighed in at more than 1,700 pounds.
The farmer says he hopes to grow a pumpkin that breaks the 1,000-pound mark next year.