Just as Michelangelo saw a statue in a block of marble, Minnesota farmer Greg Novak saw a 50-foot snowman in the pile of snow he’d accumulated on his property.
, Novak spent almost five weeks and hundreds of hours constructing what he calls Granddaddy. He utilized a skid loader and a silage blower to stack snow nearly five stories tall. Friends and family pitched in either to help build the snowman or do farm chores while Novak worked.
Gilman, Minnesota, received almost during January and February. When the roof to one of Novak’s greenhouses collapsed, he began moving snow away from structures, and that snow pile was transformed into the snowman he named Granddaddy.
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Granddaddy, however, is a midget compared to Olympia, a 122-foot snowman constructed in Bethel, Maine, in 2008 and claims the world record for largest snowman.