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Travel Bug Dog Tag HEAVY TRUCK

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Owner:
Iowa Tom Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, July 3, 2006
Origin:
Iowa, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of hancaban.

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The mission of this little truck is to survive as many households as possible! I hope his mechanism lasts and he doesn’t get crushed when being placed back into his tubular garage. See the picture of how he gets pushed back home.

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When I was a kid I played with trucks in the dirt where new hosing was being built near us. I really like toy trucks even to this day. When I worked for the City Forestry Department I drove a dump truck and operated what we called a “grapple loader.” Using the mighty hydraulics I lifted heavy tree trunks and the like and placed them in the back of the loader. Once I picked up a BIG rock and dropped it onto another one to see what would happen. That made the characteristic powerful rock colliding with a rock sound!

When I took tree brush down to the local dumping ground for that stuff here in my town I discovered that that same grapple loader! It’s been 28 years since I operated it. I’d recognize it anywhere.

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Tracking History (6356.3mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/17/2012 hancaban retrieved it from Lake Sawyer Trailhead (parking!) Washington   Visit Log

The boy & me took my best friend and her little sisters geocaching today! This was our first non micro stop of the day and boy did the youngest one freak out when we found this inside! The little truck will be on the move again soon, hopefully taking him somewhere he hasn't been before!

Dropped Off 8/2/2012 Slinkyz placed it in Lake Sawyer Trailhead (parking!) Washington - 210.1 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in Lake Sawyer Trailhead (parking!) (GC38A3A)

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/2/2012 Slinkyz retrieved it from Octopus's Garden Oregon   Visit Log

Heavy Truck is on the move, but will be parked in a new spot very soon!

Discovered It 7/27/2012 TheLostCoast discovered it   Visit Log

Saw it!

Dropped Off 7/22/2012 Ruhammie placed it in Octopus's Garden Oregon - 379.96 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/28/2012 Ruhammie took it to Spokane Falls TB Hotel Washington - .18 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/28/2012 Ruhammie took it to Spokane Basalt Waterfalls Washington - .07 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/28/2012 Ruhammie took it to Upper Falls Washington - .1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/28/2012 Ruhammie took it to The 1974 Exposition Attraction Washington - 7.98 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/28/2012 Ruhammie retrieved it from Sun Gold Sun Washington   Visit Log

Found this in the midst of a wild wilderness! Luckily I have two boys who can test it's survivability. Truck is missing the bucket and garage is missing the side screw. Not sure if anyone has mentioned that yet.

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