The Guinness Book of Records announced a record over the weekend for the largest rocking horse in the world. An Israeli carpenter took the credit for the 20-foot-tall structure.<br /><br />An Israeli carpenter has been recognized by the Guiness Book of Records for making a unique gigantic rocking horse. It is 20-feet-tall.<br /><br />[Ofer Mor, Carpenter]:<br />"It was a big, amazing dream. It was many times bigger, biggest of my...what I can do. And many many good people in Israel and out of Israel helped me design, helped to build this dream and make the largest rocking horse in the world."<br /><br />Mor says several businesses and volunteers helped to build the horse by donating workdays and building materials.<br /><br />He said the horse took a whole year to build, and cost about 500 thousand U.S. dollars.<br /><br />There was a problem weeks before the Guiness representatives would measure the horse.<br /><br />Mor found out that a Canadian group was planning to build a bigger horse than his design. So he made last minute changes to block the competition.<br /><br />Mor said he was different from his competitors. They were carpenters but he saw himself as a designer.<br /><br />[Ofer Mor, Carpenter]:<br />"Unlike the other horses, the other big horses that are in the world, the Canadian and the Japanese horses, I look at it not in a point of view of carpenter but a designer. So the horse...the shape is very accurate, the colours, every detail in the horse is made by exactly the plan I did."<br /><br />The horse is made from two tons of wood and can carry over 50 children at a time.<br /><br />It takes up 20 thousand screws and nails and needed 79 gallons of paint.
