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rescue557

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  1. That's a really good article! I just wish it were longer or had some pretty pictures to go with it. All in all, good press and hopefully more caches to be found soon once people start getting into this activity!
  2. I don't think so, at least from my end. But there is a possibility that lead could be somewhat poisonous. Why not something really heavy like a boulder or a piece of a poured concrete sidewalk? Or heck, go all out and take a section of highway! *** Just ideas! Don't actually attempt the sidewalk or highway bugs! ***
  3. That one is a bit different, but good!
  4. I think that Chain Chomp is the absolute coolest big bug I have ever seen! I would LOVE to log it and travel with it everywhere!
  5. You've just become my biggest fan! It will be released soon; I promise to put a link to the TB in the discussions here once the tags show up in the mail.
  6. I thought of making it a cache container but then realized that there is a safety issue with it. You see, to open it requires a very strong person with good coordination as it seporates into two very heavy parts roughly 20 pounds each. I don't know about you, but having a 20 pound chunk of pay phone fall on you could result in a bad cache experience. Also, to keep it in one place, I'd likely have to bolt it down to a tree or something, which, to some people is a horrible thing to do to a tree. Also, if someone needed to make a phone call while out in the woods they might try and use the phone and then sue someone because it wasn't working in their time of crisis or emergency. So, there went that idea too. But yes, the thought did cross my mind several times. I think that in the future I may be making a few urban TB's with things you commonly find in such a setting. Has anybody come up with the idea of having travel bugs that were as hard to find as caches? What if I made a joke pile of plastic dog poop into a travel bug?
  7. Someone should buy the moon in its entirety and attach a big ole travel bug on it somehow. Unfortunately, I don't think that this one would travel to any caches really, but with one that big, why would you really want someone taking your massive investment around, anyway? Here is yet another photo of me with my latest TB of which I've yet to release. I don't yet know if I'll be putting more large travel bugs out there or not just yet. I guess I will have to wait and see how this one works out. Other (tasteful) ideas I had for large TB's were as follows: * A Stop Sign * A Log of Firewood * An Old Geocache Container * More To Come
  8. How in the world does it ever get moved?
  9. This travel bug has set me back around $50, if you consider the cost of the phone, the modifications and filling it with Touch-And-Foam to make it waterproof. I hope to have it out traveling soon.
  10. Yes, I've seen that TB before. Yours is very popular amoung those who frequent the forum.
  11. Me too! This may possibly be the largest TB I've set out to release... And yes I know that I've been talking about it for some time now but for a travel bug, it has cost me a small fortune!
  12. Sadly, mine only lasted for 15 miles! I moved it to my own cache and someone took ALL of the geocoins. Somehow mine never got logged like the others did and has gone MIA ever since. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=106596
  13. What is the biggest known travel bug that has actually traveled? There are people who claim to be travel bugs and there are cars that people use for caching and call them travel bugs. Aside from these two examples, what are the largest known travel bugs still in use? Here is my latest creation (I'm just waiting for a TB tag to arrive in the mail)...
  14. If Chain Chomp comes anywhere near me I'll be seeking it as well.
  15. It is my understanding that a GPS works best when it can get a clear shot of the sky. That being said, hold it as far away from yourself as you are comfortable and up in the air (flat or straight up), if need be.
  16. Dude! Chain chomp is awesome! I've decided to turn a decomissioned public pay phone into a travel bug. It weighed about 40 pounds or so until I took it apart (completely) and stripped out all the insides. It weighs considerably less now that its insides have been replaced with styrofoam but it's still kinda bulky. I don't care if it actually travels far or whatever just as long as people enjoy it.
  17. Well, I shall give it a try.
  18. Okay, I came up with an idea that I KNOW that nobody has done before! My idea is to take a decomissioned public pay phone, strip all of the heavy insides out, and make it into a travel bug. As it is, it weighs about 40 pounds, but with the insides removed and filled with foam sealant, it should be much lighter. What is your take on this new and outrageous idea?
  19. I log my finds / did not find with the NGS just because I hope that someone actually benifits from it somehow. Though lately with all of the missing data, I wonder if anyone on their end actually notices.
  20. That has been my experience. I hide micros in public parks (with the mayor's permission, of course), and larger ammo box ones in the woods outside of the city.
  21. I load mine with as many travel bugs as I can find before the first person logs it. I just enjoy finding a travel bug in a cache when I find it, so I guess that the more travel bugs the better. Maybe it's just me.
  22. I have the GMRS 5-Mile version. The licence is $70 but it lasts 10 years and is good for your entire immediate family.
  23. I'm moving soon as well, so I just archived the caches and moved them to where I'm going to move to soon. It was simple.
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