+flyingmoose Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 I recently dropped off a travel bug that pretty much is the 10 lb top to a old fire hydrant and it's mission is to visit far and away caches. I was just curious if there is any others out there like it, you know heavy or large Travel Bugs that are fun or a challenge to move. Tiny Tim travel bug: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...34-ba20e9da88cf flyingmoose Quote Link to comment
+foundbutlost Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 (edited) I noticed a bowling ball in the Seattle area. Btw, I would treat the heavy object as a cache, log it and leave it. Edited July 12, 2006 by foundbutlost Quote Link to comment
+flyingmoose Posted July 12, 2006 Author Share Posted July 12, 2006 I noticed a bowling ball in the Seattle area. Btw, I would treat the heavy object as a cache, log it and leave it. Is there a link to the Bowling Ball TB or have you only heard of it? Quote Link to comment
PCFrog Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 There is one of a cinderblock and another of a manhole cover (about 100 lbs I was told). Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 There is one of a cinderblock and another of a manhole cover (about 100 lbs I was told). Cindy, I think is the cynder block. I should attache a tag to my old POS recneck monument of a rig. Give it mission of being a home for all the oversized travel bugs. That might make the rig go away and score major points with my wife who wants it to go away. Quote Link to comment
+FamilyDNA Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 This TB, Mary Proppins, made an appearance at an event last weekend. Quote Link to comment
+clatmandu Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Cindy the Cinderblock http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=27797 Tommy the tire http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=18159 Cold War Relic http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=71701 Quote Link to comment
+flyingmoose Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 Wow, Thanks for the cool links, I hope to get to move them one day, though it looks as though they are popular at the events! I like Tiny Tim because his mission is to go to tough places so I guess there are few cachers willing to hike up or down a mountain with him on your back. I hope there are others out there and if I find the right object I might have to do the same thing. flyingmoose Quote Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I guess there are few cachers willing to hike up or down a mountain with him on your back There are some who are just stupid enough willing to do that for a big heavy bug Check the logs for Public Pay Phone for 7/10/2005 through 8/7/2005. One of our most fun TB experiences. Quote Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 And in a funny coincidence, not five minutes after I posted the above link to the Public Pay Phone logs, I got an email from the instigator of the whole mountain-challenge thing, with a link to his brand-new (and very heavy) bug: Milestone Marker. !!! Quote Link to comment
+foundbutlost Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I noticed a bowling ball in the Seattle area. Btw, I would treat the heavy object as a cache, log it and leave it. Is there a link to the Bowling Ball TB or have you only heard of it? Here you go (the things you remember ?????) Blue Ball Quote Link to comment
+foundbutlost Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 And in a funny coincidence, not five minutes after I posted the above link to the Public Pay Phone logs, I got an email from the instigator of the whole mountain-challenge thing, with a link to his brand-new (and very heavy) bug: Milestone Marker. !!! post a note, I did. Quote Link to comment
+art begotti Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 heck if i can't find the link, but i've seen another bowling ball bug... it was called "ten pounder", or something like that, but i can't seem to find it... Quote Link to comment
+maggieszoo Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I saw one at a recent event that was a 5 foot tall floor lamp, rewired for battery power light. Also, I currently have This Not-So Little Light Of Mine (I think that's the name) which is a camping oil lantern. It will get passed along at the next event I go to. Quote Link to comment
+Katydid & Miles Stone Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Katydid and I have always had a facination with large TBs - she facinated to see me lug the heavy beasts around! Hehe. You'll need to come prepared to haul away our newest TB, Milestone Marker - he's four feet tall and weighs in at a hefty 210 pounds!!! Paul's Ball, our other large TB, has also been a lot of fun. Paul wants to travel to remote caches in the New England area and serve as a challenge for other cachers to come and get him. We are often aked where is Paul's other ball. We're hopeful the hermit crabs may one day find it. We did toy with the idea of naming Milestone Marker as Paul's Pentacle. Quote Link to comment
PCFrog Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 There is one of a cinderblock and another of a manhole cover (about 100 lbs I was told). here is a link to one of the ones I talked about. Nair, not what you think Quote Link to comment
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 (edited) This is the biggest one in Portugal, Surely you cone'T B serious. Edited July 14, 2006 by SUp3rFM & Cruella Quote Link to comment
+Katydid & Miles Stone Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 This is the biggest one in Portugal, Surely you cone'T B serious. Way cool, it even comes with an orange hat! Quote Link to comment
+Tsmola Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 I was gonna mention Cold War Relic which I moved but someone already posted it. That was a cool bug, I had to get rid of quick because when I showed it to a friend he wanted to open it to taste the candy! If you come across a large bug like the ones above, take it to a bug hotel in another cacher's yard and drop it on their doorstep, lots of fun, and your fellow cacher gets a nice, big surprise when they open their door. Just don't let me them catch you putting it there! Quote Link to comment
+avalance Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Here is the biggest/heaviest one the I have found. I hope to move him today. If only we could find some bigger ammo cans. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...77-3bb7fa47c4d7 Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Here is the biggest/heaviest one the I have found. I hope to move him today. If only we could find some bigger ammo cans. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...77-3bb7fa47c4d7 Nobody has posted a photo of Gary? Quote Link to comment
+avalance Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Here is a pic of Gary with some old pins I found in my basement. This is my first pic post, so if this doesn't work, you will just have to go to Gary's page. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 Excellent! They dug out a hole for the tag? Not sure if I could make my average with that ball. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I sent my sister a Furby. She attached the tag to a camouflaged pink flamingo, and is sending it to me. The flamingo seems to be stuck in Maine... Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 i started this breadmaker. no one seems to want it. <-----linky goodness! Quote Link to comment
+jerrytcher Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I noticed a bowling ball in the Seattle area. Btw, I would treat the heavy object as a cache, log it and leave it. Is there a link to the Bowling Ball TB or have you only heard of it? This one was in Washington State at one time, but we picked it up here in So. Cal. this weekend. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...c8-91aba4affd94 Quote Link to comment
Rupert2 Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 My heavy/large bugs are: Chain Chomp GeoGnome Anchors "Away" Quote Link to comment
+Dolango Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Here's a heavyweight for ya! I recently started the Parrothead TB, it tips the scales at 10,000 pounds! Fortunatley you don't have to pick it up,.......just "discover it" to log it. We'll be adding another parrothead to the back soon and a Junior parrothead to the right side of the ol' beast. Parrothead TB Quote Link to comment
+Menehune Man Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I recently started the Parrothead TB, it tips the scales at 10,000 pounds! Fortunatley you don't have to pick it up,.......just "discover it" to log it. And I was lucky enough to be the first to "Discover" ParrotHead! Actually Dolango is my Best Buddy. And he invited me up to the Idaho area for an RVing trip through Yellowstone Park and more. I live in Hawaii and getting the opportunity to cache on the mainland was one not to be missed. ParrotHead is a '71 Dodge that runs beautifully and is very comfortable. Check out TBNJH2 to find it. Aloha, Menehune Man Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 CudleCub has a bowling ball bug I moved along a few months back... I forget the name! Quote Link to comment
+DragonFlyDreams Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 (edited) There is hope, then, for some railroad track I salvaged from an area below a tressel that was blown up during the Civil War. My question is this: Ya can't leave then in a cache - do you just log them thru? Don't think I'd like hauling some of those 'balls' around in the mountain caches here!! Bac for the back - among other parts!! Edited July 23, 2006 by DragonFlyDreams Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 We have a Peugeot 205 Cab (Convertible for you americans ) and it's a cab. Right now there is just one larger TB logotype on the back of the car, but as soon we have fixed the small problem with corrosion of the front doors will we have really HUGE TB logotypes on both sides of the car also... And we are also human travel bugs, since we have T-shirts stating "I'm a travel bug - log me" Quote Link to comment
+WN1E Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 (edited) I have the Milestone Marker. The Milestone Marker TB. Grabbed it at an event and will be moving it along to a TB Hotel soon. It is definitely not an easy one to move around. I was going to be a little evil and move it to a slightly remote spot, but do not want to be responsible for any injuries. Edited August 1, 2006 by WN1E Quote Link to comment
+q22q17 Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I noticed a bowling ball in the Seattle area. Btw, I would treat the heavy object as a cache, log it and leave it. Is there a link to the Bowling Ball TB or have you only heard of it? Here you go (the things you remember ?????) Blue Ball I want to know if that bowling ball put that cacher over the luggage weight limit taking it all the way to Italy...... LOL Quote Link to comment
+usafknine Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 never really thought of putting a TB for discover only. I guess you could hang one off the side of a mountain with climbing gear or something that would be cool... probably been done... love the big bugs!!! sweet Quote Link to comment
+Billy Goatee Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 This was the largest I have found http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...9b-6286920149b9 Quote Link to comment
uintahiker Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 TB's are something you can really have a good time with! A soon to be released Large TB will be a construction barricade. The goal will be to visit caches located in people's front yards while avoiding construction zones where it could get lost. Quote Link to comment
+ThePropers Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 A couple of the larger ones I've seen: Mary Proppins (one blade of an airplane propeller) The Third Rail of Geocaching (a chunk of railroad track that must weigh well over 100 pounds) Quote Link to comment
Team Moped Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 I saw TBH0RG "Cache me if you Can" This was huge, and coincidentally, the owners were actually napping inside this TB when I saw it! I'm sure this has logged over the 27,505.7 miles it lists. Quote Link to comment
+Mix Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...f9-f078e491c7f2 http://www.geocaching.com/track/gallery.aspx?ID=38586 Quote Link to comment
+swizzle Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 When is someone going to put a TB on the titanic and give it a goal like send it to the moon. Swizzle Quote Link to comment
+LaughingTerry Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...4e-8b03cefbfd01 This is the "rock and roll" TB. It is a granite core piece and I carried it along a pole line and then bushwacked quite a ways to drop it off where no muggles will spot it. It is now sitting right beside the cache waiting for someone to move it again. Quote Link to comment
+Sammi Liz & Co. Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 We own the TB 29lbs 29lbs which has moved 4710 miles for just about 2 years. Its just a big cement block and people love taking it to events for the "booby prize" for some odd reason. I've heard of people racing to caches to get it. I figured if I was gonna invest in a $6 TB tag that might get lost I should make it something that won't get misplaced and everyone wants to get their hands on it. Quote Link to comment
+HomerJFong Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Right now, I'm trying to resist the urge to head down to a section of the railway tracks a few blocks from my house, where there is a lot of discarded material from the tracks, and pick up one of several sections of a railway crossing barricade abandoned in this location, and make it into a travel bug. The barricade is surprisingly light, but it is over 4 ft long. Do you think 'Barry' is too cheesy of a name for it? Quote Link to comment
+HomerJFong Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Unable to resist the urge: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...0a-d17e2305c84d Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Unable to resist the urge: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...0a-d17e2305c84d Why not? Quote Link to comment
57chevy Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 A couple of the larger ones I've seen: Mary Proppins (one blade of an airplane propeller) That is one handsome devil!!! I put Mary Proppins on the scale and if memory serves she was around 34 lbs. She was a resident of my living room for a couple of months, I kinda miss the ol'girl. Quote Link to comment
+kingsting Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 (edited) A couple of the larger ones I've seen: Mary Proppins (one blade of an airplane propeller) That is one handsome devil!!! I put Mary Proppins on the scale and if memory serves she was around 34 lbs. She was a resident of my living room for a couple of months, I kinda miss the ol'girl. She's back east again, want me to see if I can get her back for you? Actually she was much heavier than that when we started out. There is a big metal bearing race that I cut off of the base just to make the bug lighter. Edited October 2, 2006 by kingsting Quote Link to comment
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