KNOXVILLE – The composer, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, would have admired a site along Missouri Highway 13 that is worthy of his fictional character, Uncle Drosselmeyer. In Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” Drosselmeyer gives a nutcracker to his niece, Clara. But the creation is a diminutive doll compared to the goliath nutcracker that stands in Wayne Metcalfe’s front yard about a half-mile south of Knoxville, at 19390 Highway 13, Rayville. GO BIG OR… “From ground to the top of his plume, it’s over 14 feet,” Metcalfe said. “It’s the largest handmade nutcracker in the Western Hemisphere. … There is a large one in a nutcracker museum in Germany.” The German giant at the Erstes Nussknacker Museum in Neuhausen stands 33 feet, 1.64 inches high. Like all nutcrackers worthy of the name, Metcalfe’s colossus has a lever in back to open and close the mouth. More than fully functional, those mammoth jaws are so powerful that they could, and they have, crushed a coconut. “That lever weighs about 70…