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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Current Goal

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

Discovered It 5/19/2012 Gustav129 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered during CITO event!
Discovered It 5/19/2012 Blue Meanie discovered it   Visit Log

[blue][font=Comic Sans MS][size=2]Discovered while at the Armed Forces Day Picnic, GC3G2N5. Thanks for sharing.
Discovered It 5/19/2012 GSFirefly discovered it   Visit Log

At the Armed Forces Day Picnic
Discovered It 5/19/2012 Martin 5 discovered it   Visit Log

[green]Discovered by J of Martin 5 at the WSGA Armed Forces Day Event in Post Falls, Idaho!! 👍 Thanks for sharing!!
Discovered It 4/21/2012 BirdTrekker discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered in Whatta Spokane River View! Thanks for the discovery, happy travels!
Dropped Off 4/16/2012 rnblver placed it in Whatta Spokane River View! Idaho - 2,124.99 miles  Visit Log

The TB was transported to the Post Falls/Coeur d'Alene, ID area. The TB was placed in the cache "Whatta Spokane River View" that is on the bank of the Spokane River that runs through Post Falls, ID....a trip of about 1100 miles. (Look at the cache gallery of photos to see how beautiful the area is)

This entry was edited by rnblver on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 21:42:41 UTC.
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/22/2011 rnblver retrieved it from Another ammo box on a hill California   Visit Log

Out with Turtle Guy. Grabbed the TB from this cache. With owner's permission, want to hang onto the TB until April and transport it to the Coeur d'Alene, ID area...about 1100 miles will be added onto the TB's travels. Was looking at your photos and the thumb screw on your 'garage' is missing and the shovel bucket has disappeared...otherwise in good shape. Looks like there has been some water damage and I will put the TB/Garage in a ziplock back to protect it. It's clear that there was some effort to create the garage...thanks for your efforts.
Discovered It 10/18/2011 Esq_D discovered it   Visit Log

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Dropped Off 2/6/2011 BKip placed it in Another ammo box on a hill California - 17.18 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/5/2011 BKip retrieved it from Surf Rock California   Visit Log

Crouching over in a small very wet cave I saw this strange object about 2' from the cache and assumed it was beach trash. After logging in to the cache I decided to grab the item and check it outside the cave... behold... there was a TB inside! Cool "garage". I'll move it along.

  • HEAVY TRUCK at Surf Rock in Point Loma, CA
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