When is a Lego not a Lego? When it’s a 14.5 foot working model of a center pivot sprinkler system. 
 
For the second year in a row, a display of working models of farm implements created out of Legos will be on exhibit at the annual potato event at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington.  
 
The exhibit comes from the active imagination of a 16-year-old son of a mint farming family in Clatskanie, Oregon. Warren Seely makes a hobby out of creating working models of farm implements—tractors, swathers, choppers, harvesters—out of Legos, from his own original construction rather than a kit. Since last year, Warren has added a model of a center pivot irrigation unit—towers, wheels, pipes and all. At home on the farm he gets the pivot to spray water. The hardest part, he says, is finding a circle 29 feet across that is level enough. 
 
The exhibit will be installed in the lobby of the Convention Center on Wednesday, Jan. 27. Warren and his dad Mike Seely will also have the Lego exhibit on display at the Columbia Center Mall on Tuesday, Jan. 26. 
 
The exhibit received support from Valmont Northwest, Simplot Grower Solutions and Lockwood for appearances in Kennewick. 
 
Board members from the Washington-Oregon Potato Conference anticipate hosting upwards of 2,000 participants for the three-day event, January 26-28. This is the Conference’s second year in Kennewick and the first year of a merger between the Oregon and Washington conferences. Admission to the Conference and Trade Show is $5 at the door. Warren and his Legos can be visited for free. 
 
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